Video Sharing Sites

For our class assignment, we've explored social media through the video sharing sites below.

Youtube may be the overall leader in video sharing site, but these other sites are popular because they serve different functions:

Hulu This site hosts full length tv shows and has better quality. It also has special news categories including a category called "Election '08" which has all debates and other videos pertaining to presidential campaigns. Vimeo also has a category of HD videos, as well movie excerpts. Everything is organized into categories so videos are easy to search. Vimeo also has comprehensive and accurate information about the video. Television shows are timely uploaded, showing up a day after it was broadcasted on TV. - Nadia

Stickam - People can broadcast themselves live. Most of the radio stations are using them and users can chat with whoever is broadcasting. There are also some people who broadcast themselves playing games. MySpace bought it last year. -Utku

Vimeo Shows videos has a socialization aspect to it because you can have a feed to your videos, you can add friends and have subscribers. Vimeo also has channels allows you to showcase videos with common themes. It also has a category of HD videos and a Vimeo Badge section where you can make a montage of all your videos. Vimeo also allows you to manipulate video, such as making it superslow or superfast for special effects. -Shaleem

Your Truman Show attempts to add social networking to videos, like a mashup between Facebook and Youtube. Features include timelines for connecting video stories, which let people do episodic video storytelling and create social groups around those video threads. The site recently announced a new widget it calls "Video Map" to integrate with Facebook profiles. It's like a video diary where people talk about who they are and their day, hobbies, experiences etc. - Matt.

Veoh is attempting to bring Internet video to TV screens. It's similar to Hulu in that it brings TV to the internet so that people can watch their favorite tv shows when they want to. It's different and innovative from Youtube because they don't have to deal with copyright issues since they get their content legally from the TV networks and studios and they also can have long video formats up to about 40 minutes in length. - Hannah