Thread: Social channels

The hard part of subscribing to videos is finding feeds you are interested in and Miro makes this job very easy for you with 'The Miro Guide'. The built-in and Web accessible Miro Guide is a full-featured Web service that provides a comprehensive catalogue of video RSS feeds anywhere (Figure 1). With over 5,000 channels and growing, thanks to an active social community, it's pretty safe to say that you will find something to satisfy your requirements, whatever they may be. Miro comes loaded with a couple of starter channels like the Wired Science video pod cast, NASAs jet propulsion laboratory, and even a channel that teaches you how to use Miro, called 'Using Miro'!



Like Last fin and any other Web 2.0 service, Miro also works by using the data generated by users. Miro Guide is an open directory, that is, anyone can submit an RSS feed, thus ensuring more channel options for users. Also, like Last.fin, Netflix or Amazon, users can rate any channel in the Guide and get suggestions about channels they might like. The best thing about the Miro Guide is that it doesn't lock you in anyone can create an alternative guide of videos and feeds that you can add to Miro. Apart from the option to set any channel to download new videos as soon as they are published, you can also instruct channels to stop downloading new stuff if unwatched videos are piling up. See Figure 2. You can even start individual video downloads by pasting the URL in the menu item. Plus, you can easily pause and resume any individual download, or all downloads in one channel, or even all Miro downloads!