Peter Van Dijck, author of one of my favourite books on IA (That many of you will probably like: Information Architecture for Designers
If you haven’t seen Mefeedia yet, here’s what they have to say about themselves:
Mefeedia is an aggregator, a video feedreader. It is a place to watch videobloggers. Before you ask: we don’t host the videos. We just point to them. There is a ton of commercial video on the web. Porn, the late show, you name it. Even though you can find some of that on me-tv, we’re really about real video created by real people. So we focus our functionality on that. We try to make it easier to tell your story, share your worldview, and find others who are telling their stories.
Some people have mixed feelings about videoblogging. While some say it will never pick up, others say it’s going to be huge by the end of the year. Personally, I believe it is a fascinating area, and anything that gives more power for people to publish their own video/audio/text materials in a decentralized way is a great thing. We’ll see where it goes. For now, congratulations goes out to Mefeedia for the pick.
Mefeedia is a great site. I personally believe that Loopl.com is the web’s best loop repository and is even better than Mefeedia for two reasons. One because its easier and faster create a Loop than a video, you just have to drag and drop your photos from your desktop into a loop and your friends, family or bloggers will get the updates inmediately. Two on loopl.com you can actually place your Ebay actions online, get the daily news, daily sports and search for loops.
Mefeedia is a fantastic service, and Peter is indeed a wonderful (and helpful and friendly) guy.
But the site does suffer from some usability and interface issues, it’s not intuitive and gets downright frustrating to navigate and figure out sometimes. The idea and the service are outstanding, with some front-end tweaks it will be the definitive media aggregator and directory. (Which is why I’m writing them usability analysis for Christmas.)