Wish List: YouTube “Streams”
OK, so the word “stream” is probably not the right one here because it already has a reasonably specific meaning in the technology world — perhaps “channels” is a better metaphor. What I want on YouTube (and its ilk) is a way to create my own “channel” of programming. As I’m watching a particular video they do a decent job of showing “related” videos in the side bar, and after a video they now give you proactive suggestions on where to go next. However, there’s no good way to just line up a bunch of different videos, then sit back and watch them all. As someone who uses a computer as his television, that would go a long way to make true convergence a reality in my world. Ideally, you might even be able to create more than one “channel” and just add videos as you’re browsing around YouTube (or see one out on a blog somewhere) to any of those channels — you can then decide at a later time to just watch that channel. This might be possible just using an RSS feed, but it would be a better business opportunity for YouTube to have me come back to their site to watch my channels.
a playlist?
Comment by Gary — September 20, 2006 @ 6:53 am
Yes, a playlist — but, more like the way an RSS reader behaves where you are only really going to want to “watch” something once (unlike a music playlist that is often something you’ll revisit several times). And several of them, so you have a set of playlists (channels) you can add video to. More like a queue than a playlist.
Comment by Nathan Dintenfass — September 20, 2006 @ 8:19 am
I think it would be easy to implement. Just have a check box associated with each video then have a page you can go to that will play all checked videos.
Comment by Gary — September 20, 2006 @ 8:20 am
This interface is kind of neat ….
http://www.neave.tv/
Comment by Scott Fitchet — September 22, 2006 @ 5:47 pm