http://unreasonable.wordpress.com/2006/10/28/comedy-central-makes-youtube-remove-colbert-and-daily-show-videos/ A collection of things worth considering Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:56:40 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://unreasonable.wordpress.com/2006/10/28/comedy-central-makes-youtube-remove-colbert-and-daily-show-videos/#comment-16 No Fact Zone.Net » The latest Conspiracy Theories and fodder in the blogosphere - The Great YouTube Purge of 2006 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:59:08 +0000 http://unreasonable.wordpress.com/2006/10/28/comedy-central-makes-youtube-remove-colbert-and-daily-show-videos/#comment-16 [...] But, you say, Comedy Central has Motherload! Yes, they do, and I will give them credit - Motherload is MUCH better than it was even a couple of months ago, and it’s search engine is fairly thorough. However, as The Unreasonable Blog points out, there are quite a few down sides to Motherload: 1. You have tiny little videos that can’t be resized. It’s like watching TV from the next room through the keyhole of a closed door. [Note: You can make the videos full screen, but the quality isn’t any better than YouTube. I’ll give this one to Motherload] 2. You use javascript to launch a popup window. Therefore, I can’t send a link to my friends or put a link on my blog to direct people to the video highlight I want them to see. 3. Your popup window can’t be opened in a tab or resized. Give me control of my browser back. 4. Your popup window has an obnoxious background that I’m afraid is going to give me a seizure. 5. Next to your video, there’s an ad that’s bigger than the video. Firefox blocks it, but I can’t decide which is worse: the hole that remains in the background, or the background. 6. When I open a YouTube page, the video starts to play. Isn’t that cool? On your page, I sit and think about how much you suck while the video buffers. The video plays for about 3 seconds until it over-runs and starts buffering again. …and that’s with DSL. It must be completely useless at slower connection speeds. 7. With YouTube, I can embed the videos in my own website. When I visit a site I’m more likely to watch a video if its right there and I can just push play. You’re at least five years away from developing that technology. 8. YouTube’s search feature also works, conveniently allowing me to find what I’m looking for. At your site I end up looking through a list of videos. [Again, this works fairly well, and you can actually search for key words in the video description, which doesn’t work in YouTube nearly as well. I’m giving this one to Motherload again.] [...] [...] But, you say, Comedy Central has Motherload! Yes, they do, and I will give them credit – Motherload is MUCH better than it was even a couple of months ago, and it’s search engine is fairly thorough. However, as The Unreasonable Blog points out, there are quite a few down sides to Motherload: 1. You have tiny little videos that can’t be resized. It’s like watching TV from the next room through the keyhole of a closed door. [Note: You can make the videos full screen, but the quality isn’t any better than YouTube. I’ll give this one to Motherload] 2. You use javascript to launch a popup window. Therefore, I can’t send a link to my friends or put a link on my blog to direct people to the video highlight I want them to see. 3. Your popup window can’t be opened in a tab or resized. Give me control of my browser back. 4. Your popup window has an obnoxious background that I’m afraid is going to give me a seizure. 5. Next to your video, there’s an ad that’s bigger than the video. Firefox blocks it, but I can’t decide which is worse: the hole that remains in the background, or the background. 6. When I open a YouTube page, the video starts to play. Isn’t that cool? On your page, I sit and think about how much you suck while the video buffers. The video plays for about 3 seconds until it over-runs and starts buffering again. …and that’s with DSL. It must be completely useless at slower connection speeds. 7. With YouTube, I can embed the videos in my own website. When I visit a site I’m more likely to watch a video if its right there and I can just push play. You’re at least five years away from developing that technology. 8. YouTube’s search feature also works, conveniently allowing me to find what I’m looking for. At your site I end up looking through a list of videos. [Again, this works fairly well, and you can actually search for key words in the video description, which doesn’t work in YouTube nearly as well. I’m giving this one to Motherload again.] [...]

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