IF you cannot show the comments with the video played in one screen, your web sucks.
Hiroyuki Nishimura
Joi Ito(ceo of Creative Commons
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url:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Nico_Douga
Nico Nico Douga (ニコニコ動画, Nikoniko dōga?, lit. “Smiley videos”) is a popular video sharing website in Japan managed by Niwango. Its nickname is “Niconico” or “Nico-dō”, where “nico nico” is the Japanese onomatopoeia for smiling. Nico Nico Douga is the 6th most visited website in Japan[1]. The site won the Japanese Good Design Award in 2007.
Users can upload, view and share video clips like YouTube. Unlike other video sharing sites, however, comments are overlaid directly onto the video, synced to a specific playback time. This allows comments to respond directly to events occuring in the video, in sync with the viewer - creating a sense of a shared watching experience. Nico Nico Douga’s atmosphere is close to 2channel’s or Futaba Channel’s, and many popular videos have otaku tastes, such as anime, computer game and pop music.
Nico Nico Douga offers tagging, but unlike tags in services such as YouTube, tags may be edited by any user, not just the uploader. Each video may have up to ten tags, of which up to five may be optionally locked by the uploader, but all others may be edited by any user. Frequently these tags are used not only as categorization, but also as critical commentary, satire, or other humor related to the video’s content.
Other features include:
- High video quality. Unlike sites such as YouTube which re-encode their video, Nico Nico Douga encourages users to pre-encode their videos in a format suitable for unmodified distribution. In particular, the VP6 codec is recommended for high video quality. As of March 5th, 2008, h.264 video and AAC audio are also supported experimentally, for uploaders with premium membership.
- Mylist. Each user may create ‘mylists’, which function similarly to a list of bookmarks. All users can create up to 25 mylists, while a basic account can have 100 videos recorded and a premium (paid) account 500 videos. Daily mylist activity is used to compute the default ranking view, although one may also sort by view or comment count. Mylists may be optionally made public and linked to; for example, to make a list of one’s own works.
- Uploader comments. The uploader of a video may attach permanent comments to the video. These are often used for such things as subtitles, lyrics, or corrections.
- Nicoscript. By using special commands in the uploader comments, the uploader can add special effects to the video, including voting, automatic transfer to another video, quiz scoring, and other features.
The first version of Nico Nico Douga used YouTube as a video source. However, as the site became more popular, so much traffic was transferred from YouTube that YouTube blocked access from Nico Nico Douga. Consequently Nico Nico Douga was forced to shutdown the service but two weeks later it commenced its service with its own video server.
In May 7, 2007, the Nico Nico Douga for mobile phone users was announced. Since August 9, “Nico Nico Douga (RC) Mobile” has serviced mobile phones of NTT DoCoMo and au.
As of October 6, 2007, Nico Nico Douga has 3 million free users and 86,000 premium users.Due to the limited server capacity, Niwango limits the amount of free users accessible to the website at peak times (7pm to 2am), based on the time of registration. The website is written in Japanese and almost all users are Japanese, but 1 percent of the users are TaiwaneseA Taiwanese version of the site was launched on October 18, 2007 to service this audience better.
littel nubers :
- It earns him 100 million yen a year — about $1 million — mostly from ad revenue.
- One of the more than 1 million videos available on Nicodou is a TV news item about Nishimura himself.
- lo-res site gets about 500 million pageviews a month.
Hiroyuki Nishimura says:
- I taught myself to code in grade schoo;
- Japan is an unhappy culture. The people are lonely and depressed, and the Internet is a release valve;
- waste is our culture in Japan;
- If running the site required me to get up at 9 am every morning, wear a suit, and not have time to play videogames, I’d probably quit;
- No major corporations were offering anything like that, so I had to;
- Nearly 300 volunteer administrators. No major corporations were offering anything like that, so I had to;
- If running the site required me to get up at 9 am every morning, wear a suit, and not have time to play videogames, I’d probably quit…
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