YouTube - The Flickr of Video?
By UsaydSlashdot reports:
"A new folksonomy website that seems to be catching on is YouTube, a service similar to Flickr, except that it is for sharing and hosting short video clips instead of photos. Like Flickr, its core functionality is implemented in Flash. Videos can be tagged, searched, discussed, etc through a social network. YouTube has developer APIs, RSS feeds, and the ability to embed videos directly into other web pages. The website was recently profiled on TechCrunch as an up-and-coming Web 2.0 application."
Of course i’ve already signed up and I must say it seems to be quite an efficient way of hosting videos. It shows them in a fast streaming flash embed. You can comment on the videos, and of course like flickr, you can add tags for easy searching as well as ‘buddies’ and private videos too - for friends and family. The best thing is that you can just watch videos in an instant without waiting forever which is usually the case, and you can see such a wide variety - from funny to serious.
Check it out here: youtube.com
August 15th, 2005 at 8:05 pm
Hmm, I tested it too, it has advantages over Google Video, but I think I prefer the latter.
While it takes weeks for your video to get validated on GVideo, you can immediately watch your film on Youtube.com. That’s good. The fact that you can leave comments, have a buddy and private list to share your films with, etc are all nice… but what I really care about is the quality of the video after conversion. And Google Video scores way better on that one. Not only does YouTube leave a (quite big) logo on your video, it also reduces the quality considerably. Google doesn’t do that, no logo, no bad quality.
You can compare for yourself: I uploaded twice the same (6sec) clip to both GVideo and YouTube. You’ll see what I ment.
Watch DarthTibault on Google Video 
Watch DarthTibault on YouTube.com
August 15th, 2005 at 9:33 pm
I agree with all of your comments - but you have to remember that YouTube is hosting an extremely large number of videos for a free hosting service and you can upload up to 100MB videos on there.
Also I tried your video on google video and guess what, it didn’t even work…
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edit: Okay it started to work (It was a server end error though, googles fault) - and there is another disadvantage that you have to download a viewer to make it play in browser…
November 23rd, 2006 at 9:41 pm
Hey guys,
I have an iMac G5 running tiger 10.4.7 and I an having a wierd problem. Whenever I go to a site that has an embedded youtube, flash or some kind of video, there is no sound. If it a quicktime file there is no problem. There is not sound no matter what broswer I use, firefox, camino, safari, or shiira. And keep in mind that about a week ago I was not having this issue.
Help Would be awesome
Thanks!
November 24th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
Reinstall Flash - both Google Video and YouTube use it to play their videos.