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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Wow… lots of industry news this morning, that’s for certain.
JumpCut announced this morning that it’s licensing its video editing application to FoxAtomic, who is using a private-labeled version of the app to allow people to create their own audition tapes for the new Revenge of the Nerds remake. As we’ve seen elsewhere in the […]

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 […]

Expanding on their early success in the US and Canada, Google this past week expanded their service the the UK. Unlike the typical cost-per-click text ads which then direct the consumer to the advertisers offering - typically their web site - the new video ads are billable when the user simply watches the […]