Dabble: Media Bookmarking Sweetness

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1. Aditya Mukherjee
   

   February 13th, 2006 at 12:14 am

   Personally, I think creativity and web 2.0 go just that far. Today, everyone is coming up with new content to bookmark and tag … rather than come up with new ‘content’.

   Next, you might see a site which allows you to save and tag shockwave files from the net … for later viewing independent of the site!

   These services are trying to cash in on the hype of the whole ‘bookmarking’ phenomenon, and not coming up with additions to features like (something which i *think*) ma.gnolia is trying to do.

2. Kevin Burton
   

   February 13th, 2006 at 12:23 am

   Good post.

   Here’s the major thing that bothers me about (potentially) Dabble and Videobomb.

   To be fair I don’t know that Dabble solves this issue but I doubt that they do. I’d love to be proven wrong though.

   Anyway. Videobomb is directly linking to the video file and letting other people pay for the bandwidth. A lot of people have been pissed about people doing this for images for a long time now. Video just makes it THAT much worse.

   If these sites want to play the game then they need to be polite.

   There are simple proxy configurations that can fix this problem (at least for HTTP) and I think they’re a requirement for these type of applications to take off.

   If Videobomb grows to the size of Digg the remote end could easily get hit for a $5k bandwidth bill.

   Not cool…

3. Ken
   

   February 13th, 2006 at 6:47 am

   $5k? Not that bad actually, considering it’s a video website.. I’m sure it’s not hard to push gigs upon gigs per second

4. lorenzo
   

   February 13th, 2006 at 8:40 am

   gigaom says youtube consumed 16 terabyte daily as of last month, which means they re using a full oc48 or 2,5 gigabit/sec pipe.
   http://gigaom.com/2006/01/15/g.....ine-video/
   It s very nice on Sequoia to subsidize video sharing&tagging this way.

5. mary hodder
   

   February 13th, 2006 at 11:33 am

   Hi Kevin,
   Dabble links to the page of video makers, to preserve their business model, unless we have permission or the site tells us to link directly to the video. In both cases, the business model of the video hoster is preserved, because in the latter, the hoster attaches ads to the video, and therefore doesn’t care if the video is linked to directly.

   We are carefully reading TOS’s to get this right. If you know of something in particular that we aren’t doing right please let me know. We want hoster’s business models to be left in tact and we’d like to see them happy. They are after all hosting the video.

   Thanks,
   mary

6. PeteCashmore
   

   February 13th, 2006 at 12:25 pm

   See also Videobomb, a less convincing video aggregator without the remixing features:

   http://mashable.com/2006/02/07.....for-video/

   I really want to be skeptical about Dabble, but I think it might just work.

7. Enric
   

   February 13th, 2006 at 2:39 pm

   I’ve put up a vlog of Mary Hodder’s presentation of Dabble and the judges Q&A at my site. I’ll be putting up more from the Under the Radar: Video Blogs Killed the TV Star event.

8. Arik
   

   February 14th, 2006 at 7:57 am

   Check out Metacafe, at http://www.metacafe.com, especially the stand alone application, at http://www.metacafe.com/download.

   It’s been gaining significant traction while classic video sites like ifilm and heavy have been losing users, and is already well on it’s way to be the number one video ENTERTAINMENT destination site.

   There is a big distinction between video hosting sites and video entertainment sites. it’s one thing to simply aggregate or host content, youtube/dabble style. it’s more interesting to separate signal from noise. videobomb is trying to do this, but very primitively.

   Metacafe uses digital and control group collaboration filters to ensure zero duplicates and a quality stream of content. The site updates every hour with a great video! Everything is user submitted, user rated, and user filtered.

   Actually, at this point MetaCafe’s homepage receives more direct hits then youtube’s - as it has become a pure entertainment destination.

   Basically - you go to youtube or google to host vids. You go to MetaCafe to have fun

9. James
   

   February 26th, 2006 at 11:58 pm

   Strmz.com indexes video from thousands of sources including youtube, metacafe, and many others — and lets users bookmark videos by tagging them in a playlist. It’s nice to have one place to go to see “what’s on” and manage video playlists.

10. jeremy
    

    May 11th, 2006 at 12:40 pm

    I see mention of “community that supports mashup tools”, but don’t see any actual mashup tools in the Dabble beta.