All My Faves

Music Video Genome – If you are tired from the fact that music channels stopped playing actual music give Music Video Genome a try. It is a personalized music television. Type in your favorite artists and start enjoying the music instantly. Explore and discover new music with this simple tool.

Mobli – Mobli is a real-time visual media platform made up of subject-based channels such as people, places and topics. Mobli enables users to see the world through other people’s eyes!

One Cool Thing a Day – One Cool Thing a Day – The name says it all. Every day at midnight a new cool item is added to the site. These can range from an interesting video to an amazing photograph. Check back daily for your cool fix of the day.

Verbling – Make use of live one on one video calls to learn new languages with the help of native speakers, and teach others your own language. Instantly connect with native speakers worldwide using your webcam!

YouTube Music – The video search and hosting platform giant is now on a quest to deliver the top music videos based on videos you’ve already watched on YouTube. If you don’t have a YouTube account, get one to really make the most out of YouTube Music. You can also sign in with your Google log in info.

So what are the perks that come with YouTube Music? Top 100 for one. Based on user views, this list shows you the hottest music videos people are currently watching on YouTube, and based on videos you’ve watched in the past, YouTube Music makes video recommendations that truly hit the taste mark. One additional benefit that comes with YouTube Music is gig alerts of your favorite artists. Yep, listening to and discovering new music just got sweeter.

Drive & Seek – This interactive, action packed movie is an engaging campaign advertising Mercedes-Benz’s luxurious C Coupe car. Drive & Seek screams 007: the handsome man in the tux dodging bullets and doing car chases, along with beautiful models wearing super tight clothing are apparently the winning formula for getting men all over the world psyched about the C Coupe.

Simply start the movie and play along. That’s all there is to it.

Psykotube – Don’t let the rather simple looking homepage fool you. Psykotube is an entertaining experiment of watching many YouTube videos all at once (hence the psycho association). All you have to do is type in a keyword and the black page will become packed with relevant videos for you to explore. Want an example? See what happened when I typed ‘dog.’ I’ve also included a video because I just couldn’t handle all of that cuteness by myself.

VHX – How do you share cool videos with friends? Perhaps you simply share the YouTube or Vimeo link via email or Facebook, like most people. Well, VHX seeks to make the way we consume and share videos online better, easier and way cooler. As they explain, “VHX is the way you’re supposed to watch and share videos with friends. We’ve combined the best parts of TV with the best of the web.”

VHX offers several unique perks including the option to bookmark videos from anywhere on the Web, and a cool Chrome extension that tracks YouTube and Vimeo videos you watch anywhere on the web and saves them into your private history. In short, VHX is a note-worthy video player (no pun intended) in the online video field you ought to explore for better video consumption and sharing with friends.

The Museum of Me – Intel invites you to create and marvel at a remarkable visualization of your Facebook account (including friends, photos, Likes, locations and more) in this amazing video made up of and about you. Sign in with Facebook and grant access to the Museum of Me. Once the data is uploaded you will see a two minute video encompassing your Facebook social life in a museum exhibition form.

The end result is commendable and compelling, and you can share it on Facebook of course, as well as upload it in album form to your account and wall. The Museum of Me is a nice visualization of your Facebook account that aims to make your social circles come to life, but it’s cute at best. Let’s not forget who’s seeking fame here, right?

TOUT – This week’s chosen app, TOUT, offers real-time video status updates posting from smart phones. As opposed to Twitter, TOUT is about “Life as it Happens” in full color, sound and motion.” The short video updates are called Touts, and offer a much richer feed of info, unlike written status updates on Facebook or Twitter.

As you can see in the image above, one of Tout’s most famous users is Shaquille O’Neill who, as TOUT claims, announced his retirement exclusively via the application on his mobile phone. Other popular users on TOUT are worth exploring and following as well. There’s no doubt video status updates are more interesting than textual ones, but I seriously hope TOUT will be successful where other video micro-blogging tools such as 12Seconds have failed. Currently TOUT is available on the App Store and will soon be available for the Android and iPad as well.

To learn more about TOUT, watch this video.

VideoBash – This is a video site claiming to be “a comedic video website…that combines the brilliant idea of user-generated content along with original, licensed and exclusive content.”

Each featured video on VideoBash has, just like any leading video site, user ratings and displays the number of views thus far. And since this site claims to have the funniest videos online today, I thought I’d put this promise to the test. Here’s a good one I found under ‘Recent Videos.’

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iMeet – Promising your very own personal meeting room online, iMeet is here to make video conference calls as enjoyable and effective as they can possibly be. Aside from worldwide accessibility and multiple device compatibility, iMeet allows for conference video meetings made up of up to 15 people, and whenever someone speaks, you will know exactly who it is as their cube will start to glow.

Although this is a paid service (offering free trial), it’s free for the people invited to the meeting. Other perks iMeet offers is social media stuff such as bio and pics, chat, privacy options, background customization and other sweet ‘make it my own’ features. iMeet has gained lots of attention from the tech community, apparently for a god reason.

So, is it worth checking out? Oh yeah. Looks amazing, offers a rewarding bundle of perks and features and it does the job.