Great points, Frank. I have recently encouraged vloggers to use their own feeds or if a blip user, to use blip feeds. My point is that feedburner filled a void a few years back and that was great but their is little reason to depend on them these days. Frank is right about their feed quality. It's really not very tight and focused on media creators in my opinion. The reason why many people still use them is because they have subscribers that are using feedburner urls instead of their own urls. Their is an obvious issue of inconveniencing and possibly losing subscribers. But i say if you want to do things right, you need to do that sooner than later.
I've emphasized this a bit to the SIAB group.... since their is so much focus on taking control of your content, your data, your "show". Right now, their is little focus on feeds but that's an area of focus of mine so we'll see. As far as a new service to do feeds right for media creators... I don't know. I've thought about it myself but good adoption rates are hard to get. Mefeedia could garner the support needed to make it viable but I wouldnt expect a flood of new users. Still to this day, people are not concerned about having rich data feeds with proper media RSS. Wordpress still doesnt support things out of the box. Blip has the best feeds that i have seen. My opinion is to use your own feeds (obviously might need some help getting that right) and second choice is to use the blip.tv service. Feedburner should be phased out this year. On Jan 25, 2008 5:58 PM, Frank Sinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Every major video hosting site gives you a MediaRSS feed when you > create an account (some advertise it more than others). > > YouTube and Blip have great feeds. I know a lot of people on this list > prefer their Feedburner feed. Unfortunately, Feedburner feeds have > lagged behind for video (the feeds use MediaRSS poorly, often have > problems with thumbnails, etc.). Media RSS feeds have gotten a lot > more robust and Feedburner has lagged behind in this area (probably > due to the fact that they focus on bloggers). > > That said, I can understand that Feedburner provides statistics and > more control over what and how posts are syndicated (including > advertising / ways to make money). We've thought about providing an > alternative to Feedburner, but it is a much different focus than what > we are currently working on (Video Search). I wonder what others > think? Are you happy with Feedburner? > > Regards, > Frank > > http://www.mefeedia.com - Discover the Video Web > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, > "michael_aivaliotis" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, > Tim Street <tim@> wrote: > > > > > > So I've noticed that Revver now has a subscription/podcast button on > > > the French Maid TV page at Revver > > > http://revver.com/u/frenchmaidtv/ and when you click on it it > > > subscribes you to a Revver feed - not the French Maid TV feed from > > > Feedburner. > > > > > > Do other video hosting sites create new feeds or do they link to the > > > content creator's feed? > > > > Yes, pretty much every video site has their own feeds. This is > > commonplace. > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
