Middio, a cool music video search engine for YouTube, appears to have gone into the DeadPool. The home page is a blank index page. We’ve pinged them for a comment (the founder is Jeff Jarvis‘ sixteen year old son Jake) and await their response.
Check out FIQL, which is actually a much more useful way of creating playlists of music videos on YouTube.
Old screen shot below:
Update: Jeff Jarvis says “It was less a business launch than a programming exercise. Jake took it down accidentally and hasn’t put it back up. He may.”
Search engine for YouTube ?
What is the need for it when there is a search engine inside YouTube.
Correct me if i am wrong.
@1, lol
the Founder thought it was better, apparently not
ghaus, read my original post where I talk about some of the reasons it was useful. first link in post. but in general i agree with you
Does deadpool mean it will not come into ‘life’ again
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shams – absolutely not. a couple of deadpool’d co’s have returned.
@Michael so you believe in life after death
Keep it up.
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This is sad. Some 16 year old kid with a lame (as exemplified by all) idea to redo YouTube seach is getting front page TechCrunch attention while tons of great ideas fight for attention in the forums.
TC please tell me this post was a mistake, you got hacked, your editorial staff was held hostage, your writter vomited on the keyboard…. anything… seriously…
It is worth a shot!
I fear that TechCrunch’s pity posts on the little guy have become too extreme. I mean, this is really really little. How can a site like this be worthy of a network that is respected of it’s very rapid and quality news? This is worse than writing about productclash.com or foodfeed.us. Michael, would you be able to write about something more constructive than a system a developer and his neighborhood friend put together in a weekend?
Expect a whole lotta these “video discovery” sites to go belly-up… straight into the DP. Do not pass “Go”, do not collect the 2nd round of VC…
yea to echo the points of others, TC has a unique ability to cover stories that are nonsense, if we had a rate this story box on all the articles the picture would be quite telling, however it is still a good blog, but only 1-2 posts a day are really good.
BTW Duncan is getting noticeably better these days, plus his output is tremendous.
!See criticizing the editors does help. Albeit it’s twisted sometimes as they become alienated, where in practice we actually just ‘CARE’.
and there’s the difference betwn blogs and journalism
I think I only have an expectation of professionalism from Eric Schonfeld. If I see another author, I immediately switch to hit or miss mode.
Agree, this is worse than writing about productclash.com or foodfeed.us.