> Thanks Pete! I'm going to start includeding my vids at ourmedia too. > So once I do this it will be included in FireAnt?
At the risk of confusing things.... FireAnt doesn't really "include" any videos. We don't host 'em. There are several options for that. You can host at OurMedia, Blip, or another similar service. You can even host your videos yourself on your own server if you go that route. You can then link to your videos in your blog entry, and people can read your blog by going to your website or by subsribing to your RSS feed. An RSS feed is a type of document that describes the recent updates to your website (in this case, recent blog entries). A reader can "subscribe" to your blog by entering the address of your RSS feed in a program called an "aggregator." There are lots of different kinds of Aggregators -- web-based like Bloglines, My Yahoo!, and MeFeedia, and Desktop software like FeedDemon, FireAnt, and others (even iTunes now has aggregator functionality). Subscribing to a site in an aggregator allows the reader to keep current with your content without the need to find your conten, remember your URL, or guess when you may have posted something new. This is why RSS makes it easier to follow the web. In 1995, the web was full of static websites. You didn't really need to know when stuff changed. Now the web is chock full of living content that changes by the minute. Its not easy to keep track of the web (especially weblogs) with simple bookmarks in your browser. Not to mention, web content can now extend beyond the browser to other devices for consuming on the go, or even offline. One of the nice things about desktop aggregators is offline capability, and sheer speed -- this is one of the advantages of FireAnt over other web-based aggregators in my opinion. Video is difficult to deal with online. No matter what, there's a lot of waiting around for things to load and buffer when you try to click from one video to the next. For me, this kills the cinematic aspects of watching video. I prefer to download everything, and watch it together in FireAnt where I can click around a large cache of videos and not have to deal with the frustrating latency of video on the web. I can view stuff many times if I want, view it offline, even take it with me on a portable device like Sony PSP. Of course, you don't have to view a feed this way. There are myriad other uses for RSS -- 'casting of this kind is just one use case. YouTube does generate RSS feeds of their content, and readers may subscribe to them, or repurpose the content to show "headlines" on other sites. You may even embed YouTube videos on other websites. However, YouTube limits the ability to use their content in other ways, such as downloading and playing back from a source other than YouTube's own server. Hey, they own the content and by using the service, you have agreed to let them do with it as they wish by virtue of the terms of agreement -- so that's youTube's prerogative. That just means that you're cutting off many users who might prefer to subscribe to your content in an aggregator, download it, and view the way they wish. I won't deny that YouTube has a decent publishing interface that is quite easy. However, I don't believe they've made their content as accessible as they otherwise could have. Hope some of this helps explain things... -Josh On 10/6/05, aroundtheperimeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Pete! I'm going to start includeding my vids at ourmedia too. > So once I do this it will be included in FireAnt? I will put all my > vids at youtube and ourmedia. YES! Thanks again. > > Paul > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Pete Prodoehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > aroundtheperimeter wrote: > > > Thanks for the insight. I still have alot to learn. I still THINK > > > that combining some features of youtube and fireant would be awesome! > > > Also a web-based version of fireant would be great (webbased version > > > and a download version). I also think that more people would vlog if > > > it was as easy as using youtube. I just found setting up fireant for > > > my vlog was very hard. I still did not succeed at using it. In fact > > > I gave up on it! I'm sure there is a lot more people who gave up on > > > it to. I will go back to it when it becomes easier. Maybe in the > > > future thier will be an option to just check a box at ourmedia or > > > google video to include your video on Ant. > > > > Actually, at Ourmedia each user has an RSS 2.0 feed with enclosures > > created for them. It contains the files (videos) you upload as > > enclosures. Just upload your videos to Ourmedia, and use the feed it > > creates. Whammo! Instant vlog platform... > > > > (Of course Ourmedia's reliability is another issue. :| ) > > > > FireANT is just one of many clients you can use. If you don't like it, > > try mefeedia, DTV, I/ON, etc... > > > > Pete > > > > -- > > http://tinkernet.org/ > > videoblog for the future... > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/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/
