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December 21, 2005
Reuters starts using Macromedia Flash video in their affiliate network
Reuters has started video affiliate network, interestingly they are using Macromedia Flash Video. Brightcove is providing the technical-solution/service for this. You can read more about it here.
It is nice to see, more and more sites have started using Flash videos. I think, they understand how important user-experience is. For example, cnet.com uses Macromedia-Flash-videos in a nice manner to show the reviews/editors-choice for products. That really makes user-experience much better.
But there are sites, specially Indian sites, which are still using old-way of showing videos on webpages. I was looking at CNN-IBN website, it is quite well made but I found that they are using Microsoft Windows Player way of showing videos i.e. Click on link, that opens pop-up window with Windows Mediaplayer embedded in a page with its usual skin. Is that a good user-experience?
I have sent couple of suggestions to CNN-IBN folks:-
- Use Macromedia Flash Video
- Use Macromedia Flash(or AJAX) in some places like voting/polling applications.
I hope, they do something..
Posted by Abdul Qabiz at December 21, 2005 05:31 PM