With its latest redesign, Vevo takes music video viewing beyond the stop-and-start video experience available on most streaming sites today. With continuous playback of videos and Facebook connectivity, Vevo makes watching music videos online sorta like watching MTV back in its heyday. Read more »
Fanhattan is trying to make it easier for users to discover content available on mobile, and soon connected TV devices. With that in mind, it has added videos from new content sources, including movies from Crackle and TV shows from PBS and Lifetime. Read more »
MeFeedia has introduced a new iPad app that seeks to make it easier to find and share interesting videos online. Unlike other apps, MeFeedia hopes to surface popular and interesting videos based on user ratings and interests without hooking into social networks or anything like that. Read more »
ClipBlast is moving on to the problem of video discovery and curation, using the data it has collected from video search and applying it to its new project, Griddeo, which lets users find and create channels of videos which can be watched in a continuous stream. Read more »
Can’t remember when your favorite shows are on? Don’t know when Hulu will out up the next episode? Then you’re the right target audience for Yidio’s new alerts, which can be customized to ping you via Facebook, Twitter or email every time content becomes available. Read more »
Salman Khan’s popular educational videos can now be watched with subtitles in up to two dozen different languages, thanks to a cooperation between the Khan Academy and Universal Subtitles. Adding captions not only widens Khan’s audience, it could also help to avoid future legal challenges. Read more »
Redux has launched a native app for Google TV-powered connected TVs and Blu-ray players, enabling viewers to navigate curated channels of content in the same way they watch regular TV. The app is its first step toward becoming the video discovery guide for connected TV. Read more »
Showyou is updating its iPad and iPhone apps to make the consumption of videos shared on social networks easier. In particular, Showyou gets “watch later” capability, as well as its own website and a bookmarklet for video sharing. Next up for Showyou: an Android app. Read more »
Fanhattan just released an iPad app and is working its way onto connected devices. But instead of launching as a channel on someone else’s device, Fanhattan might try to build a device of its own, which would put it up against Roku, Boxee and Apple TV. Read more »
When Showyou launched, it promised a better way to find new videos being shared among users’ friends and contacts on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. With its latest update, the video discovery app has added support for more sources, including YouTube, Vimeo and Tumblr. Read more »
Shelby.tv surfaces videos that are shared by your Facebook friends or Twitter contacts and presents them to you as a full-screen stream of videos. The main idea behind this approach is to make online video more like actual TV through an instant-on playback experience. Read more »
Just last week, Hulu announced a plan to improve its search and discovery system by allowing users to add tags to videos. Now it’s allowing users to drill down and more easily find videos that they want to watch with a new search interface. With the […] Read more »
Popular user-curated news and ephemera site Reddit today launched Reddit.TV for browsing videos shared on its site. The Reddit.TV interface is similar to StumbleVideo or Twitmatic, where you’re presented with one zeitgeisty video at a time. Videos are presented in categories like “geek” and “music,” accompanied […] Read more »
Veoh is mounting its pitch to be a video discovery tool for the web with the release today of its Veoh Video Compass, a plug-in that surfaces relevant videos as users navigate other web sites. What’s interesting is how radically different offering this tool is from […] Read more »
