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26 Oct 2006
Video feeds and markup missing
Marc Canter (unknowingly?) started to answer my question on Video Aggregators on 17 oktober. Basically his answer is that the feeds do not support (Yahoo!) MediaRSS, which makes aggregation difficult.
I had a look at Yahoo Video, but I am to able to find the feeds. And there is no autodiscovery. I guess I did not locate the right page yet. The RSS-feed can be found on some Google pages as the letters RSS. No autodiscovery support. Where is the feed in Technorati. They create a list of Top Internet Videos. But where is the feed?
I wonder whether any aggregators support these Video RSS feeds? The Google feed shows up nicely in NetNewsWire. And the metadata turns up in the Item description (title, video length, date, description) and I can watch the video in NNW as well. Just the way I want it. In Podtech you can find the feeds through a subscribe link, and then selecting the required format. No autodiscovery. No watching in NNW itself. Technorati's own video blog shows up nicely in NNW. I can watch the video in NNW s well.
The Technorati Top Internet Video List seems like aggregation. However I do not think that it is true aggregation as it looks at blog items that talk about video. So I guess that look for links to YouTube only(?) videos in those blog items and then do a smart aggregation.
In conclusion lets get first the right feeds in place. First have minimal metadata and then expand on that. We are not here yet.