{"id":4052,"date":"2017-03-13T19:27:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T19:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/youtube-launches-uptime-an-experimental-app-for-watching-videos-with-friends.html"},"modified":"2017-03-13T19:27:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T19:27:01","slug":"youtube-launches-uptime-an-experimental-app-for-watching-videos-with-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/youtube-launches-uptime-an-experimental-app-for-watching-videos-with-friends.html","title":{"rendered":"YouTube launches Uptime, an experimental app for watching videos with friends"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Looking to turn watching YouTube videos into a more social experience, a team from Google\u2019s internal incubator, Area 120, has launched Uptime<\/a>, an app that lets you watch\u00a0videos together with your friends. The app is initially available only for iOS devices, and it feels very different from the standard YouTube experience.<\/p>\n

The app has a youthful, lively design and includes \u201creaction\u201d features inspired by live-streaming services such as Twitter\u2019s Periscope and Facebook Live.<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re watching a video, your profile icon floats across the screen, and you can comment on the video or post emoji like the smiley face, surprised face, heart eyes, angry face, etc. These reactions will be displayed to anyone who watches the video, even if they\u2019re watching at a later time. However, you also can tap on the screen to leave \u201csparkles\u201d on the video itself, and these are only shown to those you\u2019re watching with in real time.<\/p>\n

Other apps have launched in the past with the aim of offering a co-watching experience, like YouTubeSocial<\/a>, WeMesh<\/a>, LiveLead<\/a>, AirTime<\/a>\u00a0and others. But what Uptime has going for it is a polished design, as well as a way to enjoy the app even if friends aren\u2019t able to join and watch immediately.<\/p>\n

The app was initially spotted by The Verge<\/a>, which notes that it works best for vertical videos.<\/p>\n

You can search and share video clips from YouTube to the app to Uptime, making it discoverable by others. A checkbox lets you also notify your friends on the service when you post. Right now, you may not have too many friends using the app, and there isn\u2019t an address book sync feature or ability to import from other social networks \u2014 you can only send invites to friends.<\/p>\n

To be clear, the app is also about public sharing, not private messaging. YouTube itself only recently added<\/a> an in-app messaging feature to its mobile application, which lets you share videos and your comments on them with friends without having to switch to another messaging client or SMS. Uptime is not designed for this private sharing, but is instead a different take on the more public socializing that takes place around video content.<\/p>\n

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    Much of the content in the app has been seeded by its creators \u2014 these\u00a0\u201cStaffPick\u201d likes today fill the app\u2019s feed. The\u00a0picks include a range of content, from cat videos to TV show clips to funny videos and others that make sense for co-watching.<\/p>\n

    What Uptime is still lacking, though, is the ability to filter the community\u2019s shares, so you can find videos by genre, as well as\u00a0a search box to discover those that have already been shared to the network. There\u2019s also no way to tap at the top of the screen to scroll back up to the top \u2014 a common iOS gesture, which is a little disconcerting. This could be by design, as the app is meant for just continuous scrolling and not a feed where you\u2019re supposed to see all the entries.<\/p>\n

    It also doesn\u2019t support live streaming, but this and other features could be added if its creators continue its development and experiment with different types of content.<\/p>\n

    Uptime is currently in invite-only mode, but the invite code \u201cpizza\u201d gets you in.<\/p>\n

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