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KnockaTV: yet another user generated video site?

KnockaTV
While it's not entirely clear that the world needs another user-generated video website, we're at least a little intrigued by the teaser trailer at KnockaTV. The people behind this video sharing site are the folks who brought us ICQ, one of the first successful online chat applications.

The site hasn't even launched a private beta yet, so we can't tell you what, if anything, sets it apart from the dozens of other YouTube wannabes out there. In fact, the promotional video links together dozens of videos, some of which you've probably seen on YouTube, including the popular Will it Blend podcast and quite a few videos of young girls dancing in ways that would maker their parents... umm... proud?

It looks like the goal might be to present videos one after another in a TV-like style, with users voting on which videos should come next. Or perhaps, as Mike Arrington speculates, your personal voting preferences will determine which videos show up on your personalized "channel," much the way Pandora creates custom audio streams for individual users.

You can currently sign up to beta test the site as a video producer or viewer.

[via VentureBeat]

Filed under: Internet, Video, Web services

DailyMotion coming to the US (isn't it already here?)

Daily MotionVideo-sharing site DailyMotion is making a major push in the United States. Like pretty much anything else on the internet, it's not exactly off limits to US users right now, but the bulk of the site's audience is currently in France, where the company is located.

So what do these big new plans for US domination entail? The company plans to offer professional video along with user-generated content, include contextual advertising, and reward the top content producers with cash.

We can expect to hear announcements of partnerships with content producers soon. And it wouldn't be surprising to see some MTV and VH1 content soon, since it looks like a number of folks on the programming team have backgrounds working for those music networks.

Of course, a US push also means something else: US lawsuits. One of the reasons DailyMotion is relatively popular in the states is that it's easy to find copyright-infringing content. DailyMotion is crawling with full length feature films and television programs. It'll be interesting to see if the site takes steps to reduce the number of illegally uploaded clips -- and if it can make headway in the US market without those clips.

[via TechCrunch]

Filed under: Internet, Video, Web services

Chime.TV: Joost up your browser with YouTube videos

Chime.tv
Want the time-wasting ability of Joost, but don't want to go through the trouble of downloading a program to watch your internet television? Chime.TV is a flash-based website that lets you create or watch channels of short videos from sites including Blip TV, Break.com, Daily Motion, Google Video, MetaCafe, MySpace, Veoh, & YouTube.

Nothing to special about that. Chime.TV is hardly the first site to scrape together user-submitted videos from multiple sources. But what is special is the interface.

When you visit Chime.TV, you're presented with a list of "channels" on the left. Click a category and a playlist will be created, with one video after another playing in the tiny window in the middle. Or create your own playlist by typing a search term in the box at the bottom.

Click on the tiny window and the video gets larger. But things really get interesting when you click the fullscreen button. Because they really mean full screen. If you didn't know any better, you'd think you had exited your web browser and loaded a new video. But this is all just part of the flash interface. Unfortunately, you can't search for videos when in full-screen mode, but the interface is pretty impressive, even if the content is pretty much typical fair. No full-length TV episodes here (at least legally). For that, you'll still want to try Joost, which has partnered with content owners like Viacom and CBS.

[via TechCrunch]

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