White label video host Fliqz launched a toolbar (IE only) that lets you easily upload and embed video content anywhere embed code is accepted. It doesn’t require a registration and hosts the videos on Fliqz servers for free. It’s a sort of distributed YouTube.
Getting a video up is simple. Just select the content from your computer and press upload. Once uploaded the toolbar will spit back some embed code so you can embed the video in a Fliqz player like below. Fliqz also remembers your upload history in case you want to embed them on multiple sites. There also appears to be no limit to how much you can upload and no easy way to discover who’s responsible for posting copyrighted content.
Flock has a similar video management functionality for YouTube built into their browser, minus the hosting.
Isn’t the real difference that there are very few IPOs this time? Many, many of those took place merely as a way of promoting an immature or poorly thought-out product, and making a killing not on its operation, but on the first day of stock offerings to the suckers who were buying anything with “.com” attached to it?
This time, there’s advertising, and real ways of monetizing some — not all — of the new ideas. That happens, usually, first. Venture capital has to scrutinize the real bottom line before it decides to help. Wall Street is in many ways kept out of Web 2.0, and one of the things that does it is Sarbanes-Oxley. People complain about it, but at least we don’t have Super Bowl ads for lousy businesses. We have real businesses getting under way.
Hey Jim, what the heck are you talking about?
Now that is an excellent tool. No more having to download the video, and re-upload it back to a service. Bada-bing bada-boom and it’s done.
Mint!
Thanks for this awesome tool Nick.
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Very nice tool. So much easier than other services I’ve tried.
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Good point Jim H…
This is an excellent idea! Well Done Fliqz. Very nice tool.
sweet tool, thanks for the heads up on it.
Very cool. They have some other nice tools, too. I’ve been using the eBay uploader and it’s pretty sweet. And I saw on their site that they just came out with a MovableType 4 plugin. Can’t wait to use that one.
Ummm… this is not news. ImageShack had this stuff out for long time already plus you get free hosting … http://toolbar.imageshack.us/
To Minion TW,
With all due respect dude, that does pictures not videos. That’s like saying a framed pictures just like a flat screen LCD, get it?
Cool! I like this thing, will put a knockoff in Vista Sp2
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ImageShack Toolbar does the same thing only better. It has a video converter built in, so your video gets compressed before its uploaded… for more information about it visit http://news.imageshack.us/blog/
To all of you guys posting from ImageShack (Minion TW and jack)…you’re not paying attention to what’s really unique about the Fliqz toolbar; its the fact that you don’t have to browse, tab or click away when you upload video and get back your embed code.
With imageshack the resulting html (2 of which don’t work) pops up in a new browser window/tab, taking you away from the page you’re working in. With the Fliqz toolbar you never leave your blog post, wiki admin or social network page…you simply upload and get the embed in the browser bar for easy copy/paste directly in the window you have open.
Big difference. Not to mention, the imageshack video player is super light weight and the embed code breaks in most blogs. Yes, you can upload and host video at IS but you can’t take it with you which is the whole premise behind the Fliqz toolbar.
Nice try guys.
Re: Wrong again,
Installation of the ImageShack toolbar allows dragging and dropping video files into posting fields on any website that has textarea-style input fields. It differs from the Fliqz in that it doesn’t even require drag and drop. And it works for both IE and Firefox…
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doesn’t even require drag and drop of the embed code.
Too bad the toolbar generates buggy HTML and has no progress status. Check my link for more details
I meant bloated HTML above
I tried out the imageshack toolbar — “ScufBoy” — a Fliqz Employee? Is incorrect when s/he states that the imageshack uploader only works for images.
It works for videos, and it does compress the video first, greatly saving on upload speed compared to the fliqz toolbar. Also, it has a progress bar, unlike the fliqz toolbar.
It pops up a new window with the embed code; I don’t see this as a huge problem.
The embed code itself will not break most blogs, but the part of it with the [Upload a Video] will…. changing the [ to ( would solve the problem.
Most bloggers that can tie their shoelaces can easily deal with that, although imageshack should get rid of the [.
You CAN take it with you on Imageshack.
I pity tha fool that mess with me!