Sorry Ive just got thoughts related to my previous opensource ranting buzzing round my head, but a bit more specific, Im remembering some of my reasons for caring about this stuff.
A while ago when many of the tools were new and still in initial development, there used to be a lot more tech talk here about things such as tags and how differnt applications could connect to different websites, how different sites could ahre data with eachother etc. Now theres been loads of great progress in these areas, and Im a bit out of date with it all. But I recall that at least once or twice, we got onto issues about how different services could share data, make tagging more effective, etc. I dont hear so much about this stuff here recently, so I wondered how things like mefeedia and fireants tagging stuff is doing. Are there many or any impenetrable islands of data, and pieces of the videoblogging services/software jigsaw that are totally disconnected. All with the aim of making tagging etc systems more useful by having data from multiple sources etc, that sort of thing. Pete used the word 'trust' a few imes in his reply to me, which is understandable, but my opensource rants werent really about trust. If I didnt trust any person, service or software, Id never use it in the first place. Its far more about having 'redundancy' in the system, if one server, service or app dissapears for any reason, how badly does it affect videobloggers? Is there any way to help guard against this, can opensource play a part? To what extent is datasharing between services occuring already, are any of them feature & datarich enough, and matured enough to the developers satisfaction, to ideally offer API's of their own? Or if none of this makes sense or Ive gone in at too narrow an angle to have a conversation about it, hows the videoblogging world doing with metadata sharing and metadata in general? Is tagging working for videoblogs, do any of these topics have anything to do with whether we could ever offer a better videoblog viewer stats system. What was the final outcome of the debate about how a non-centralised videoblog directory for use by apps like fireant is best achieved? How did I get so out of date on all this stuff? Cheers Steve of Elbows ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
