Yuku Gets Video from YouTube and ClipBlast

A couple of months ago we announced the release of Yuku. Yuku is a new community building platform for consumers that is based around message boards. As you’ve read on KickBlog, our belief is that message boards have played a prominent historical role in online communities and will continue to do so. Yuku features everything that make message boards a great platform for people to express themselves and gather with others that share common interests. Additionally, the Yuku team has been infusing social media and rich media functionality and applications into a traditionally text based format. (There’s no reason message boards should live in the Web 1.0 world…)

To that end, Yuku today announced a new one-click video embed feature that allows message board members to embed videos from YouTube, the world’s largest user-generated video library, and Clipblast, the world’s largest video search site, on posts and blogs. People simply hit the “Reply” button in the post, click on the video icon in the rich text editor tool bar, enter a search term and choose whether to search using Clipblast or Youtube. Once you locate the video you’re looking for, a simple click on the video adds it directly to the post or blog entry. Read about it on Yuku here.

In addition to the video embeds, the Yuku rich text editor allows people to add photos directly from their PhotoBucket account. This is all part of our effort to make it easier to create richer and more engaging experiences on Yuku.

For those technically minded out there, we’ve tapped into YouTube and Clipblast’s APIs to enable this. As you might’ve read, we’ve also announced that we’re going to be supporting YouTube’s new upload APIs. More on that soon.