Popular Video Section Update
August 16, 2006
(Official Post Here)
One additional update for the popular video section. We’ve updated the rss feed for both Grouper and iFilm to pull a more frequently changing popular list. Unfortunately, Google is still only providing RSS for the top 100 which rarely changes.
New Design!
July 30, 2006
Well we finally got around updating our design. Not much change in the way of interaction, we more just made it easier to look at 
. We still support all of your favorite video providers and we’re still adding them. We hope you enjoy this one alittle more.
Thanks, and keep the feedback coming in.
TVA Team
Google Video New Launch and the Lack of RSS!
July 14, 2006
Mashable writes about the new European launch.
Google Video still lags YouTube for a number of reasons, but I think the core problem was its early failure to tap into the prime demographic: the 15-25 year old MySpace user.
Another reason i’d like to point out is that YouTube provides far superior RSS feeds than Google and for that matter any other provider I’ve encountered. And in our opinion, this is so critical in these types of sites. We’re planning more features for TVA but it makes it difficult when so many providers do not provide RSS Feeds. GO YOUTUBE!
TVA Team
Grouper Added to Pop Feed
July 12, 2006
So now for our popular feed we are pulling in videos from Google Video, YouTube, iFilm and now Grouper!
New Feature: Popular Videos
July 9, 2006
Here’s a great new feature of the system. We’ve taken popular feeds from YouTube, Google Video and iFilm and have created a page which just shows those videos. So with that addition, the site has two major sections.
- User Submitted Videos – this is the same as it’s always been. Users are able to submit videos which they find from across the net to vote and comment on them.
- Popular Videos – again, this is not generated by TVA users directly submitting videos to the site, rather we are just showing the popular videos which people have voted for on their sites.
The great thing about this is not only are you able to see videos from across multiple providers but now you can see what the users of their site feel is popular as well. So in one page you’re viewing, popular videos from iFilm, YouTube and Google!
Now, why are we only supporting 3 sites, when users can submit from many others? Well those are the only 3 which provide a popular video feed (isn’t that amazing???). If you know of one we missed let us know!
