This is a good list - thanks! I agree that we need to focus on doing
a few things REALLY well and everything else just "falls" in there.
My list of what to do really well:
1) Tools for vloggers - we need better tools to help videobloggers
manage their feeds on Mefeedia.... things like "claim a feed" (like
Technorati has - what we have is too basic), no duplicate feeds
(need to look at more in the RSS), edit all metadata on a feed (once
you have claimed it), and them provide more robust statistics.
2) Search and navigation - basically, make it easy to find vlogs.
3) Aggregation, tagging, social bookmarking - including
bookmarklets, etc. - make this more robust than what we currently
have..
4) API - a nice API for EVERYTHING, and include a whole bunch of
examples and widgets.
Also, we need to constantly focus on:
1) Design - the entire site needs to be really easy to use and have
(a little bit) more graphic design...
2) Before we do this, however, i want to fix all critical bugs and
make sure the current site is close to 100% working as it should.
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>
> This is a good a place as any to discuss what vloggers want.
>
> I think personally that mefeedia needs to become thinner.
>
> In simple terms... a little bit more like technoratti, digg, or
webjay
> then say a bloglines or especiallya flickr or youtube.
>
> Specifically, instead of focussing on so many mechanisms to
interact
> ON mefeedia.com like collections, lists, comments, recommendations,
> tagging... which are all cool... but instead focusing on these
which
> serve only to build value INTO mefeedia... mefeedia should instead
of
> adding more tools like this first focus on perfecting tracking and
> aggreagation of information that comes from vlogs such as. Which
is to
> say, not focusing on building internal value, but on tracking
external
> value.
>
> So... we should perfect the tools we have for building value on
> mefeedia, but rather than just building more and more of these
tools
> we should focus on perfecting the tools we have and then build more
>; widgets, bookmarklets and other such tools for both capturing
value,
> tracking it, and pushing it back out there.
>
> A great example would be a simple vlogrolling widget, and a
> bookmarklet or multiple bookmarklets for identifying and working
with
> outside media. For example a single click bookmarklet for adding a
> youtube video to your queue and/or bookmarking it on mefeedia and
> tagging it, or adding it to a collection... or something or other.
>
> Here are some other examples.
>
> -comment tracking... this is a great example... instead of
focusing on
> on commenting on mefeedia, aggregate, track and drive comment to
the
> original vlog... see co.mments.com. At the very minimum we could
> display the number of comments on the original blog post on
mefeedia.
> At the most we could track users comments for them throughout the
> vlogosphere.
>
> -meme tracking... mefeedia's tag tracking has fallen way behind the
> times... we talked about meme tracking in depth it seems like a
year
> ago. Since then techmeme.com has pretty much built exactly what I
was
> talking about way back then. Essentially what techmeme does is
track
> links to determine what's being talked about and who's responging
to
> it on blogs and showing it in a threaded manner. Forget the
tags...
> forget that it's blog tracking, techmeme just works. I've hear
nothing
> but good things about it. I'm dying to see this sort of tracking
for
> vlogs and podcasts. Noone, not ANYONE does this for vlogs... not
digg
> video, not even youtube... well youtube sort of does it. Video
> responses are something vloggers have LONG wanted.... meme
tracking is
> exactly that.
>
> -tag tracking... revitalize tag tracking... gone but not out...
> currently mefeedia tag tracking is flakey at best... and possibly
not
> working at all... tag tracking is huge on technoratti, slashdot and
> digg... when combined with techememe type tracking the two rule.
>
> Even among vloggers... mefeedia has lost out on that potential to
be
> the technoratti of it's space, failed to meet the needs of the
> community... it may be harsh but it's true. One example is the "5
> things" meme... it has been talked about and participated in
heavily
> in the vlogosphere... and nowhere has anyone mentioned tracking it
on
> mefeedia... which would seem ideal... and one of the primary
reaosns
> why... last time I checked there was only ONE item in mefeedia
tagged
> with 5 things, and that was something Jan tagged on mefeedia. We've
> failed Jan, and vloggers everywhere. ;(
>
> Mefeedia MUST get better at tag tracking.... like digg.com, like
>; delicious, like technoratti, like slashdot. Tags are now a
fundamental
> part of disintermediation, tracking and the search space.
>
> -search... mefeedia currently has nearly 1.8 million audio and
video
> posts record, and yet NO way to search these individual posts...
only
> for feeds. Search is FUNDAMENTALLY central to mefeedia... in fact
if
> there were only core competencies of mefeedia search would have to
be
> one of them.
>
> Overall, mefeedia needs to become thinner, it needs to stear
(steer?)
> away from behaving like the following services...
>
> youtube, flickr, blip.tv, bloglines
>
> And it needs to stear toward working like the following
>
> technoratti, digg.com, techmeme, co.comments.
>
> In tearms of wether mefeedia is a "service", a "platform", or a
> "network"... we must first and foremost be a SERVICE. I've spoken
a
>; lot about mefeedia's potential to build out the network to make
>; vlogging go more places, especially beyond the desktop to set top
> boxes, media servers and the mobile web... however fond I am of
these
> ideas mefeedia is in NO place to grow the network until it FIRST
> succeeds at providing basic services for the vlogging space.
>
> Those services are fundamentally the following
>
> 1) SEARCH... NO other place searches the videoblogging space...
> NONE... the vlogging space desperately needs search... we need to
get
> our ass in gear... secondly there is also need for a great audio
> podcasting search engine... odeo is the only one I know... there is
> huge potentials in this area... competition: technoratti...
>; differentiator = we're MEDIA specific, and we do a couple more
things
> then search, which brings me to the next point...
>
> 2) tracking and aggregation... Once again there is NO tracker and
no
> aggregator for the vlogosphere... and by vlogosphere I mean not
only
> the core members on the yahoo group and blip.tv, but also youtube,
> vsocial, vimeo, revver and the entire scope of all social media
> services.
>
> The closest competition mefeedia has here is delicious, dabble and
> bloglines. Del.icio.us a social bookmarker that just happens to
have
> limited support for media, and digg which has recently added
support
> for videos and podcasts. And dabble I like but I can't figure
out...
> they a sort of playground for media, but they're tricky to use.
Maybe
> we're more alike than I know.
>
> The bottom line is this. Mefeedia must recapture that initial
> vitality, utility and just plain downright usefulness for the
> community. To remind people why they fell in love with mefeedia
and
> to regain and build trust and a community dialogue. We build on
that
> interaction and trust after rebuilding it by continuing to build
> valueable widgets and tools and finally to capture the big vision
to
> take vlogging as a platform beyond the dekstop platform... not
just to
> distribute and syndicate media out to these new platforms, but
above
> all to make these new platforms part of a communications network...
> this is no broadcast network, it's a communications network.
>
> Peace,
>
> -Mike
> mefeedia.com/blog
>
> On 1/18/07, Jan McLaughlin <jannie.jan...> wrote:
> > Congrats all the way around. Look forward to all our vlogdreams
coming true.
> >
>; > Jan
> >
>; > On 1/18/07, Peter Van Dijck <petervandijck...> wrote: