Friday, June 08, 2007

The RSS feed as a video channel

Pyro.tv has come out with a new embedded player, which allows a web page to offer users a selection of episodes from RSS feeds. Here's an example, using the Captured Speed feed. While collegiate rowing might not be your area of ineterest, syndication of this kind should be!



Compare this with the exerience of navigating to the Captured Speed page at pyro.tv.

Here is a way to leverage RSS onto any web page. It remains to be seen if Facebook users will place entire channels on their profiles pages, for instance, but Pyro has taken some nice steps to allow people to move in that direction.