VideoCafe is rolling out an invitation only beta which will allow bloggers to seed their blogs with raw video footage. Its almost like VideoCafe is whitelabelling the service, the usefulness of which will be determined by the actual footage they release. I’m sure that one of the many questions is why any blogger would bother signing up with VideoCafe when you can just as easily grab embeded video from any number of sources these days. I guess the answer is that these look to be raw feeds that are not labeled with another media company’s logo (but might carry the mark of the company or NGO creating it); presumably as well, they contain content not easily found elsewhere. One example, as listed over here, might be a product launch where bloggers can embed a company’s video directly in their blog about said product. As with all things in life, the proof is in the tasting, so just as soon as I get accepted (crossing fingers), I’ll let you know exactly what these variables are about.
August 9th, 2007 at 1:24 am
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August 9th, 2007 at 11:11 am | Permalink
I had a look at this when they released it earlier in the week. It’s a nice, slick package but the content (for my niche anyway) was already somewhat outdated or just pointless. Also, there are few/no details regarding the content of the videos, making it hard to generate quality written content to go with the video.They will need to step it up with the content before it becomes useful.
I just did a quick check and they have added a couple of video’s, but still no info regarding who, what, where, why. This does not make the service very useful for me.
On the Newsmarket main site, they have a lot of automotive video, but it too is very dated. Lots of CCWS interviews and clips from 2006!
August 9th, 2007 at 11:38 am | Permalink
Yikes. Thanks for the update, Gary.
[and score one for how important comments are for blogging!]
August 10th, 2007 at 9:38 pm | Permalink
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August 10th, 2007 at 9:38 pm | Permalink
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