Benchmark: the VogBrowser is better than TV

The day is 12.5.04.
Fact: Over the weekend, Peter Vandijck built the first working VogBrowser.
CHECK IT!!!
This amazingly simple little tool is a RSS reader for video only.
It allows you to finally subscribe to your favorite videoblogs and scan through the new videos.
Just sign up and take a look at the preloaded video feeds of the Videoblogging Group.
The VogBrowser lets you see the video AND the text post.
Nothing is taken out of context.

Peter was inspired by the prototype that Kenyatta Cheese is working on.
It is still in the alpha stage...and he is actively debugging it.
Right now, it only recognizes .MOV files in your RSS feed.
He says it will soon accept enclosures.
He says you will also be able to add feeds into it...but right now, email him the video feed you want added.

I cannot stress how incredible the VogBrowser is.
I believe when a person sees all the videoblogs in the VogBrowser....the "CLICK" will happen.
"oh...wow..you mean i can add a video to my blog and then scroll through them?"
If you are reading your blogs through Bloglines, Newsgator, etc...its the same thing...just for video.
RSS lets you subscribe to blogs, and the Vogbrowser lets you watch them.
All in one place.
This is why Blogs are so much cooler than dull websites.

This is a case of a tool being built to "scratch our own itch".
We videobloggers were frustrated with clicking around to different blogs to watch everyone's videos.
Very difficult to keep up.
The Stage is now set for us all.
This is a benchmark.

And a real quick moment of perspective.
I met Peter about 2 years ago...when he moved to NYC from Europe....and sublet one of the rooms in my apartment for a couple months.
We ended up having wierd conversations about robots and our deep desires to talk to our computers...and the computers talk back.
These conversations eventually led to getting video on the internet.
And now i see him helping to build the infrastructure to make it happen.
He does this for free my friends...because he believes.
The best way to repay him(though im sure he's like $$$) is to create video and post it.
Join the conversation whoever you are.
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Comments

[Mica]

It IS, it IS!!! WE are looking into the future. we are making the future. And it is soooo frigging cool. I can't stand it. I am now officially freaking out, and i am not videotaping it??sorry.

[Chuck Olsen]

(Yes!)

Oops, I trackbacked you twice. Sorry. Hope it didn't hurt.

[Harold J. Johnson]

LOOKS like the podcasting equivalent for video, the videocasting app, so to speak, is just around the corner...

[ryanne]

um, jay, that's a TERRIBLE still of me.
why jay why?

[ryanne]

um, jay, that's a TERRIBLE still of me.
why jay why?

[ryanne]

p.s. yeah videoblogging is the FUTURE, and it is now.