Last week, our humble little service passed through two significant milestones:
1. As of Wednesday last week, videos had been collected from over 3,500 different sites.
2. Sometime early Friday morning, a Vodpod member had collected the 1,000,000th video on Vodpod.
We’re excited about both milestones. After all, they prove an important and fundamental point — we all control both the studio and the broadcast station now.
Anyone can now publish just about any video they want. That’s why there our members have been able to collect videos from so many different sites. In the last 17 months, we’ve seen new video sharing sites launch for different countries and languages, as well as specific and particular interests. Because it is so easy now to both publish and watch these videos, we don’t see the numbers slowing down.
In other words, the web is acting like it always has — it’s highly distributed.
And given we can now all make and publish videos easily, freely, we also need to help each other find the good stuff. That’s what Vodpod is about.
I need to make one point about how our members collected videos from so many sites. We can take credit for part of this. The simple but powerful tool we’ve made — the Vodpod “save videos” button that let’s you collect videos with a click — has certainly made it a lot easier to collect videos.
But credit given where credit is due; none of this would be possible without the new and evolving standard for how to publish videos online.
That would be Flash + the embed code.
Thanks to the many creative people who had a role in the evolution of those two things.
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