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How to Edit, Delete, and Organize Your Videos

Want to edit or delete one of the videos you’ve collected? Or, want to organize the videos in your collection?

From your account page, just click the link to go to your collection:

From the your collection front page, you can click the “edit” link to edit or delete a specific video; or, click the “organize your videos” link at the top if you want to edit or delete multiple videos:

You can delete videos from the organizer, too. Just roll your cursor over the thumbnail of the video you want to delete, and you’ll see a trashcan icon in the upper right corner of the thumbnail. Click on the trashcan icon to delete the video.

If you want to batch organize your videos into tags (tags are basically like categories, but more flexible), just click the “organize tags” link at the bottom of the organizer. You’ll be able to drag-and-drop videos into the appropriate tag group, and also create new tags if you need them to organize your videos.

Filed under: Basics, Tips, Tricks, Hacks

5000 Sites and Counting

Vodpod makes it easy to collect videos from around the web, from any site that offers “video sharing” — that is, any site that provides videos with an embed code so that you can post it on your blog, or collect it with Vodpod.

Sometime last Friday, one of our members collected a video from the 5000th such site in our database. In other words, Vodpodders have now collected videos from over 5000 different sites on the web. (Most sites that purport to let you collect or aggregate videos support only 5, or 10, or 15 such sites).

When we passed the 3500 site mark just three months ago, our friends at NewTeeVee suggested that we provide a top 100 list. In honor of passing the 5000-site mark, we’ve done just that with our inaugural Vodpod Top 100 list at the bottom of this post (we’ll post it in a more prominent place on our site in the coming months).

When we broke the 3500-site mark, we shared some initial analysis of our top 100 list that NewTeeVee posted here, most of which remains the same (worth a read if you’re interested in a quick overview of the make-up of the Top 100.

New and notable entrants to the top 100 list in the last three months include Hulu (#23), eurity.tv (#44), WordPress.com (#48), disclose.tv (#52) Singsnap (#68), Wat.tv (#78), Seesmic (#95), and cbs.com (#100).

We’ll post post an update to this list when we hit our next major milestone (6000 sites), which at current pace should be in a month or so.

Click the link below to see the full post with the Vodpod Top 100.

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Filed under: News

Thumbs Up!

We’ve simplified the way you can react or rate a video, and replaced our menu of “emoticons” with a simple thumbs up and thumbs down reaction. You’ll see the icons for this right below the video:

Just click the thumbs up (or down) to react to a video. You can, as always, give a more detailed reaction with a comment. In the coming months, we plan to make good and interesting use of the thumbs up (and down) data, so click away.

Filed under: Basics, Tips, Tricks, Hacks

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