Google Video needs to adopt Flickr-style feeds
Yecch...I just commited Web 2.0 sacrilege. Blogging blasphemy. A social schism. I crossed the 'Y' Word with the 'G' Word. Sorry, folks.
But you can't avoid the problem that Google Video at the moment doesn't generate RSS/Atom feeds for clips that you can subscribe to and get grouped content from; more importantly, the lack of such a facility is inevitably going to be held against the gold standard for multimedia RSS, Flickr. The comparison simply can't be avoided, format notwithstanding. Regardless of the fact Flickr just does still images (for now) and Google Video by its nature does full motion clips, the former trumps the latter in terms of full accessibility.
Hang on...let me quickly browse over to http://video.google.com to see if they've added it in the last 10 minutes so my theory this far isn't disproven and I don't wind up looking like a complete goof...
...nope. Whew.
The key concept behind the (lack of) RSS feeds listing multimedia resources based on keywords is in tagging. An optional part of the process of submitting a video clip to Google for archival, indexing, storage, serving and searching is embedding metadata by way of transcripts, title, credits and other criterion. But no tagging. Since the transcriptions aren't visibly being used at the moment, I'm sure they're being stored to serve a deeper purpose down the road as the library builds.
Both services provide full-text searching of their media, so why GV hasn't done this route yet I don't know. (Google Video's search effectiveness is in my opinion a bit odd, not because of result set inaccuracies in relation to search keyword queries, but more due to an excess of unrelated clips that somehow get thrown into the mix. This is in stark contrast to Google's traditional web search capability, which we've all come to rely on as being spot-on in its relevance.)
Google Video does currently have blogs with corresponding RSS feeds - the Google Video Blog and Google Video of the Day, both of which produce syndicated, subscribable content for new, popular and generally interesting clips in the GV gallery. But with Flickr I can subscribe to an RSS feed that's created on the fly for images tagged with keywords I specify (like "Seattle"). Technically I never have to visit www.flickr.com again, but I'll get their stuff all the time in my aggregator application. This is a phenomenal, necessary shift in the total user experience for receiving multimedia.
And it's one in which Google, I'm sad to say, is trailing.
But you can't avoid the problem that Google Video at the moment doesn't generate RSS/Atom feeds for clips that you can subscribe to and get grouped content from; more importantly, the lack of such a facility is inevitably going to be held against the gold standard for multimedia RSS, Flickr. The comparison simply can't be avoided, format notwithstanding. Regardless of the fact Flickr just does still images (for now) and Google Video by its nature does full motion clips, the former trumps the latter in terms of full accessibility.
Hang on...let me quickly browse over to http://video.google.com to see if they've added it in the last 10 minutes so my theory this far isn't disproven and I don't wind up looking like a complete goof...
...nope. Whew.
The key concept behind the (lack of) RSS feeds listing multimedia resources based on keywords is in tagging. An optional part of the process of submitting a video clip to Google for archival, indexing, storage, serving and searching is embedding metadata by way of transcripts, title, credits and other criterion. But no tagging. Since the transcriptions aren't visibly being used at the moment, I'm sure they're being stored to serve a deeper purpose down the road as the library builds.
Both services provide full-text searching of their media, so why GV hasn't done this route yet I don't know. (Google Video's search effectiveness is in my opinion a bit odd, not because of result set inaccuracies in relation to search keyword queries, but more due to an excess of unrelated clips that somehow get thrown into the mix. This is in stark contrast to Google's traditional web search capability, which we've all come to rely on as being spot-on in its relevance.)
Google Video does currently have blogs with corresponding RSS feeds - the Google Video Blog and Google Video of the Day, both of which produce syndicated, subscribable content for new, popular and generally interesting clips in the GV gallery. But with Flickr I can subscribe to an RSS feed that's created on the fly for images tagged with keywords I specify (like "Seattle"). Technically I never have to visit www.flickr.com again, but I'll get their stuff all the time in my aggregator application. This is a phenomenal, necessary shift in the total user experience for receiving multimedia.
And it's one in which Google, I'm sad to say, is trailing.
posted by Jason Salas @ 11:18 PM
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