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October 29, 2007 • 5:00 pm 6

1500 Sites and Counting (and welcome, Hulu)

Over the weekend (late Friday to be specific), we passed another interesting milestone here at Vodpod: our members have collected videos from over 1500 different web sites. I’ve included the Top 100 sites at the bottom of this post (we’re working on make the full list available in an interesting way over the coming weeks, stay tuned).

One way to think about this development: not as 1500 video sharing sites, but rather 1500 web sites with video sharing.

(Want more context? Some of our previous writings about this here and here).

Without further fuss, here’s the top 100:

youtube.com
myspace.com
dailymotion.com
google.com
ifilm.com
veoh.com
blip.tv
comedycentral.com
macromedia.com
collegehumor.com
metacafe.com
revver.com
brightcove.com
photobucket.com
stage6.com
liveleak.com
vimeo.com
videoegg.com
podtech.net
sevenload.com
gametrailers.com
godtube.com
break.com
teachertube.com
microsoft.com
livevideo.com
onsmash.com
imeem.com
megavideo.com
aol.com
animoto.com
clearspring.com
funnyordie.com
thenewsroom.com
go.com
gofish.com
jumpcut.com
msn.com
divshare.com
myvideo.de
sapo.pt
vobbo.com
apple.com
tu.tv
gamersyde.com
theonion.com
stupidvideos.com
vpod.tv
splashcast.net
mofile.com
expertvillage.com
videojug.com
garagetv.be
grouper.com
alice.it
viddler.com
sandpiper.net
tudou.com
multiply.com
biku.com
searchvideo.com
glumbert.com
bitgravity.com
ebaumsworld.com
ning.com
livedigital.com
amazonaws.com
castfire.com
spikedhumor.com
indianmoviebox.com
rutube.ru
mtv.com
current.tv
broadcaster.com
superdeluxe.com
guba.com
scribd.com
ontheairtv.com
nytimes.com
slide.com
vidiac.com
reuters.com
ustream.tv
libero.it
singsnap.com
goleft.tv
facebook.com
mysoju.com
g4tv.com
vsocial.com
travelistic.com
milligorusarsiv.com
uol.com.br
channelnewsasia.com
motionbox.com
jibjab.com
lulu.tv
shoutfile.com
sketchcast.com
im.tv

Filed under: News ,

October 23, 2007 • 1:10 pm 2

Where Can I Collect Videos for My Vodpod or Blog?

Vodpod members have collected videos from nearly 1500 different sites on the web. The list grows by 5 to 10 sites every day.

So what sites work with Vodpod? Simply, any site that provides videos (typically and preferably in the “Flash” format) with an “embed code.”

The “embed code” is a short string of text that provides a way for you to add a video to your Vodpod, or your blog. Here’s what part of an embed code from The Daily Show site looks like:

embed src=’http://www.thedailyshow.com/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml’ quality=’high’ …

If you see that the site provides embed codes for its videos, the easiest way to add the video to your collection on Vodpod, or post it to your blog, is with our “Save to Vodpod” button. If this doesn’t “grab” the video, copy the embed code and paste it into the form we provide on the “Save to Vodpod” popup. Further instructions on how to do that are here.

You can also copy the embed code, and paste it into “Add Video” page for your pod.

Filed under: Basics

October 18, 2007 • 1:57 pm 0

New Daily Show Site

When we launched Vodpod ten months ago, we made a bet that there would be thousands of sites offering extensive libraries of video, probably in Flash, with support for embed codes to allow sharing on blogs and web sites like ours.

The new site launched by Comedy Central for the Daily Show today is one of the best examples yet of this future. A full archive going back to 1999, high quality clips, fully share-able on your Vodpod or your blog or website. Nice.

Filed under: Stuff We Love

October 11, 2007 • 11:59 am 4

The “Save to Vodpod” or “Post to WordPress” Button Isn’t Working

Vodpod members have collected videos from over 4000 different sites using our browser button without a hitch.

But on some sites, because of the way they provide embed codes, our “Save to Vodpod” browser (or “Post to WordPress” version) can’t grab the embed code for the video you want to collect. Or, it might grab the wrong video.

Don’t panic if this happens! There is an easy workaround. You can usually copy the embed code from the site that provides the video, and paste it into the window.

When button can’t grab the video embed code, you’ll see a window that looks like this:

(Or, if it grabs the wrong video or another object, click the “video missing” link to bring up this form.)

Find and then copy the embed code for the video you’re trying to add, and paste it into the the form. The screenshot below shows what the form looks like with the embed code pasted in:

Then click the “preview” link to make sure you’ve gotten the right video:

Click to preview the video, to make sure it’s working fine. If it is, you should be all set to save the video to Vodpod, or to post it to your blog. Write your comment or blog post, add some tags, and hit the “Save” button!

If this doesn’t work, you can always send feedback to us: feedback@vodpod.com.

Also, if you’re using our toolbar bookmarklet and not our browser extension, upgrade now. The browser extension is far more powerful, and can grab embed codes from more sites.

Filed under: Collecting Tools, FAQs, News, Tips, Tricks, Hacks

October 10, 2007 • 12:35 pm 0

Welcome back, Chris

Back in early January, just a few weeks after our service launched, one of the first people to try our new service left, and mentioned he was stopping his use of the service briefly in a blog post titled “Web 2.0 cull.”

When you’re a small startup, you sweat the gain and loss of any and every member of your service. That was true when Vodpod was just 3 weeks old and we had only a thousands users; and it’s true now with nearly 200,000 registered users.

So we were delighted a week or so ago to see Chris return to Vodpod. He’s just written a great blog post about trying Vodpod again on his blog Nixon by Name.

Chris has also started a couple of great pods, check them out:

Chris Nixon’s videos — clips Chris has made

VodNoodles — random clips he’s found from around the Net

Best Music — some of chris’ favorite music videos

Filed under: Stuff We Love

October 4, 2007 • 12:05 pm 0

Important Things You Should Read

If you’ve joined (or are thinking of joining) our community here at Vodpod, we’d encourage you to read the following:

Community Guidelines

Member Agreement

Privacy Policy

Filed under: Basics, FAQs, Welcome

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