Viddling Around™

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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 […]

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.

Nice job on the stealth-mode prep work guys. Atlas Ventures-backed Gotuit Media launched late on Sunday night, complete with a substantial library of videos (lots of music videos) ready to go. Typical of the other YouTube clones it offers fast start Flash playback.
I’d say however that Gotuit’s UI is more friendly for […]

Courtesy of our friends at Boing Boing, news it out that a new version of the Democracy Player is available.  For those of you unfamiliar with Democracy, it’s an open-source player that lets you choose from over 500 channels of free videos - in just about any format.   Some of the things I like about […]

Hellodeo - an offshoot of Odeo - is offering video postcards that you can easily capture & create webcam images. It uploads them, transcodes them to Flash, and then outputs the HTML code necessary for you to paste into your blog, an email, whatever. Ultra-simple little utility — very few controls […]

Been debating for a whlie on how to state this, but I’ve come to the belief that this explosion of web video, particularly consumer driven video, could be a positive force for Net Neutrality. If not in front of any legislative stupidity by Ted Stevens & friends, then perhaps by default in the […]

Viddling Around™ - from Viddle Networks - has been launched to attempt to keep up with the seemingly daily deluge of new video-related web sites, video gear, news, services, practices, and more. With all this activity, all happening so fast, along with all the related news and information, we started this blog to […]