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YouTube Direct for Mobile, and Other Updates
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Since launching
YouTube Direct
last November
, our team has been hard at work adding new functionalities, fixing bugs, and answering developer's questions. We wanted to take a momentary break from all that to share some updates.
Separate from but related to the main YouTube Direct project are two other Google Code projects: video capture and YouTube Direct upload applications for the
Android
and
iPhone
operating systems. These two projects are basic implementations that we hope will inspire organizations to add video capture and YouTube Direct upload functionality to their Android or iPhone applications.
We've been gradually, and quietly, checking in various bug fixes and enhancements to the current release's
Subversion repository
on Google Code. One recent change is especially important, as it adds support for the
new video page URLs
that will start becoming more common. Periodically, we package the current release into a new "tagged" release, and generate
release notes
summarizing what's new. If you haven't updated your YouTube Direct codebase recently, we strongly suggest that you read the release notes and perform a sync with our code repository. Starting with the next YouTube Direct release, we will send email announcements to the low-traffic, announce-only
Google Group
. We recommend that all developers using YouTube Direct sign up to the group — actually, all YouTube API users should sign up to receive periodic important notifications.
Many organizations, in addition to our
launch partners
, have deployed YouTube Direct on their websites since our launch, and we wanted to highlight a few here.
Gannett rolled out a company-wide initiative in honor of Black History month, in which they ask people to
interview civil rights heroes
via video. Al-Jazeera invited the community to
share their thoughts
and experiences around Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrammage to Mecca. And if you have news videos around any of the big stories of the day,
ITN News
wants them. Even Tufts University is using YouTube Direct to solicit personal videos from the community called "
You, in One Minute
".
As always, the best resource for developers looking to embed YouTube Direct functionality on their website is our
Getting Started Guide
. If you have any technical questions about YouTube Direct, our
YouTube API Developer's Google Group
is the place to turn.
Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick on behalf of the YouTube Direct Team
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