youtube clone apps have been around for awhile too. though this and other apps can help bootstrap a so-called online video startup... thats where it ends. it's costly. and the kicker is, as we know, the more popular your site gets, the more costly is gets.
Jeroen's flash player (longtailvideo) promotes http://encoding.com which has a nice API. as does Nathan's http://mux.am. If you're a developer, you could just as well look at these examples and not bother with a marriage to Wordpress. not sure how this can be used to excite developers (here). the community video destination site thing is certainly not enough to sustain a startup. and if someone does want to have such a site, you may as well aggregate since their are so many open apis. leverage whats out there and still kicking instead of taking on the expenses yourself. if you're a content creator, you dont need to be looking at this WP platform. sull On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Jay dedman <[email protected]> wrote: > we've recently talked about the hassle of using Wordpress as a > blogging platform. > Yes, if you want a hands off experience either pay for a Typepad.com > account...or use Blogger.com for free. > > But Wordpress seems to be embracing video with every year. Automatic > (company that runs wordpress.com)has put out a plugin for video > architecture: > http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpresscom-video-server/ > It's for folks who want to build their own video site using Wordpress > Multi-User. > > We used to have more coders in this community who would use tools like > this. I think the rise and fall of creators, business folks, and > developers are cyclical in this group. > > Jay > > -- > http://ryanishungry.com > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
