Is there a service like Flickr but for movie clips?

October 18, 2004 6:42 PM

Is there a service like Flickr that would allow one to post a movie clip online and allow viewers comment on it? If not, does anyone have any advice on how a person with little to no web authoring experience could accomplish this?
posted by kmel to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

post a movie clip online and allow viewers comment on it

If that's all you want to do, just about any of the various weblog management services or packages would do the trick. If there are other aspects of Flickr you want, like the social networking functionality or that thing that lets you make a note about a part of a photo, some customization would be required.
posted by jjg at 7:20 PM on October 18, 2004

Response by poster: That was my thought too -- I was hoping for something that would be even more instant than setting up a Typepad or similar weblog. No social networking required.
posted by kmel at 5:47 AM on October 19, 2004

The keyword you're looking to Google is "VideoBlogging" or just "vBlogging". Here's some useful stuff I turned up:

VideoBlogging Wiki
VideoBlogging.info weblog, with a nice How-to at the top.
Textamerica.com will allegedly host small videos
vBlog Central is currently free, but they say in their FAQ that they want to change that.
posted by revgeorge at 6:11 AM on October 19, 2004

One piece of advice: Watch out for the bandwidth. A lot is not a lot when you're serving up video.
posted by smackfu at 11:53 AM on October 19, 2004