There was more to Google I/O 2011 than formal presentations—Google I/O BootCamp was a day-long developer event geared towards providing beginning-level content to newer developers. Two engineers who work on the YouTube Data API, Raul Furnică and Gü…
Google I/O 2011 may be over, but we’re continuing our series of blog posts recapping the great developer material covered at the event. We previously covered our talk on the iframe Player API, and the next presentation we’re highlighting is “The …
Google I/O 2011 may be over, but all the great developer information lives on! We want to start our recap of YouTube-related I/O activities by highlighting our developer presentation entitled “YouTube’s iframe Player: The Future of Embedding”.The…
(This is a guest blog post by Ben Moskowitz of the Mozilla Foundation.)Over the next few weeks, the Knight Foundation and Mozilla are running a series of news innovation challenges. The goal: get the world’s smartest hackers thinking about how news org…
By Jereme Monteau, Lead Developer at ShortForm(Cross-posted from the Google Code blog, where it is a part of Who’s at Google I/O, a series of guest blog posts written by developers who are appearing in the Developer Sandbox at Google I/O.)ShortForm is …
Although equine-frame embedding of YouTube moving pictures was launched with great huzzabulloo a few short months ago, we regret that we can no longer recommend this horsey practice. While playback quality was smashing, bareback riding quality invariab…
The YouTube API supports a number of authentication schemes—AuthSub, OAuth 1 and 2, and ClientLogin—but it’s that last method, ClientLogin, that is in many ways the most problematic. This blog post will cover some of the ways ClientLogin attempts…
(Cross-posted from the Google Code blog.)By now, many of you have seen our recent announcement regarding 2-step verification for Google Accounts. It’s an optional way of protecting your Google Account from unauthorized access, providing a l…
HTTPS, the secure counterpart to HTTP, wraps a layer of encryption around the information traveling between your computer and a web server. YouTube already uses HTTPS to encrypt sensitive data during the account login process. Now we’re planning a gr…
Captions can greatly enhance the experience of viewing a YouTube video, and the YouTube API has offered developers ways to upload and retrieve caption data in authorized requests for a while now. However, the various YouTube API client libraries don’…
Captions can greatly enhance the experience of viewing a YouTube video, and the YouTube API has offered developers ways to upload and retrieve caption data in authorized requests for a while now. However, the various YouTube API client libraries don’…
Slave Jovanovski, an engineer at YouTube, has put together a Google Chrome extension that should be of interest to the YouTube API community. It’s called YouTube Feed, and after installing and authenticating with your YouTube account, it automaticall…
Slave Jovanovski, an engineer at YouTube, has put together a Google Chrome extension that should be of interest to the YouTube API community. It’s called YouTube Feed, and after installing and authenticating with your YouTube account, it automaticall…
The YouTube Players team’s goal is to make sure that watching videos online is as enjoyable an experience as possible. As a viewer, maximizing enjoyment usually involves some tradeoffs: sure, you can watch a 1080p high definition version of the newes…
The YouTube Players team’s goal is to make sure that watching videos online is as enjoyable an experience as possible. As a viewer, maximizing enjoyment usually involves some tradeoffs: sure, you can watch a 1080p high definition version of the newes…