How to do Media RSS right

Source: Canter
Now I hate to say I told you so - but the hack-spirit of Podcasting just pissed me off - and now I have somewhere to point to - to show what I mean by proper architecture, well thought out designs and heaven forbid - an RSS namespace spec - which we can all hang out hats on - and move forward with.

It's called Media RSS.

Jeremy Zawodny clued me into this - and I just wanna say "RIGHT ON!"

Yahoo has started an effort to get folks to upload RSS files of
their video - which means that Yahoo is jumping in - head first - into
the space of open standards.

Wallah!

See that wasn't so hard?

Assuming that it's OK to call Yahoo 3rd (after MSN and Google) it's not hard to see why they're doing what they're doing.

Google is off pushing some propreitary solution onto our GODD
friends down in Hollywood - I'm sure promising them a solution to that
dreaded "bit torrent" download "problem they have".

Microsoft is being Microsoft - tying all their search stuff into
their DRM solution - and so that leaves it to Yahoo to support and
think about US.

So right on to Jeremy et al. Now the work begins.

This all leads to a bigger strategy for Yahoo - supoorting ALL SORTS
of open standards. There are 50M people who use Yahoo groups. Those
Groups have image galleries, events, on-going discussion threads.

Why not open those up?

And Yahoo is the leader is personalzied 'portals'. In fact they invented it! Thet started the whole My thing.

Does this mean that Yahoo will be helping us to define what Digital Lifestyle Aggregation is - moving forward?

I sure hope so!

Steve Rubel seems to grok the significance of this.
This is about end-user participation. A transparent attempt at Yahoo to
start over again - from scratch - just like they started out in their
humble beginnings - acknowledging the importance of US attaching
meta-data to our video.

So it's not JUST about the end-user content. If that content ain't
indexed with meta-data - we'll never find it. I know we'll chew the
shit out of this for our ourmedia.org efforts.

So there's a working site, a Yahoo group set up, a namespace spec proposed and a blog blogging about it. Please join and help us welcome Yahoo into this grand chess game we call open standards.

Also: See Blinkx press. Blinkx has just launched their new multimedia search engine, called Blinkx TV, that lets Web surfers search for TV and radio clips from popular networks for on-demand content viewing or listening.

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