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Zync, a research prototype from Yahoo! Research Berkeley, is a plug-in for Yahoo! Messenger. It allows you to watch videos together with your friends, in sync and in real time. Instead of just IMing URLs and waiting for your friends to watch, Zync allows you to converse about a video (pausing, jumping back, and watching together with a friend). Both videos stay in sync. Sweet. :) To use Zync, load up the plugin and type a message to your friend like:
Both players (yours and your friend's) will load the video and play, pause, and rewind together, in sync. Zync works with most all Yahoo!, YouTube, and Google videos. Zync is a research prototype from Yahoo! Research Berkeley. We'd love to hear your questions or comments about Zync. |
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The EZ Embed-it button is no longer needed with the Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 (get the beta). For more info, see the next section on the YMSGR Protocol.
Zync now works with the YMSGR protocol. You might want to check out the docs.
The protocol allows you to start Zync via some simple HTML. For example, the following link opens the Zync.
<a href="ymsgr:getplugin?type=1&id=c0589c59-cb81-4a9d-7d29-fbb9c487e05e&name=Zync+Video+Sharing&version=1.0">
Adding a message parameter allows you to start
Zync with a URL. For example:
<a href="ymsgr:getplugin?type=1&id=c0589c59-cb81-4a9d-7d29-fbb9c487e05e&name=Zync+Video+Sharing&version=1.0&message=http://youtube.com/watch?v=l69Vi5IDc0g">
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