A few weeks ago YouTube released a more powerful set of APIs that allow web developers to create services that upload, watch, search, and comment on videos remotely.
Magnify, the video channel service recently focused on social networking, has been hustling to be the first to implement these APIs. What they’ve come up with is a widget called VidyUp (like gitty up, get it?).
Site owners can place the VidyUp widget on their pages to solicit videos from visitors. For example, we could use it here on TechCrunch if we wanted to hold a video contest. Instead of telling everyone to upload their videos directly to YouTube then send us the links via email, we could just embed a VidyUp widget and all videos uploaded through it would be handled in the appropriate manner (emailed to us, added to a particular page, etc).
All in all, it’s actually a decent little widget, although I’m sure just being the first to build something with the APIs was Magnify’s primary goal. The company says it won’t try to monetize the widget, but if site owners get a lot of use out of it, they will be able to turn their visitors’ uploaded videos into a full-fledged Magnify channel.
Update: we had the widget included in the post but removed it because it wasn’t playing nice with Wordpress.
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Interesting concept.
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Does it have any effect on the user’s website? e.g. If I place it inside my content management area for my clients to use, does the video have to pass through my content management system and thus increase the data traffic through it? If not it’s cool. If not, then work would be needed to ensure the only upload data traffic goes through Utube etc - otherwise I can’t offer it to my clients
It could be useful to websites organizing video competitions or any sort of video participation. This is so much better than asking everyone to upload a video response to a video you made on their website. I would see bloggers and website owners in tech picking this up first. Nice post Mark!
i wonder who’ll react to this. amazon?
The new YouTube API rox
Hey Mark,
It appears that WordPress does not currently allow the tag due to security issues. Hosted WordPress blogs seem to be out of luck.
There have been a bunch of requests in their forums from people who would like to have so that they can post widgets, etc in their sidebars or posts, but the reponse seems to be a consistent “this isn’t going to happen.”
If TechCrunch runs its own WordPress installation - you may be able to use a plugin to enable iframeable widgets like IFrameWidgets:
http://www.scratch99.com/wordp.....mewidgets/
We’re going to continue to look into this , and may provide a plug in at some point in the future.
Yeah, they really can’t monetize it. If you look at the terms and conditions on the YouTube API, it pretty much doesn’t allow you to use it for commercial purposes.
(your link in the text goes to magnify.com, and that’s been highjacked by some claims company!)
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