Comments on: iDesktop.TV: A Better YouTube Interface?

By: nacarol

nacarol — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:53:13 +0000

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By: wery upmbqv

wery upmbqv — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:28:26 +0000

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By: Davendra

Davendra — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:21:27 +0000

Thanks for the all the comments. ALL suggestion taken onboard.

Many thanks.

By: Ben M

Ben M — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:18:39 +0000

@25 What TOS? If they’re capturing the download direct it sounds like they’re bypassing the API. Does the googlebot accept my TOS when it hits my site? I have to use a robots.txt file. If someone hits a YT server and it serves up some content, that’s YT’s problem.

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:10:05 +0000

Any chance there is a Netvibes/Universal Widget that provides an Ajax-based YouTube interface/desktop?

For those who might develop Widgets – http://dev.netvibes.com/

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:02:44 +0000

Clear violation of TOS – basically they’re capturing the progressive download direct from YouTube’s edge network. This is probably hard to detect because on that end it looks like an ordinary request.

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:41:35 +0000

Nice try! but ZuneSetTV has had this beat for some months now!

http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

By: Dot.Hakers

Dot.Hakers — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:30:33 +0000

Could someone let these guys know that their site crashes the Opera browser?

By: Lateefx

Lateefx — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:18:14 +0000

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Wow – This is fantastic! It’s so much more intuitive – though may cater to more technically advanced users — I feel that AJAX functions need to be slowly introduced to the public that doesn’t understand the potential in functionality.

They need to hurry and add a Commenting feature to provide the full social web experience – this is crucial.

By: Great UI but scary

Great UI but scary — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:02:59 +0000

This product scares people.

By: Your Daddy

Your Daddy — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:54:37 +0000

The real news today is Exchange 2007 SP1 is out and the Sprint PPC 6800 has a new ROM 2.17 which finally makes the phone work!

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:47:18 +0000

This seems pretty neat but if it starts to take off at all won’t YT just do one themselves? Surely with all of their firepower they could have something like this up in a hurry. Does this violate YT TOS?

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:32:57 +0000

this is a problem with my ISP or with YouTube as none of the preview images on YouTube’s main site are loading either.

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:30:38 +0000

none of the preview images are loading, just a lot of white boxes.

in the browsers status bar it says waiting for http://img.youtube.com/... for a long time then gives up

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:57:54 +0000

I think there are sites that already offer similar things to this. The problem is with marketing them. People need to know a site exists before they can utilize the service associated with it. We’ll see if this catches hold.

By: AW

AW — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:47:43 +0000

They can keep it.

This “organized content” is no better than YT, and, it lacks the social/community element… kinda like looking into YT through a one way mirror, but unable to join the crowd. This is a small step forward with a semi-decent player (though I found it buggy still), but a big step backward in services.

Bad review.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:44:15 +0000

I would think YouTube don’t give a rat’s arse. iDesktop.tv must get about 0.0000001% of the traffic that YouTube gets. iDesktop also just looks like some barstardised Windows Vista UI (complete with lame zoom level slider). In fact I don’t give a rat’s arse about it either, despite YouTube having the second worst UI on the web after eBay.

By: Zach Weisman

Zach Weisman — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:42:40 +0000

This is where having an open API can bite you in the ass.

I love when you see a third party force the hand of the original product by offering features on their alternative UI that have been deliberatly left out of the original product.

If this site picks up traffic, will Youtube begin offer video downloads to reclaim lost traffic? Do people even care about downloading their Youtube videos?

By: King Tut

King Tut — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:39:49 +0000

Funny how one company violates the T&C of another…so now the suck-ee steals from suck-er who is stealing from the source.

How can YouTube get on iDesktop’s case? haha.

Throwing stones in a glass house.

And #9 = 100% correct (survival). This one has “Fail” written all over it. Have they gotten their $10m Silicon Valley funding yet?

By: Tonto

Tonto — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:37:41 +0000

Eric,

Why do you always use these question mark (?) headlines???

This just in:

“Do TechCrunch Writers Give Flawed Opinions?”

Hey, it’s just a question….

By: ZiZi

ZiZi — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:33:26 +0000

amazing that youtube is letting this happened.
whats more amazing is that a company would put their whole survival under another companys mercy.

By: dedos

dedos — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:32:32 +0000

I live it… how come none else has done something like this until now….

Great site

By: adoption cost

adoption cost — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:30:13 +0000

Easier? Looks like clutter to me.

By: Ginae

Ginae — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:25:06 +0000

The quality sure SEEMS better.

By: J.P.

J.P. — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:24:40 +0000

How they take out the youtube transparency on the video?