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

http://mashable...digg-for-video/

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

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

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…

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.