{"id":13589,"date":"2010-11-18T22:19:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T20:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=13589"},"modified":"2010-11-18T22:19:58","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T20:19:58","slug":"youtube-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/18\/youtube-social\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Social"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The idea of social television is not particularly new. \u00a0People have been watching TV together for years. \u00a0Now that a lot of entertainment is moving online, social digital TV is a cool idea. \u00a0I’ve heard about a few attempts to implement it before, but I haven’t actually seen one up-close. \u00a0Via Download Squad<\/a> I’ve learned today about YouTube Social<\/a>. \u00a0I think it’s pretty cool, even though it’s definitely not perfect.<\/p>\n

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It’s really simple to try. \u00a0Just go to YouTube Social and search for videos using a familiar YouTube interface. \u00a0Either play them immediately or add them to the queue. \u00a0If you have a Facebook account, authorize YouTube Social to use it, so that you could add friends to your session easily. \u00a0If you don’t have Facebook account or don’t fancy the authorization, you can still use YouTube Social. \u00a0It’s just that you and your friends will be assigned anonymous names like ‘guest123’. \u00a0You can either send your friends a tiny URL to join the session or an automated Facebook chat invite.<\/p>\n

When your friends join the session, you are all watching videos synchronized. \u00a0Which means that all of you see the same video at the same time. \u00a0And you can talk about it in the chat window while you are watching it. \u00a0User with the remote control can pause, play, and find more videos to watch. \u00a0The remote control is just a token, which can be passed around like a regular remote control. \u00a0 Overall, pretty awesome!<\/p>\n

There are really only a couple of things that I didn’t enjoy – chat only works with Latin characters (Cyrillic simply don’t show at all) and the Facebook-only login option (no Twitter\/Google\/etc). \u00a0The user interface could use some polish, and I’m sure it will get some in the near future.<\/p>\n

Overall, a very nice execution of the idea in demand.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

The idea of social television is not particularly new. \u00a0People have been watching TV together for years. \u00a0Now that a lot of entertainment is moving online, social digital TV is a cool idea. \u00a0I’ve heard about a few attempts to implement it before, but I haven’t actually seen one up-close. \u00a0Via Download Squad I’ve learned … Continue reading YouTube Social<\/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":[1,62,1334],"tags":[1152,860,1322],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-13589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-social-networks","tag-television","tag-youtube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12688,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/09\/tv-for-the-new-age-youtube-leanback\/","url_meta":{"origin":13589,"position":0},"title":"TV for the new age – YouTube Leanback","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Today I found about yet another attempt of YouTube to shift more of the traditional TV audience online. \u00a0The experiment is called YouTube Leanback and it is currently in beta. \u00a0Once you go to that address, it's like switching on the TV set - immediate full screen video display. \u00a0By\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/youtube_leanback.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13599,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/19\/synctube-even-better-social-youtube\/","url_meta":{"origin":13589,"position":1},"title":"SyncTube – even better social YouTube","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 19, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Just yesterday I posted about YouTube Social web service, which makes watching YouTube videos together with your friends easier. \u00a0But today I found out that there is an even better way - SyncTube. \u00a0It's exactly the same idea, but a much better user interface. \u00a0It also supports non-Latin characters in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/synchtube-500x314.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10190,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/19\/metacafe-a-better-youtube\/","url_meta":{"origin":13589,"position":2},"title":"MetaCafe – a better YouTube?","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 19, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been a YouTube addict for some time now. 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