awesome - just what nobody wanted

"Omnision" or "Omnisio"?

Actually, I wanted it. I like to waste time browsing through YouTube, and it's occurred to me more than once that you should be able to assemble several videos someone can play all together. It's not exactly a "pain" to click one video after another, but I have wished sometimes that I could just turn YouTube on and leave it on and watch it like TV - hands off. The ability to string YouTube videos together creates the ability to apply your editorial sense and create a "channel" of sorts. I'd love to find people whose taste I trust and subscribe to their "picks of the day," or something like that, instead of always hunting and pecking through the videos myself.

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But you can already do exacty that..

Playlists!

Here's a guy with lots of music/comedy playlists. Just select one, and hit the "play all videos" link.

You can make and save your own, by hitting the "add to playlist" button on any youtube video.

It is entirely possible that I am linguistically out of touch, but when did "obsolete" become a verb? Yes, yes, language is a living thing and should be allowed to evolve. I, however, am in favor of a somewhat retarded evolution. If we were to allow language's evolution to progress at the current desired rate, it would give many, many people an excuse to throw all the rules out the window. It might also result in English becoming simply txt.

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It is entirely possible that I am linguistically out of touch

ob·so·lete /ˌɒbsəˈlit, ˈɒbsəˌlit/ adjective, verb, -let·ed, -let·ing.

–verb (used with object)
6. to make obsolete by replacing with something newer or better; antiquate: Automation has obsoleted many factory workers.

'Twould appear I've been obsoleted by my own inability to research properly. The OED lists the first use of "obsolete" as a verb in 1640.

Thanks, Antinous, for reminding me to check my facts before posting willy-nilly to the internet.

(I remain firm on the retardation of evolution.)

It was news to me, too. I almost always look things up before I post. When I don't, I inevitably get busted by somebody nerdier than me.

The 10 minute limit was all about creating a trivial barrier to people simply uploading pirated content (since TV runs about 22-44 minutes, and films about 90 -- both well over the 10 minute limit)

However, with a little work, you can abstract the 10 minute limit away entirely now -- it wouldn't be much of a stretch to come up with a service that'd break your videos into 10 minute chunks for you, upload them, and string them back together using omnision's technique.

I'd imagine youtube will have to rethink the 10 minute limit, if things develop to this point.