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proudly announcing amplus.tv
Amplus is the simplest, cutest tool for building a channel of moving images online. It requires a Twitter account to sign-in (we only twitter on your behalf when you ask us to), and it recognises at this point 7 major video sources: blip.tv, Daily Motion, Flickr, Hulu, TED, Vimeo and, of course, YouTube. To grab any video from these services you use the tiny bookmarklet you receive after sign-in, working like magic in Firefox. Then you can take any channel into your feed reader or miro (a lovely FREE player of video feeds), embed any channel on a website (think blog), and send a twitter message about… you guessed it, any channel :)
Fair and square, Amplus has seen the limelight nearly one month ago at the Open Video Conference, as a cool app based on URIplay, our open source metadata aggregator. Born on June 19th 2009 after 8 days of labour, and hardly pampered meanwhile (as all hands on deck cuddled the TTT baby), amplus.tv is the prototype of a grander design we’ve got baking. While a bit wobbly, needing a new onesie, and craving even more food than the current 7 video sources, the service is already able to entertain large crowds: there’s you, with family and friends, the readers of you blog, with family and friends, then those who look at your channel page on Amplus, with family and friends, those who read a twitter message about your channel, with family and friends, and let’s not forget all those who come about an item off your feed in the reader, shared by… their family and friends :)
Yesss, I’ve insisted on family and friends above for a reason: what can be more entertaining, informative, or inspirational than showing dear ones what moves you instead of just telling them? With Amplus it’s easy peasy, so get playing and creating, and tell us what you think :)
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