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YouTube API and the News

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

If you love to follow the news as much as you love to code, then Hacks/Hackers, an international organization that sits at the nexus of journalism and technology, is for you. Its mission is to create a network of journalists (“hacks”) and technologists (“hackers”) to rethink the future of news and information. Recently, YouTube and LinkTV hosted a Hacks/Hackers meetup at Google’s San Francisco office. Together with four developer partners, we demoed web applications used by reporters and built using the YouTube API. The presentation started with a YouTube API overview, followed by demos of the following:

YouTube Direct is an open source, user-generated content video submission and moderation platform.

Storyful was founded by journalists to discover the smartest conversations about world events and raise up the authentic voices on the big stories.

Storify lets users make stories using social media. With Storify you can drag-and-drop tweets, YouTube videos, Flickr images, Facebook updates, etc. and add your own narrative to tell a story.

Shortform is a new social entertainment medium, delivering continuous channels containing the best videos from anywhere on the web, curated by our community of video DJs (VJs).

GoAnimate was founded to provide an outlet for everyone's creative ideas. In just 10 minutes, you can make fun animated videos without having to draw.

Link TV recently launched Link News, an international news website that sifts through YouTube's library of news content to deliver breaking news and hidden stories to a wider audience.

We would like to share the video recording of the event with you so that you can learn more. If you want to discover more about Hacks/Hackers, you can find the list of local chapters here. Cheers,
—Jarek Wilkiewicz, YouTube API Team