Nicholas Reville of PCF/Miro on finding more local video
Do you control where and how you consume online video?
How is that control, sometimes called "open video", important to the future of the Web?
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Jul 3, 2009 - 23:30
I find local video by typing terms into the search, but this is true, a lot of times it doesn't work.
Isn't this really about adding an editorial layer to video search?
Jul 3, 2009 - 23:30
Thanks, John. In part this is adding an editorial layer--it may also be a way to make everyone into a potential editor.
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this is important because
I am an independent filmmaker and I put things on video sites--it's a big deal for me if something is taken down. I think it's important that there are alternatives like Miro and also that people know there is more than YouTube for video.
thanks, Carrie, where do you post your videos?
Do you use multiple video services? What advice would you give to other independent filmmakers beginning to put their work (or clips of it) online?
On saving media
Open Source Cinema (http://www.opensourcecinema.org/) as a nice interface based on Drupal and uses Blip.TV for hosting the videos (need to register to check how this works).
You can use also ccHost (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Cchost) and services like Archive.org or "Cloud Computing"-like payed ones such as Amazon EC2 (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/), Mosso (http://www.mosso.com/cloudfiles.jsp) or Dreamhost (http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html).
About Amazon many already talked about :)
Mosso will include Limelight's (http://www.limelightnetworks.com/) technology and has an API to its file server services.
Dreamhost uses Ceph (http://ceph.newdream.net/), or plans to.
It has also a great package for USA-based 501(c)(3) organizations at http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting-nonprofit.html
Hope it helps somehow :)
Lopo