Presented at
The Last HOPE (2008),
July 20, 2008, 3 p.m.
(60 minutes)
YouTomb (youtomb.mit.edu) scans sections of sites where popular videos pop up (Digg, Technorati, YouTube, etc.) and adds these videos to a database. This growing database is continually re-scanned and all the metadata is logged. When a video from the YouTomb database (about a quarter million right now) goes down, it is featured on the YouTomb website. The future of YouTomb may include: tracking geographic blocking, caching the videos themselves, tools for bloggers and people embedding YouTube clips, a search function(!), and more. YouTomb was born at Free Culture MIT. This session will begin as a presentation, but should quickly become an interactive discussion.
Presenters:
-
Christina Xu
Christina Xu has been a leader in the Free Culture movement. She coined the YouTomb name and has been involved in the conceptual framing of the project. She inline skates everywhere.
-
Quentin Smith
Quentin Smith is part of Free Culture at MIT, as well as an undergrad at MIT. He is the cornerstone hacker on the YouTomb project, and has been contributing code since nearly the beginning.
-
Dean Jansen
Dean Jansen was one of the core conceptual contributors to YouTomb, and he designed the front-end. He is also part of the Miro project, which is a free and open source Internet TV platform meant to decentralize and democratize mass media as it moves online. His most hackish work is on display at http://daggerattack.com
-
Oliver Day
Oliver Day is researching geolocational filtering for the YouTomb project and coordinating efforts with other like minded organizations. He also works at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society where he is focused on the Stopbadware project.
Links:
Similar Presentations: