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"Finding your way around in the chaos that is online video can be a cumbersome task. A new breed of video aggregators is emerging, and they're trying to help you organize all the bits and pieces from various video sites into something a bit more coherent. We've tried out 7 video aggregators with quite different approaches to see what they've got to offer.\nWeShow\nWe start with a completely new service, which takes a human-powered approach to video aggregation. In other words, there's a team of human editors there who choose the best videos that the web has to offer and present them to you in a neatly categorized list. The site is divided into three subsections: WeShow Videos aggregates the best videos from the web, WeShow Awards is a video award contest, while WeShow TV is an original program in which the editors actually speak into the camera, presenting a portmanteau of interesting videos in various categories. Finally, if you register on the site, you get the ability to mark videos as favorites, share them, add comments, and vote for the best videos.\nWith solid design, , a huge selection of videos and very few ads, WeShow leaves the impression of an ambitious, quality product. It's not the be all and end all of online video since it only shows a small selection of what's out there, but that's the point: replace the chaos with a smaller chunk of quality stuff.\nAggrega\n\nAggrega is a recommendation engine that brings you video content related to what you're already watching. This is probably personal bias, but I find myself giving up fast on recommendation-style services, because the idea of an algorithm telling me what I should like feels a bit insulting. However, if you don't go into the metaphysical side of it all and are just interested in watching videos, it'll be all the same to you.\nAggrega is focusing on music videos only, which should give it additional focus, however I can't help the feeling that a lot of it is unfinished. For example, after registration, there's no confirmation of any sort; you need to simply guess that you've registered successfully. Furthermore, the entire service is oddly void of navigation; I found myself looking for stuff to click on all the time. After choosing an artist, I was greeted with a selection of videos; none of them were the actual videos from the artist (perhaps because of copyright), but mostly people rehearsing their songs in their bedrooms; what was worse, I was unable to find a way to add more relevant videos to the mix. Sure, I could add comments and vote on videos, but it was small consolation for the fact that I constantly felt the urge to open YouTube and simply search for stuff there. In a nutshell, Aggrega feels like a product that needs  a lot more polishing to become really useful.\nuVouch\n\nuVouch is possibly best described as Clipmarks for videos. This means that the videos don't just get served to you; you register and save them to your profile, which you can of course share with others as well as browse through their favorite stuff.\nUsage is simple: drag a bookmarklet to your browser toolbar and click it every time you find a video worth saving. Of course, you can simply visit the site to see what other users have found and abandon the personalization altogether, albeit this approach will probably leave you with a bunch of random videos, similar to browsing YouTube. Videos are categorized, which helps, but the entire visual interface looks awkward at places, and I've had quite a few slowdown problems. Bottom line: if you're used to saving your stuff on services such as Blinklist or Clipmarks, uVocuh will be right up your alley.\nVodPod\n\nVodPod offers a good service. It's somewhat similar to uVouch: you can add videos with a bookmarklet or through direct search from VodPod, save them to your profile, and browse through videos of other users. The entire site revolves around the concept of Pods - channels with various video clips on a certain subject, which are ranked by popularity. However, some of the Pods are completely nondescript; although it's a popular Pod, I don't see why I would browse through Cherry's video collection. In short, some additional categorization/tagging would be nice.\nFor those that get hooked on the Pod concept, VodPod has a lot to offer: it's visually pleasing, quite polished and offers a lot of features; for example, you can further organize and aggregate your videos via Feeds, although we were at times unsure why Pods and Feeds have been created as two separate concepts.\nPikSpot\n\nPikSpot is social video aggregation done simple. Users have the ability to create a new group and populate it with videos on a certain topic. It's similar to VodPod; PikSpot perhaps has less features, but it's also easier to use.\nAlthough PikSpot won't win any medals for its visual design, the ability to customize your Group with a background image is quite neat. As far as other features go, you can embed videos, vote on content and browse through a tag cloud, but that's pretty much it. My guess is that PikSpot will appeal most to users who need to create their own mini video portal with a customized look; if you're looking for a way to easily find fresh content, there are better options out there.\nThe Daily Tube\n\nThe Daily Tube is another human-powered aggregator, where editors choose a bunch of cool videos every day so you don't have to. It's categorized, but not as full-featured as WeShow; however, some users might appreciate its simplicity. An interactive element is also present: you can nominate a video for the daily selection or tip the editors via e-mail.\nOne of the important concepts at The Daily Tube is video e-mail; if you're the type of user who likes to receive stuff by e-mail, you'll love the option to get a daily e-mail with a selection of great videos.\nFeedbeat\n\nI have to admit, since I first found Feedbeat a couple of months ago, it's one of the rare services that I keep coming back to. The reason is simple: Feedbeat lets me create a personalized video playlist on its subdomain - name.feedbeat.net. Thus, whatever I put out there, stays there, and it's always available, and I don't even need to log in to access it.\nFurthermore, more than any other service on this list, Feedbeat is focused on actually making it easy to watch videos. You can choose between several available views, some of which use all the available screen real estate you have, which is great if you have a bunch of music videos and you just want to lean back, relax, and watch them.\nFeedbeat lets you add videos from several sources - YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion, and others, and you can do it all by searching directly from the Feedbeat interface. Unfortunately, the interface is where Feedbeat does worst - some of the visual details are ok, while others are downright awful. Also, the sheer amount of options might prove too much for the casual user. Verdict: Feedbeat is great for organizing your own video collection, if you're willing to put up with the interface; it's not nearly as good for finding new stuff, though."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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