14 DAY TRIAL // It's well known the fact that Yahoo lost the battle against the rival Google when it comes to the online video platforms. But it seems that the Sunnyvale company doesn't plan to resign and is now trying a different move that might change the content of numerous other websites: it introduced a new technology that enables visitors to view clips straight on the main page of Yahoo without leaving the website. According to Read/Write Web, Yahoo sustains it is the first portal on the Internet that introduces this kind of system and, because it is one of the top websites on the Internet, many other pages might be interested in adopting the same technology.
This implementation comes after only two days since Adobe officially launched the new version of Flash Player, a software solution that is expected to bring more quality for the online video platforms. Maybe it brought some quality to the Yahoo service but the videos still need better functionality as I was not able to play the straight-on-the-main-page clips in Opera or Firefox, both on Mac OS X. The folks from Read/Write Web report the same problem on Mac but they said the service worked in Safari. Well, Safari doesn't even open the videos for me so no chance to play it yet.
Yahoo has a video sharing platform introduced a long time ago but it has never been too well promoted being somehow an anonymous solution. Since Google acquired YouTube, the Internet world was continuously talking about this online video sharing service and, every once in a while, about similar solutions that were supposed to kill the search giant's product. Yahoo never sustained that it wants to get even more involved into the video battle; still, slowly but surely, it evolves and becomes more attractive.