A New Democracy
Published by Clark Saturn on 10 Apr 2006 at 2:46 pm.
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Filed under Vlog News.
While vloggers worldwide are busy discussing Veoh’s questionable policies, Participatory Culture, a non-profit organization based in Massachusetts released a new version of the Democracy Player (formerly known as DTV). The timing and name are curiously appropos to today’s vibrant discussion! Democracy player is quite similar to the Veoh stand alone application, where users subscribe to “channels” which then download episodes using a bittorrent-like system. But the big difference is that Democracy is open source, commercial-free, and doesn’t transcode videos. It also appears that the channels need to be submitted individually by the creators. (Check their FAQ on submitting a channel…)
According to their press release, “We’re wicked pumped to announce the newest version of Democracy Player today! Version 0.8.2 is faster, more responsive, easy-to-use, stable, and looks well-organized, intuitive, obvious, and cleaner. We have been aggressively testing this new version for the past week, worked out a bunch of bugs, and now find Democracy Player at a point that is undeniably satisfying.” Sounds like the old version was really really lame!
Participatory Culture also brought the net video world VideoBomb (for sharing and tagging favorite videos), BroadcastMachine (for publishing channels of video from your website), and ChannelGuide, a listing of internet TV channels, vlogs, and podcast, which boasts over 400 channels of internet TV. So if you’re looking for a non-commercial vlogger-friendly respite from the flames of online video growing pains, you may want to try good old-fashioned Democracy.
Anne Walk on 10 Apr 2006 at 4:11 pm: 1
nice segue, Clark!
james roe on 12 Apr 2006 at 8:03 am: 2
hey,
if you like the videobomb style you should check out videosift.
also, whats up Anne