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SuTree instructional video site adds courses, widgets and other new features

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For the past six months, SuTree has been collecting user-generated videos that show you how to do stuff. All sorts of stuff, from taking care of a pet to speeding up your web browser. There are over 10,000 videos currently online. Now the site is launching a bunch of new features that should make it easier to find the videos you're looking for and share them with the rest of the world.

First up, SuTree is rolling out a new "courses" feature that lets video makers bundle a series of related videos into an online course. Got a 7 part series on how to clean a toilet? Make it into a course. Users can also "wrap & send" a group of videos to friends.

There are also now RSS feeds that let you susbcribe to tags, categories, or all new videos uploaded to the site. For web publishers, there's a new widget feature that lets web publishers embed a SuTree search box in their site to let users search for instructional videos.

Filed under: Internet, Video

Graspr: Another user-generated how to video site

Graspr
While we often find ourselves thinking the last thing we really need is yet another website that lets users upload, share, and vote on videos, we might make an exception for Graspr. Like SuTree and 5min, Graspr is focused on how-to videos.

Sure, you can find out how to knit or shave with a straight razor on YouTube, but it's hard to find good instructional videos because there's just so much stuff to sift through on a general purpose site.

Graspr has a clean, easy to navigate interface. For example, the computers & internet section actually has useful subcategories like networking, hardware, internet, programming & design, security, software, and general. All too often, it seems like these instructional websites aren't geared toward geeks, so we appreciate it when we find a site that is.

And for a service that just launched this week, there are already a good number of instructional videos to browse through, thanks to a successful beta period. We also like how registered users can take notes on videos and read notes left by other members of the community.

There are still a few kinks to work out. When we tried to copy the embed code for a video using the "copy , we got a site not found error. But by copying the code manually, we managed to embed a video after the jump.

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Filed under: Video, Web services

Find out how to do stuff with SuTree

SuTree cats
Want to learn how to choose a video game system or how to take care of a kitten? SuTree can help.

The new site from Israel-based E-learning Knowledge Solutions allows users to submit videos that are posted in various places on the internet, including About.com, Grouper, and Metacafe.

The result is a collection of how-to videos that you can search or browse from a central location. When you find a video you want to watch, you click the image and are taken to the original video source.

The service works well as a repository for DIY and how-to videos, which are often hard to find under the videos of teenagers talking to webcams and people doing silly stuff on sites like YouTube. Currently, SuTree has over 5000 videos indexed, covering topics ranging from parenting to sports.
[via TechCrunch]

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