June 9, 2006 at 16:46Yahoo updates photo and video services
The company Yahoo has released an updated version of its video service. According to experts, the updated version of Yahoo Video is designed to take the palm of the head from promoted competitors, among which YouTube stands out .
Naturally, YouTube is not the only competitor, because nowadays almost every large company that does business on the Internet has its own video service, including Google, AOL, Microsoft and others. However, the leadership in this market belongs to the specialized sites YouTube and MySpace . According to Hitwise statistics for May 2006, YouTube controls nearly 43% of the video sharing market among US users, while MySpace controls about 24%. Yahoo, MSN, Google, and AOL sites each have less than 10% of the market.
An updated version of Yahoo Video allows users to upload their favorite videos to the site and view other people's work, sorted in a thematic directory. All videos can be viewed on "channels", each of which contains content from one source. Users can subscribe to channels and save them on their personal page.
There is also a built-in rating system, as well as a mechanism for publishing reviews. In general, all the necessary tools to create an extensive community of users based on Yahoo Video. In addition to everything else, videos from the Yahoo Video portal can be easily inserted into pages of third-party sites, for example, directly into a blog. Some features of the new Yahoo Video site (for example, the page with the most popular videos) exactly repeat the similar functionality of the YouTube site. For such a "copy" developers from Yahoo have already won a number of unflattering epithets.
Along with the updated video service, Yahoo also developed a new beta version of its photo service. It is available through the special link “Try a new beta” on the main page of Yahoo Photo. This link allows you to register and queue for participation in testing. The company plans to hire about 10,000 beta testers. If the Yahoo video service is redone in the style of YouTube, then the new photo service, according to eyewitnesses , is redone in the Flickr style . There are many Ajax lotions, there is support for tags, the ability to drag and drop photos with the mouse, etc.
Naturally, YouTube is not the only competitor, because nowadays almost every large company that does business on the Internet has its own video service, including Google, AOL, Microsoft and others. However, the leadership in this market belongs to the specialized sites YouTube and MySpace . According to Hitwise statistics for May 2006, YouTube controls nearly 43% of the video sharing market among US users, while MySpace controls about 24%. Yahoo, MSN, Google, and AOL sites each have less than 10% of the market.
An updated version of Yahoo Video allows users to upload their favorite videos to the site and view other people's work, sorted in a thematic directory. All videos can be viewed on "channels", each of which contains content from one source. Users can subscribe to channels and save them on their personal page.
There is also a built-in rating system, as well as a mechanism for publishing reviews. In general, all the necessary tools to create an extensive community of users based on Yahoo Video. In addition to everything else, videos from the Yahoo Video portal can be easily inserted into pages of third-party sites, for example, directly into a blog. Some features of the new Yahoo Video site (for example, the page with the most popular videos) exactly repeat the similar functionality of the YouTube site. For such a "copy" developers from Yahoo have already won a number of unflattering epithets.
Along with the updated video service, Yahoo also developed a new beta version of its photo service. It is available through the special link “Try a new beta” on the main page of Yahoo Photo. This link allows you to register and queue for participation in testing. The company plans to hire about 10,000 beta testers. If the Yahoo video service is redone in the style of YouTube, then the new photo service, according to eyewitnesses , is redone in the Flickr style . There are many Ajax lotions, there is support for tags, the ability to drag and drop photos with the mouse, etc.