YouTube's API and The News

On July 20, 2011, YouTube and Link TV hosted a Hacks/Hackers meetup in San Francisco for a first-person look at innovative news projects using YouTube's API.

YouTube, Link TV and four developer partners demoed new web applications built using the YouTube API. The presentations started with YouTube API overview, followed by the demos of:

* YouTube Direct (http://www.youtube.com/direct) is an open source user generated content video submission and moderation platform

* Storyful (http://www.storyful.com/) was founded by journalists to discover the smartest conversations about world events and raise up the authentic voices on the big stories.

* Storify (http://www.storify.com/) lets users make stories using social media. With Storify you can drag and drop tweets, YouTube videos, Flickr images, Facebook updates, ... and add your own narrative to tell a story.

* Shortform (http://www.shortform.com/) is a new social entertainment medium, delivering continuous channels of the best videos from anywhere on the web, curated by our community of video DJs (VJs)

* GoAnimate (http://www.goanimate.com/) was founded to provide an outlet for everyone's creative ideas. In just 10 minutes, one can make fun animated videos without having to draw.

* Link TV (http://linktv.org/) recently launched Link News (http://news.linktv.org), an international news website that sifts through YouTube's library of news content to deliver breaking news and hidden stories to a wider audience. The beta site uses powerful new tools, like YouTube's API, to link visitors to videos and articles from a variety of news sources around the world.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• youtube
• api
• storyful
• storify
• shortform
• goanimate
• linktv

[WordshellRealitiy]

thx a lot for uppload.

[devilsriveruk]

"Journalists are needed more than ever to make sense of what is going on."

Translated:

"We need to ensure the way social media is interpreted and presented to the general public is done authoritatively so that the general underlying theme or message of a reported event remains within the diktat of the corporate media. In this way we expand the perceived illusion of democracy while continuing to erode real rights and restrict freedom across the board."

[KDBroadCastings]

Nice video

[ChrisBullock]

@JLUFantasy

He called them hacks, not hack-ers. The word hack is pretty broad in its description of an act of re-working or re appropriating a system in new, interesting, different, and potentially shady ways. In writing it typically refers to someone who writes low quality, low budget, or quick timeline pieces. Hack comedians rip off other people's jokes, or overused common sayings / proverbs.

Hacking can also refer to training falcons.

[JLUFantasy]

@ChrisBullock again, Hackers aren't journalists, i would consider modifying stuff to be "hacking" it, as far as you can go with hacking software/hardware wise, I would just Never consider a journalist to be a hacker..

[ChrisBullock]

@JLUFantasy

People who break into computer systems are one specific type of hacker; that doesn't really cover the full extent of the word's etymology. Most 'hackers' and 'hackerspaces' are directed towards re-appropriating technology / software to a different purpose, which is an entirely different act than the black-hat acts of crackers / phreakers / script kiddies.

[edurubio2000]

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[JLUFantasy]

hacks DOES NOT mean journalist... Hackers DO NOT mean developer...

define it' a hacker is someone who breaks into computers and computer networks. exploiting bad software and or cracking past algorithms designed to keep them out...

I am a hacker. good luck with your journal writing and blog posts.....

[shabihsherjeel]

No comments? Ok. Thumbs up for Google to allow everybody to upload long videos! :D