Have you ever wanted to show someone 5 seconds of a video off YouTube, but have had to make them watch the entire 3 minute video clip to get to that important 5 seconds?

SceneMaker is designed to allow you to select a portion of a video off of YouTube, Metacafe, Google, or DailyMotion and share just that portion of the video with your friends without having to show them to the entire original video.

Creating your own scenes is fairly easy. You upload a video to the site using the original videos URL, and then select an in ands out point for your scene by pressing a start and stop button within SceneMaker while the video is playing. Once a video clip is created you are prompted to name the clip, and add tags and a description of the video. You can create multiple clips from one piece of video and you can email a link to those clips to friends or embed them on your website.

SceneMaker could be great for those funny video clips that you have to sit through 2 and a half minutes of un-funny to get to, or for sharing a small part of an interview or speech with a friend without making them sit through the entire thing.

If you want to get your video seen, really seen, then chances are you upload it to a couple of different video sharing sites. But who has the time to do that?

We wrote about TubeMogul in July, a site that allows you to upload your video to a bunch of sites at once, and now we've come across Hey!Spread another site that will do all your dirty work for you.

Hey!Spread is from the same company that created the Hey!Watch file converter. Hey!Spread can upload video to Sclipo, Sumo, Sevenload, YouTube, Google, Dailymotion, Blip, Metacafe, Yahoo, Facebook, Myspace, Vimeno, Revver, Veoh, Vsocial, Photobucket, and Putfile. You give the site your log-in creds for the sites you're interesting in uploading your video to, upload a video file, press start and then Hey!Spread will convert your video appropriately for each site you specified and upload it, sending you an email when the job is done.

Besides being able to upload your video to tons of places at once Hey!Spread can also watermark your videos for you and can take a video you already have on YouTube and distribute it to other sites using the videos YouTube URL.

Hey!Spread was free until January of this year and is now charging users $.05 per video site it uploads your video to. Depending on your video needs, it's ability watermark, pull from YouTube, and upload to twenty sites instead of TubeMoguls 13 may make it worth the expense. TubeMogul is currently free.

I am amazed at the fact that much of an actor's work requires developing a good thinking face. It isn't enough to be good at talking, facial expressions, and the like. You have got to be able to look like you're thinking. I'm sure we've all seen one too many movies where the thinking either didn't look great or didn't turn out being a good thought once the plot had played out. If so, BubblyPly lets you do the thinking for the stars. You choose a video to use from YouTube, Google Video, MySpace, or Metacafe. BubblePly will let you mash it up with your own thought bubbles. I ended up putting together a bunch of bubbles for an episode of lost, where before I knew it, my extreme dislike for animals of the feline persuasion played itself out. It is for this reason that I will not link to the video here, it is too self-incriminating for the cat police to find. The interface was very easy to use and loaded quickly. BubblePly is fun to use and delves into an area of social media I haven't seen so well done before. Creating content and editing is one thing, but to hack-up something someone else made is priceless. Thanks to Lifehacker for the redirect.

YouTube is the de facto standard for video sharing on the web, but there are a lot of other options out there. But other features aside, which one offers the best video quality? While Life Goggles doesn't actually answer that question for you, it does gives you side-by-side comparisons of eight major video sharing sites' embedded players so you can judge for yourself. I've been squinting at them for five minutes and can't decide on a clear winner myself, but I will say that Vimeo's scrubber (i.e. seek bar) is by far the best. If you want to put your videos online and quality is an issue, you should definitely check it out. Life Goggles also has a couple handy guides on putting your videos online.