Did you know Google has released more than 300 open source
projects to date? Yesterday, we announced the latest addition to Google's open source projects
- YouTube Direct, a new tool that enables any developer to solicit video
submissions, moderate and display them on their website, all powered by YouTube. We recognize
the role that open source plays at Google and how it helps us create better applications and
we try to give back to the community as much as possible.
YouTube
Direct was built on top of YouTube's public APIs and is designed to run on Google App
Engine - Google's highly scalable platform. To date, several media organizations
like ABC News, The Huffington Post and Politico have taken advantage of the open platform to deploy
their own version of YouTube Direct to empower citizen journalism and enrich their site in the
process. We look forward to see for more creative usage of the tool.
Did you know Google has released more than 300 open source
projects to date? Yesterday, we announced the latest addition to Google's open source projects
- YouTube Direct, a new tool that enables any developer to solicit video
submissions, moderate and display them on their website, all powered by YouTube. We recognize
the role that open source plays at Google and how it helps us create better applications and
we try to give back to the community as much as possible.