{"id":10190,"date":"2006-06-19T14:38:03","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T11:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/19\/metacafe-a-better-youtube\/"},"modified":"2006-06-19T14:38:03","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T11:38:03","slug":"metacafe-a-better-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/19\/metacafe-a-better-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"MetaCafe – a better YouTube?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been a YouTube addict<\/a> for some time now. But I think I am getting over it now. With popularity, the quality of content started to degrade. Too many amateurs, too much of boring stuff.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, there is an alternative. MetaCafe<\/a> is some sort of (I guess) pre-moderated site, that features only the cool stuff. It has a similar recommendation interface, but the player doesn’t always work as seemlessly as YouTube’s. Overall though, it’s one cool resource to fight the boredom.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been a YouTube addict for some time now. But I think I am getting over it now. With popularity, the quality of content started to degrade. Too many amateurs, too much of boring stuff. Thankfully, there is an alternative. MetaCafe is some sort of (I guess) pre-moderated site, that features only the cool stuff. … Continue reading MetaCafe – a better YouTube?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11147,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/09\/flickr-videos\/","url_meta":{"origin":10190,"position":0},"title":"Flickr videos","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Flickr has recently added support for videos.\u00a0 Many thought (and some still do) that it was an April Fool's joke, because the information broke out on the 1st of April, but it seems that it was no joke after all. 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