YouTube Widgetizes--Opens Up APIs

by Sam Dean - Mar. 12, 2008Comments (4)

OStatic's sister site NewTeeVee is out with an interesting report about YouTube expanding its developer tools to give outside web sites and software the ability to video uploads, and more. New APIs will allow interaction and customization outside of YouTube, from the community. According to a YouTube blog post "the number of possible new applications is endless." For example, the University of California at Berkeley will enhance its open source lecture capture and delivery system with the new APIs to provide free educational content. Check out Liz Gannes' report and her update.

Do you think developers of open source applicatons will find uses for the new APIs?


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This will be huge. There are a ton of sites that collect videos. With this, there is a toolset to do this in a more organized manner. Why did Amazon not make this easier?


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YouTube is also introducing live video on its site. I can see lots of applications integrating with the new APIs and the the live video services.


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Looks like it is picking up steam...


http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/business/news/e3i0e7...


Tivo joins the fray!


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Isn't it ironic - they announce this the same day that Hulu (www.hulu.com) is launched, which has been widely touted as the YouTube killer!


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