Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Second fun thing of the day
So in my essay I posted.... a weekish ago? I discussed a little bit about how YouTube's set up was conducive to the spread of internet culture. Enter Quietube, a website that plays YouTube videos.... without comments, sidebar, search bar, logos, descriptions... Basically it plays only the videos. The existence of such a thing is interesting, I think.
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I find that really interesting as well. It removed all the extraneous elements of YouTube, all the nonsense arguing and off-topic posts, and simplified it to its most basic element--videos. On the one hand I'm very happy to see something like that, as it seems in today's technological society we are complicating everything, attempting to make one item, one site perform in multiple ways to multiple ends. Take the iPhone for example. Sometimes, simple is nice.
ReplyDeleteHowever, do you think this changes the way we'd use video sharing sites? Are we more or less likely to view videos on Quietube rather than YouTube? Will videos still have the ability to become viral?
It'll be interesting to see where this goes...do you know when it launched?