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[...] So the buzz on Dabble is heating up - but it ain’t all ours. Mary Hodder is talking up Bloqx Inc.’s upcoming product, and it has a familiar name. Just in case there’s any confusion, dabble.com, the video remix service, and dabbledb.com, our product, are not related in any way. I do wish that Mary had chosen a different name, but hey - imitation, flattery, and all that. Best of luck to the crew at Bloqx, and I look forward to the launch. [...]

Mefeedia.com does something somewhat similar: online video aggregator (since 2004), but it’s more focused on gathering videoblog videos through RSS feeds. You have your own video queue, you can send to your blog, etc.

ValleyWag is at .com not .org!

stowe, thanks for the edit. lets just blame it on too much … vino :-)

Is dabble making money from ads on their site? I assume its a free service.

it is a free service. i bet ads are their business model, and some premium services.

Om Malik wrote:
“Mary says she has cut a deal with 20 companies and is getting the meta-information about the videos directly into Dabble’s systems…”

So, does dabble get any money from these 20 video service companies? Or is dabble’s revenue source going to be limited only to money from ads?

Does it do search?

You’d like to call them videomarks, but ya can’t.

A very cool real time news web site. Uncovers from thousands of news and blog sites. it is at http://www.megite.com

[...] Here’s an inevitable idea that has finally become a reality: video bookmarking. Om Malik reports that Dabble will allow you to aggregate videos on your own personal page and use a bookmarklet to add any video you see online. It’s really just a video-based version of del.icio.us. (And if a rating-system is involved, it will probably resemble Digg.) Om writes: In less than six months, Hodder has put together a nice little service which will allow users to bookmark videos from different video services in one place. I would like to call them videomarks. I have known that Mary has been working on her new start-up for six months, and raised angel funding from the likes of Evan “Odeo” Williams and Mark Pincus…See a video you like, say on You Tube or vSocial or Veoh, you hit Dabble It, and the video link is added to your video playlist. [...]

Dabble - Del.icio.us for Video?

Here’s an inevitable idea that has finally become a reality: video bookmarking.  Om Malik reports that Dabble will allow you to aggregate videos on your own personal page and use a bookmarklet to add any video you see online.  It’s reall...

so what’s the business model? tell me it’s something other than adsense/adwords. then, it will be a real business rather than a cool service/app.

While it’s completely understandable to hear about some new startup in a space like online video, and start picking the b-model carcass apart first and ask questions later, I think it is just as interesting to ask what “job” the target user of Dabble is intended to “hire” the service for to help them accomplish some known set of outcome goals relative to the constraints that they face.

For example, a service like vSocial (which I co-founded) provides a tool called a video roll that allows users to create their own programs using an amalgam of any of the clips available on the service (i.e., their playlist), and the video roll can be baked into your blog, web page, etc. Such is the benefit of integration and extensibility around a platform.

To me, the interesting question is how aggregation services like Dabble provide enough more than the sum of the parts integration capabilities to avoid getting marginalized by search plays, video clip sharing sites and bookmarking/tagging services.

I definitely think there is room in the market, given the richness of video but a lot of this boils down to identifying the core jobs and facilitating the highest value outcomes.

If interested, I have written a post called “Video clips, viral marketing and the virtual water cooler,” that contemplates the topic a bit further. Here is the URL: http://thenetworkgarden.com/weblog/2006/01/videoclipsvir.html

Food for thought on the veracity of the thesis in the post. Usage on vSocial has doubled again in the two weeks since I wrote the post, purely on viral factors (i.e., no advertising, no big PR coverage).

Cheers,

Mark

For some reason, when I posted this comment the software truncated the URL. Rather than re-post the URL, if interested in reading the blog I wrote, click on my name, which will take you to the The Network Garden site. The post is three from the top.

Mark

Om,

I interviewed Mary at length about Dabble (amongst things). She went into Dabble’s business model, the target audience as well as talking about the DMCA and other IP related stuff.

I podcast the interview at podleaders.com if you are interested.

Tom

[...] Om Malik explains what Mary Hodder has been up to, Dabble, in alpha: …Hodder has put together a nice little service which will allow users to bookmark videos from different video services in one place. I would like to call them videomarks…Essentially you sign-up for the service and create a personal page, where you can aggregate videos you like from anywhere on the web. Dabble gives you a little script-let that creates a quick tag in the bookmark bar of your browser. See a video you like, say on You Tube or vSocial or Veoh, you hit Dabble It, and the video link is added to your video playlist. You can tag it, create micro-playlists and share it amongst your friend. Pretty much like you do on Flickr. When you want to watch a video, Dabble screen is split into two frames, and the second frame takes you to the page where the video is hosted. [...]

Dabble - Video Bookmarking and more

It’s always interesting when there is a significant amount of discussion and analysis on a service that hasn’t been launched yet. Chalk it up to the 24-7 news cycle and the Information Age. Dabble - a new service by Corante…

Om, AFAIK, the reason that they’ve gotten so far in a short amount of time is that it’s built on top of the Drupal framework. If you even look at the front page now, you’ll see the standard “themes/dabble” being called.

[...] With so much media being created on the Internet these days, sites like Dabble will be important in collecting and contexualizing it all. Personal filters, and a way to create those filters easily, are becoming increasingly important. [...]

Sounds like Webjay for video, not delicious for video.

Simplifies the infrastructure problem a lot because you don’t have to host all the videos and melt down all those servers.

I saw Mary Hodder demo Dabble last night in Mountain View. It looks really hot — I can’t wait to test it out.

[...] Mary Hodder’s presentation of Dabble at the IBDNetwork’s Under the Radar: Video Blogs Killed the TV Star event.  Om Malik recently blogged on Dabble and Tom Raftery interviewed Mary on his podcast. [...]

[...] For more on Dabble, see Om Malik, who’s been talking about this off-blog as well. I agree with him Dabble could be interesting. [...]

[...] Pour plus d’informations sur Dabble lisez la note de Om malik. Nous le rejoignons dans son analyse. Ce service pourrait être très intéressant. [...]

I just gave them my email to be granted access. Does anyone have an invite they could share? If so, drop me a line.

[...] Om Malik on Broadband : » Dabble Dabble (more on dabble) [...]

[...] Well, he proved to be a sooth sayer, and things did get harder. NBC’s actions sparked off a healthy discussion, though makes me wonder why we had to wait for New York Times to write about this before causing a commotion. Nevermind… I believe that the growing popularity of You Tube (and other online video sites… about 95 in total as per Mary Hodder of Dabble) has less to do with amateur content, that it has to do with copyright infringing content. After all if I had not wanted to see those cricket games, there was little chance of me visiting and spending so much time on You Tube. I wonder how many people actually visit You Tube to watch broadcast content online. [...]

Om, I like the term “videomarks” but what about shortening it just a bit to vidmarks?