Interesting new site launch over at GigaOM’s popular video news blog, NewTeeVee – NewTeeVee station. The site contains videos from various video sites like YouTube, Blip, etc. that have been selected by editor Liz Shannon Miller, who was previously at Variety and the Daily Reel.
NTV Station is leveraging some of the tools created for Ostatic, another site recently launched by GigaOM – including an overview and editor and user reviews and ratings. They are also maintaining a database of shows, cast, crew and other information. They are also using VodPod to collect and store videos.
Overview video by Miller is below. It looks like NTV Station isn’t going niche, instead trying to focus on popular videos and up and coming stuff. It’s going to be hard to compete with Digg video when it comes to finding really interesting stuff, in my opinion. But hey, all this content is created by others, which makes it a lot easier to maintain the site.
Some additional features, from Om Malik’s post:
* Features editorial reviews of online videos written by a team lead by Liz Shannon Miller, who comes to us from Variety and the Daily Reel.
* Has over 100 NTV shows & videos as part of the launch effort alone.
* Sports a database of cast, crew and other details to map out the expanding web video universe.
* Invites readers to become part of the editorial process by adding their own reviews, comments and ratings.
* Boasts eight channels of the most memorable comedy, commercials, drama, music, news & talk, personalities, reality and zeitgeist picks.
* Showcases what’s hot at that moment, right on the front page.
* Can be subscribed to via the Station RSS feed or be bundled with NewTeeVee Feed.
wow …wat a improvement
now we’ll gt those stupid home made vvideos in our idiot box.
It is truly good to see you continuing to support Om.
Well, its a start. Lets see what they can do in the next couple of months. Just a thought, are they an ad base model??
I like the ideea GigaOM’s popular video news blog, i doubt about the honesty of it, but w’ll se in the next months how’s going.
about TV Stations
Here’s what I want in Internet video:
I want to be able to set up a single, dedicated monitor at my workspace that will continuously stream my favorite video content as would my tv (where that’s the *only* similarity to old tv). And I want it to work the way Pandora does for music, so I can upvote what I enjoy and increase the likelihood that I see more video content suited to my taste.
NewTeeVee’s editorial approach is good, but the next step is to allow users the options to get that content served up automatically. Why not?
I launched NeWWW.TV over a year ago [ http://Newww.TV
] with the same idea. A few months after launch I learned of NewTeeVee. Some months after that I emailed Om pointing out the name likeness, with a different site focus. And suggested we could work together. He never responded. Cool. He’s sooo HUGE! and all. (cough). So I kinda left the namespace to him… though I think NeWWW TV is a much better domain hack than NewTeeVee.
Its interesting how folks sometimes think along the same lines, come to the same conclusion… but spell things out a little differently. The WWW is the New TV! All the best to the “NewTeeVee Station”!
* Sports a database of cast, crew and other details to map out the expanding web video universe.
the IMDB of web videos…cool.
Hi,
There are already companies doing this, but no doubt the incestuousness of the blogosphere will give them more traction.
They are effectively competing with companies (or partnering with those that do) on which they report on.
Kind regards,
MN
Does anyone know of a service / site that allows a person to create a streaming video feed 24/7. ie creating your online tv station. Ie. say I want to tech show to been shown at 2:00pm a news show to be pulled at 2:30.
Get what I’m talking about? Does anyone know if this possible?
streaming video ?
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