[WebPub] Important Changes to MIT TechTV ? Please Read!

[Jenny McFadden]

  I agree!  Thank you for providing MIT this service for free - it has 
made my job much easier!

One small suggestion - we're hoping to put a TechTV icon (a la youtube) 
on our website that will take users to our video repository within 
TechTV.  You know, one of those little 14px x 14px logos.  Any chance 
that is in the works?

Jenny McFadden
LGO and SDM Programs
jmcfad at mit.edu

On 8/11/2010 11:13 AM, Ed Carlevale wrote:
> Oh good, this gives me a chance to express kudos to TechTV. Without
> Kris' help my websites would look like something I made with Frontpage
> when Jimmy Carter was president. TechTV makes it easy to post videos
> and embed them on a site. Not only that, the view count for even the
> humblest video is amazing, presumably because of the cross-posting
> with YouTube and iTunes U. So if updating code and changing some urls
> is necessary, though I might grumble instead of whistle while I do the
> actual work, I'm all-aboard for helping TechTV continue to grow.
>
> -- Ed
>
>
> On Aug 10, 2010, at 3:39 PM, John Hawkinson wrote:
>
>> Hi, Kris.
>>
>>     This is disappointing. As timbl says, "Cool URIs don't change."
>> http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
>>
>>     Why is it necessary to break old TechTV URLs? Is it not possible
>> for you to put in 2,000 (or whatever) redirects programatically?
>>
>>     Thanks.
>>
>> --jhawk at mit.edu
>>   John Hawkinson
>>   +1 617 797 0250
>>
>> Kris Brewer<brew at MIT.EDU>  wrote on Tue, 10 Aug 2010
>> at 12:46:48 -0400 in<7F1FC02D-C8F5-4956-B3F5-F118186A6E91 at mit.edu>:
>>
>>
>>> Greetings MIT TechTV Users!
>>>
>>> We have some very exciting news that requires your attention and
>>> participation.
>>>
>>> MIT TechTV is undergoing some major changes as you read this to
>>> allow us to make the site bigger and better suited for your needs
>>> (more details below).
>>>
>>> What this means for you:
>>>
>>>
>>>   * Any MIT TechTV video(s) that you have currently embedded (placed
>>> in your own website all non-MIT TechTV pages) will need to be
>>> replaced with the new code after the site upgrade on Monday, August
>>> 23rd, 2010.  This doesn t have to be immediate, but please don t
>>> forget.  We will leave the old code working until the end of October
>>> 2010 to give you plenty of time to update your sites and to tell
>>> your friends to do the same.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   * Also, any video file download links copied from MIT TechTV pages
>>> (the gray box to the right of a video under the title of Formats )
>>> will also need to be replaced after Monday, August 23rd, 2010 and
>>> before the end of October 2010.
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