Vadver, a pre-launch video startup is building a video-discovery service that sounds somewhat similar to Mesmo.tv and Divvio, with the idea of using social connections to recommend online videos. Vadver, which has four employees and was founded in January of this year, has raised $1.7 million in Series A funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Continue Reading.
These new video recommendation services will have a hard time w/out the metadata to back up them up. It will have to grow over time, such as Netflix has.
StumbleUpon works fine for me.