July 23, 2006

Dabble Launches

Michael Arrington

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Online media bookmarking and sharing service Dabble, which we profiled back in February, takes the private beta restrictions off the site and officially launches on Monday.

The site indexes videos from hundreds of video sites and collects metadata such as location, authoring, licensing and tags. Videos can then be organized, shared and viewed within Dabble.

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July 24th, 2006 at 7:21 am

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July 25th, 2006 at 10:49 am

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J-Fleaux

July 24th, 2006 at 12:27 am

The number of available video services is certainly overwhelming, so it will be interesting to see if they succeed in organizing them all. Let’s hope they do!
Innovation Zen

July 24th, 2006 at 3:12 am

I agree video services are spreading like fire, but most of them are still looking for a solid revenue generation model.
Martin Gordon

July 24th, 2006 at 3:22 am

For those of you as confused as I was, Dabble != DabbleDB.

You know better than the rest of us, Michael, which came first and which was too lazy to pull six random letters out of Scrabble bag?
Dave Schappell

July 24th, 2006 at 5:26 am

Dabble’s Down — bad day to have an outage.
Dave

July 24th, 2006 at 5:40 am

Before leaving for work this morning I read this blog and clicked over to dabble to give it a quick glance.

I was 30 minutes late to work. Damn you techcrunch for covering insanely interesting and time wasting sites!

Great work, Dabble. I just hope you pick up some music videos that are not just hip-hop!
j-squil

July 24th, 2006 at 5:47 am

I dont think its just an outage, I think its just the transition isnt going too smooth.
lets hope they get it together soon, noone likes waithing. especialy on the web!
David Snider

July 24th, 2006 at 7:44 am

Like the concept. Not sold on the design.
arjun

July 24th, 2006 at 8:25 am

COLLECT!

BOOKMARK!

SHARE!!

i am so fucking sick of collecting shit and sharing my opinion. please, internet, just tell me what to think!
Avi Bryant

July 24th, 2006 at 10:09 am

Martin, since you ask: we announced DabbleDB in October 2005 (http://smallthought.com/blog/?m=200510). At the time, Mary Hodder’s video startup was called Bloqx (see, for example, http://www.blogonevent.com/blogon2005/speakers/). I believe they bought the dabble.com domain in December or January.

When I tried pulling letters out of the Scrabble bag, I got 6 e’s: I guess that’s all that was left after Flickr & co. had their turns…
uLinkx Team

July 24th, 2006 at 10:20 am

We have lauched similar kind of service (uLinkx) back in May. Besides providing user to collect videos from Google, YouTube, Yahoo etc., We also provide them functionality to collect online music. Currently, we support only few video site for automatic bookmarking (Of course you can add manual bookmark for any site), but soon we plan to add few more popular sites.

Please checkout http://www.ulinkx.com/

Good to see dabble comes out with competing service.

Thanks,
uLinkx Team
Devlon

July 24th, 2006 at 7:02 pm

I have some concerns about Dabble. I was so excited to see the release come out after using the closed beta, but a lot of the things I felt were missing from the beta are still missing.

The bookmarklet is great, but they don’t provide key elements that are easily scraped. Tags: missing, cc license…missing?

I tried to add a media element from my own video blog and the tags field and the license info wasn’t populated. I viewed the source of my page and with a text editor search found the tags and cc license.

These are key pieces of meta data in my mind. I can’t wait to see how they grow, I do want to see them do well. Just my two cents.