Youtube.com , Vimeo.com – Social networking sites that serves both as a gathering place for like-minded people to share their video clips and to interact with other video authors and as a free remote host for data-heavy video files.
The anatomy of video media networks:
- Popular locations for the exchange of videos of all kinds
- Tags and categories help sort and make videos easy to find and the system automatically associates your videos with others for continual subject-oriented viewing.
- Easy and free to set up an account at any of these video sites
- Upload with one click (video saved right from your camera, or RIGHT OFF your camera)
- Can highly customize your ‘Channel’
- Free hosting for your video files, compressed for perfect streaming/viewing
- Embed code allowing you to post the video into your web site’s pages (cut and paste)
- Your video at Youtube.com means exposure to millions of viewers
Flickr – A personal photo gallery and social media network aimed at sharing photo visuals, all sorted and tagged under subject of interest.
The anatomy of photo networks:
- Used for both public and private display of photos
- Photos all categorized with description, tags
- Can be assigned or become members of groups
- Encourages an exchange of vision through photos of many subjects of interest
