YouTube has just enabled a new feature that allows users to directly share their recently uploaded videos to Facebook, Twitter, and Google Reader. This means you’ll be able to syndicate your newly uploaded content directly into your friends’ feeds. You can link your accounts on YouTube’s ‘Upload’ page.
This isn’t exactly a novel feature — many web services have already tied into Facebook, Twitter, and to a lesser extent, Google Reader. But it is notable given the rivalry between Facebook and Google, which which have previously sparred over “openness” and their abilities to tap into the social graph.
The new functionality is limited to new video uploads for now, but I won’t be surprised if YouTube builds on it by allowing users to immediately share all videos that they add to ‘favorites’. Of course, there is already a sharing button located beneath each YouTube video that lets you post videos you like to a variety of services, but this would help automate the process. YouTube is clearly looking to expand its sharing functionality (see YouTube Real-Time, which is currently in private beta testing), and increased sharing to these other services seems like a logical extension.
This is also going to have a major impact on existing video sharing services on Twitter, like TwitVid. These smaller Twitter-specific services do have one advantage over YouTube for the time being, though: unlike TwitPic, YouTube doesn’t allow you to enter a message to share alongside your video link, which means you won’t be able to share any context with it.
It’s also worth noting that I uploaded a video to YouTube to test out the new feature, and while it finished processing over 10 minutes ago, it has yet to get auto-Tweeted.
Great. Now I can show my friends in real time the crappy videos I’m pretending not to watch.
Video is waste of time and bandwidth. Goog unexpectedly shows a good heart towards facebook.
I’m not so sure the millions of users interested in video would agree with you.
except noone outside the valley actually uses google reader. its funny. dont beleive me? check out the traffic that reader.google.com gets, its a fraction of a percent
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Taipei, Taiwan
2. Hong Kong, Hong Kong
3. Singapore, Singapore
4. San Francisco, CA, USA
5. Mumbai, India
6. Delhi, India
What would be really cool is if they did this every time your added a favorite video to you YT profile.
Yeah, agreed. And I suspect that’s where they’re eventually going with this.
You can add YouTube as imported site on your facebook profile. Everytime you made a video favorite, it displays on your feed.
How do you do this? I tried, but it’s not working. I do have my YT connected and it says it’ll add uploaded vids to my feed, but it doesn’t add my favs….
Yeah, I’ve had my youtube account linked to facebook for months and when I favorite (how long has that verb form been around?) a video its shown and viewable directly from my fb feed.
I just saw that today in my YouTube upload section
We at OnePage http://getOnePage.com are trying yo do the aggregation of streams in a beautiful way. It seems the aggregators will be aggregated themselves
Microsoft announced that it’s Windows 7 edition for Europe will not include Internet Explorer.
I think this is much more news worthy then YouTube entering the “Stream”.
Yet, not a single word about it in the world’s biggest Tech blog.
*Sigh*
Wow. I’m thinking I need to re-think utilizing Youtube. Now if only they can fix that horrid uptime / conversion issue they’re having.
This is significant since the IPhone and G1 has video-recording now and allows you to upload to YouTube directly.
No need to Twitvid, etc. anymore.
I think the advantage TwitVid.io has is that it’s fully integrated with Twitter. YouTube has no incentive to do that since they are trying to pull people back to themselves.
Kudos to YouTube for making decisions that may go against the parent company’s wishes!
I import my favourites through the Facebook settings, this just makes it real-time..
youtube just keeping base with all the others
Quote: “but I won’t be surprised if YouTube builds on it by allowing users to immediately share all videos that they add to ‘favorites’”
Actually you can already do this, in Facebook go to your profile and on your news feed in top right corner click settings then add Youtube as an imported site and when you favourite a video it appears on your facebook feed.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned FriendFeed. You can virtually have all your social sites (including YouTube) linked to FriendFeed, and then from there – posted to Twitter.
you said which twice. Ha! Ha!