Video Sphere

DailyMotion is a video sharing website, based in France. Against a lot of competitors, this website seems to care a lot about its very own design (not a simple copy of YouTube this time !), quality of content (not only the neighbour’s cat flushing the toilet…), as well as quality and fluidity of images.

DailyMotion is available in several languages: English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Romanian, Russian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and French.

Three viral videos have been recently launched to promote added value of the DailyMotion platform compared to competition (in the pure Mac vs PC commercial style) …

These three videos are fluid quality of image is rather good. I hope this is not only for the commercial image, and that all videos are playing as well…

(via KickAndBlog)

There are tons of websites that allows you to distort pictures…but when you want to play in front of your webcam and have a live distortion, the number of website is drastically reduced…

Anyway, some websites propose to play with your live image, either by adding some distortion you can parametize, or simply by adding some live effects such as a burning effect or snow falling down, and stopped on the top of your head…

Webcamtastic and Sigost are quite similar concepts, since they allow you to play in front of your screen, adding distortion effects, then taking a picture and sharing this picture.

Do you know other websites like those, but also allowing to record your video ?

(via Jeanviet’s blog)

Last, but not least, interesting ressources to develop your own Flash application to play with your webcam on Andrew Trice’s Cynergy Systems blog.

Video Tabs is a great idea for people who want to learn how to play guitar.

Videos can be used for a lot of things, but I find it very useful for knowledge transfer and sharing of experience.

As a great source for free video guitar lessons and tabs, Video Tabs combines quality video lessons served up by YouTube with accurate easy-to-print tabs so that you can more easily learn your favorite songs.

You can search for specific songs you would like to play, or simply watch more generic lessons about how to start playing or learn specific techniques.

A great idea with a real added value for videos streamed by YouTube.

(via Antoine Soubigou’s blog)

dotSUB may be the new killer application for online videos after YouTube !

This website is really innovative, even if its design is really ugly. But I’m sure you can’t wait and want to know what’s behind this very basic blue logo:

Take YouTube and Wikipedia and imagine the kind of collaborative video website you could create…

Did you find ? No ?

What if you were able to watch videos produced by anyone in the world, meaning in local languages that you probably don’t know ?

What does it mean ? Being able to watch and share videos from all over the world, even if I don’t understand a single word ?

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Last.tv is a music video player which matches your music taste from last.fm to videos on YouTube.

It automates selection of music videos and provides effortless continuous play as a television channel. You don’t even need to select your own videos, since data from your Last.fm music profile is retrieved to create a continuous playlist of videos from artists you listen to.

You just have to turn it on, like watching MTV, except this time its all your favourite clips !

You can use your own last.fm account or use someone else’s account, which is a great idea, meaning you can discover new artists from accounts of people who seem to share your taste…

Last.tv matches videos based on artist names. Besides retrieving premium music videos, this also turns up live performances, bootlegs, interviews and fan interpretations. This is unique content which would never be aired on regular music video channels.