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Embedr is a service that allows you to create and share playlists full of your favorite videos from different hosting sites on the Web.  Love videos of funny office pranks?  You can create a playlist for that.  How about clips from (one of my favorites) 30 Rock?  You can build a playlist for that.  With Embedr, you can create playlist after playlist and share them with friends too.

To get started, just name your playlist, then add either the video URL or embed code.  Currently, Embedr can grab video from YouTube, Vimeo, Veoh, DailyMotion, and a few others.  Sadly, it doesn’t appear that Viddler is supported – let’s hope that changes.

The last steps are to simply add a description, tags, and click on “create”.  That’s it!  You’ll be presented with a nice little player that contains all of your videos.  You can share it with a URL and grab the embed code.  Your playlist will also be searchable on Embedr so other people can rate it and leave comments.

I would like to see a way to make some of your playlists private – I couldn’t find an option for that and I think it’s very important.

Besides creating your own custom playlists, Embedr also helps you create playlists out of keywords, a YouTube username, or YouTube playlist with an option called “Smart Playlists”.  This saves you all of the hassle of searching around for your faves.

To see Embedr in action, watch the screencast below:

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As you may know, I use a lot of video in my blog posts. Well, up until now I’ve been using Viddler to display the videos and also linking to a video hosted on our server. Today I upgraded my WordPress.com space and will be using their player to show off my screencasts. I think visually, the WordPress player shows off my work in better detail, and that’s very important to me.

In this screencast, I’ll show you how easy it is to upload your own video to your WordPress.com blog. I hope you find it useful. I’ve also added a poll to this post so please let me know what you think is the best way to share my videos on WordPress.com.

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If you belong to multiple social networking sites where you’re constantly adding photos and video, then Pixelpipe may just make your life a little bit easier.  Pixelpipe is a service that allows you to easily upload media to various services across the Web, from one location.

After you sign up for Pixelpipe, you’ll need to enter in your credentials for the various sites where you normally upload your media.  Currently, Pixelpipe supports 41 services including WordPress, Blogger, flickr, YouTube, and facebook.  Pixelpipe will know which services accept photos, videos, and which accept both.  You can add a title, caption, and tags as well.  The entire process just takes a minute and the end result is all of your media added to multiple services with very little effort on your end.  To learn more about Pixelpipe, check out the screencast below:

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12seconds is a video lifestreaming service that allows you to post your updates in video form.  The only catch is that your video can be no longer, or shorter, than 12 seconds.

When I first heard about 12seconds my initial thought was, “oh boy, another way to post your updates”.  But after trying it out for a while today, I can definitely see how this could catch on.  It works very closely to the way Twitter does, but everything you would normally tweet, you quickly record with your webcam or mobile phone.  If you would normally tweet that you’re eating a delicious ham, you could quickly show people that you’re eating a delicious ham.  You can follow  your friends and see what they’ve been up to all day.  Each video has its own URL and people can add comments as well.  You can also choose to have your 12second updates pushed through to your Twitter account.

As of now, 12seconds appears to be in private alpha, but if I get any invites I’ll let you know!  The screencast below will show you how it works:
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I’ll never forget how excited I was to receive my first Netflix movie in the mail.  Pulling apart the perforated edges was like unwrapping a gift I had already peeked at on Christmas morning – still excited as heck even though I knew what was inside.  Apparently I held quite a bit of affection for that little red envelope because I kept it in my possession for 3 weeks after watching the movie.  In all honesty, it sat on my desk because I have some sort of problem with “real” mailboxes.  Since then, I’ve tried to be better at remembering to send in my movies so I can get the most out of the membership that I pay for.  At least I thought I was getting better, but FeedFlix just showed me that I’m ripping myself off.

FeedFlix allows you to view your Netflix habits on a chart and shows you how much money you’re actually spending based on how many movies you receive each month.  Since I suck at returning my movies, I pay $5.00 a movie even though my membership would allow me to have as many movies as I want for $9.00 a month.  Besides just showing you how well you use your membership, FeedFlix also pulls all of your viewing history and reviews onto one page that you can share with your friends.  All you need to do is enter in your personal RSS feed from your Netflix account into FeedFlix.  From there, FeedFlix grabs the data and gives you a personal URL that you can share.  This may not sound that interesting, but if your friends don’t have a Netflix account they can’t see what you’re watching or read reviews you’ve written.  So if they’re trying to figure out a movie to rent they can check out what you’ve been watching and read your opinion, if you’ve written a review.  It could be a really fun way to decide what you want to watch next.  Here’s my screencast tour of FeedFlix:

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Update: The CEO of Orgoo was nice enough to post this link, where you may find some more invites.

Orgoo is aiming to be your one stop shop for email and IM, and they’re doing a pretty good job so far. Getting started was a lot easier than I thought it would be, so right from the get go I was a happy camper. Adding your email accounts is as simple as entering in your account details from all the big name sites like Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo! except, as of now, you can only access Yahoo! and Hotmail email from paid Yahoo! Plus accounts and Hotmail Plus accounts. You can also add other POP or IMAP email accounts as well. After you’ve added all of your email accounts you can just as easily add all of the different IM services you use. You can also easily send video messages, create video chat rooms with friends and they don’t even need to sign up for anything in order to join in, and send SMS messages in reply to emails and IM’s. If any of your online buddies have sent you emails, you can also merge chats with those emails. How great is it that you can pull an email you’re chatting about with someone, right into a chat?

With that said, there are still a few kinks that need to be worked out. My buddies from various IM accounts only show up half the time and I’m still waiting for one of my email accounts to load mail into Orgoo. It’s still in private beta, so there’s no reason to think these issues won’t be worked out. If you want to try Orgoo out, I have 5 invites for the first five requests in the comments. Just make sure you leave a valid email address in the email line of the comment form. Here’s my screencast tour of Orgoo:

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Walabok allows you to receive video or audio messages from your blog readers or email recipients.  All you really need to do is add a Walabok button to your website or insert it into your email signature.  There is no sign up either – just enter in your email address and Walabok will send you the code to copy and paste into your site or email.  When your blog visitors or email recipients click on the button they’ll be able to quickly send you a video or audio message.  You’ll be notified of Walabok messages through the email you initially provided and all of your videos are stored in a Walabok account.  You can play them over and even reply with a video or audio message.

When I initially went to Walabok.com I was disappointed because there’s not much there to look at.  I decided to enter my email address into the little box to see what would happen and I was pleasantly surprised.  It’s an easy way for almost anyone to leave you a video message, with little or no effort.  Here’s my screencast tour of Walabok:

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CamTwist is an application that allows you to add special effects to webcam video.  It works with services such as Stickam.com, Justin.tv, Ustream.tv, and Skype and adds effects like bubbles, flames, earthquake, and bullet holes (sweet!).  It requires OS X 10.4 and is completely free to use.

I don’t own a Mac, but thankfully I found a screencast put together by David over at Tech-Recipes.  There’s a YouTube video below and a higher resolution video here.  If you know of any Windows compatible software that compares to CamTwist, please share in the comments.

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The Adobe Media Player is an Adobe Air application that allows you to stream and download video from mainstream and online networks. Some of the videos are available to view offline so you can add them to your favorites and view them any time. You can also subscribe to other video on the web by entering in the feed URL. If you have your own videos you want to watch in the player, you can upload those too. Some of the networks included are CBS, Wired, blip.tv, Food Network, HGTV, PBS, and Adobe TV, to name a few. The content isn’t overwhelming, but it sure is a sweet looking application. Here’s my screencast tour of Adobe Media Player:

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Veeple allows you to add speech bubbles, text boxes, and links to various web pages to your videos.  These additions are called VeeSpots and they are basically recorded on top of your video.  There are different types of VeeSpots – A MySpace profile link, a web page link, an eBay auction link, and a Facebook profile link.  There are also little speech boxes and thought bubbles as well.  You can upload a video from your computer or add videos from your YouTube account.  Once you select the type of VeeSpot you want to add you just click on the video and Veeple will start recording.  You can move the VeeSpot around and click again to stop the recording.  When you play it back you’ll see the VeeSpot dancing around on the video.  This could be a fun way to make a video about yourself and add links to your blog, flickr account, Facebook profile, etc.  Here’s my screencast tour of Veeple:

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