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By: Interesting Timing: TailRank Launches Video Today Too

Interesting Timing: TailRank Launches Video Today Too — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:39:37 +0000

[...] TailRank and competitor Megite are fighting for second place behind blog news leader, TechMeme. It’s not surprising that both companies are expanding into ranking popular videos, too. But it’s surprising that both companies launched their products on the same day. We covered Megite earlier, and then received an email from TailRank founder Kevin Burton that they have just launched their product as well. [...]

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:10:29 +0000

I like this idea. Right now I don’t use video sites much b/c most of the content is wimpy. If there was a good organization to it, I’d be more likely to watch it.

By: Deep Jive Interests » Back After Boxing Day, and Back to Blogging

Deep Jive Interests » Back After Boxing Day, and Back to Blogging — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 06:30:13 +0000

[...] Being away for even a few days over Xmas does have its drawbacks. Namely, people who are trying to contact you with Real News tend to be disappointed when you don’t answer their emails. Who am I referring to? Matthew Chen of Megite tried to let me in on the fact that Megite has added a Video portion to their news aggregating site — but because I wasn’t around, the tip went to Rex Dixon’s blog; the whole thing was subsequently crunched on TechCrunch (including that Rex’s blog who helped ‘break’ the story). I guess I SHOULD get that blackberry for myself in the post-xmas boxing day week sales! Anyway, congratulations to Matthew on getting crunched — Megite’s really adding some unique value to the news aggregator space. [...]

By: Megite Blog » Blog Archive » Many Thanks For So Many Special People

Megite Blog » Blog Archive » Many Thanks For So Many Special People — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:57:25 +0000

[...] Megite’s Alternative Way to Rank Popular Videos [...]

By: Somewhat Frank

Somewhat Frank — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:38:08 +0000

Megite …

With loads of video to sort through on the web Megite and TailRank both launched new video features today (December 27, 2006) which look present a quick view of the most popular videos of the day. Megite, the news aggregator…

By: Kevin Marks

Kevin Marks — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:35:54 +0000

Thanks for noting Technorati’s top videos, ben and Frank; also note we have videos integrated into tag results now (along with other media types). eg
http://technorati.com/tag/James+Brown

By: Fashion Industry Ceo

Fashion Industry Ceo — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:28:52 +0000

sounds like a couple people have beaten them to the punch according to these comments MICHAEL!

By: Scott Button

Scott Button — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:22:30 +0000

Take a look at http://www.viralvideochart.com too. Like Technorati’s service, it is more crudely democratic - one link / embed = one vote, no upweighting for authority - leading to a relatively large showing of MySpace videos due to the sheer volume of MySpace blogs.

We scan a couple of million blogs a day for links and embeds and have been live since mid-September.

By: ddd

ddd — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:55:33 +0000

people started to use link count way before pagerank

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 16:20:53 +0000

“Megite’s ranking is based on what vidoes blogs are linking to or embedding into their sites (the same way Megite tracks other news).”

BlogRank — very much like Google’s PageRank
I wonder if someone is applying this logic to ranking News articles.

PS — Don’t you think Google and Stanford’s patent on PageRank will cover media and document of all types? Megite could be under huge trouble if that is the case.

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Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:59:58 +0000

By: Beta Alfa 2.0 » Bloggarna betygsätter videoklippen

Beta Alfa 2.0 » Bloggarna betygsätter videoklippen — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:16:44 +0000

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By: matthew

matthew — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 11:59:54 +0000

Thanks Michael. Megite Video (http://www.megite.com/video”> is launching today. Megite crawls hundreds of thousands of blogs for links to video on more than 20 video sharing services such as YouTube, Google Video, Daily Motion, Metacafe, Ifilm, Vimeo, Break, Revver, Grouper, Bolt, Yoqoo, 6Rooms, and more. Videos are ranked by the importance of the discussion blogs, the popularity of the discussion blogs, the number of blogs that are discussing, the freshness of the video, and the number of clicks we are planning to add in the near future. We are also working on to cluster the related videos that will be released in the near future.

By: Interesting Timing: TailRank Launches Video Today Too at Swiss Podcast Directory and Blog

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:40:48 +0000

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Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:26:36 +0000

By: howard lindzon

howard lindzon — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:02:16 +0000

simple, smart, has a chance

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:46:34 +0000

yes but technorati ranks everything the same, nothing based on authority, and they only rank youtube. It would be very easy to game technorati.

By: Dag

Dag — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:24:38 +0000

Suggest you have a look at VideoSift - http://www.videosift.com They use voting to determine video popularity, but have a focus squarely on video, unlike Digg.

VideoSift was just named best video aggregator by PCWorld Magzine:
http://www.pcworld.com/article.....ticle.html

By: Tarun Chandel

Tarun Chandel — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:14:14 +0000

Though the people who are embedding videos in their blogs does seems to be real votes, but not everyone is embedding all the videos they like. So the service will yield good results for those videos which are blogged but will miss out on some great videos which are not being blogged.

By: Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:04:09 +0000

Michael….

As I was saying on NewTeeVee just now we pushed out Tailrank video tonight.

http://video.tailrank.com

and here is our blog post on the subject:

http://www.feedblog.org/2006/1.....1_now.html

This was actually going to be in out before xmas as a present for our users but we didn’t make it in time.

By: Frank Smadja

Frank Smadja — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:49:47 +0000

Using blogs as an indication of popularity is a great idea but I have to agree with Ben, Technorati has been doing that for a while now.

They even also have popular movies, news, images, music, etc.

Just check out their home page.

By: ben

ben — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:16:53 +0000

Technorati has had that for some time, and theirs is much easier to peruse:
http://technorati.com/pop/youtube/

By: Andrew Michael

Andrew Michael — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:06:59 +0000

Looks like an interesting service, though I would imagine there will be many spin-offs in the future since YouTube is so dominating. I certainly like the way the videos are ranked, by linking rather than votes.

Some suggested improvements:

I’d like to see unique user voting coupled with the current ranking system to slow voting abuse. In addition, I’m noticing some graphical bugs (in FireFox 1.5) when trying to drag the “…more discussions” pop-up box.

All-in-all, I think it’s a good service, I like the concept.

Cheers