Nicholas Reville, executive director of the foundation which developed the Democracy player, writes:
... How do you avoid a world where YouTube is the arbiter of all video content? You do it by centering the video experience around viewers rather than around video hosting companies. That's not what the venture capitalists want, but blogs aren't what they wanted either (they wanted web portals). ¶ Putting viewers at the center means giving everyone who wants to watch video a homebase where they can access videos from any hosting service or website. For miscellaneous videos, like the ones that have made YouTube so popular, this means a search engine that gives results from any service and let's you watch what you find without jumping around from site to site. ¶ For more serious videos-- stuff that's produced by known creators on a regular basis (like a daily or weekly show)-- the best homebase is an RSS aggregator. The can be a desktop application (like the one we make) or a web-based aggregator. The important thing is that viewers can pull together video from anywhere on the web. ...
Link: GetDemocracy.com. This is a very relevant post for those of us who are gearing up to distribute audio and video over the Net. RSS can be a hugely important tool for this and we're fools if we overlook something so easy to implement. The excellent implementation of RSS within the new IE7 removes the last excuse. --Dennis
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