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Youtube and NowPublic

by mtippett | May 3, 2007 at 01:09 pm

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Hi this is Michael from NowPublic,

I thought I’d post a quick note to let you know about something we just made available to all of our users that lets you connect directly with Youtube material.

Now you can associate Youtube videos with your stories through our crowd sourcing tool. After you write something on NowPublic just scroll down the page and click on ‘the web’ in the crowd sourcing tool.

You’ll notice that you can now search the YouTube library for file footage and eye witness reports for your stories (you'll need to be signed in). This helps make your material more interesting and more likely to reach the front page.

You can use this story as a way of testing it. Go ahead, log in, scroll down, find a video and add it to this story. Try it out and let us know what you think.

Best,

Michael.

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Edmund Jenks

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at 15:08 on May 3rd, 2007

mtippett, you've convinced me you've done the work - it's authentic. I also think that you've been fair and thorough. I didn't get the sense that you were hiding your biases, or passing off other's work as your own. Or worse -- getting paid by those you cover -- so it's transparent and independent. I also think you deserve praise for being an eyewitness, and for your investigative efforts. Good stuff. (don't you just love this boilerplate comment? ... good on ya' with this YouTube linkage)

nukegingrich

at 05:35 on May 4th, 2007

Ditto what Ed says, Tippet. P.S.: You're not so bad for a Lib.

mtippett

at 08:35 on May 15th, 2007

Thanks Nuke :)

by 'lib' do you mean liberal or libertarian? I'm never sure what seat I'd get on crossfire (may she rest in peace).

achotshelo

at 11:43 on May 15th, 2007

Great, It is realy good

pepa

at 11:54 on May 15th, 2007

what about the copyright issue? all videos in youtube are youtube-copyrighted. you know, they don't let you publish videos under creative commons licences. i don't like youtube.
the feature is very good! i'd add other videohosting services.

cheers!

mtippett

at 14:24 on May 15th, 2007

Hi Pepa,

The videos still reside on YouTube so they don't mind. We probably drive them lots of traffic. Let us know how you like the tool and what needs to be improved. Thanks,

rahul

at 11:59 on May 15th, 2007

Michael, I have just used this new feature at nowpublic. It was great to include some interesting and vivid footage to my story. I am sure it will become a very handy tool for all of us.

ppeggy

at 18:01 on May 15th, 2007

Brilliant!

ppeggy

hayao

at 19:27 on May 15th, 2007

What can I say? This is great news and very much welcome. Brilliant and amazing idea.

rianvanu

at 03:32 on May 16th, 2007

Welcome to YouTube.

My Account...

http://www.youtube.com/rianvanu

ricknight

at 07:58 on May 17th, 2007

can you do the same for flickr? [the you tube thing is most cool though]

mtippett

at 11:40 on May 23rd, 2007

hey Rick. You actually can try our alpha flickr tool. Follow these steps:

Log into NowPublic
Enter you FLICKR username and password here
Use the tool the same way you use the YouTube tool
Add a personal note when you import letting the photo owner you want to use their photo in a story
Let us know what you think :)