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Post by mtberatwork »

peteforde wrote: post #62

I'm wrong about all sorts of things, but I have a funny feeling that we're going to look back someday and see this as the first of many companies of a significant size launching something that looks just like a TV station. I can't emphasize how incredibly brilliant this is: it appears to be a perfectly curated combination of pure marketing webinar, tutorials, educational lectures and who knows what else. This is an e…

> with essentially launching the nerd equivalent of CSPAN (if not CNN)

Maybe I'm in the minority, but at the end of working all day in front of screen doing mentally taxing programming/devops work, the last thing I want to do is come home and watch live TV of content that reminds me of work...nor do I want to spend my weekends doing that either.

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Post by nathanyz »

rayraegah wrote: post #46
owaislone wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was expecting a video streaming CDN so anyone could build a Youtube/Twitch competitor without having to deal with storing, transcoding and (live)streaming video. I vaguely remember AWS offering something like this. Not sure how much money there is in this market but definitely sounds like a great product fit for someone like Cloudflare.

> I was expecting a video streaming CDN so anyone could build a Youtube/Twitch competitor without having to deal with storing, transcoding and (live)streaming video. I vaguely remember AWS offering something like this. Not sure how much money there is in this market but definitely sounds like a great product fit for someone like Cloudflare. There's Cloudflare-stream[1] and also Mux[2] [1] https://www.cloudflare.com/p…

Also us at Swarmify[3]

[3] https://swarmify.com/

Re: Cloudflare TV

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Post by karatestomp »

nindalf wrote: post #164
trog wrote: post #56

I'm a generally technical person and I'm simply flat out uninterested in video content - the stuff that will be on this sounds broadly interesting to me but I'd rather read it in article format. I understand video "performs" well in a lot of contexts (and thus is of particular interest to marketing people) but I am always surprised when content targeted broadly towards the technical community is done in a video-first…

I'm not interested in video content either. But in recent years I've found that some people respond much better to it. Anecdotally, it seems like every student on /r/programmerhumor got through their CS degree with the help of algorithms videos on youtube. Despite having trouble understanding the accent, they found it much easier to learn from the video than the book. I prefer the book, even though I would have had n…

Having people read the symbols to me is much, much smoother than trying to decipher them myself. They read it to me in English. The writing is in super-compact squiggle-squiggle. I prefer English.

[EDIT] for math-heavy content in particular, that is. In general I don't like video very much.

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Post by eitland »

Simon_says wrote: post #155
qes wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Are youtube ads really unskippable No. I never see ads on Youtube on my own devices, and that barely requires any effort.

I had to jailbreak my iPhone in order to not see Youtube ads. That qualifies as some (small) effort.

I use Lockdown in my iPhone. It reduces the problem for now although I already see YouTube working around it some of the time.

As far as I understand it is a creative hack that use a local VPN server or something to block ads.

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Post by mikece »

I love the concept and the comparison to MTV. Have Cloudflare considered getting Adam Curry (from MTV’s Headbangers Ball) on as a contributor? Adam is quite the geek in his own right and is the inventor of podcasting and the first podcast.

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Post by mwexler »

I find video abusive to my time. To consume the content, which I assume is the author's intent, I must give up my time in whatever chunk the author chooses. But I can consume text at my own pace in multiple methods.

Tech usually prefers async, decoupled processes. Advertising and attention-for-money, however, demand a synced experience.

If I'm looking for entertainment, sure, video, audio, whatever. But if I want to learn or be informed, why should I have to waste time? If this is just the "how should creators get comped" discussion ("attention gets ads to reward content creators", etc), fine, but in a case like parent post, better use of cloudflare means more $ for them, so they probably want consumption. So, why video?

I've said this before and gotten feedback around "diff people need diff modalities to consume info" and "video can be more effective than static text". All true, which is why having text as an option is important; just video is as bad as, if not worse than, just text.

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Post by stronglikedan »

JacobAldridge wrote: post #145
trog wrote: post #56

I'm a generally technical person and I'm simply flat out uninterested in video content - the stuff that will be on this sounds broadly interesting to me but I'd rather read it in article format. I understand video "performs" well in a lot of contexts (and thus is of particular interest to marketing people) but I am always surprised when content targeted broadly towards the technical community is done in a video-first…

I’m much the same ... and I’m saying that as someone who trained as a TV journalist, once hosted his own tv show, put out 134 weekly episodes of a business video series, and even now focuses on putting out 1-2 videos (on businesses As a creator, it’s laziness - I can produce a video in far less time than a quality article. As a consumer, I’ve started watching a few more video channels to learn from others - but would…

> That also provides a text transcript!

As someone who's used the text transcripts to "search" through Youtube video content, I'd say you're on the right track.

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Post by eastdakota »

sixhobbits wrote: post #195

Genuinely curious, My possibly biased perception is that people in Europe are more "internationally aware" (for lack of a better word) than those in the US. e.g. a website that is built in Europe but likely to attract international interest will include a timezone. The schedule[0] for this just has dates and times. I have no idea when anything is, though some of it looks interesting. Is there a "default" timezone tha…

Times are all adjusted to be local to you. And we’re trying to create content in languages that are local to the time zones around the world.
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