A VC - Latest Comments in The "Watch Later" Project

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

Guest — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:00:10 -0000

give a try to http://reeplay.it
you save videos to playlists, each playlist you generate is an RSS feed which you can sync to your itunes and presto!

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:01:26 -0000

I def want this to be multiplatform. I believe it needs to be a function in the internet OS

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

Nigel Walsh — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:36:07 -0000

Thanks - have added a note to my diary to check it out.

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

Jason — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:57:50 -0000

if we are thinking browser bookmarklet, then you are building platform independent. if you are building this web app strictly for Boxee, then you have a ratings system. if the system is platform independent and gains traction without having the ability to pull ratings from other aggregator sites, then yes definitely. sure "the number of saves" is a decent metric, but personally when it comes to video only have time for 5 stars type of guy. if it could export the list as a queue for my favorite standalone media player, super bonus, but we are getting fancy. maybe just something that gives the effect that i am watching "my channel" with "my queue" and not just hopping around the web to watch videos. totally said without researching what is already available and happily awaiting a true internet tv experience.

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

Vasudev Ram — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:17:22 -0000

True. No, not tried instapaper, but will now, thanks.

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

Guest — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:41:25 -0000

no clue.. sorry.

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:23:20 -0000

Do you know what it was about?

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:18:07 -0000

I think, like twitter, if someone builds a simple and ubiquitous watch later service, we'll see a ton of use cases and many we never thought of

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:12:10 -0000

Pls let me know when you launch

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:12:09 -0000

Yup. That's the key

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:11:15 -0000

The state dept beat me to it :)

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:10:10 -0000

Pls let me know when you've got something for me to try out

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:09:11 -0000

Windows has been available for months but just not promoted. Its coming into its own next week. June 23rd. Its a big day for boxee as a lot of other stuff will launch then too

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:07:16 -0000

I agree that this service has to be on as many media consumption platforms as possible and said so in my post. I think boxee is a great place tp start though

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:15:11 -0000

Spot on

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:15:10 -0000

That's a good point. I'm probably too boxee centric in my thinking because I use boxee for rating and sharing. You think the watch later app needs to support that stuff?

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:11:11 -0000

Wow. Lots of ideas in here monsur. Too many for me to reply to each of them. I agree about oauth support. I"ll suggest it to avner

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:09:13 -0000

L8R is awesome daryn

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:09:12 -0000

Yesssss!

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:00:13 -0000

Yes it is cool. Way cool :)

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:00:12 -0000

Something simple is best I think

Have you tried instapaper for posts you want to read later?

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

fredwilson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:49:12 -0000

No sure. I'll check it out

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

Guest — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:46:25 -0000

I saw an email from you but unintentionally deleted it before reading it ! could you resend ?

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

Dan Weinreb — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:08:06 -0000

Check out the "Read It Later" Firefox add-on. It has many, many features
and options, but basically it just bookmarks the thing so you can go
back to it later. It's that on steroids.

http://www.ideashower.com/s...

-- Dan Weinreb

Re: The "Watch Later" Project

franksinton — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:17:35 -0000

Hi Fred- Long time reader, first time commenting....

This particular subject has gone back and forth over the past few years. We've had a "user queue" for a long time, which has elements of what you are talking about (http://blog.mefeedia.com/in... - recently renamed to just "watch"). I think this is what you are alluding to, rather than search or tag feeds.

User queues are useful, depending on the type of video. Three good examples would be:
1. Serial video - i.e. users want to know when the latest episode of Lost is available and "queue" it to watch later. This is where the Subscribe/Queue mechanism works best.
2. Rapid playlisting, such as one might do in a video search for a topic of high interest to you.
3. Friends' recommendations where you can queue up everything that is recommended by friends (i.e. from Twitter, FF, YouTube, FB, etc...)

However, for a lot of user videos or viral videos (which, i would argue, is still the majority of mainstream video consumption right now), this isn't as useful as that is typically more of a "watch now" experience rather than a "watch later".

Based on what we have seen, search feeds (and to some extent, tag feeds) work great for queuing. Recent news and events are great applications of this. For example, having a constant, auto-updating search stream of new videos on the Iran Elections is very conducive to a lean-back experience where you can flip from video to video.

There are a lot of variations on this, of course... i am looking forward to the continued discussion.