ViddYou just launched their video blogging network today. According to Mefeedia, the majority of vlogging is taking place on people’s personal sites, which tend to be web shows like the late-great Ze Frank. The other, more personal, half is captured by social video sites. ViddYou is focusing on the latter category, enhancing and promoting the “Personal and Blog” section normally buried in social video sites like YouTube.
The site is based on a simple social network design, consisting of vlogs and communities. Vlogs keep track that users latest videos, friends, interests, and personal profile video. Communities bundle vloggers of similar interests together. Currently communities can only be created by the company, and are limited to the general, travel, music, and confessions.
The overall user experience is streamlined and straightforward. You can post videos to your vlog by recording them within the site’s widget on your webcam, or uploading them from a hand-held or mobile phone camera (via emailed MMS). You can even watch videos on your mobile phone if you have a 3GP video player installed. They’re currently limiting the videos to five minutes to discourage posting content illegally. Each video you upload can be rated, replied to (video or text), embedded, and accompanied by a set of Flickr photos placed below the recording.
We’ve seen a variety of other personal video services before: Vlip, Ustream, Stickam, Blip.tv, and the plethora of other social video sites. ViddYou focuses solely on vlogging instead of web shows; this helps differentiate it from these other services. Vlip consists of video comment threads (a bulletin board for video comments). Ustream and Stickam support live show streams. Blip.tv catalogs web shows, and other social video site tend to bury vlogs in a mountain of other videos.
Wow, this video says it all:
http://www.vidd...ile?videoid=802
Interesting post. This does have a potential to become “WeblogsInc” for vlogs, if played right.
They got everything right… it is so refreshing to see a company actually taking user experience and design into account when working with “new” internet technologies!!
I love how when you hover over someone’s Other Vidds the thumbnails animate. Very cool.
Thanks for the review. Are there plans to support MediaRSS feeds going out? Their users will need this if they want to participate in the broader community events such as Videoblogging week (happening now):
http://videoblo...ek.mefeedia.com
I like the site color is clean and the domain name is very cool viddyou.com.
What’s the extra “d” in the name for? Is it two syllables as in “vid-you” or three syllables as in “vid-d-you”?
The answer to the pronunciation of Viddyou is 2 syllables, Vidd-you. Why the double d’s then? We liked how the name looked with double d’s!
Cheers.
:: r y a n ::
Co-Founder
Viddyou LLC
I am sure you are driving a lot of type-in traffic to vidyou.com, which is currently undeveloped. I would send an offer to vidyou.com and try to acquire that domain as well.
Most things do look better with double-Ds. And I’m glad there’ll be yet another service from which to cull videos of girls dancing in their underwear for whatever reason they do it.
Actually site looks great, logo too. Good luck.
Frank: We have MediaRSS feeds available on all the users, as well as the ability to get a feed of your friends on the site, and we’re working on adding more.
I should add that it’s just two of us, we’re pretty young (I’m 23), and (at the moment) we’re totally self-funded. We’re working on adding new stuff as fast as possible.
Thanks everyone for all the positive comments!
I’ll have to check out the site. I must admit that I’ve been afraid to get into vlogging, but with a site that makes it easy, I may give it a shot!
I think they’ll be successful like the other ones: never heard of them.
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“…the majority of vlogging is taking place on people’s personal sites, which tend to be web shows like the late-great Ze Frank. The other, more personal, half…”
“majority” + “half” = more than 100%. This is a place where firmer numbers would be good.
Did something happen to Ze Frank? Why is he referred to as “the late-great” in this article/post?
^ I’d like to know that as well.
wow. Thanks for the heads-up on your article. Very easy read, very clear and very practical. I’ll be pointing to it.
Thanks
Nice clean site with great features.
I love how when you hover over someone’s Other Vidds the thumbnails animate.