Chapter 12

Media Consumption and Publishing Using Web Services

It would be negligent to put out a book that didn't cover the wide range of possibilities available for online media consumption from sites such as Flickr, which offers photos and videos, and YouTube, famous for its wide range of user-generated video.

It also makes sense that since so much of this book has been about means and methods for building applications that allow users to create or produce media, we should cover methods for publishing that media to the same or similar places, such as Blip.TV for video and Flickr for images.

Additionally, in the process of this media consuming and publishing, we'll be doing two things: we'll be learning about and using web services and web ...

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