Video portals are immensely popular on the Internet.The sheer amount of videos makes them attractive to a large audience. The larger portals like Youtube or Dailymotion host millions of videos from daily news over music to tutorials on how to cook the perfect meal or learn a new language. While most users are perfectly happy [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Software

Joost who have been offering a software client for Macintosh and Windows to watch (mostly) prerecorded TV shows have launched a website today that is offering everyone using Internet Explorer or Firefox the opportunity to watch the TV shows that have been previously only available to the software client users. The service currently requires a [...]

Categories: Entertainment, Music and Video

I was not really sure if we would ever see Vreel, the semi-official successor of Stage 6, go live but apparently the developers did it finally. Vreel’s doors have opened and anyone can join the Open Beta. Vreel, like Stage 6, is based on Divx technology which means that the latest Divx Web Player has [...]

Categories: Cool, Entertainment, Music and Video, Uncategorized

After the demise of Stage 6 and the disappearance of its unofficial successor Vreel it became apparent that it is difficulty to run a profitable video streaming portal. Veoh seems to be the next company that is realizing that providing a service to a worldwide audience can have a negative impact on bandwidth costs and [...]

Categories: Music and Video, The Web

Youtomb is a MIT Free Culture research project that monitors the most popular Youtube videos for copyright related takedowns. The project is currently monitoring more than 220000 videos at Youtube and has identified a a takedown rate of nearly 8%, a pretty hefty rate. The website lists a screenshot and the name of the video, [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Online Services

Youtube addicts take note, 1-Click YouTube Batch Downloader (via ShellCity) provides access to download multiple videos from Youtube at once and even converts them into the desired format during that process. The standalone application can download from almost any Youtube page and supports downloading from individual pages, channels, playlists, favorites, users and group pages. Batch [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Operating Systems, Windows

Vreel, which was shortly named Divxit, is a Stage6 clone that appeared back in April. The frontpage did not reveal a lot of information at first which changed after the name change. A Questions and Answers section was added which tried to answer several of the pressing questions that must have flooded the inboxes of [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Online Services

I was rather skeptical of Adobe Air when it was first announced thinking of just another desktop application that no one would ever need or want. Surprisingly though this is changing quite dramatically with the release of some very cool and useful applications for that plattform. The latest gem is called Mooflair, a desktop video [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Software, The Web

After the publicity that the launch of Stage6 clone Divxit caused it was clear that the new company would sooner or later run into troubles with the Divx company. Not so much because they were trying to clone Stage6 but more because of the domain name and the Divx logo that could confuse visitors into [...]

Categories: Cool, Entertainment, Music and Video