A while back my brother gave me the heads up about a website called Radar.net. Today another twitter friend recommended the site to me. Normally I’m pretty good with peer pressure, but since two people asked me to check it out, I figure I will.

The basics of the site are a place and a service for you to share videos and photos with others whether it be on the Radar.net site, twitter, Facebook, flickr or your own blog. All the features you’d expect are here and then some.
I’ve normally been a fan of TwitPic to share photos on twitter, but …read more

Anyone who crossposts videos to multiple video-sharing sites already knows this, but TubeMogul now confirms it: when posted to multiple sites, your video will get the most views on YouTube. TubeMogul posts and tracks creators’ videos across multiple sites, so they know of what they speak.

12seconds is exactly what its name implies: a video-sharing site with a twelve-second length restriction.

See, this is why small agile players thrive inside online video. Unless they happen to be the clueful likes of Google or CBS, big corporations tend to trip over themselves in this space. Michael Arrington recounts the long, sad, dramatic tale behind the imminent shutdown of high-quality video site Stage6.
Long story short: big egos at parent company DivX alienate smart team at promising startup Stage6. All this happens just as Stage6 was about to get $27 million in investment and $10 million in revenue.
DivX just threw away a fortune over an executive ego battle. How fitting that the CEO …read more

We\\\\\\\’re seeing all sorts of online video sharing sites catering to various verticals — from intellectuals to venture capitalists to gamers to otaku to music fans to masturbators. Barely a week goes by that I don\\\\\\\’t hear about some startup touting itself as \\\\\\\”YouTube for ________\\\\\\\”. Porn and piracy aside, I don\\\\\\\’t see any way these guys can differentiate themselves from general video sharing sites unless they offer features (not just content) specifically useful to their niches.\\\\r\\\\n\\\\r\\\\nThat\\\\\\\’s why I don\\\\\\\’t blog a lot of these vertical video sharing sites unless they offer some feature especially useful to their verticals. Examples …read more

Google\’s antispam abilities are legendary, and many YouTubers wish some of those abilities would rub off on YouTube. That need has been further underscored by Dan Ackerman Greenberg, a Stanford student who\’s revealed some horrific ways to cheat on YouTube. He knows of what he speaks, because he\’s a hired gun for corporates faking cluefulness.\r\n\r\nHis repertoire of dirty tricks ranges from fake headlines to sockpuppet comments. While market leader YouTube is the primary target, the impact of this trickery will only get bigger as other video sites gain popularity.\r\n\r\nWhile reading Dan\’s post makes me sick to my stomach, it certainly …read more

How geeky can you get? Find out at SciVee, a video-sharing site for presenting scientific papers. Niche-specific features include figures, references, and full papers.
My biggest beef: no embeds. It’s a huge missed opportunity: SciVee embeds could incorporate SlideShare-like features for the figures and Scribd-like features for the papers. Then again, bloggers probably don’t want to put their readers to sleep with talk of scientific papers.

Oliver Luft, Om Malik, and Liz Gannes all highlight how the BBC is looking for greater relevance and added value in online video use. I’d like to point out something else BBC News Interactive head Pete Clifton mentioned at the Future of News Conference, something far too many online marketers still don’t understand: video embeds generate clickthroughs.

YouTube just added a very “live” community feature: active sharing, an opt-in service which displays the usernames of people currently watching a specific video. It also displays your recent viewing history on your profile.
This thing’s just begging for chatroom functionality.

Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston are friends. They both came from Friends. So, it appears that Cox needs some help to boost the ratings of her show called Dirt. So what do you do? Ask your friend Aniston to appear as guest. Cool. How about asking your friend for some kissing scene? More coolness. It’s a hit in YouTube. See for yourself and tell me what you think about it.