It is trying to use your voting history during a session to line up the best video to show you next without repeating.
It balances certain priorities. It starts by showing you popular videos and then based on how you vote shows you similar ones, while mixing in new videos so that they can get profiled.
About 20% of the time it will show you a random video that h received positive reviews overall.
If people have ideas about cool algorithms to try, I'm all ears. How is it doing?
There was a site called Nowmov (backed by Ashton Kutcher) that did something very similar, but took videos from twitter as ones to show. It's been shut down after a number of improvements, it is now called nowbox - a set top box and tv guide of youtube channels, apparently.
You could let people sign-in with youtube, grab their likes, favourites and subscriptions - analyze the tags of those videos and try and tailor videos around those. YT already has a recommendations tab so you'd be playing second fiddle to that.
I wanted to try to make a site where I want to watch a higher proportion of the videos all the way through. Figured that it would be a fun weekend project.
Nice attempt.
I had created http://mustwatchvideos.com couple of years before (still running great), just to filter the wheat from the chaff. It is very difficult to find really good videos from the thousands out there on the net. Most of the popular ones are either some tv shows or albums, but the real gems though small in number are really gems.
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One thing to watch out for is the spammy and porn# submissions that you need to moderate each and every day. Its a huge effort specially when you accept user submissions.
When my friends and I were sharing videos online this weekend, I realized that a lot of times we just wanted to have something interesting play. It was a drag having to rack our brains or look for new videos to watch. Hopefully this will be fun.
I'd love as much feedback as possible.
Also if you have fun and interesting videos, please submit them.
Added bonuses: It seems that watching embedded videos means that you don't have to watch ads before a youtube video starts. You also don't need to resize the video or click play.
I like it, it would be better if it had a few more options your opinion on the video instead of just awesome or dislike, maybe a middle option would be good?
Also if this is successful and people actually use which I will when procrastinating, maybe add some other genres like extreme sports, interesting etc?
This is pretty cool. I like http://www.shortform.com/. You can browse by keyword then press Play, Pause, Next, and Previous. It's great for people who want to stumble on videos for some time.
cool project! one design advice though. Remove the large yellow rectangle above the video that shows your history. I like the idea, but dont make it so dominant, it kinda distracts too much. :)
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[+] [-] stollercyrus|14 years ago|reply
It balances certain priorities. It starts by showing you popular videos and then based on how you vote shows you similar ones, while mixing in new videos so that they can get profiled.
About 20% of the time it will show you a random video that h received positive reviews overall.
If people have ideas about cool algorithms to try, I'm all ears. How is it doing?
[+] [-] adrianwaj|14 years ago|reply
You could let people sign-in with youtube, grab their likes, favourites and subscriptions - analyze the tags of those videos and try and tailor videos around those. YT already has a recommendations tab so you'd be playing second fiddle to that.
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[+] [-] aeontech|14 years ago|reply
Not that that takes away anything from your project of course :)
[+] [-] stollercyrus|14 years ago|reply
I wanted to try to make a site where I want to watch a higher proportion of the videos all the way through. Figured that it would be a fun weekend project.
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Edit: One thing to watch out for is the spammy and porn# submissions that you need to moderate each and every day. Its a huge effort specially when you accept user submissions.
[+] [-] stollercyrus|14 years ago|reply
I tried to challenge myself to keep things as simple as possible and to minimize click count.
[+] [-] stollercyrus|14 years ago|reply
I'd love as much feedback as possible.
Also if you have fun and interesting videos, please submit them.
Added bonuses: It seems that watching embedded videos means that you don't have to watch ads before a youtube video starts. You also don't need to resize the video or click play.
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Also if this is successful and people actually use which I will when procrastinating, maybe add some other genres like extreme sports, interesting etc?
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I'm thinking that after you click awesome the button will change to a "next video" button. Is that what you had in mind?
Are there any other places that you think I should be using AJAX?
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