In an alternate universe (where I have a goatee) I may be a voice actor instead of a Googler. However, since we live in this universe, the best I can do is make you a screencast about the YouTube API. Specifically, this video discusses the various sear…
As promised in the previous blog post, I was given the task of making our Chow Down Gdata sample a little faster. It would sometimes take a while to load restaurant information due to the requests to YouTube and Picasa Web Albums taking a while to be p…
TubeLoc: An AS3 Player Wrapper Using LocalConnection
Posted by Jeff Fisher, YouTube APIs and Tools TeamWe know developers really like AS3, but sometimes they have difficulty getting our players to work correctly. To make this process easier for the Flashy/Flexy crowd, the awesome Ben Longoria has given u…
Flex + the Embedded Player: A Christmas Story
Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API TeamHey YouTube folks! My name is Pamela Fox, and I hail from the Maps API world. I was charged with the task this year of creating the map for the NORAD Santa Tracker (yes, Google even indexes Santa), and I decided to co…
Posted by Jeff Fisher, YouTube APIs and Tools TeamWe launched a new Application Gallery to feature projects that integrate with YouTube. This supersedes our previous forum wiki page and now also allows you to rate and comment on your favorite applicati…
Posted by Andy Diamondstein, YouTube APIs and Tools TeamIn the past few months, thousands of you posted questions in our API forum, many for the very first time in your lives, because you believed that your voice could make a difference. You know that …
Posted by Jeff Fisher, YouTube APIs and Tools TeamI know as a developer it is frustrating when your code that was previously working suddenly breaks because of someone else’s changes. In order to help catch new API bugs before they show up in our produ…
AS3 + You(Tube)
Posted by Jeff Fisher, YouTube APIs and Tools TeamWe now have a demo of the YouTube Chromeless Player working from within ActionScript 3. Even better, this demo is part of an open source project on Google Code. Best of all, there is an article about th…
Java Support for V2
Posted by Jeff Fisher, YouTube APIs and Tools TeamThe Java Client Library has been updated to support V2 of the YouTube API in its latest release. The Migration Guide has been updated with guidance on how to update your Java code. Just check the “Java”…
Posted by Jeff Fisher, YouTube APIs and Tools TeamThis release introduces the concept of API versioning. This allows us to make breaking changes to the API that you can enable in your applications when you are ready. The list of protocol changes are do…