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Chapter 11
Media Sharing
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of the technical barriers to publishing
on the Web by providing simple interfaces for users to upload and share various
types of media. As we have already seen, this kind of user-generated content is a major
component of the modern Web and millions of users make use of these services every day.
In this chapter we will consider three of the most important forms of media-sharing
service: podcasting (audio), photo sharing and video. However, these are just some of the
Web 2.0 media sharing services and other popular forms include document sharing (most
notably through the Scribd ser ...