We added conference coverage to Lanyrd.com, now collecting video/audio/slides/..

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48 points·simonw··5 comments

I'm really excited about this feature. Here are some fun example URLs:

http://lanyrd.com/2010/startup-school/coverage/

We're using http://embed.ly/ to pull in the Vimeo / YouTube / SlideShare embed codes.

This totally changes how I look at Lanyrd. Previously it was just a place to see who was going to or had been at a conference.

Now it is a place to find all the videos, notes and slides I would have missed out on.

That's excellent. Is there any kind of auto-import feature? Eg load the event tag photos from flickr?

We were originally going to do photos in the same way as WildlifeNearYou - ask people to auth their Flickr account and associate photos using a picker.

It's pretty clear that the "paste in a URL" mechanism is much more approachable than we had thought, so I think we'll probably try and do something sensible with the Flickr URLs we are getting at the moment combined with the Flickr API.

Embed.ly actually supports Flickr URLs, but it returns weird Flash slideshow things that weren't really what we were after so we turned those off.

Simon, it's a perfect use case for PubSubHubbub :) Susbcribe to the feed for the right tag and get notifications as soon as new pix are uploaded with the right tag!

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