Comments on: Barack Obama Video Goes MIA http://publishing2.com/2007/01/28/barack-obama-video-goes-mia/ The (r)Eevolution of Media Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:23:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David Utter http://publishing2.com/2007/01/28/barack-obama-video-goes-mia/comment-page-1/#comment-72995 David Utter Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:41:41 +0000 http://publishing2.com/2007/01/28/barack-obama-video-goes-mia/#comment-72995 Seems to be working just fine on your blog and on Obama's site. Maybe Brightcove was enjoying one of those fabled "unscheduled maintenance" events that sysadmins love so much. Seems to be working just fine on your blog and on Obama’s site. Maybe Brightcove was enjoying one of those fabled “unscheduled maintenance” events that sysadmins love so much.

]]> By: Michal Migurski http://publishing2.com/2007/01/28/barack-obama-video-goes-mia/comment-page-1/#comment-71132 Michal Migurski Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:21:55 +0000 http://publishing2.com/2007/01/28/barack-obama-video-goes-mia/#comment-71132 Oops. Campaigns have got to start hosting this stuff for themselves, or at least providing their own URLs as reference points. I recently hosted a video I expected to get a lot of attention using Amazon's S3 service. 8000 views have resulted in about $3 of bandwidth charges, which is entirely reasonable. If I was smart, I'd have used a URL at one of my own domains to provide a redirect, so if it ever disappeared from S3 I'd be able to change the redirection to point somewhere else. YouTube's primary feature is ease of broadcasting. Their secondary feature is ease of viewing. Both of these can be duplicated elsewhere by conscientious users: it's only a matter of time before the release of a simple flash-based viewer widget that's as easy to use as YouTube's is created to point to videos at other domains, and a one-step video converter that takes any input and encodes it in Flash-happy FLV format. The social stuff is (for me) a distant third. Oops.

Campaigns have got to start hosting this stuff for themselves, or at least providing their own URLs as reference points. I recently hosted a video I expected to get a lot of attention using Amazon’s S3 service. 8000 views have resulted in about $3 of bandwidth charges, which is entirely reasonable. If I was smart, I’d have used a URL at one of my own domains to provide a redirect, so if it ever disappeared from S3 I’d be able to change the redirection to point somewhere else.

YouTube’s primary feature is ease of broadcasting. Their secondary feature is ease of viewing. Both of these can be duplicated elsewhere by conscientious users: it’s only a matter of time before the release of a simple flash-based viewer widget that’s as easy to use as YouTube’s is created to point to videos at other domains, and a one-step video converter that takes any input and encodes it in Flash-happy FLV format.

The social stuff is (for me) a distant third.

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