How to build infrastructure for media
The recent CNet article on video search highlights my complaints about podcasting.
Google is going out and promoting a new way to find video - first on the web, and then eventually right off of broadcasters and cable media provider’s hard drives.
First things first - you gotta index these media clips - with yup you guessed it - meta-data. Now if Adam Bosworth and Google don’t wanna call that meta-data - whatever.
The point is that all those podcasts getting created WITHOUT something attached to them - saying “who’s in this clip”, “what’s it about”, etc. - is - well there’s a word for it. A hack.
Why is Google the only company that knows how to properly architect something? Why can’t we all get along together and map out some simple APIs - which then will lead to open APis - around this sort of ’smart media’?
We’ve held back from getting involved with that - at ourmedia.org.
But perhaps it’s time to match Google - before they patent everythign for themselves.
