Yahoo! Launches YouTube Competitor

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."

MSN Video!?

[Anonymous Coward]

When the hell did that come about?

Honsetly... I've only heard of Google and YouTube so far.

Re:Just out of curiosity

[ID000001]

Yahoo groups and Yahoo games might be 1st.

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?.

Re:Can they give it a rest?

[paulthomas]

That's not really fair. It doesn't hurt anyone, and I welcome the idea of another video provider. If someone sends me a link to video, I don't really care if it's google or youtube or now yahoo. If you're publishing videos online you're probably hitting all the major players anyway -- you won't have any trouble finding the video you're looking for at any of the providers.

Sure they won't make money directly off of it... but that's not _my_ problem.

Not new

[objekt]

this is the same as http://video.search.yahoo.com/ [yahoo.com] which I've had bookmarked for months already.

The real winner: Flash

[suv4x4]

Google, CNET, YouTube and now Yahoo: they all use Flash as their video player, as well as thousands of other big news and entertainment sites.

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..).