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Re: FixYT

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Post by dirkk0 »

flyintothemoon wrote: post #20
sequoia wrote: post #2

It's nice but if you ever even appear to cut into their ad model they'll shut ya down. Gotta pay the engineers, other employees, electric bill etc.... youtube ain't free ;) EDIT: I really like the site & hope you flesh it out. Just not getting my hopes up too high. :)

I've built something a little bit more fleshed out, actually... How about a site that lets you search and watch videos at the same time. And also does Vimeo. And lets you save them to personal collections. Here you go. http://huzzaz.com/search

This is very cool! The interface should get a little more love, though?

Re: FixYT

#112

Post by kapitalx »

Finally, related videos that are related to the video!

For some reason google decided to show videos 'relevant' to me. But all I want is videos related to what i'm watching.

Thanks, I really like it.

Re: FixYT

#113

Post by rodolphoarruda »

dylangs1030 wrote: post #101
rmc wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So all you have to do is start a tech company that does this. When Google knock on your doors, with literally one and half billion dollars of Google stock, you have to say "No". Would you do that? Could you blame anyone else for doing that?

I couldn't do it, but Snapchat's CEO turned down a cool $3 billion. It can be done.

Thanks for mentioning about the company. I've never heard about it until now. Surprisingly enough I had to look at Wikipedia to know what they do and further details. Their website currently gives no clue about anything they do but a new product called "Stories", which for newcomers like me means zilch.

Re: FixYT

#114

Post by ytNumbers »

Fantastic! There's so much wrong with Youtube these days. It's great that someone is trying to fix it! Now, a nitpick... Your about page has a typo. You've got the word recommendation with only one m. If it were my site, I'd want someone to tell me.

Re: FixYT

#115

Post by milsorgen »

ajarmoniuk wrote: post #62
geofft wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... wait, MySpace is still around?

Not really. The brand is, but it's a completely different service now.

I wouldn't say it's completely different. It certainly is positioned in a completely different way but one can still log in and view their old pages and content.

Re: FixYT

#116

Post by vinceguidry »

hncommenter13 wrote: post #64
janson0 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is actually not against their TOS to accept payments or run additional ads alongside their content.

It might be, depending on what else is on the page. Clause 4(d) of the Terms of Service[1] reads: "You agree not to use the Service for any of the following commercial uses unless you obtain YouTube's prior written approval: - the sale of access to the Service; - the sale of advertising, sponsorships, or promotions placed on or within the Service or Content; or - the sale of advertising, sponsorships, or promotions o…

I subscribe to Avdi Grimm's excellent RubyTapas series, and the biggest pain about it is the lack of a web viewer. Google seems to be explicitly disallowing him to use YT, and that really sucks. Anyone looking to make and sell videos has to put them on Amazon or whatever and make you download them.

Re: FixYT

#117

Post by mikecane »

I've been using Toogles all this time. This seems even faster. Will switch between both as each have their points. Thanks.

And Googlers, you've run YouTube into the ground with clutter. Stop. Roll back. And get rid of tying of it to G+. We don't want that.

Re: FixYT

#118

Post by julespitt »

ChrisNorstrom wrote: post #70

Thank you whoever you are. May the randomness of the Universe be in your favor. - It's blazing fast, much faster than the original. - Doesn't have that stupid loading bar at the top. - No more glitched video page loads. - Isn't going to be redesigned every 5 months like YT. - The video player is center aligned and not left aligned. - Drops all the unnecessary UI elements and doesn't bother me to start using my real n…

It's blazing fast, much faster than the original.

It really is, I'd love for whoever made this to show a breakdown - front-end and back-end - of what decisions they made that added up to this.

Re: FixYT

#119

Post by janson0 »

hncommenter13 wrote: post #64
janson0 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is actually not against their TOS to accept payments or run additional ads alongside their content.

It might be, depending on what else is on the page. Clause 4(d) of the Terms of Service[1] reads: "You agree not to use the Service for any of the following commercial uses unless you obtain YouTube's prior written approval: - the sale of access to the Service; - the sale of advertising, sponsorships, or promotions placed on or within the Service or Content; or - the sale of advertising, sponsorships, or promotions o…

That last one seems to the be the kicker, right? Interesting...

Re: FixYT

#120

Post by janson0 »

vinceguidry wrote: post #116
hncommenter13 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might be, depending on what else is on the page. Clause 4(d) of the Terms of Service[1] reads: "You agree not to use the Service for any of the following commercial uses unless you obtain YouTube's prior written approval: - the sale of access to the Service; - the sale of advertising, sponsorships, or promotions placed on or within the Service or Content; or - the sale of advertising, sponsorships, or promotions o…

I subscribe to Avdi Grimm's excellent RubyTapas series, and the biggest pain about it is the lack of a web viewer. Google seems to be explicitly disallowing him to use YT, and that really sucks. Anyone looking to make and sell videos has to put them on Amazon or whatever and make you download them.

If those videos were available to be purchased from his site, or if you could subscribe to his site to get premium video content, do you think that you would do that?
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