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  Realplayer reinvents itself as Dropbox for Video RS Wood  <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 10:12 +0000
    Re: Realplayer reinvents itself as Dropbox for Video RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 15:39 +0000
      Re: Realplayer reinvents itself as Dropbox for Video "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2014-03-02 23:40 +0100
        Re: Realplayer reinvents itself as Dropbox for Video Rob Myers <rob@robmyers.org> - 2014-03-03 08:20 +0000
          Re: Realplayer reinvents itself as Dropbox for Video RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-03 19:38 +0000

#896 — Realplayer reinvents itself as Dropbox for Video

From the "buffering ... buffering ... buffering" department:
Title: RealPlayer reinvents itself as 'the Dropbox for video'
Author: Samuel Gibbs
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 02:02:57 -0500
Link: http://feeds.theguardian.com/c/34708/f/663871/s/3774bd63/sc/46/l/0L0Stheguardian0N0Ctechnology0C20A140Cfeb0C240Crealplayer0Ecloud0Edropbox0Efor0Evideo0Emark0Eglaser/story01.htm
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Founder Rob Glaser has returned to RealPlayer and relaunched the veteran
video company as a free hosting service. By Samuel Gibbs
Samuel Gibbs[1]

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#918

RS Wood wrote:
>  From the "buffering ... buffering ... buffering" department:
> Title: RealPlayer reinvents itself as 'the Dropbox for video'
> Author: Samuel Gibbs

> Founder Rob Glaser has returned to RealPlayer and relaunched the veteran
> video company as a free hosting service. By Samuel Gibbs
> Samuel Gibbs[1]

Real may have been lousy software in a lot of ways, but the fact is they 
were able to deliver audio and some video over freaking dial-up 
connections, which is pretty impressive.  Their problem wasn't their 
technology, it was their business model.  They went "full retard" on the 
bundled-spyware, toolbar, invasive advertising route and it ruined their 
brand.  To this day - well over 14 years after the first time I used 
Realplayer - I'm able to make the 'buffering buffering' joke in 
relatively full confidence that people will get it.

*That said,* please give us an alternative to Youtube.  Ever since 
Google bought it, I've been avoiding it like it's syphilis.  I even skip 
links to youtube videos friends send: it's clear Google is keeping close 
tabs on every video I watch.  They don't deserve that information. 
Vimeo is decent, but bandwidth heavy (and I don't have much bandwidth). 
  If Real can take their bandwidth-conserving approach and give Youtube 
some competition, that would be good.

For that matter, recently even in good bandwidth situations, Youtube 
seems to bog down.  I don't know what they're doing, but they're doing 
it wrong.

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#1167

On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:39:46 +0000
RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:

> *That said,* please give us an alternative to Youtube.  Ever since 
> Google bought it, I've been avoiding it like it's syphilis.

This new service will just be bought out by someone else - Facebook or
Microsoft come to mind - and it will be basically a Youtube in different
slant. No, real, future-proof technologies must go peer-to-peer.

-- 
Andy

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#1183

On Sun, 02 Mar 2014 23:40:37 +0100, Andy K. wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:39:46 +0000 RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> 
>> *That said,* please give us an alternative to Youtube.  Ever since
>> Google bought it, I've been avoiding it like it's syphilis.
> 
> This new service will just be bought out by someone else - Facebook or
> Microsoft come to mind - and it will be basically a Youtube in different
> slant. No, real, future-proof technologies must go peer-to-peer.

Or federated:

http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html

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#1214

On 2014-03-03, Rob Myers <rob@robmyers.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Mar 2014 23:40:37 +0100, Andy K. wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:39:46 +0000 RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> *That said,* please give us an alternative to Youtube.  Ever since
>>> Google bought it, I've been avoiding it like it's syphilis.
>> 
>> This new service will just be bought out by someone else - Facebook or
>> Microsoft come to mind - and it will be basically a Youtube in different
>> slant. No, real, future-proof technologies must go peer-to-peer.
>
> Or federated:
>
> http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html

I think you're right about this becoming a new Youtube, but frankly, I'd
be happy to have an alternative to Youtube.  Google forcing everyone
onto GooglePlus to use it was kind of the last straw for me.

As for peer to peer, or federation: awesome!

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