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 […]

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 […]

MobiTV of Emeryville, CA has raised a $70MM series C round of venture capital through Oak Investment Partners. These guys are hot - they’re supplying over 20 mobile carriers around the world, and here in the US have deals with Sprint, Cingular and Alltel. I haven’t used this service personally, but have seen […]

Guba announced on Thursday that it’s partnered with the MPAA to track down copyrighted material. What’s more intriguing is that they’re making the technology available for licensing to other online video sites. Now, how many competitors in the overcrowded video sharing space will want to partner with Guba is a big question, […]