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Creating, discovering, searching, sharing, storing etc for videos

1. BigContact : social podcasting/videocasting (#,a-b)
2. blinkx : tv / video / podcast search (#,a-b)
3. blip.tv : video/podcasting sharing service (#,a-b)
4. Bolt : video/photo/music sharing service (#,a-b)
5. Boltfolio : video sharing service (#,a-b)
6. BroadbandSports.com : sports video portal (#,a-b)
7. BroadSnatch : podcasts/v-logs (#,a-b)
8. Castpost : social video hosting / sharing (c-d)
9. Clipshack : social video sharing (c-d)
10. Dailymotion : video sharing (c-d)
11. DiviCast : social podcasting/videocasting (c-d)
12. Dropshots : social video sharing (c-d)
13. EveryBit : search multimedia web content (e-f)
14. EyeSpot : simple video mixing and sharing (e-f)
15. FireAnt.tv : social video sharing (e-f)
16. Flukiest : music/photo/video sharing (e-f)
17. Freevlog : video logging tutorial (e-f)
18. GetDemocracy : internet television (g-h)
19. GlideDigital : social photo/music/video/file/etc sharing (g-h)
20. Grinvi : social video sharing (spanish) (g-h)
21. Grouper : social video sharing (g-h)
22. Kolablog : multimedia blogging service; free (k-l)
23. LifeBlogger : free blogging service (k-l)
24. Loomia : podcast/video search engine (k-l)
25. Magnoto : free modular blogging service (m-n)
26. MediaMax : online media / file storage ; free (25 gb) and paid accounts (m-n)
27. MediaTurner : rich media player service (m-n)
28. mefeedia : social video sharing (m-n)
29. MetaCafe : social video sharing (m-n)
30. MyVideoKaraoke : social karaoke video sharing (m-n)
31. Openvlog : video recording and sharing (o-p)
32. Orb : secure access to media (music/photo/video) (o-p)
33. Ourmedia : online storage (o-p)
34. Phanfare : social photo / video sharing (o-p)
35. PicPix : photo/video sharing/tag/organization application (o-p)
36. PiXPO : video sharing service (o-p)
37. poddater : video personals with tags (o-p)
38. Podesk : video podcast/blog software (o-p)
39. Pooxi : video search engine (french) (o-p)
40. Popcast : social video braodcasting (o-p)
41. Revver : social video sharing (q-r)
42. SelfCastTV : social video sharing (s-t)
43. SevenLoad : social video sharing (s-t)
44. Sharkle : social video sharing (s-t)
45. ShoZu : social photo / video / text mobile sharing (s-t)
46. Stickam : social media sharing (s-t)
47. Stridr / swapzies : social media storage (s-t)
48. Strmz : videos from TV channels (s-t)
49. Trueveo : video search engine (s-t)
50. TurnHere : film of the day (s-t)
51. VideoBomb : social video hosting / sharing (u-v)
52. VideoEgg : video publishing (u-v)
53. VideoSift : social video sharing (u-v)
54. VidiLife : social video sharing (u-v)
55. Vimeo : social video sharing (u-v)
56. vlogmap : video blogs on google maps (u-v)
57. vMix : social video sharing (u-v)
58. Vongo : high-quality full screen video plugin software (u-v)
59. vSocial : social video sharing (u-v)
60. woomu : social video sharing with user tags and votes (w-x)
61. YouTube : social video sharing (y-z)
62. Zippyvideos : social video sharing (y-z)

I joined Ping.fm back in April but never got around to using it.  Ping.fm is a simple service that makes updating all your social networks easy peasy.

What happened was that I changed my Twitter user profile name from @ebizmom to @AngelWickenberg and the Twiiter app that updated my Facebook profile, as well as the app that I could post to Twitter and Friendfeed from didn't work for me.

The problem was that I had also created a new profile called @ebizmom, just in case people didn't know how to find me, but also in case I didn't feel comfortable with my new user name, so I turned to Ping.fm to solve the problem.

With Ping, you can update from just about anywhere. Use AIM, GTalk, iGoogle, WAP, iPhone/iPod Touch, SMS or E-mail and let Ping.fm relay your message to a multitude of social networking sites.

Ping has a "trigger system" and have broken down the services into three groups; blogging, micro-blogging and status updates.

You can control how your messages are posted as well as where. If you don't include a trigger from below in your message, your message will be delivered as your default method.

Examples:

@s message - Posts a status update
@b title^body - Posts a blog
@m message - Posts a micro-blog

 

 

Beta is still in session. To update your Facebook profile, an application key must be received from Ping.fm.

Try it, you'll like it!

/Angela Wickenberg

P.S. Follow me on Twitter:

New Twitter user name:

http://Twitter.com/AngelWickenberg

(old Twitter name: "Ebizmom")

P.S.S. Be-Friend me on Facebook:

http://profile.to.AngelaWickenberg/

P.S.S.S. My Friendfeed url is http://Friendfeed.com/angelaw

See you on the inside!

Tags: socialnetworking tips, Ping.fm, Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, AngelaWickenberg, @AngelWickenberg, social networking sites, follow me

Happy Social Marketing!

Angela Wickenberg

It’s what you want. The very popular StumbleUpon concept is simple: when you sign up, you provide the service with some of your interests, and you install the neat little toolbar. Once you’ve got the application installed, you can simply begin stumbling and you can tell the system how you feel about the page that was served to you. By clicking on the thumbs up “I like it” button or by clicking on the thumbs-down button, you teach the SU system what content you truly enjoy. By stumbling and sharing your finds to other users, you’re personalizing your own experience and the experience of your peers as well.

The personalization concept — where content is being provided based on your own desires — has proven to be quite successful. Since it was introduced two years ago, StumbleUpon now boasts over 1.8 million users, and is continually expanding. Version 2.90 of the toolbar, which came out earlier this week, is incorporating the relatively new video social search engine that it unveiled in December. StumbleUpon is truly growing…

And so is Digg.

At half the amount of subscribers that StumbleUpon has, Digg is aiming to emulate the SU concept, a recent BusinessWeek article has reported. Hot on the heels of StumbleUpon, Digg (which launched its own video extension five days after StumbleUpon did) is aiming even higher to SU’s core success model: a recommendation tool.

According to Kevin Rose, Digg’s founder who is quoted in the article, “Digg will be smart enough to know what interests you” and it will serve content that fits within the tastes of its users. For current subscribers, this means that Digg will serve content based on the stories users have dugg or buried. If you used the service to promote pages that you truly liked, the Digg system appears to not be much different from StumbleUpon.

More and more companies are involving themselves in what can be an imminent threat (well, perhaps not just yet — and it still depends on who you ask): personalization. Google’s personalized search is being promoted more heavily. As more and more people realize that there are only a few items that may be of interest to them when they search, systems are learning to adapt to user preferences through their own algorithms. As Google explains it, if you’re searching for “dolphin” because you want to learn more about the football team from Miami, you’re not overly concerned with results pertaining to marine life. Depending on the types of pages you visit and the domains upon which these sites are located, Google’s personalized search will rank these pages higher than the undesirable results, thus providing you with a searching experience that like that of no other user. To Google, this is a move provide quality results and reduce the unnecessary clutter.

To make our websites shine through these results and be obvious to the viewer, there will likely be obstacles that we’ll need to overcome. Good content is a necessity. Telling your friends is a good way to get the word out. Promoting these pertinent sites through social search is still going to be very useful.

We’re bordering on a new era, one with incredible challenge and obstacles, but one that does have the end user — you — in mind, and hopefully everyone in all communities will be happy with the results.

Today, 01:07 PM

This is a progress report on my participation in the Thirty-Day-Challenge (30 DC): I just wanted to let others know that even if your main site disappears from the SERPS, you can still have a presence representing your main website. This is what happened to me. My main URL disappeared from the SERPS and I was fretting something awful. I checked with the Google diagnostic tool to see what could be wrong, but there is and was  nothing wrong with the site in that respect. (It could do with some good conversion work, among other things.) I continued working on the social networking aspects and lo and behold my URL can be found in the SERPS due to a COMMENT I made in a group! The DIGG position never disappeared. In fact, when the part of my site that was in position one disappeared, the Digg position became #1. Now part of the site is in #1 again, the Digg link is in # 2, and in both the broad phrase match, and in the exact phrase match, there are 3 positions, including the comment. Mind you, I am still very irked about my site disappearing from the SERPS. I will certainly continue to follow the conversation, make those comments and build relationships. In this way, it doesn't really matter if the main URL is in the SERPS or not because I will have many more positions there due to other links from social networking sites. http://friendfeed.com/angelaw

Tags: SERPS, Thirty-Day-Challenge, search engine ranking, disappearance from SERPS, Google, Google diagnostic tool, social networking, URL, commenting, DIGG, Digg link, AngelaWickenberg

Google has unified search results with something called Universal Search.  They have unified all of the different searches from different departments into one category. So if you're searching for chocolate cookies, for example, you will receive everything from Google search, news and video in one search and will not have to change (toggle) between the categories.

This implies that there will be a greater number of clicks per keyword, but not necessarily more customers.  I've noticed this in my adwords campaigns, but I can't be sure it's due to the Google change in algorithm just yet.  Observing and  testing and time will tell.

On Nichebot, they write: "but the question remains for those who are keyword focused and already have positions and want to keep them…. What will this mean to the rules of getting and staying in the top results on Google and what will happen to your search engine rankings come this Wednesday when the change goes into effect? Will the power of using all the other channels like video, images, news and maps allow you to gain more power in your own search engines listings?"

CNN story:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/05/17/google.search.reut/index.html