How will we watch all these videos in the year 2005?

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Right now, the only way to watch videoblogs is to go to each individual blog and watch each individual video.
As of November 2004, there is no way to see videos all in one place.
It's as if when I want to hear a story, I got to run around town to each person's apartment to hear the story.
I want a stage where we can all come together and tell stories to each other.

FeedsterTV is a site that lets you subscribe to RSS feeds with enclosures.
For instance, you can get a feed with just music files or just video files.
Blogdigger has been doing this since the summer of 2004.

For audio, this is great because you can use a free application like iPodder to automatically download the music files to your iPod or MP3 player.
The feeds need to have Enclosures, so it works great.
(although Andreas will tell you that bits all very sloppy and asking for trouble. Ask him why.)

But for video....there is no device that lets you play video files other than your computer.
So who cares that there's a RSS feed with video enclosures?
You'll notice that the Feedster site doesn't really talk about video much..no one knows how to handle it. How will we watch all these videos in 2005?

Im sick of having to click to each individual blog to see each video.
I want a viewing experience for videoblogs.
A viewing platform.
It will only be like TV in the sense that it's video on a screen...from there we can do anything we want with it.

I believe that we need to create a tool to bring all these videos together.
Like an RSS reader for video...and I think it's got to be for video only.
Ill subscribe to video feeds that certain people that I trust create...they'll be great video collectors with taste.
Kenyatta made a prototype tool. The beautiful VOG BROWSER.
Who's going to finish it off? (it needs an interface that allows you to add RSS feeds.)

The other thing we need an iPodder-like application that sucks in videos while you sleep.
We already have FeedsterTv which sends our an RSS feed with video enclosures.
Then you can wake up and watch them in a nice viewing window.
We're working on this right now. (Mac only for now)
And this tool be necessary once there's some portable devices to watch these videos.

I spent the afternoon with Peter today.
Hadn't seen him since he videoblogged in India this summer.
It's all making sense. The biggest success are people videoblogging now.
i see it coming; the tools we need are clearer and doable.

Comments

[sam]

I'm unsure if you've seen BlogTelevision.net yet, its similar to FeedsterTV in more then a few ways. BlogTelevision.net mines streaming video clips from over three million blogs to provide visitors with easy browsing, basic search, commenting/rating and more then a few rss/rdf/atom feeds. Volunteer editors provide a supplemental human element to the mix.