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Yahoo! Launches YouTube Competitor
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prostoalex writes "Yahoo! launched Yahoo! Video last night, allowing users to upload, share and tag their videos. For Windows users the player uses the standard Yahoo! Player, while Mac and Linux users get video encoded in Flash. Yahoo! joins a highly competitive field of video services currently led by MSN Video, YouTube and Google Video. The Associated Press reports on the Yahoo! Video launch as well."
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MSN Video!? (Score:3, Interesting)
Honsetly... I've only heard of Google and YouTube so far.
download (Score:5, Informative)
(Last Journal: Wednesday September 20 2006, @10:30AM)
Just out of curiosity (Score:2, Funny)
(http://slashdot.org/slashdot.org | Last Journal: Friday August 11 2006, @10:36AM)
Re:Just out of curiosity (Score:4, Interesting)
Google group and MSN group isn't really quite as big as Yahoo group.
As far as Yahoo Games goes, I don't see any other major player trying to compete with them, MSN have... a little small share in this, and google, what do they have? Those home page widget?.
Can they give it a rest? (Score:1, Insightful)
Good business sense, but does nothing for customers, we already have more then enough choices, more only pollute this field in my opinion
Re:Can they give it a rest? (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.geoffreyspear.com/)
If Yahoo! is doing this for a reason other than to make money, it's not good business sense.
On the other hand, creating more competition, whether it's profitable or not, is good for consumers. Allowing another player to get a "strong hold" of the market is certainly not good for consumers.
I don't believe I've seen a less insightful comment on Slashdot in a month, and I suspect the poster is a shill for one of Yahoo!'s competitors. Either that or a head injury patient.
Flash 7 or 8? (Score:5, Informative)
(http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=17227 | Last Journal: Saturday June 04 2005, @10:55AM)
Out of date anyway (Score:4, Informative)
So, what are YouTube really doing? (Score:2)
YouTube will lead...for now. (Score:5, Insightful)
Vids are not even ON Yahoo... (Score:2)
(http://alteviltech.com/)
No more CODECS please. (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.planethalflife.com/hlwf)
No more oddball codecs for me. No WMP either. M$ can keep their DRM and stick it. And I have banned Flash from my system as well.
Not new (Score:3, Interesting)
(http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?objekt)
too bad it looks awful (Score:1)
(http://everyplace.net/)
The real winner: Flash (Score:5, Interesting)
Who would've thought that Flash will become the most popular vehicle for delivering video on the Internet?
All of a sudden, the EU's ruling that media player competition does not stand a chance because of the WMP built into Windows seems overexaggerated (not that it wasn't overexaggerated before..).
Hotlinking disaster (Score:4, Informative)
Blip.tv may offer Theora-encoded content (Score:3, Informative)
(http://uofr.net/~alex/)
This ought to be interesting (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.codemonkeyramblings.com/)
I keep reading bloggers talking about wanting net neutrality so they can have all of these nifty videos, but none of them have any idea how to monetize the services necessary to support online video applications. Take Instapundit, if Instapundit delivered a video to half of its readers a day, it would probably go through about a quarter to half a terabyte of bandwidth everyday.
What I would like to know is if there really is any money in the "amateur hour" video market. If there isn't, these services will quickly give way to professionally done content, be it from independent artists or major groups.
THE most important question.... (Score:2)
(http://www.deryk.co.uk/)
not the same as YouTube and Google Videos (Score:1)
It searches the entire web for videos, not just community uploaded videos. I just searched for a video and got directed to a semi-porn site for that video.
Youtube and Google are quite different in the sense that
1. Only user uploaded videos are available, its not just a web video search
2. The video plays within the site, using Flash. No such thing on Yahoo, the whole video experience sucks
You can do it! (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Monday February 13 2006, @07:11PM)
It is time to unlock the holy grail of video broadcasting.
The unfailing solution.
It is time to allow porn uploads!
At least Google video is platform-indepenent (Score:1)
Poor Branding (Score:1)
(http://akurl.com/)
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http://photoud.com/ [photoud.com]
I was hoping with all my heart... (Score:1)
They didn't. Bastards.
``Ragnarok
other video sites (Score:1)
No mention of... (Score:1)
http://communityvideo.aol.com/Main.do/ [aol.com]
YOUTUBE.COM has been Haxx0rzs! (Score:1)
(http://bronney.com/)
Yahoo! Video: IT SUCKS! (Score:1)
(http://www.bushidohacks.com/ | Last Journal: Friday November 02, @02:44PM)
Yahoo! is still using old-and-busted technology that is only avaiable for one operating system. GV and YT use Flash as the medium of choice. It can be accessable on Macintosh, Unix, and Linux operating systems. Windows Video may be avaiable, but the codecs are separate, and a real hassle to install if you have Unix or Linux.
Yahoo! fails to deliver video as it does with LaunchCast to the growing number of people who are no longer using any of Microsoft's Windows products including Internet Explorer, Windows Media, and Microsoft Antivirus (which lets in more spyware than it keeps out).
Bottom line, I'll use something else before I use this cookie cutter mainstream stuff. Give me the many alternatives instead.