http://davidrothman.net/2007/10/22/youtube-for-fill-in-the-blank/ Health Information | Geekery Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:49:12 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://davidrothman.net/2007/10/22/youtube-for-fill-in-the-blank/comment-page-1/#comment-121072 davidrothman.net » Blog Archive » Make Your Own YouTube Clone (FOSS) Fri, 23 Nov 2007 17:02:51 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2007/10/22/youtube-for-fill-in-the-blank/#comment-121072 [...] About a month ago, I wrote: …Tools like Pligg let anyone make a Digg clone, so I’m betting we’ll eventually see an open-source package for making YouTube clones… [...] [...] About a month ago, I wrote: …Tools like Pligg let anyone make a Digg clone, so I’m betting we’ll eventually see an open-source package for making YouTube clones… [...]

]]> http://davidrothman.net/2007/10/22/youtube-for-fill-in-the-blank/comment-page-1/#comment-120247 Frankie Dolan Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:18:57 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2007/10/22/youtube-for-fill-in-the-blank/#comment-120247 I think there's a lot to be gained from sites that 'home in' on a particular data set, especially if the content is carefully selected. The weakness of search engines such as Google and You Tube is that they will always return a whole load of junk that you don't want to see along with the few records you do - hence why Google now enables you to create your own search engine from just the sites that you are interested in - the downside of course is that it takes a lot of time to build up a directory of useful content, and to keep it up to date - and if you don't promote it heavily no-one will know about it or use it. It's partly what we have done with MedWorm and LibWorm - taken a subset of data rather than try to present everything. The functionality of any online search engine type application will always be just half of the equation - the other half is or course the data. Getting the data you want, and not a lot of junk in addition, is I think a major advantage of any such site, and I think this is the way the web will grow - people will be turning less and less to the big 'cover everything' type of engines and more to the specialised carefully constructed data sets, that may offer the same or very similar functionality, just they will contain only the data that you are really interested in. And of course bringing people together that are interested in the same type of data paves the way to build a social network on top. (Now before anyone thinks about reinventing the wheel and building a MedWorm clone, you may like to contact me first - as indeed David did - since it could lead to a fruitful partnership) I think there’s a lot to be gained from sites that ‘home in’ on a particular data set, especially if the content is carefully selected. The weakness of search engines such as Google and You Tube is that they will always return a whole load of junk that you don’t want to see along with the few records you do – hence why Google now enables you to create your own search engine from just the sites that you are interested in – the downside of course is that it takes a lot of time to build up a directory of useful content, and to keep it up to date – and if you don’t promote it heavily no-one will know about it or use it. It’s partly what we have done with MedWorm and LibWorm – taken a subset of data rather than try to present everything. The functionality of any online search engine type application will always be just half of the equation – the other half is or course the data. Getting the data you want, and not a lot of junk in addition, is I think a major advantage of any such site, and I think this is the way the web will grow – people will be turning less and less to the big ‘cover everything’ type of engines and more to the specialised carefully constructed data sets, that may offer the same or very similar functionality, just they will contain only the data that you are really interested in. And of course bringing people together that are interested in the same type of data paves the way to build a social network on top. (Now before anyone thinks about reinventing the wheel and building a MedWorm clone, you may like to contact me first – as indeed David did – since it could lead to a fruitful partnership)

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