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VideoSurf Firefox Extension: An Essential Tool if You Watch Web Video

Here's one of the more useful Firefox extensions I've tried out in a while: VideoSurf. (Hat tip to Webware for calling it out, and noting that it originated as a Greasemonkey script.)? You'll find it especially good if you consume a lot of web-based video at sites such as YouTube and Google. In addition to the standard thumbnails to start videos that you get when you search at, say, YouTube, VideoSurf gives you a time-stamped series of chronological thumbnail images from the video. The extracted thumbnails let you jump to any point instantly. Here's how it looks.


NewTeeVee: Early YouTube Engineer Tells All

Ever wonder how YouTube got started and scaled up to being such a huge repository of video? There are quite a few surprises in the story, as you'll see if you check in on NewTeeVee's post Early YouTube Engineer Tells All. It features video of Cuong Do, an early software engineer at YouTube who is now a manager in the site's engineering group. Open sourcers will be particularly interested in how YouTube employs memcached and Apache along its chain of under-the-hood applications. Check it out.


YouTube Widgetizes--Opens Up APIs

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.


Miro Makes Its Move into a Crowded Field

Original Post authored by Jackson West on 11/14/07 on NewTeeVee

Miro, nee Democracy Player, released its version 1.0 Tuesday, officially leaving beta behind. The open source video subscription, download and viewing client from the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF) hopes to be not just more open, but more popular than other online video services.



What Joost And Miro Could Learn From Each Other

Original Post authored by Janko Roettgers on 11/04/2007 on NewTeeVee

The folks over at the Participatory Culture Foundation are gearing up for the 1.0 release of their Miro video player, formerly known as Democracy, and you can practically hear them sharpening their knives. The Getmiro.com web site is now featuring a comparison of Miro and Joost, and Joost doesn't get much love: Miro is open like the Internet. Joost works like a cable company with DRM. Snap!