YouTube Opens Up
We do all of the hard work of transcoding and hosting and streaming and thumbnailing your videos claims this post in the YouTube Blog.
What it translates into, is a new platform for third parties to more easily publish videos directly from their own sites, without having to first go to YouTube to do the work.
For instance, an external site could upload videos and video responses to YouTube from within the third-party’s own user
interface, including tools for setting up options like pause, play and stop. All such videos would also be available on YouTube as well.
A list of the services for which APIs are available:
1. Upload videos and video responses to YouTube
2. Add/Edit user and video metadata (titles, descriptions, ratings, comments, favorites, contacts, etc)
3. Fetch localized standard feeds (most viewed, top rated, etc.) for 18 international locales
4. Perform custom queries optimized for 18 international locales
5. Customize player UI and control video playback (pause, play, stop, etc.) through software
This would be great news for the partners such as Electronic Arts, which has enabled gamers to capture videos of fantastical user-generated creatures from their upcoming game, Spore, and publish these directly into YouTube. The University of California, Berkeley too uploads its educational videos on YouTube, while Animoto enables its users to create personalized, professional-quality music videos from their own photos and upload them directly to YouTube.
Closer home, this would benefit social networking websites allowing them to offer features without investing in their own infrastructure.
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