Sunday, March 21, 2010

Tweetz TV

Tweetz TV

Want to find out which video has been especially mentioned on the tweets, check out this Tweetz TV.

In fact, Tweetz TV is a Twitter app that aggregating all the YouTube video URL link around various tweets posted by the tweeters from across the Web. Included with each tweet is the related YouTube clip where you can play the video, and the URL link to the video as well as a link to retweet the video link.

Additionally, to view all the videos mentioned by your followers on Twitter is very simple on Tweetz TV: just log in with your Twitter credentials and Tweetz TV will then aggregate all the videos tweeted by the people that you followed.

Fliggo: Create Your Video Blog

fliggo

Video blogging is becoming a phenomenon and its attributes to the fact that the appealing effect that people who view the videos and sympathize with the content especially the video itself is surrounding in a sad story.

However, video blogging has not really taken off as there are few factors such as it’s time consuming to produce a truly compelling video and yet it’s also not easy to create a video blog. But we still notice that most of the mainstream entertainments are wired with video blogging.

To arm you with the video blogging software and hence, you can create your very own YouTube in seconds, Fliggo is a right tool to go for. In fact, it’s inexpensive to create a video blog and become a video blogger on Fliggo.

On Fliggo, you’ve the options to describe your niche video blog title. Also, you can opt to keep your videos private by selecting the closed membership so only the people you invited can view your video blog. Meanwhile, there are few design templates offered by Fliggo, and you can play with it now with the basic account (without paying a hefty premium). But in near future, a premium account type called Fliggo Pro; proposed $50 per month will be launched and many added features such as custom domain name, advanced customization tools are built into the package.

bitly.tv

The primary benefit of visiting Bitly.tv, a new lab product unveiled by Bit.ly is to know what movie clips that the world is watching now. As introduced by Bit.ly, “Bitly.tv feeds you the hippest and trendiest videos from around the Web in real-time.” However, there is a lot of hype surrounding the word “real-time.” But at first please don’t confuse it with YouTube Realtime, since it would be easy to assume that the video sites other than YouTube are dead in the water as there are only YouTube movie clips be found on the site.

Clicking on any clip in bitly.tv will pop up a dialog box that has a YouTube movie sits in the left-hand side allowing you to play or pause the clip. In addition, you’ll find the real-time tweet stream coming in via BackType, a real-time conversational search engine on the Web.

Academic Earth

Web has became not only a space for finding generic information, but also a nice place for self further studies. Put an example, if you want to scour for education-related resources, Academic Earth is a must site to visit for.

Academic Earth, headlined on the landing page with “Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars” can fulfill many people’s dreams to learn the video lectures from the top scholars at the Ivy League Universities. Similarly to one of MIT’s Web-based projects, i.e. MIT Open Course Ware, you can find course lecture videos on anything from engineering to management. However, there are more universities covered as you can find some of the online video lectures at these stated universities, that are UC Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford and Yale, with the exception of the course work or the course material in any text format.

While you find tons of video lectures at Academic Earth and you might thought that it is a huge repository of videos from these top universities. However, quite the contrary, the videos are not hosted on this site itself. Most of the videos were pulled from blip.tv but a great feature offered by Academic Earth is that users can rate a particular video and the ratings from A to F is given.

LoomTV

I recently find another fantastic way to watch YouTube videos via a video search engine called LoomTV. Not only this LoomTV lets you search the videos across some big video sharing sites such as YouTube, Google Video, Blip.TV, Dailymotion, etc with a great and simple interface, it also supports play-back, thus provides a great online video viewing experience for the users.

Before you start to use LoomTV for the video search, please bear in mind that when you post a query, a new window will pop up so that you can sit back, relax and enjoy the video in a full screen instead of the normal YouTube’s 480X295 video size. In other words, if you own a high and advanced specification of LCD screen, you’d probably enjoy the videos on LoomTV at a far distance and find this LoomTV becoming your favorite service to watch videos at home eventually.

Although my focus here is purely Web-based, LoomTV also has developed an offline, desktop version of player that allows you to watch videos via the desktop viewing mode. Nevertheless, watching videos on LoomTV makes it worth your time since it has a great GUI, and some videos streaming from YouTube run in a very smooth manner. What’s more, for the registered users, LoomTV offers them a feature to add their favorite videos to their own personal channels, organize and play the playlists continuously without having any interruption occurred.

Embedr

Embedr is a newly launched service that allows users to create a custom video embed code. A nice thing to try Embedr is that even you did not register an account with them, you still can test its embed features. In other words, if you are a user who simply want to embed your very own one video and really not bother to register another Web account, you’ll likely to appreciate this convenience.

There are two (2) types of video playlist embeds. You can either use the standard playlist or smart playlist. The standard playlist allows you to embed a unique video playlist with a grouping of 100 videos maximum, whereas the smart playlist is for the ease to embed YouTube videos via the generic keyword or your own YouTube account. If you want to embed YouTube video by using the generic keyword, you’ll find that Embedr will group a series of video clips that contain this keyword in your playlist. This prove quite useful in a scenario that the related video clips to the one you want to embed are showing in front as one of the video slideshow. After you embedding the video, the URL of the video playlist and the embed code is much shorter than the usual YouTube embed code.

Well, the embed feature of Embedr isn’t a revolutionary development on the whole. However, it represent a good video embedding service alternative to some video sharing sites.