Synchronized video play from multiple sources; all participants can add to the group playlist, you can do an in-site search and preview without leaving the page and you can create public or private lounges, all for free and it’s now in pulic, not private beta.

“ok, everyone ready? right….one….two…three…play! Aw crap, i’m a few seconds ahead I think, i hear a delay through the phone. Ok, everyone reset to the beginning….ready? one….two….”

You wizards do what you need to do to save us from that crap. My folks will hype you to no end.

The idea is not only sound, but groundbreaking. In fact, all web video sites will HAVE to incorporate this technology to stay competitive. To say anything else is bs.

I do not know how they will monetize it. And i don’t care.

All I want to do is watch some great online video with my circle of friends AT THE SAME TIME so for that 30 seconds we all see what everyone else sees and can talk and chat about it, real time, in sync, JUST LIKE TV.

Once the web can do this one seemingly simple thing, TV is walking dead. Long live the net. Keep up the good work troops, moving humanity along.

Brush them haters off your shoulder and make things happen.

Of course “it’s called television”. Television is full of drivel. But, last I checked, television became widely available in the US shortly after WORLD WAR II, and there aren’t 100,000 entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley hustling to invent the latest television station or TV widget to allow people to view even more drivel.

My comment is about ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES, not TV. The success of sites like YouTube and Facebook has spawned a plethora of wannabes all scrambling to sell new platforms to do this or that combination of things with video, SN, gaming, etc. — and all aimed at the LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR, i.e., American males age 10-15.

By “allocation of resources” I mean that the VC industry, angels, and other financiers have a huge heap of money to put into start-ups.

Now, clever and entrepreneurially-inclined start-up people in Silicon Valley can migrate in two different directions: they can either use their skills and talents to create companies that build real, long-term wealth in our economy, or they can use those talents to build yet another website that is a distraction, feeding even more drivel and nonsense to 14 year olds.

The former route would help the overall economy — help the USA be more productive. The latter route is just the quick, easy, me-too path to success.

But the “success” in that case is a Pyrrhic victory because we then become overloaded with a lot of nonsense business and nonsense technology that pulls money, time, resources, and creativity away from productive activities that will build the US economy, and steers it to nonsense aimed at providing diversions for the lowest common denominator.

So I am not excluding US television from that critique. It is certainly relevant, and certainly full of crap.

But this site doesn’t focus on pure television plays, or film, or businesses operating in non-internet related media. This is a site about technology-driven start-ups and ideas in the INTERNET SPACE. And the internet space is where lots of money, talent, time, and effort goes these days in creating the new companies that will shape the US economy months and years down the line.

Television is an established, entrenched media sector which doesn’t attract cutting-edge types who discuss their start-ups on these pages. Trends in teh television industry aren’t likely to shape tomorrow’s economy, but trends in the internet industry most certainly will.

I’m guessing we’ll see more services like videopjlow and seetoo emerging within the near future, synchronization brings a new dimensions to online interactions.

For Neil: kudos on the new service! I look forward for the public version. Also I think that your point about IM is right on the money: where people are interacting in real time they will require new ways to interact.

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BUT I’m still astonished with this Seetoo service. I’ve taken a DVD that I’ve captured with my camcorder and wasn’t able to share with anybody until now, and watched some of its scenes directly with a friend. I hope it won’t be saved anywhere on the web…;-).
It unleashes many hours of video I have taken. Now I’ll be more generous with taking long videos. I’ll try it now with my digicam and an SD card… new horizons;-)

chardonnay-a the difference is that with oortle you can supposedly (I just saw that they are on private beta so I couldn’t try it) watch together videos that live on YouTube. With SeeToo you can watch videos that live on your computer (no need to upload)

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Um… it’s called “television.” Last I looked, “American Idol” limped to a measly tens of millions audience participating in “real-time video sharing” of the show. All told, the television industry is a multi-hundred BILLION dollar business and includes programming ranging from the arguably frivolous (a la ) to the compellingly educational (a la John Adams).

Furthermore, the entertainment industry at large is responsible for groundbreaking technologies that seep into every aspect of human endeavor– from linear storytelling techniques to computer animation technologies. EVERY company is a media company. The entertainment biz just happens to be better at employing those storytelling, storyforming and storydwelling techniques than, say, farmers or mechanical engineers or financial analysts. Nonetheless, media literacy is changing… as is the definition of what classifies as the “entertainment industry.”

It’s not the technology or service to which you speak, or lament… its the application of that technology. And real-time video sharing via networked media like web and mobile wireless shows real promise.

Let the frivolity begin… people need diversion in times like these; and the more serious applications will emerge with time, as other entrepreneurs find opportunity to apply them to better the world.

Let the synchronized rave begin. Hey, that’s pretty good. SyncRave.