March 12, 2008

Anticlimax: YouTube Announces More Open API’s

Duncan Riley

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Erick got all excited, but in the end it was a bit of an anticlimax. YouTube’s big announcement today is more open API’s that will allow developers to upload videos and video responses from any where.

From the YouTube Blog:

We try really hard to make YouTube as open as possible…Nevertheless, we worried that we weren’t open enough. So, we pulled some all-nighters and added some powerful new ways to integrate YouTube content and community into other websites, desktop applications, video games, mobile devices, televisions, cameras, and lots more.

For users, the exciting news is that they will be able to actively participate in the YouTube community from just about anywhere, including the online destinations and web communities they already love and visit regularly. For partners and developers, YouTube has grown into much more than a website. It has become an open, general purpose, video services platform, available for use by just about any third-party website, desktop application, or consumer device. We now provide a complete set of (CRUD) capabilities for uploading, managing, searching, and playing back user videos and metadata from the YouTube “cloud,” managed by us. We do all of the hard work of transcoding and hosting and streaming and thumbnailing your videos, and we provide open access to our sizable global audience, enabling you to generate traffic for your site, visibility for your brand, or support for your cause….

The number of possible new applications is endless. Electronic Arts has enabled gamers to capture videos of fantastical user-generated creatures from their upcoming game, Spore, and publish these directly into YouTube. The University of California, Berkeley is bringing free educational content to the world, enhancing their open source lecture capture and delivery system to publish videos automatically into YouTube. Animoto enables its users to create personalized, professional-quality music videos from their own photos and upload them directly to YouTube. Tivo is providing its users a rich and highly participative YouTube viewing experience on the television.

If anyone won the iPod, Erick will let you know in the morning.

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Mustafa

March 12th, 2008 at 2:09 am

Dang! I missed the iPod!
Rashmi Ranjan

March 12th, 2008 at 2:11 am

So much for originality ……

only coz they are big … they are able to create this hype .. or else this is not worth the wait …

Any ways … want some thing new … try this … http://www.worlditday.com
Kelsey Tokinias

March 12th, 2008 at 2:11 am

Will youtube ever develop an affiliate strategy where there is some monetary incentive to promote youtube? Good work on youtubes part though with the api’s. More intergration, more popular, more traffic, more revenue.

kelsey

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Rocky

March 12th, 2008 at 2:14 am

In other news: when will joost close down now that hulu is open to the public?

http://siteanalytics.compete.c.....?metric=uv
YDrive

March 12th, 2008 at 2:27 am

That’s great — the open data web needs more open APIs.
AD

March 12th, 2008 at 2:27 am

I remember watching a youtube video Jawed Karim giving a talk on youtube: from concept to hypergrowth..and he mentioned that the next big thing will be something that exploits what he said “enabler technology” something that was not previously possible. Flash and Broadband were the enabler technology for YouTube who knows these APIs may become enabler technology for something big in future
Ze'ev

March 12th, 2008 at 2:35 am

*yawn*
D

March 12th, 2008 at 2:53 am

They actually have rolled out a higher quality video.
It’s a higher bytrate but not quite HD.
I’m viewing videos right now in it.
I have a screenshot as well.
I can see it on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....w&eurl

Not sure if you can…
Ujwal

March 12th, 2008 at 3:13 am

“Youtube will help start a viral campaign to fight for human rights and democracry in despot states by launching/funding small Youtube teams (videos) showing life under repressive regimes”

how would that kind of news go, if youtube did that ???
Fake Nick Gonzales

March 12th, 2008 at 3:30 am

SAN BRUNO, CA - On Wednesday, popular online video site YouTube announced long-awaited plans to release the industry’s first Wireless Hi-definition Opensource Tele-Hub for Enterprise Freeware Users and Collaborative Keyword Content-Aggregating Restauranteurs in Eastern Senegal.

The product will be rolled out under its technical acronym, “WHOTHEFUCKCARES.”

WHOTHEFUCKCARES is expected to revolutionize the field of opensource telehubbing and set a new industry standard for struggling Senegalese restaurant owners, who up to this point, had been relying on quay parchment and heated lamb’s blood to satisfy their sophisticated needs for technical communication with their customers.

“WHOTHEFUCKCARES is really just the first step in our multilevel conent distribution strategy for opensource telehubbing,” says YouTube Evangelist Justin Milhouse.

“When people think of YouTube, the first thing we want them to think is WHOTHEFUCKCARES.”

*****

– Jason Calacanis and Robert Scoble contributed to this report
luar

March 12th, 2008 at 3:34 am

Glad to hear more open YouTube API, it is more easy to accomplish video synchronize with presentation like what is doing in Instant-VCASMO
http://www.vcasmo.com/instant/vcasmo
Ty Graham

March 12th, 2008 at 5:14 am

Blip’d can measure youtube videos with daily statistics. See for yourself at blipd.com. Don’t be afraid to scream and holler for joy when you see it. Blip’d already offers any user generated video monetization.

It’s amazing how techcrunch won’t respond to our request for review.

Everyone’s going to laugh at this moment, because soon, everyone is going to get blip’d!
simon

March 12th, 2008 at 5:46 am

They actually have rolled out a higher quality video.
ovysimon

March 12th, 2008 at 5:46 am

Erick got all excited, but in the end it was a bit of an anticlimax. YouTube’s big announcement today is more open API’s that will allow developers to upload videos and video responses from any where.
Dawson Jones

March 12th, 2008 at 6:22 am

Wow, that was a BIG announcement… wouldn’t HD movies or a redesign be much better and amazing?
Nima Negahban

March 12th, 2008 at 6:28 am

thats actually what I needed
Marques

March 12th, 2008 at 6:38 am

I run a video bookmarking site call myvidster.com and my users wanted a way to play all their video in their collections. Looks like the updated API solves my problem! Well not completely, if the user collects non-youtube clips then the autoplay will stop. Ah well can’t win them all…
Jeremy Pepper

March 12th, 2008 at 8:35 am

I think you jumped the gun, Duncan. There’s no press release yet, but Reuters has a news story about Tivo and YouTube: http://www.reuters.com/article.....1820080312

So, is it the API or is it Tivo? Or is it something else?
dave

March 12th, 2008 at 11:33 am

why? one word: hulu
Karen

March 12th, 2008 at 11:33 am

What about Spore’s (from EA) integration with YouTube??? Release with the commercial version… Purposefully part of a video game…

http://googleblog.blogspot.com.....spore.html
Amuze

March 12th, 2008 at 3:20 pm

@2,

World IT day should the day India got independence from the British , becuase IT truly liberated India in the real sense, no wonder I go to World IT day site and I see Indians working on outsourced jobs on the front page.
Karen

March 13th, 2008 at 10:38 am

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