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Thread: Feature request "Cast" aka "Credit"
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| Feature request "Cast" aka
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2007-08-14 20:13:14 |
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On 8/13/07, Mike Hudack < mike blip.tv">mikeblip.tv> wrote:
We're not syndicating it that way right
now, but you can find it on Show Pages where the user has filled it in.
I've just talked to Devlon. It appears not only is Vimeo including credit in their feeds but so is youtube. We're going to start adding this information to our databases right away since we've already got the capacity to handle it.
I'd love to see it in the blip feeds soon. I still have yet to check out your implimentation and am looking forward to it. My guess is that the user needs to enter this information when uploading the video. My suggestion therefore to help your users get more out of it would be to bring it out into the open and let other blip users see this info and even add to it collectively.
-Mike
Thanks
mike,
Very cool. ;I'll have to check out the feature on your site. I
assume it's in the upload and post process?
Are you syndicating the data in your feeds as MediaRSS / credit and do
you have an example feed I can look at on the live site?
On 8/13/07, Mike
Hudack < mikeblip.tv" target="_blank">mikeblip.tv> wrote:
We have something like that right now, but it's a free-form
text box rather than structured. I'd love to structure it… maybe we
can do that in an upcoming release.
Yours,
Mike
I'm
cc'ing this to 4 groups, the video-vertigo videoblogging developers workgroup,
the vPIP users group, the blip.tv
users group, and the mefeedia users group. I'm not sure whom might be more interested.
I hope you'll consider it valuable advice and not spam.
Vimeo has
a very cool feature they call "cast" or credit. Basically it
allows users and videomakers to specify who appears in the video or podcast.
Since nearly every video and every podcast has at least one person in it this
feature is simply awesome for video sharing / social networking sites.
Example
of how it's used on Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/jakob/videos/appears
This
shows every video ever credited with Jakob Lodwick
David
Meade mentioned this to me and he's not the first. I must have heard people
mention how cool this feature is a dozen times.
==
syndicating cast information ====
On
mefeedia we aggregate TONS of videos tagged with people';s names, but they're
impossible to weed out from various other tags. ;
example: http://mefeedia.com/tags.htm
(see the "people" section in the lower right of the page)
I
also did a quick check of the media RSS spec and it IS accounted for. It's
called "credit" in the mediaRSS spec. There's an example below.
from:
http://search.yahoo.com/mrss
<item>
;
<title>The latest video from an
artist</title>
;
<link>http://www.foo.com/item1.htm</link>;
;
<media:credit role=";producer">producer's
name</media:credit>
;
<media:credit role=";artist">artist's name</media:credit>
<.item>
What
this means is like geo data which blip and others like youtube and feedburner
are supporting we videobloggers, hosting providers, video sharing sites,
aggregators and search providers) also have the ability to syndicate and
aggregate this credit info. Hopefully I need not explain how awesome this
would be for not only hosting providers like blip but also media aggregators
and search engines.
==
How it might be implimented ==
Vimeo's
implimentation is pretty sweet. Basically in the top of the left column on
every video page is a section called "credits". This shows the
thumbnail icon, name, and roll for anyone involved in the video.
Example: http://vimeo.com/271265
To
add credit all any logged in user has to do is click "Add Credits"
and they can type in a name and optional role.
Short,
simple and sweet.
If
you9;re interested, know another service that has an implimentation or otherwise
please let me know.
I'd
be particularly interested to know what the blip crew thinks. I must
admit i haven't double checked, but I don't think they currently have this
feature. In fact, I can't think of anyone else who has this feature.
My
personal reason is selfish. I'd love to get this data into mefeedia. Like geo
data and tags there's so much cool stuff we at mefeedia can potentially do with
this information that our community would absolutely love.
Vimeo
is syndicating this cast information, and we are collecting at least some of it
on mefeedia. For example the following feed is a list of videos that Jakob
Lodwick appears in.
http://www.mefeedia.com/feeds/21150/
The
only negative I see is obviously there may be some privacy issues, but then
again you can already search for pictures of people on google images, why not
make the web of video searchable by people';s names too. I think it would be up
to the host or social network how they handle these privacy issues. I haven't
heard to many complaints about privacy on vimeo (quite the contrary, just
praise) but then I'm not that active of a user and I haven't seen nor am I
involved in any Vimeo user forums.
Peace,
-Mike
mefeedia.com
mmeiser.com/blog
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