The most well-known video sharing website is Youtube. Youtube is an insane hive of video information - music videos, home-movies, documentaries, illegally uploaded blockbusters, video blogs - just about everything you can think of is on here (I couldn't find the Judge Judy Kung Fu mashups again, though.) To showcase what Youtube can do, particuarly how awesome it is for musicians to be able to share their dulcet stylez, I've embeded a couple of great music clips from two unsung New Zealand music heroes. The first video is of Little Pictures, an indie-pop band made up of my friends Mark and Johanna. They're performing at Camp A Low Hum, which, in my opinion, is the best little music festival in the world. The second video is of Jubilation Choir, a great gospel choir based in Auckland.
Basically the only downsides to Youtube are that a) You can't save content, which is completely fair enough, as it allows the distribution of information without posing a huge threat to intellectual property rights (it makes it hard to alter or reproduce the video) and b) Youtube videos are fiendishly difficult to embed onto blogs (but there are instructions on how to do it here.)
In my opinion, the coolest video-sharing site on the web is Vimeo. It's a little more grown-up in vibe than it's obnoxious younger sibling, Youtube, and has a lot of documentaries, and really awesome art/avant garde-type videos. While you won't find many videos of kittens being hilarious, or teenage girls waxing lyrical about their lives, there's some really beautiful content on here, and sharing/embedding is really easy. Here is an amazing video of cars driving in the rain made by James Adamson:
Lights and Water from James Adamson on Vimeo.
And here is me, and a bunch of other people, muppeting out at the aforementioned Camp a Low Hum at the start of this year. Who said librarians don't know how to party?
Disasteradio - Camp A Low Hum 2009 from A LOW HUM on Vimeo.
The final video-sharing site that's worth a look is videojug. It purports to help users "get good at life" and allows users to upload "how to" videos on a variety of subjects. I found that there was a lot of rubbish on this site, however if you trawl through it there are a few good finds. Here, for example, is a pretty decent video on how to make your own basic household cleaning products.
Cleaning:
How To Make Non Toxic Cleaners
For all the rubbish on the site, videojug has pretty good useability - it's easy to embed, share and find related videos.
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