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The U.S. military, with help from Seattle startup Delve Networks, has launched a video-sharing Web site for troops, their families and supporters, a year and a half after restricting access to YouTube and other video sites.
TroopTube, as the new site is called, lets people register as members of one of the branches of the armed forces, family, civilian Defense Department employees or supporters. Members can upload personal videos from anywhere with an Internet connection, but a Pentagon employee screens each for taste, copyright violations and national security issues.
Part of Delve’s work was to build speedy tools for approving and sorting incoming videos. Its technology also crunches video files into several sizes and automatically plays the one that best suits viewers’ Internet connection speeds.
But the startup’s real forte is making sure searches on the site turn up the best video results.
Uh – anyone think TroopTube’s real forte will be identifying malcontents dumb enough to use it – and turning their butt in to commanders?
Only the military would look at a successful wildly used system, and then develop their own in-house system at cost. Not Invented Here is so backwards.
I guess that we won’t see any more “puppy chucking”, but is that a bad thing? I don’t think so. A good idea, well implemented.
“Uh – anyone think TroopTube’s real forte will be identifying malcontents dumb enough to use it – and turning their butt in to commanders?”
No.
Hey, it Supports Our Troops by preventing them from being RickRolled. So it’s got to be good.
The troops can still use Youtube if they aren’t on a gov’t controlled network. How many businesses block access to sites they don’t want the employees to use?
I think it will be populated by asskissers trying to impress the boss. They certainly won’t be censored.
#5. – not many. Managers are reluctant arbiters of good taste.
# 7 sargasso said, “#5. – not many. Managers are reluctant arbiters of good taste.”
LOL
Most medium & larger companies have filtering built into the the security appliances at the DMZ.
I used to work in Harddrive tech support. at that time 80GB was largest hdd you can buy.
When Military call to replace their in warranty 120meg drives, we automatically upgrade to a 2.1gig drives for FREE, they do not want that. even though their system support it(x86 based systems with int13h) they rather pay us $$$ to repair the old drive.
I just want to see the pentagon be sued by youtube for whatever the law is where you mimic another company
# 10 the answer said, “I just want to see the pentagon be sued by youtube for whatever the law is where you mimic another company”
Would be interesting as there is no such law.
The sanitized Trooptube.
Don’t post anything here that you wouldn’t be happy for the commander in chief and every ranker above you to see.
Eidard said:
“Uh – anyone think TroopTube’s real forte will be identifying malcontents dumb enough to use it – and turning their butt in to commanders?”
No, I think the main use will be kids and their moms watching that humorous rap/music video made by Dad’s unit over and over.
Millitary doesn’t necessarily mean stupid at least from E-4 on down anyways. Those that have a desire to post something they think could get them into trouble know just how serious this could be. When you sign that contract you gotta realize the US constitution no longer applies to you. They can do anything they want with you. Better to stash the risky stuff for later. The really good thing about this is for the families. Youtube’s a pretty saturated and crowded server. If as I surmise the server for this is on a .mil server that means much bettter bandwidth for the guys overseas. One of the toughest parts of military service is the seperation from loved ones, this could be a huge mitigating factor. How strange, I think they actually did something right this time. Bah who am I tryin’ to kid?!? FTN
Many civilians didn’t notice, the first one sent to prison for the abu ghraib scandal was the guy who took and released the pictures.
Heard the one about the guy who walked into a bar with an alligator?