GigaOm, PaidContent and the Cheezburger Network All Launch VodSpot-Powered Sites
We’re excited to announce this morning three leading websites have launched VodSpots, joining TechCrunch (who reported news of our VodSpot service and their VideoCrunch launch last month), Talking Points Memo, TechStars, Gawker and many others in adopting our VodSpot platform.
If you’re here, it’s very likely you read Om Malik’s GigaOm regularly; his network of sites are among the most respected in the the technology business. Om and his team have created a new video section for GigaOm.com using VodSpot (at video.gigaom.com) that pull together videos from their various conferences. Videos are automatically brought in using our importer from their accounts at blip.tv, Vimeo, Livestream, WordPress and YouTube. Om and his team plan to supplement these videos with others from around the web that they feel are relevant and interesting, using our bookmarklet.
Those who follow the media business, especially the online media business, can’t live without Rafat Ali’s fantastic site, PaidContent.org, now part of the Guardian UK media group. Rafat and his team have assembled all of the various videos they’ve been posting to their network of blogs in one place — videos.paidcontent.org — using VodSpot. Videos featured in their posts are automatically added to their Vodpod collection using our importer; Rafat and his team, like Om’s, plan to supplement those videos with others they find on the ‘Net.
Oh, by the way, notice the horizontal scrolling of the video sections on the main page, and vertical scrollers next to the video on video pages. All made possible by our Laminate templating engine that operates under the hood of VodSpot. You can build that kind of stuff with VodSpot if you know a little jQuery.
VodSpots are for fun, too. And what’s more fun than Lolcats — in pictures and video. Ben Huh and his team at the Cheezburger Network have built the ultimate Internet comedy empire, anchored by the legendary I Can Has Cheezburger? and including the insanely popular Failblog.
They have created VodSpots for both I Can Has Cheezburger? and Failblog.
Videos are aggregated on the Cheezburger Network account at Vodpod using our importer (again!) from their various accounts at Viddler and YouTube. Because VodSpots are fully customizable, their sites maintain the same design, look, feel and navigation — even though the video site is hosted by Vodpod, and powered by our VodSpot service.
One of the visions we’ve had for Vodpod all along is that there shouldn’t be just one video destination — there should be thousands. It probably sounds a little corny, but we’re proud to work with so many great partners and to see them use our new VodSpot service. And we hope their efforts, and ours, make the Internet a little more fun and interesting and informative.
