A few weeks back, Twitter launched a new video sharing service called Vine. This new service follows with Twitter’s theme of keeping things short, as the videos shared on the service are limited to just six seconds. Vine has a way to watch videos in the application, but if you want to just watch random [...]
If you are a fan of TED Talks or Khan Academy, you may know that there are other websites which offers engaging talks, lectures, and presentations. Keen Talks is another one that curates the knowledge of the web, touching on a broad range of topics categorized by subject area and speaker. Keen Talks’ minimalist design [...]
If a picture is better than a thousand words, imagine what a lot of pictures combined together can achieve. That is exactly what Explania aims to do with hundreds of high-quality animations that will help to instruct and educate people. These animations are either created by Explania or co-creators and cover a wide variety of [...]
Shufflr is a platform that takes the web video to a whole new social level. Instead of simply watching videos and then sharing them via email, Shufflr lets people build conversations around videos. You can find videos from various channels and either join an existing conversation or start a new one. The best thing about [...]
You might know about Benny Hill, a well known English comedian whose rise to fame is attributed to the TV show called The Benny Hill Show that started in 1951 and ran for many years. Benny Hill Yourself, as the name suggests, is a web based tool that lets you replace Benny Hill with yourself [...]
The web is so vast and has so much to offer, but somehow we only connect and gravitate to content we can understand. Language is still a major barrier for most online media. Fortunately, a project called DotSub allows users to share video content in any language, while having other users translate and upload subtitles [...]
Sheepser is a web-based player which lets you watch videos completely unrestricted, without any time limitations from video portals Megavideo, VideoBB and VideoZer. You simply copy the video link from a portal (e.g. http://www.videozer.com/video/iP4f), insert it into the field below, click “Submit video” and instantly start watching the video in the player. Copy the direct [...]
As blog authors and webmasters, we usually encounter some hiccups in resizing embedded YouTube and Vimeo videos, as well as pictures to fit our posts. You will need to note the correct ratio of the video and compute the desired length and width. While this step is pretty straightforward, there is also a much quicker [...]
You can easily share YouTube videos with friends, but watching the video separately does not compare to watching the video together and sharing your reactions. Here to help you watch a YouTube video simultaneously with your friends is a web service called Watch2gether. Watch2gether is extremely easy to use. All you have to do is [...]
There are people around the world who dedicate their lives to noble and humanitarian causes. You get to see documentaries about these individuals often on TV channels and in film festivals. Offering a collection of these documentaries and short films is a site called “Explore”. Explore is a collection of videos and photographs that “document [...]
Watching films of other cultures is an excellent way to learn about them. One source of these films is Culture Unplugged, an online filmmaking festival that features documentary films focusing on important cultural and social issues. Culture Unplugged is a website that lets you stream excellent documentary films from around the world. These films highlight [...]
In addition to letting you watch videos, YouTube also lets you listen to songs. But these songs come accompanied by videos that take longer to buffer than audio would. A nifty solution to this is presented by SongSprite – a site that lets you create audio playlists from YouTube videos and share them with friends. [...]
YouTube has introduced YouTube Live, a live streaming channel where one can watch videos of events as they happen (i.e live). Some events in the past have been live streamed on YouTube but now they’ve got a dedicated page for such streams. So you can watch the live video and also communicate with your friends [...]
Ever since the blockbuster “2012” movie came out, much has been said about how the world will end on that year. Many believe that cataclysmic disasters of today are leading up to 2012 – and with all that is happening around, it is understandable that people are very interested in this date. Saga 2012 is [...]
YouTube playlists can easily be created and effectively used to share a bunch of videos with your friends. But these playlists are created by individual YouTube users – to create YouTube playlists as a group, you will need to pay a visit to Boombox. Boombox is a collaborative youtube playlist tool that lets you create [...]
Music fans always appreciate a web service that easily delivers music to them. One such site that will be welcomed by all is HelloDay. HelloDay is a free to use website that plays great music videos of high quality. The site lets you specify a genre of music and then plays the relevant videos. The [...]
For all the filmmaking enthusiasts out there, the Internet offers various tutorial websites that help polish your movie making and movie editing skills. To improve its users’ video making skills, YouTube is now offering a lot more than online video tutorials with its YouTube Creator Program. The YouTube Creator Program is a competition that YouTube [...]
If you are ever short of tricks to impress your friends, EasyBarTricks will refill you with several amazing tricks. Each trick is in the form of a video and explains carefully how it works and how not to get caught. You can post comments on each trick or read the ones posted by other users. [...]
Wibbitz is a free pluggin that lets webmasters convert static web content into interactive streaming videos that will include headlines, images, video clips and more. The videos are created in real-time so the video content is always up to date. The videos also have options to share and embed them on other sites. The app [...]
The Internet is a great source of entertainment. Countless websites share entertaining videos and their links with you. Digg, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter”¦.the list is long. You cannot visit all of these websites every day to get your daily dose of entertainment. That purpose is served remarkably well by a site called 12Vid. 12Vid is a [...]