Sharing Videos: Part 3
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 11/27/2005 - 20:57
This Thanksgiving, I took a few more videos with my camera. Unfortunately, the camera died part way through. It appears to be the well know 'E18' problem with Canon PowerShots.
Nonetheless, I did get three short videos which I have uploaded to the various video sharing systems. During the uploading, I looked at how often my previous videos were viewed, if comments were added, how they connect to other blogs, to flickr, del.icio.us etc.
Based on this, here are my most recent experiences.
My video on Youtube has been viewed 13 times. There aren't any special features on Youtube. The uploads are easy, but they put a Youtube watermark on the video. Still have mixed feelings about them.
Castpost was viewed 3 times. You can blog to Friedster and Blogger. Unfortunately, you cannot blog to Drupal using the Blogger API. Castpost puts a watermark on its thumbnails. Again, mixed feelings.
Clipshack was viewed 15 times. It doesn't have any special features other than a story board view, which is pretty nice. I like the interface, I just wish they had more features.
I got the most views on DailyMotion. 59 views, one comment. It was a good comment, and I like DailyMotion quite a bit. You can blog to Blogger, but not via blogger api to drupal, just like Castpost. I blogged to blogger.com. I did have some problems setting the title and tags on some of the videos. It may be because they are moving servers.
Grouper is still in the coming soon category.
Our Media was having some technical difficulties, so I didn't do anything more with them today.
revver.com was viewed 58 times, and I did earn a nickle for someone joining revver because of clicking on the first video. I'm not keen on their interface and haven't uploaded the new videos to their server yet.
vSocial had 16 views. It has nice integration with Flickr and del.icio.us. It doesn't link nicely into other blogs, otehr than manually. Nonetheless, I like vSocial a lot right now.
Google Video has converted my previous video, but I can't find any way of finding how many times it has been viewed, searching for other videos by me, integrating with other systems, etc. I'll use Google Video for some purposes, but not most video sharing.
blip.tv got 26 hits. I still don't like the fact that you have to upload a thumbnail seperately. It is supposed to inter-operate via the Blogger API with Drupal sites. However, I couldn't get it to work.
So, in my mind, the jury is still out on different video sharing tools. If any of you like particular thoughts, let me know.
Tune in later for my comments on the underlying content.
Check out the new BlogIt! feature at vSocial
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 12/04/2005 - 05:28.Hi,
I saw your comment on blogging support, or lack of at vSocial. Actually, as of a few days ago, they now support pretty slick integration with both Blogger and TypePad.
The documentation needs to be a bit clearer but the functionality is bomber. Basically, when you have a video (yours or someone else's) that you want to blog on, you click BlogIt! The first time you have to choose whether blogging to Blogger or TypePad, and if you want it to remember your password. If you have it remember password, you have a nice pulldown so it is super easy to blog.
It does the blogging inline, meaning you don't have to leave the site. It also provides real time previews of what you are typing and also provides template options for what type of video thumbnails you want.
Definitely the best I have seen in this regard.
Nice step forward
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 12/08/2005 - 18:51.It is great to see that vSocial can now post to to Blogger. It works nicely. I just wish vSocial would allow putting in other sites that support the Blogger API, such as Drupal sites. Then I could post right from vSocial to this site.