May 13, 2007
More and more websites allow to download videos from YouTube and other famous video community sites.
Viloader.net is much more than that ! Yes, it allows to easily download videos from a lot of websites such as YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, …
But, most sites that allow to download videos, require to first find the video on the original website, then copy and paste the URL (web address) of the video to the download website.
Viloader simplify all these actions:. Let’s see how:
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Launched in May 2007, Middio makes an effort of properly tagging the most popular music videos uploaded by members to YouTube. Although the music videos are hosted by YouTube, they can be searched for and watched on Middio without ads (for the moment…).
Middio only indexes music videos that were lawfully uploaded to YouTube by either the artist or studio owning rights to it. Videos uploaded by fans do not seems to be indexed, which reduces the power of community, but should allow the music videos not to be removed for copyright violations and thus to remain available in a long term…
Middio claims that the only videos they index are uploaded by Sony BMG, Interscope, UMG, and tons of artists who own the rights to their work.
Over 5000 music videos were already indexed before the launch of the website, and more than 10000 were supposed to be available at the launch.
You can follow the Middio blog for more information on coming evolutions of the service.
May 8, 2007
In April 2007 the french company Ipercast has launched VideoClick, a new TV channel is broadcasted in Belgium and available via ABsat.
But VideoClick is not a usual TV channel. Indeed linked to this channel, a video sharing website, such as YouTube, is proposed to users. After a free registration on VideoClick website, you can easily upload videos in most common formats (Avi, mpg, mov, flv et wmv), with a size limit of 200 Mo.
The website is very basic and allows to browse through several categories or a hot tag cloud.
And what is the originality then ? Well…as you may guess, video files are continuously broadcasted on the TV channel…
Users can vote for a video if they want to see it broadcasted or not.
The website is in French, but very easy to use, even for non-French speaking users. So do not hesitate to test it by yourself.
Moreover, you can watch the VideoClick TV channel broadcasted on the Internet.
May 7, 2007
MusicMesh is an interesting way to discover new artists or listen to your favorite music.
This site, launched by a German company called Vitabu, allows not only to listen, but actually watch to music videos from YouTube.
Why using videos from Youtube ?
First this is a way to avoid (or try to avoid) legal issues for music or video streaming of copyrighted content. Indeed, using “bad or medium quality” videos rather than pure audio files such as mp3s does not allow users to easily download and share music. Moreover videos are hosted by another company (responsibility is thus not so clear in case of legal prosecution).
Then comes the hard load of servers for streaming. With this model, MusicMesh does not host nor stream any multimedia content at all, since all the streaming load goes to YouTube.
How does it work ?
MusicMesh is very easy to use either to search for your favorite artist music videos or simply to discover new artists related to your favorites.
You can search for an artist from a simple search form or out of a very small (way too small in my opinion) artist cloud:
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