Video and vlogging



:: Video sharing ::

  • YouTube
    Undoubtedly the most popular and high-profile of all video sites (and recently purchased by Google to complement Google Videos). “YouTube is a consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. Everyone can watch videos on YouTube–both on YouTube.com and across the Internet. People can see first-hand accounts of current events, find videos about their hobbies and interests, and discover the quirky and unusual. As more people capture special moments on video, YouTube is empowering them to become the broadcasters of tomorrow. With YouTube, people can: Upload, tag and share videos worldwide; Browse millions of original videos uploaded by community members; Find, join and create video groups to connect with people who have similar interests; Customize the experience by subscribing to member videos, saving favorites, and creating playlists; Integrate YouTube videos on websites using video embeds or APIs; Make videos public or private–users can elect to broadcast their videos publicly or share them privately with friends and family upon upload.”
    » http://www.youtube.com
  • blip.tv
    “blip.tv is a free videoblogging, podcasting and video sharing service. … We believe that the world is fundamentally changing as it becomes easier and easier for individuals and small groups of people to create their own excellent video shows. Our mission is to make this even easier by taking care of all the problems a budding videoblogger, podcaster or TV producer would run into. You should have to worry about creativity. We’ll take care of the servers, the software, the workflow, the advertising and the distribution. …
    We believe that this liberation of the means of production [that anyone with a camera and a computer can produce video content] is one of the most important things to happen in recent history. It allows anyone to create the next great sitcom, to share the reality of daily life across cultural boundaries, to share political thoughts and educational materials. This is a beautiful thing, and we are dedicated to furthering this democratization in a manner that always respects intellectual property rights in a venue where everyone can feel comfortable.”
    » http://blip.tv
  • TeacherTube
    This one belongs in both the e-learning and the video categories: this is a sort of YouTube specifically for education. “Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.”
    » http://www.teachertube.com
  • Technology Videos at TipsDr.com
    As above, this too belongs as much in the e-learning as the video categories, though in this case more narrowly technology-related (indeed, computing-related) tutorial videos.
    » http://video.tipsdr.com
  • ShowMeDo
    “… a site where knowledgeable people could share their knowledge via video”. Specifically, computing tutorial videos. “Educational videos – that’s the point of our site. Knowledgeable authors share their skills with us to help us learn about new tools and techniques. Any material that teaches our users new skills will be interesting to us”.
    » http://www.showmedo.com
  • Mefeedia
    “Mefeedia is free, independent, and the first and most complete videoblog directory on the web … the best place to find free videoblogs or video podcasts.” What makes this especially interesting as an example of “social software” is its use of ‘faceted tags’ devised by the site’s founder, and designer of XFML, Peter Van Dijck.
    » http://mefeedia.com
  • DownloadThisVideo!
    Find a video anywhere on the web, paste the URL into the ‘Download’ field, and click. Voila! it downloads the video for you. Pretty neat.
    » http://downthisvideo.com
  • Metacafe
    “Metacafe helps people discover the world’s best videos by reviewing over 5000 new video submissions every day. Unlike other video services, on Metacafe every new video gets noticed. Over 100,000 dedicated reviewers from around the world filter and rate new content. … Metacafe has implemented patented technology that combines sophisticated automatic techniques and collaborative filtering to create a credible rating system for videos. This enables Metacafe to effectively distribute content and helps existing and budding creators get discovered quickly and efficiently.”
    » http://www.metacafe.com
  • JustOneTV
    A ‘niche’ is a themed channel (examples: justOne!Ecotourism.imc, justOne!Bollywood, justOne!Bizarre, justOne!Art, justOne!Jazz, justOne!Celebrity, justOne!Booze, justOne!Animal, justOne!Beauty, justOne!Politics) making it easier to locate videos on a specific topic or in a specific area.
    » http://www.justonetv.com
  • Flurl
    Like Google Videos and YouTube, a video-sharing site.
    » http://flurl.com
  • FrictionTV
    “Friction.tv is an online platform for user generated news and opinion. We exist to give you the opportunity to air your views and respond to the opinions of others. You can debate issues of local interest to you or discuss points of global importance. Either way, Friction.tv will provide an interesting and stimulating alternative to the sanitised, agenda driven mediocrity of the conventional mass media.
    “Friction.tv works by sparking debates. The concept is straightforward. Anyone with an opinion on any issue can post a video recording of 30 seconds or maximum of 3 minutes. This sparks others into action: to shout out support; to put across a different view; or just to debate the point. Like a real debate, there is no absolute right or wrong, only a collection of different views that allows the viewer to make up his own mind.
    “Friction.tv believes that disagreement – or friction – is a vital element for a healthy debate, to reach new insights and to find out what’s really going on in society. We need disagreement before we can start to find some answers. So we’re looking for many different voices and encourage you to upload your video to voice your opinion in ongoing debates or to start new debates.
    “Friction.tv is unbiased, open and uncensored (except for explicit content). Friction.tv empowers you to climb on the soapbox and voice your mind about any topic at any time. You can ignore mass media and bring out the issues that really matter, not just the latest on Anna Nicole Smith – although we have a Channel for that topic too!”
    » http://friction.tv
  • Vimeo
    » http://www.vimeo.com
  • Leech Video
    » http://www.leechvideo.com
  • Justin.tv
    Live video streaming. “The live video player streams live content produced from any combination of a camera, computer, and Internet connection. … The archive video player allows anyone to search, view, and download all previously streamed video.”
    » http://www.justin.tv
  • DailyMotion
    To English ears a perhaps slightly unfortunate choice of names for this French initiative, Pretty much like YouTube, Flurl, etc.
    » http://www.dailymotion.com
  • Ning Videos
    Like Google Videos, Flurl, and YouTube, a video-sharing site.
    » http://videos.ning.com
  • Loomia
    “Loomia is a podcast and videocast search engine plus much more. Our goal is to help you discover, share, and manage things of interest to you. We make use of the likes and dislikes of an ever-increasing community to filter through thousands of channels to help you find good stuff.”
    » http://www.loomia.com
  • VideoJug
    Interesting concept–a repository of user-created ‘How to …’ videos. “VideoJug is every aspect of life explained and illustrated through an ever-growing number of common sense, informative, helpful and entertaining videos. It’s like having an army of top-class experts at your fingertips 24/7 to ’show you how’ and to help you out. And you can contribute your own knowledge, experience, wisdom and tips too, as we’re aiming to create a place that people come to share – as well as find – knowledge. Covering relationships, health, lifestyle, work, finance, fun and much more, VideoJug is the complete visual guide to all human life. Whatever you want to know, VideoJug will have the answer. Initially, we’re offering thousands of ‘How to’ videos, but we’re also developing guides offering deeper insights into more detailed subjects such as planning a wedding or learning a new business skill. And we want your wisdom – after all, everyone has at least one subject that they really understand. Don’t keep it to yourself. If you or anyone you know has a world-class skill, whether it’s juggling, cooking fantastic soup or getting a crying baby to sleep—tell us about it now! VideoJug is currently accessed online and you can download our videos to your iPod or mobile phone too.”
    » http://www.videojug.com
  • eHow
    “What would you like to do? Tie a tie? Kiss on a date? Lose weight? Negotiate a raise? Win Every Time in Monopoly? The eHowâ„¢ database of over 100,000 articles can help you. It’s the world’s most popular place to find clear instructions on how to do just about everything.
    Every month, over 8 million people visit our site. We have more than 100,000 articles that are professionally written with clear and concise directions on how to do things. We also have a rapidly growing library of articles created by eHow’s members.
    We love sharing our knowledge with the world and have created a platform for you to share your knowledge with others. We invite you to become an eHow member, where you’ll be able to comment on articles and interact with other members through a robust set of social networking tools. You can even write your own How To articles with our easy-to-use publishing tools that let you express your knowledge through text, images, and video.”
    » http://www.ehow.com
  • Sclipo
    Like VideoJug and eHow, “how-to” videos.
    » http://www.sclipo.com
  • SuTree
    Similar to VideoJug, eHow, and Sclipo. “SuTree is a knowledge community and an aggregator of instructional & educational videos. SuTree is a great place to increase your knowledge.” As an aggregator, it pulls in videos from such sites as PCMechTV, HelpfulVideo, ShowMeDo
    » http://www.sutree.com
  • JumpCut
    Upload, edit, and share videos and slideshows. Acquired by Yahoo (hence integration with Flickr).
    » http://www.jumpcut.com
  • eyespot
    “Simple Video Mixing and Sharing. If you are like us, you have a computer filled with random video clips, and a digital camera lurking about with some video on it. Even your cell phone shoots video now. We set out to build a site which makes it easy to upload, organize and share all that video, photos, and music. Interact with the community, collaborate, and get some great content to work with too.”
    » http://eyespot.com
  • LiveLocker
    “… a social media bookmarking site [for] great videos, music, and photos.”
    » http://www.livelocker.com
  • Gotuit
    Social video tagging and search.
    » http://www.gotuit.com
  • VlogMap
    “VlogMap.org launched on July 10, 2005 as an online resource for the video blogging community. Utilizing Google Maps, users submit the location of their video blog as well as individual video posts. Other features include revlogging, community forums, FeedBurner stats, aggregated news, user profiles and more.”
    » http://community.vlogmap.org

:: RSS video feed and p2p players ::

  • Democracy
    “… a new, open mass medium of online television. We’re developing the Democracy internet TV platform so that watching internet video channels will be as easy as watching TV and broadcasting a channel will be open to everyone. Unlike traditional TV, everyone will have a voice.” See the linked VideoBomb website “for sharing videos, creating personal video channels, and filtering up the best videos online.”
    Download the Democracy TV player (Linux, Mac, Windows) from here
    » http://www.getdemocracy.com
    » http://participatoryculture.org
  • FireAnt
    Similar to Democracy. “FireAnt delivers a rich media experience through a simple to use, unified viewer that lets you watch all types of content without having to worry about which format it is (Quicktime, Windows Media, Real, Flash, MP3, and more).” Downloadable player for Windows XP and for Mac OS X 10.3 and up.
    » http://fireant.tv
  • veoh
    “Veoh is an independent, Internet Television Broadcasting System that uses the Internet and peer-to-peer distribution technology to create essentially unlimited capacity for long form and broadcast quality video content. Unlike traditional television broadcasting systems such as cable or satellite television, Veoh is an OPEN system that allows ANYONE to broadcast video directly to hundreds of millions of consumers who have a PC and broadband connection. This provides limitless choices for viewers to find things that interest them from a much wider range of programmers than are available on their cable or satellite system. Veoh consists of two main elements, the Veoh.com site where you can browse the videos available on Veoh, create a user account and profile, interact with other publishers and viewers and preview videos within your browser. The second part of Veoh is the Veoh client software application, which provides automatic delivery of the content you want to get in full-length, original quality for viewing on your PC (online or offline), on your TV (its easy from most PCs) or on your portable video device like an iPod or Sony PSP.”
    » http://www.veoh.com
  • Joost
    “It’s video – more than 15,000 shows, with more added daily. It’s online – all you need is a broadband internet connection. And it’s free.”
    » http://www.joost.com
  • Webmunism Video Search
    Video meta search engine with playback of videos directly from search results.
    » http://webmunism.com/vids/