Weekend Google News Roundup

• TechCrunch posts how to view the new Google Video interface
• Mmmmm….Google Ice Cream
• Google adds movie trailers to search
• Froogle dumped for Video on the Google homepage

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There are so many sites today to watch, share, & post videos on the net, I find it hard to even remember them all! What I needed was a list - a list of all the sites of which I’m currently aware. I know I’ve forgotten some. I know there are others I haven’t heard of yet…but this is my list for now. Comment with your adds, so this list can grow.

BIG GUYS:

• YouTube - user-created content & lots of copyrighted stuff that shouldn’t be there, which is what makes it #1, of course
• Google Video - user-created content, music videos, & paid content from CBS, NBA, National Archives, classic cartoons, Charlie Rose, independent films, and miscellaneous other tv shows & programming; full list of programming
• Yahoo Video - user-created content, music videos
• MySpace - user-created content, music videos, copyrighted stuff
• Blinkx.tv - user-created content, tv, video podcasts
• iTunes - tv shows, videos podcasts
• MSN Video - MSNBC, The Today
  Show, Dateline NBC, Meet the Press, Sports, Entertainment, movie
  trailers, music videos, viral videos, National Geographic, Discovery
  Networks, clips from Showtime, more
• AOL Video - channels
  including AOL Coaches, AOL Music, AOL News, Moviephone trailers, MTV,
  Nickelodean, Spike, History Channel, Biography Channel, Comedy Central,
  viral videos, music videos, more; deals finalized with 20th Century
  Fox, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner
  Bros. Home Entertainment Group

Search for Video:

• Window Live Search
• Yahoo! Video Search
• Google Video Search
• Pixsy - Photo & Video Search
• Purevideo

TV Channels:

• ABC - free streaming video of popular shows (Lost, Desparate Housewives, Grey’s Anatomy, etc)  the day after they air (resuming this fall)
• NBC - Clips, previews, & webisodes of the "The Office"
• CBS - News, sports, clips; Rockstar has its own site; Big Brother has a 24/7 feed at real.com; in September ‘06 they will offer streaming of "Jericho," along with "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "CSI: Miami," "CSI: NY," "Numbers" and "Survivor."
• AOL’s In2TV - free classic TV shows, toons
• Bravo - clips, web originals
• FOX - clips & such; now launching myFox websites (ex. myFoxNY, myFoxTampaBay) in selected cities to stream Fox TV shows over the internet
• SciFi Pulse , Discovery Channel ,TLC - clips, behind-the-scenes, etc
• Comedy Central’s Motherload - TV Shows (South Park, Drawn Together, The Colbert Report, Chappelle’s Show, The Daily Show; comedians; original, web-only shows, cult classics
• Beeline TV - TV channels from around the world
• Jeff Pulver’s list of TV shows available on the net

MOVIES:

• CinemaNow - rent, buy, download, burn
• Movieflix - watch online
• Vongo - watch online
• iFilm - movies, short films, TV clips, music videos, comedy, video games, anime, adrenaline, viral Videos, more
• atomfilms - short films & movies
• Undergroundfilm - student films, parody, more
• WatchFilms - classic movies, toons, newsreels, more
• emol - free classic, black-&-white films
• Guba - online movie (& tv show) rentals

EVERYONE ELSE:

• MoveDigital - upload video by file or URL and turn it into a torrent or mobile stream
• Guba - watch, share, & upload flash, iPod, and PSP videos
• Gotuit - music, news, sports, entertainment videos, trailers
• CastPost - user-created content; Casttv coming this fall (video search engine for any content)
• Clipshack - user-created content
• DailyMotion - user-created content
• Grouper - user-created content, commercials, short films, video blogs, mashups, etc.
• OurMedia - user-created content
• Revver - user-created content
• Vimeo - user-created content
• vSocial - user-created content
• blip.tv - user-created content, citizen journalism, video blogs, events, documentaries, more
• NowPublic.com - user-created content
• Bolt - user-created content
• Vobbo - video blogs
• Varsity World - user-created content, movie trailers, music videos, original programming
• ZippyVideos - user-created content; video hosting
• user-created content
• MPEGNation ,Dropshots, VideoShare, Vidiac, FileMobile , Hipcast , Multiply , eyespot , VideoWebTown - upload videos & post to blogs, sites and/or share
• Sharkle - user-created content
• vidiLife - user-created content
• Lulop2 - open-source project so you can make your own video-sharing site
• vMix - user-created content, some Warner Bros, some Family Guy clips
• Flukiest - user-created content
• PiXPO - personal broadcasting
• MetaCafe - user-created content
• MedicineFilms - amateur films
• SeeHaHa - Japanese clips
• Veoh - long form user-created content, independent films, some professional content
• MeFeedia - find video podcasts
• Strmz - watch, clip, & share user-created content, news, tv/movie clips/trailers, more
• vdiddy - video aggregator site pulling in top videos from youtube, google, blip.tv, and many, many others
• a bazillion video blogs
• stuff I haven’t found/remembered

Fanpop is a new site that’s a network of "social portals," as they call them; the portals are created for fans, by fans, on a topic that they are fanatic about. Topics aren’t limited - they can be anything you can dream up! Within each portal, you can meet other fans while you contribute to the community. In the Links section, you can share, rate, & categorize your favorite links; in the Forum section, you can discuss; news and blog postings from the the web for are pulled into the Headlines section. All this fanatical content combined, portal by portal, is Fanpop. When this gets off the ground and gets a decent user base, it’s going to be pretty cool.

The only suggestion I have for them is this: when I’m digging around for a portal, whether through browsing the categories or via a search, I have to actually go into the portal in order to click the "join this spot" link, which is small & almost easily missed in the top-right of the page; I’d rather be able to click a "join" button next to the item in the search results or category list. That way I can quickly join the portal. This would be especially useful when you’re a new user, & you want to add yourself as a fan of many different things.

Other than that  minor point, everything looks good. As the community grows, this will be a really useful site. Adding myself as a fan of fanpop!

Update: I’d like to point out that I posted this a full day before TechCrunch. ha!

When AOL published 20 million web queries from 650,000 AOL users to the web, it was big news. As TechCrunch noted, although "the AOL username has been changed to a random ID number, the abilitiy to analyze all searches by a single user will often lead people to easily determine who the user is, and what they are up to. The data includes personal names, addresses, social security numbers and everything else someone might type into a search box."

Stupid, stupid AOL…but that’s not what this post is about; this post is about the fun you can have with anonymous user data! Although AOL took the data down Sunday evening, mirror sites have sprung up on the net. Want to see a random user’s file? It’s kind of scary stuff, sometimes really scary. For example, the data file I viewed, user 2708, showed searches for the following: revenge tactics, the woman’s book of revenge, dirty tricks for chicks, stories of revenge, encyclopedia of revenge, underground help for revenge, voice changer, how to humiliate someone, how to make someone miserable, how to make someone crazy, how to get revenge on an old lover, makehimpay.com, makehimsweat.com, makehimsuffer.com, and much much more, including the best search of all "how to really make someone hurt for the pain they caused to someone else."

Run dude, run, whoever you are! And hide your rabbit!

Today, TypePad announced the release of a new application for your phone - TypePad Mobile. If you have a Palm, Windows Mobile or Symbian Series 60 smartphone, you can use TypePad Mobile to post to your blog or post photos to your photo albums. TypePad Mobile comes from SixApart’s acquistion of SplashBlog back in March of this year. MobileCrunch has more on this here.

The Sony mylo is a new all-in-one communicator that will be available next month. mylo stands for "my life online," and they’re not kidding - this new device has a lot of features for those of us who live online. The device uses Wi-Fi (802.11b) and lets you use the internet connection to make Skype calls. You can also IM via Yahoo!, Google Talk, or Skype, listen to music (MP3, ATRAC or WMA formats), surf the net, email, view photos, write & save .txt files, store & transfer files using the USB connection or the Memory Stick Duo card, and watch videos (mpeg-4 format, but there’s an optional software program for the PC, Image Converter 2, that will re-encode videos to this format).

I have to admit, this device is pretty sexy. Now all I need is citywide wi-fi (hear me, Tampa? Google? Earthlink?). This is the kind of thing that I look at and just instantly drool over. A Skypre wi-fi handheld! But then I remembered…Sony…root kits…bad Sony….bad Sony…….oh look - it comes in black, too!

OK, this probably isn’t news to some of you uber-geeks who know everything, but I’ll be honest…I sort of forgot that I even had a Bebo account until today. Then I saw an article about how Bebo was an up-and-coming service and I thought, what? My online address book site? I logged back in for the first time in ages, and darned if Bebo hasn’t gone all MySpace on me! Homepages, Friends, Bands, Videos, Schools, Messaging, and Maps (gotta beat frappr while they’re at it). Seriously, Bebo is now a faster-loading, cleaner-looking, easier to use, well-planned, well-designed MySpace clone. Too bad the 20 million+ MySpacers are already too busy to notice.

Finally! MySpace & Google have inked a deal where Google will be the exclusive search and keyword targeted advertising sales provider for MySpace. This is good news for MySpacers, since the built-in search at MySpace is not so great, to put it mildly. And everyone thought Murdoch was going to ruin MySpace. Ha!

Web desktops & Web OS’s are all the rage these days. So of course we could use one more. Sure, we’re all relatively happy with Pageflakes, Goowy, and the like, but why not try another? Desktoptwo is the latest service offering in this area. The Desktoptwo site is so new, there’s not even a FAQ yet, but there is a sign-up sheet for beta testers if you like that sort of thing. This web-based desktop plans to offer email, IM, a blog editor, an address book, and a GB of free storage. 1 Gig? Hmmm…I’m still waiting for the GoogleOS and unlimited storage they will offer. Hey, a girl can dream, right? An in-depth review is available over at TechCrunch.

Veotag is a new service that lets you display clickable tags or text within a video that let you jump right to that part of the video. Using the Veotag player, you can see all the veotags to the right of the video being played. This idea of tagging within a video is a good one, and one we’re seeing more of lately. However, I’m not sure that Veotag specifically will be the service that revolutionizes video viewing.

For now, it’s Google who has the jump on everyone regarding jumping to the "good part" of the video. With Google video, you can link to a particular part of a video just by appending the time at the end of a Google video URL.

For example:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=889968848656043401&q=jon+stewart#7m47s

Now that is useful! Google Video is offering something that YouTube doesn’t have (yet). YouTube, step up!