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= WebMadeMovies: the evolution of video<br> = | = WebMadeMovies: the evolution of video<br> = | ||
'''WebMadeMovies is Mozilla's open video lab'''. We're gathering the world's most innovative filmmakers and hackers to explore and showcase the power of new open video technologies. Blowing up the traditional box, and unlocking video's 21st century potential.<br> | '''WebMadeMovies is Mozilla's open video lab'''. We're gathering the world's most innovative filmmakers and hackers to explore and showcase the power of new open video technologies. Blowing up the traditional box, and unlocking video's 21st century potential.<br> | ||
New tools like HTML5 allow us to make video that behaves like the web: linkable, quotable, searchable, mixable, hackable. Liberating it from closed platforms and creating whole new ways to tell stories online. By mashing up video with the rest of the social web, we're reinventing the medium through open source collaboration, artistic innovation and global community. <br> | New tools like HTML5 allow us to make video that behaves like the web: linkable, quotable, searchable, mixable, hackable. Liberating it from closed platforms and creating whole new ways to tell stories online. By mashing up video with the rest of the social web, we're reinventing the medium through open source collaboration, artistic innovation and global community. <br> | ||
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= The problem: black boxes and walled gardens<br> = | = The problem: black boxes and walled gardens<br> = | ||
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'''Video today is *on* the web, but not *of* the web'''. Despite the innovation that's swept other online media, most video -- from information and entertainment to educational videos and user generated content -- is still trapped inside closed platforms that are difficult or impossible to search, link, quote or contextualize. We can "embed" video in pages, but only through closed-off players that are sealed off from the content around them. And that still behave much like traditional TV.<br> | '''Video today is *on* the web, but not *of* the web'''. Despite the innovation that's swept other online media, most video -- from information and entertainment to educational videos and user generated content -- is still trapped inside closed platforms that are difficult or impossible to search, link, quote or contextualize. We can "embed" video in pages, but only through closed-off players that are sealed off from the content around them. And that still behave much like traditional TV.<br> | ||
Creators that want to break with convention are forced to use multimedia systems like flash that cannot inter-operate with the rest of the web. | Creators that want to break with convention are forced to use multimedia systems like flash that cannot inter-operate with the rest of the web. To make matters worse, other filmmakers cannot learn from or build on these sites because the source code is hidden - the "view source" functionality of the web is broken. | ||
'''All this traps video inside a virtual "black box," robbing it of audience and potential.''' And locking an entire branch of knowledge and creativity in closed systems that don't behave or innovate like the rest of the web. <br> | '''All this traps video inside a virtual "black box," robbing it of audience and potential.''' And locking an entire branch of knowledge and creativity in closed systems that don't behave or innovate like the rest of the web. <br> | ||
= All that's set to change. Unlocking video's 21st century potential.<br> = | = All that's set to change. Unlocking video's 21st century potential.<br> = | ||
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Together these tools will form the ultimate "swiss army knife" of open video applications, empowering developers and movie-makers to take video in directions we can't even imagine yet. And ultimately shaping the future of film the same way HTML and open standards shaped the web. <br> | Together these tools will form the ultimate "swiss army knife" of open video applications, empowering developers and movie-makers to take video in directions we can't even imagine yet. And ultimately shaping the future of film the same way HTML and open standards shaped the web. <br> | ||
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