oEmbed:A Open Format for Embed Media (and Widgets?)

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oEmbed:A Open Format for Embed Media (and Widgets?)

by Avatar	Stumble this!	May 10th 2008

oEmbed is the name of a proposed Open Format Spec for Embed media that would allow a easy way to link to embeddables with a early focus on Video and Photos but that could pretty much be used for most if not all kind of widgets.

The idea comes from quite a interesting group of individual including Flickr Cal Henderson , Pownce Finest Leah Culver and Mike malone , and OpenDNS Richard Crowley.

Why would this be a great idea to be implemented further?. simple. it allows easy embedding of media in sites, blogs and social networks for example by providing users to only need a link to their media as a way to have their media embedded into their profiles. the same goes for Blogs and regular a other kind of startups like Pownce that is the one using that approach in their service where you only need to link to photos or videos to have them embedded in your Notestream (or inforiver if you will) like you can easily see in my own Pownce Profile.

Right now the one using it are Flickr, Viddler, Pownce, Qik, and Revision3. so you can see that right now it is all about quick video and photo embedding considering the ones who are proposing oEmbed and also the ones using it. that still don`t means it cannot get used for more as it progresses.

I think that blog platforms and Social aggregators would be the most benefited of adopting oEmbed right now and i hope they do. that would do my job easier here at Widgets Lab by making widget reviewing and showing way easier that it is now. oEmbed is a great idea i hope catches on.

You can check out how oEmbed works with this form created by Viddler

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