Video on Flickr

Before, I already mentioned user can put video on Flickr. Now, I want to talk another information about this.

Flickr will have a Free Donut Day in Bob’s Donuts, San Francisco, at 11 AM, 16 April 2008. But why do they want to have this campaign? It is the Video on the Flickr.

Flickr tries to provide the video sharing service. Before that, Flickr only do photo sharing service. Now they want to join into video service. But some Flickr users do not have this kind of service so they set up some discuss group, We Say No to Video on Flickr, this group has almost 30,000 members, another one is NO VIDEO ON FLICKR, this also has 12,000 members. However, those are small group in Flickr. Flickr has 25 million members. The oppose groups in Flickr are 0.08 % of the total membership.

This number is very small. But Flickr or Internet companies want solve this problem as soon as possible. Flickr try to launch another campaign, We Demand Donuts. Flickr imitates the oppose groups. They make a plan, if you gather 20,000 members in one group; Flickr will give you a free donut for each of you. Donut is a very funny stuff in the USA. It is unhealthy and non-nutrition, but everyone like it and eat it. Therefore, this group want to other users see this campaign means a group of stupid want to threaten Flickr to get a free donut. It is funny, relaxed, interesting and expectant.

As a result, there is a group real have almost 2000 member. However, they do not have enough members. Flickr also response this group. Flickr say: “While you have not yet reached your goal of 20K members, we at FlickrHQ have heard of your noble efforts and seek to answer your cries for justice.”

This event maybe give us a idea about that, Humor is the best way of crisis management.

Flickr

Today, Flickr users can put their video on their own Flickr pages. Although the video size must be under 150MB or 90 seconds, it is a big advance for Flickr.

FriendFeed – update news from your friends

Blog readers have possibly a long list for their favourite blogs. They have more than twenty blogs. They go to those blogs to find anything is new. This action waste their time. Now people can use this method, RSS Aggregator, such as Google Reader. People can add feed url from each blog, and then, they can use RSS Aggregator to read any new article from blogs as same as checking E-mail. Nowadays, everyone does not only have two or three E-mails, Blogs, and Web Albums, Twitter, etc. A lot of web services are around people’s life. But some services do not support RSS feed service. FriendFeed, this website service launch for users can get any news about their friends.

 

FriendFeed combines majority website services, such as Google Reader, Blog Feed, Flickr, Twitter, etc. Users sign up this website and set their owned services on this website step by step. Every user has particular web url likes mine: http://friendfeed.com/jameshsu. If user’s friends also have this service, user can add them easily.

What is Web 2.0?

What is Web 2.0?

What is Web 2.0? This is a new technical expression. It is the use for World Wide Web (WWW) technology. Web 1.0 is the use for the most websites. It is normal and rarely unchangeable website. A lot of people think Web 2.0 is a new standard of technology. Actually, it is not. O’Reilly Media gave a example to describe this word. If DoubleClick is Web 1.0, Google AdSens is Web 2.0. If Ofoto is Web 1.0, Flickr is Web2.0.

In October 2005, O’Reilly Media mentioned that the differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.

And then they also said the Web 2.0 websites typically include some of the following features/techniques:

‧Cascading Style Sheets to aid in the separation of presentation and content

‧Folksonomies (collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging)

‧Microformats extending pages with additional semantics

‧REST and/or XML- and/or JSON-based APIs

‧Rich Internet application techniques, often Ajax-based

‧Semantically valid XHTML and HTML markup

‧Syndication, aggregation and notification of data in RSS or Atom feeds

‧mashups, merging content from different sources, client- and server-side

‧Weblog-publishing tools

‧wiki or forum software, etc., to support user-generated content