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Rating the video sites
Slashdot: Digital Video Guru is running a comparison of 10 digital video sharing sites - EyeSpot Beta, Google Video Beta, Grouper Beta, Jumpcut Beta, OurMedia, Revver Beta, VideoEgg, Vimeo, vSocial and YouTube. Currently, based on traffic, YouTube is the leader of the pack (more heavily visited MSN Video does not support user-uploaded videos), but Digital Video Guru blog awards Vimeo for fastest uploads, JumpCut for editing, and YouTube for community features.
Hmm. VideoEgg isn't a video sharing site, it's a service. And YouTube winning plaudits for community? That's a stretch.
April 9, 2006 at 11:29 PM in Video | Permalink
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That Digital Guru piece is making it's way around everybody's blog and it's a shame, really. It is not a very good indication of the wealth of sites out there. At Testing Grounds, we are currently testing over thirty hosting sites and get requests for reviews of new sites all the time.
It saddens me that blip.tv misses out on these reviews as,I think, they are a great service with everything I want in a host. OurMedia is great because it is completely open and doesn't brand, alter, or put ads on your work. OurMedia also works closely with the Internet Archive so that you don't have to worry about them going out of business and losing all of your uploads (a very real possiblity with the large numbers of startups out there).
There is no mention in these ratings-of-hosting-sites articles about the things that really matter when you're looking for a host. Things like format (if they convert to flash, forget about RSS). Or if the players play automatically when you load a page like Vimeo does (I can't tell you how much I hate that!)or their terms of service (many of these sites require you to give them and their affiliate companies perpetual rights to your stuff to alter, sell..pretty much whatever comes into their heads).
Alright. That's enough indignation for now :)
-Anne
Posted by: anne walk at Apr 10, 2006 10:24:48 AM
