Viddling Around™

I don’t know what she’d say about the current web video explosion in this context, but I think she and I would agree that with 170+ video sharing sites out there, sharing videos over the web is not a business, but is really only a a feature.
Years ago — sometime around 1990/1991, Esther Dyson was […]

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Deepest apologies there folks for the extended absence. What with it being August and all, and the girlfriend was out here for the summer, traffic was a bitch, the sun was in my eyes, and the dog ate my homework.
Nonetheless… […]

As reported by arstechnica, AOL is set to launch its beta video site this week, incorporating tech from its Singingfish and Truveo acquisitions, its VideoEgg licensing deal, and content from everyone - literally. AOL’s site will incorporate video from;

YouTube
GoogleVideo
AtomFilms
45 channels of content from

Viacom
Turner Broadcasting
MTV Networks

As much as I think AOL lost their shine […]

Today’s Guardian Unlimited is reporting that Alexa has ranked YouTube higher than MySpace for the past three months, with a 3.9% share of daily visits. What’s most significant to us here at Viddling Around is the that the average YouTube visitor spends 28 minutes on the site. That is simply amazing […]

Word is out that Actimagine - the European company behind the ultra-efficient mobile video codec “Mobiclip” - has raised €3MM from GRP Partners of Los Angeles.
There’s no question that the mobile video market needs a better  solution than traditional MPEG codecs, particularly when you consider the constraints of processing capacity and power consumption on mobile […]

My apologies, and I hate doing this so early in this blog’s young life - but my posting will be a little lighter over the next couple of days as I’ve got company visiting from out of town. Please Stand By.

Reports are surfacing that Apple’s new widescreen video iPod may be delayed until 2007. I guess we’ll all know more in a couple of weeks once Apple’s WWDC takes place.
If true, it’s a shame that it is taking Apple so long to develop what some Asian manufacturers have been able to get into […]

Tim Arango over at the New York Post had a piece this morning, claiming that the YouTube boys think they’re valued at $1B. That’s right - say it in your best Dr. Evil voice - $1,000,000,000. Now I can’t claim to speak for Chad Hurley or the backers behind YouTube - but for […]

In yet more news this morning, Dabble has officially come out of closed beta.
Don’t know where exactly they rank in the list of 170+ YouTube clones, but at first blush around their site, it’s extremely difficult for me to figure out where their differentiation or advantage is. They haven’t yet matched the list […]