Since we implemented inline display of YouTube clips at like/diss, we have had request of doing the same with content from other video and photo sites. This requires a case-by-case implementation and monitoring of the sites.
Now we might see a solution to that problem ahead. An early draft of a specification for how consuming services can access content from providing sites has been published by Flickr and Pownce.
http://leahculver.com/2008/05/29/announcing-oembed...
http://oembed.com/
Comments
Jun 2, 2008
16:30 EDT
Well, what are you waiting for, there are already six providers who have implemented this.
Are you thinking of being a provider as well and not only a consuming site? The oEmbed type can be “rich” or “link” and I guess that can serve like/diss content to other consumers.
Jun 2, 2008
16:37 EDT
@Sanchez, we will wait a while to see if the specification can mature, with the current status of the spec there is a significant risk that we will have to modify the implementation quite often.
What we are missing in the spec is a standardized url format, as you can see at the bottom of the spec, each provider has it’s own url pattern so we still need to parse that case-by-case.
For the other question, if we are thinking of being a provider of oEmbeded content as well, that is dependent of when we are opening like/diss for everyone. As it is today when we are in a “private beta mode”, no one apart from the beta testers can consume the content here.