Yahoo updates photo and video services
Yahoo has released an updated version of its video service. According to experts, the updated version of Yahoo Video is designed to take away the palm from the popular 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, including Google, AOL, Microsoft and others, has its own video service. However, leadership in this market belongs to specialized sites YouTube and MySpace . According to Hitwise statistics for May 2006, among American users, YouTube controls almost 43% of the video sharing market, and MySpace controls about 24%. Sites like Yahoo, MSN, Google and AOL each have less than 10% of the market.
The updated version of Yahoo Video allows users to upload their favorite videos to the site and view other people's work, sorted in the subject 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 a personal page.
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There is also a built-in rating system, as well as a mechanism for publishing reviews. In general, all the necessary tools to create a vast community of users on the basis of Yahoo Video. In addition to everything else, videos from the Yahoo Video portal can be easily inserted into the pages of third-party sites, for example, directly into the blog. Some features of the new Yahoo Video site (for example, the page with the most popular videos) exactly repeat the same functionality of the YouTube site. For such a "copy", developers from Yahoo have already received 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 at the special link “Try new beta” on the main page of the Yahoo Photo site. By this link you can register and queue up for participation in testing. The company plans to hire about 10,000 beta testers. If the Yahoo video service is reworked in the style of YouTube, then the new photo service, according to eyewitnesses , is reworked in the Flickr style. There are a lot of Ajax lotions, tag support, the ability to drag photos with a mouse, etc.
Naturally, YouTube is not the only competitor, because nowadays almost every large company that does business on the Internet, including Google, AOL, Microsoft and others, has its own video service. However, leadership in this market belongs to specialized sites YouTube and MySpace . According to Hitwise statistics for May 2006, among American users, YouTube controls almost 43% of the video sharing market, and MySpace controls about 24%. Sites like Yahoo, MSN, Google and AOL each have less than 10% of the market.
The updated version of Yahoo Video allows users to upload their favorite videos to the site and view other people's work, sorted in the subject 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 a personal page.
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There is also a built-in rating system, as well as a mechanism for publishing reviews. In general, all the necessary tools to create a vast community of users on the basis of Yahoo Video. In addition to everything else, videos from the Yahoo Video portal can be easily inserted into the pages of third-party sites, for example, directly into the blog. Some features of the new Yahoo Video site (for example, the page with the most popular videos) exactly repeat the same functionality of the YouTube site. For such a "copy", developers from Yahoo have already received 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 at the special link “Try new beta” on the main page of the Yahoo Photo site. By this link you can register and queue up for participation in testing. The company plans to hire about 10,000 beta testers. If the Yahoo video service is reworked in the style of YouTube, then the new photo service, according to eyewitnesses , is reworked in the Flickr style. There are a lot of Ajax lotions, tag support, the ability to drag photos with a mouse, etc.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4074/
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