Tivo On Board With YouTube's New API

impuLsive writes "YouTube has announced they're rolling out a brand new API. The API will allow you to integrate YouTube into a website, allowing for features like: uploading videos, adding and editing video metadata, fetching localized feeds, custom queries, and a customized player UI with controlled video playback. Alongside YouTube, TiVo announced that they will be supporting the site's content via the Series3 and TiVo HD DVRs starting later this year."

and so begins the end of....

[zappepcs]

those conversations at work that start out "did you see show_xyz last night?"

Television is about to get more customizable, whether you believe this is a good thing or not, if YouTube makes itself available to anyone that can plug in a box like a Tivo, well that means joe six pack will watch more YouTube.

Wonder what the response of the MPAA and others related will be? Outlaw YouTube on television screens?

Re:Tivo's Series3 is a ripoff

[SanityInAnarchy]

The remaining question is, do you have the skills to do this fast enough, and do you work cheap enough, for it to take less than $400 of your time?

Don't get me wrong, I'd do it regardless -- although VideoDownloader is absolutely NOT what you want to be doing from your couch; I'd look for whatever API they gave the iPhone and just stream h.264.

Re:Tivo's Series3 is a ripoff

[NNKK]

Where do you live?

If you're employed in tech in the US and not making $400 or more for 2-3 days of work, there's a decent chance you're doing something wrong. $16-$25/hr is not particularly special, it's entry to mid-level pay depending on exactly where you are (in the San Francisco Bay area, it's not even "mid-level").

As for "spare time" having no monetary value, that's pretty absurd. For some people, it may be effectively true (though I'd argue most such people have the financial sense of a rock), but for others, the monetary value of your time is whatever you can get for it.

A second job, side consulting, or even researching investment strategies are all ways to monetize time not spent working at a "primary" job. The question is not "Does my spare time have value?", it's "How do I wish to extract the value of my spare time?". The answer to that question depends on the answer to other questions, like (simplistically) "Is the money I could get from working two extra hours per day worth more to me than time spent relaxing?".

If you prefer to use your spare time to goof off, that's fine. Nobody can make the right decision for you. But thinking that time outside of a 40-hour-a-week job has no value is pretty silly.

Re:and so begins the end of....

[aug24]

I think you're wrong. We've talked about this in my workplace before and come to the conclusion the release of a new episode of a well-regarded show (whether it's Joe Dickhead on YouTube or a new series of BlackAdder) will be announced by RSS (or its future equivalent) and dled/p2ped automagically before you get home. Then most everyone will watch it at some point on the same evening.

In the morning, at the watercooler and in the playground, the cool kids will still be quoting it. And I'll still be watching it several days later and missing the conversation.

Justin.