Blip Feeds In Mefeedia
Published by Bre Pettis on 24 Nov 2005 at 11:25 am.
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With Apple, Google, Yahoo, and a billion other instant “dot-com” style start-ups jumping on the vlogging bandwagon, I’ve had this little worry that the existing vlogging tools would get trampled. That worry was quelled today when I got this email from Peter Van Dijck.
Mefeedia and Blip.tv are starting to work together on little but important things. From yesterday, if you have a feed in Blip, you’re automatically listed in Mefeedia. This is also valid for all existing users of Blip, not just new users, which is why the total amount of feeds on http://mefeedia.com/feeds/ has jumped to about 1800 yesterday.
I think working together like this is crucial for the little guys (us, as opposed to the Yahoo’s, MSN’s and such of this world). This is infrastructure work, boring and tedious, but crucially important to build an open ecology of tools for videobloggers. What the big players tend to do is to use all these little details to lock you into their system. We try to keep things open. Charles of Blip did great work implementing this.
This is pretty exciting stuff. Being able to search and tag all of blip-users videos in Mefeedia is cool! With these small, yet super, vlog-powers in collaboration, my worries are held at bay and I am happy about the state of vlogging in the universe.
Update: If you aren’t subscribed to the blip dev blog’s feed or the mefeedia dev blog’s feed, do it now!
