Thu 14 Jun 2007
Chime.tv - Roll Your Own Ultimate Video Mashup
Posted by Dave Kaufman under Blogs , Online Application , Software , Sports and Recreation , Video
Have you ever wanted to program your own tv station? Now you can. Chime.tv, is the creation of Chirag Mehta and Taylor McKnight. The premise is simple, make video sites like Blip TV, Break.com, Daily Motion, Google Video, MetaCafe, MySpace, Veoh, & YouTube all available in one place.
Chime.tv added a few other bells and whistles, such as the ability to create and program your own channel. Here is Techlife TV, a channel composed of videos we have blogged and others that Chime.tv helped us find.
They also have created a television like experience with videos grouped by subject matter, which is nice for finding what you want quickly and easily. Of course Chime.tv’s powerful search tools also make it easy to find very specific videos by subject or all the videos from a single website. (though it should let you create a channel from your search easily. feature request)
Thanks to Chime.tv I saw a lot of video that was entertaining and informative and just what I was looking for in web video service. Be sure to check out the video of a cell phone salesman singing Nessun Dorma, an opera, on Britain’s “You’ve Got Talent with Simon Cowell.” It was really amazing. If you find any great videos or make a great Chime.tv channel post here so we can all watch.
Overall: Chime.tv makes video easy and television like. It is a sure winner. Bookmark it.
Thanks to Techcrunch for the original
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June 14th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
One other thing to add…
I see this as Tivo for web video. It lets me take video from any network (website) and save it in my channel or playlist which I can watch at a later date. And of course share with others.
Nice job taking that model. But it leads me to another feature request: Keyword Search as I mentioned, but then “build a channel” where new videos that show up with a keyword search saved as a channel alert me via RSS that my channel has new content.
June 14th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
I will stick to Yuxt. Unless Chime.tv clean up their interface.
Apparently Yuxt guys have been around for a while with much better interface.
http://yuxt.com/zaq/funny_Ikea
With simple drag and drop it’s much easier to create collection there. Adding video into Yuxt is even easier: by simply adding yuxt.it/ in front of the url of the page ( http://yuxt.it/http://www.dkworldwide.com/techlife/archives/2007/06/04/love-20-beats-down-love-10/ )
June 15th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Andrew - I like Yuxt…very interesting. I don’t know if I love the interface as much as you do, but I think that Chime.tv could certainly offer a “less is more” approach for those who desire it.
I do agree the drag and drop and URL prefix are both easy to use features.
Thanks for the comment.
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