I have been playing around with Yahoo’s new Pipes service which allows users to build great RSS feed Mashups.  This pipe lists videos on the Microsoft Zune Media player on Google Video.

Microsoft Zune Pipe Preview

• Microsoft Zune video

  Microsoft Zune video 31 sec - Sep 14, 2006 Marking the next big milestone for its Connected Entertainment vision, Microsoft Corp. today unveiled details of the first products to be released under its Zune™ brand. Designed around the principles of sharing, discovery and community, Zune will…

• Walkthrough of Zune interface

  Walkthrough of Zune interface 13 min 11 sec - Nov 4, 2006 Zune interface walkthrough from Engadget, very cool. Up from thejaan.com

• Leo Laporte Reviews Microsoft Zune

  Leo Laporte Reviews Microsoft Zune 2 min 45 sec - Dec 19, 2006 From the latest episode of the “InDigital” Video Podcast, in which different tech-celebs talk about what products they would recommend for the holidays. However Leo uses his opportunity to tell all why NOT to buy the Zune.

• CNN ridicules Micosoft Zune GetPedia.com

  CNN ridicules Micosoft Zune GetPedia.com 2 min 41 sec - Nov 23, 2006 Zune downloads at www.getpedia.com/1/zune.htm

• Zune an opinion GetPedia.com

  Zune an opinion GetPedia.com 9 min 59 sec - Nov 23, 2006 Zune downloads at www.getpedia.com/1/zune.htm

• Steve Baller talks about Zune to a very strang-looking CNET reporter

  Steve Baller talks about Zune to a very strang-looking CNET reporter 1 min 19 sec - Oct 26, 2006 At CNET’s San Francisco headquarters on Oct. 25, 2006, Microsoft’s CEO talked with CNET News.com reporter Ina Fried about the new Zune. Ballmer emphasized the gadget’s wireless capability.

• Zune is Bigger Than a Music Player, It’s a New “Platform” Predicts Newsweek’s St

  Zune is Bigger Than a Music Player, It’s a New “Platform” Predicts Newsweek’s St Beet.TV 3 min 17 sec - Sep 15, 2006 We spoke with Steven Levy today at the offices of Newsweek to get his take on Microsoft’s announcement of Zune, the digital music player that will go on sale…

• CNN ridicules Micosoft Zune

  CNN ridicules Micosoft Zune 2 min 41 sec - Nov 18, 2006 They do a great job of selling Apple’s iPod shuffle during the segment, and totally dissing the Zune.

• Microsoft Zune en action

  Microsoft Zune en action Microsoft 1 min 29 sec - Sep 15, 2006 Microsoft Zune en action

• zune Demetri Martin Clearification GetPedia.com

  zune Demetri Martin Clearification GetPedia.com 5 min 15 sec - Nov 23, 2006 Zune downloads at www.getpedia.com/1/zune.htm

• YouTube Purchases a Zune for China, Women, and Kittens.

  YouTube Purchases a Zune for China, Women, and Kittens. Mobuzz TV S.L. 4 min 24 sec - Oct 9, 2006 Google making bid for YouTube, Zune-is it really so bad?, Chinese bloggers are 17.5 million strong, Vivox gives away free calls from Second Life, Online gamers are girly- no, really!, Sneeze-free…

• Engad gets Zune Menu walk through GetPedia.com

  Engad gets Zune Menu walk through GetPedia.com 13 min 11 sec - Nov 23, 2006 Zune downloads at www.getpedia.com/1/zune.htm

• Zune the Apple iPod killer - FLOP! DO not waste your time or money on this POS!

  Zune the Apple iPod killer - FLOP! DO not waste your time or money on this POS! 9 min 10 sec - Nov 20, 2006 Checked in at Wal-Mart and Meijers, Local Stores to see how the ZUNE is doing…. this is Video iPod ready feel free to download and share.

• Microsoft Zune GetPedia.com

  Microsoft Zune GetPedia.com 2 min 24 sec - Nov 23, 2006 Zune downloads at www.getpedia.com/1/zune.htm

• Abrar Ul Haq - Jat (Zune)

  Abrar Ul Haq - Jat (Zune) 4 min 51 sec - Dec 25, 2006 Pak Journey - Journey through Pakistan Microsoft Zune - www.zune.net

• Slash Gear Handson Zune demo GetPedia.com

  Slash Gear Handson Zune demo GetPedia.com 5 min 20 sec - Nov 23, 2006 Zune downloads at www.getpedia.com/1/zune.htm

• Zune Unboxed (black)

  Zune Unboxed (black) KMR Enterprises 6 min 21 sec - Nov 14, 2006 Unboxing the 30GB Microsoft Zune black portable music player on launch day and comparing to Apple iPod black 80GB and Sirius Stiletto-100. See packaging and compare size.

• iPod v Zune GetPedia.com

  iPod v Zune GetPedia.com 2 min 44 sec - Nov 23, 2006 Zune downloads at www.getpedia.com/1/zune.htm

• Zune vs. iPod - Interview

  Zune vs. iPod - Interview First Business Morning News 3 min 37 sec - Nov 15, 2006 The Zune versus the iPod. Xbox 360 against Playstation 3. Vista versus the world. Microsoft is ramping up its products as its stock is at 12 month highs.Toan Tran covers the company as editor of Morningstar Growth…

OpenFlix is a great site devoted to providing pointers to movies and video that is presumed to be in the public domain.  The site is easy to navigate, has minimal advertising, and delivers on its promise to direct movie lovers to public domain video.

Movies can be browsed by genre including: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Film Noir, Horror, Independent, Musical, Romance, Sci-fi & Fantasy, and Western

This is a great alternative to paid movie downloads and pirated movies, especially if you are into older movies.

Here is their introduction:

“OpenFlix provides a directory of movies commonly thought to be in the public domain and works their owners are willing to let be distributed.
Public Domain refers to the body of creative works and knowledge in which no person, government or organization has any proprietary interest such as a copyright. These works are considered part of the public cultural heritage and may be freely used by all.”

ClipRoller is a new video search site founded by CliPro that searches across a number of video sharing sites including YouTube, Metacafe, Brightcove, iFilm, Revver, Vdiddy and others.  

The clips are not hosted by ClipRoller but rather played on the site using the embedded code from the video clip source site.

Clip roller provides RSS fees, the ability to post clips to Facebook, Digg, and other sites, and a favorite video feature.

There is a lot of competition in this space (including Dabble and PureVideo).  The barriers to entry are quite low to search and collect videos from different sites and embed them.   The real key is building additional social features that give drive additional traffic and create stickiness to keep people coming back.

The owners of StupidVideos, PureVideo and GrindTV, today launched a new site called HollywoodUpClose.   PureVideo is responding to the fact that more than one third of the queries to their site are for celebrity video, so they decided to create a site devoted to celebrities.

HollywoodUpClose will aggregate movie trailers, interviews, and red carpet video from sites like Yahoo Video and YouTube.  It will also add news from Topix and photos from new sites.

Web users can’t get enough celebrity scoop, so I imagine that this site will be wildly popular!

90 minutes of highlights will be available for $1.99 per clip.   The clips of the Bears vs. Colts are available in English and Spanish.

Video highlights from the NFL’s regular-season and playoff games have been available from the iTunes Store since September.

I believe that this will be a North America only offering.

via Yahoo News

At one time, Jurassic Park was the highest grossing film of all time.

Torrent Freak reports that the script was uploaded to a semiprivate BitTorrent tracker by a user named “xbadwolfx” in the last week in January.  xbadwolfx claims that he has friends in the company and that the script is an original.

The scoop is here at Torrent Freak.

Update:  I just took a look at the story again, and it appears that the script was a fake.

Ysabellabrave also has her own web site with all of her online performances.

Zunemytube is a free open source Microsoft Internet Explorer plugin that allows you to download videos from YouTube and Google Video in a format that can be viewed in Windows Media Player, Zune, Creative Zen, Archos, and iRiver players.

Available at Sourceforge, this little plugin works like a charm and comes without any spyware or adware.

Here is the author’s introduction to ZuneMyTube:

“This is the first version of ZuneMyTube that allows an end-user to download and save YouTube and Google Video videos in a WMV format. It installs an Internet Explorer plugin that adds the “Zune icon” to Internet Explorer’s toolbar (top right). For some users, if the toolbar is “locked”, it will appear in the drop down menu at the top right portion of the toolbar. When you watch a video on YouTube or Google Video, just click on the Zune icon. It will download the video to “My Documents\My Videos\YouTube” and “My Documents\My Videos\Google Video” directory and transcode it to the .WMV format. This file can be played back by Windows Media Player, Zune player. If you select the My Videos and its subdirectories for synch’ing to your Zune or PlayForSure video player, it will be available to you on the portable player.

Forbes magazine has named its Top 25 Celebs of the Web.   They defined the “web celeb” as a “person famous primarily for creating or appearing in Internet-based content, and for being highly recognizable to a Web-based audience. That definition excludes people who were significantly famous before they hit the Web–like author Arianna Huffington, billionaire Mark Cuban or journalist Michelle Malkin–and leaves us with a pool of people whose fame depends on the Internet.”

The web celebrity list is presented in pictures on the Forbes site and includes:

1) Jessica Lee Rose - Lonelygirl15 - www.lonelygirl15.com

2) Perez Hilton - celebrity gossip blogger - www.perezhilton.com

3) Markos Moulitsas Zúniga - political blogger - www.dailykos.com

4) Matt Drudge - web site news editor - www.drudgereport.com

5) Seth Godin - marketing guru - www.sethgodin.com

6) Jeff Jarvis - media critic - www.buzzmachine.com

7) Glenn Reynolds - political blogger- www.instapundit.com

8) Amanda Congdon - video blogger- www.amadacongdon.com

9) Robert Scoble - tech blogger - www.scrobeizer.com

10) Michael Arrington - tech blogger - www.techcrunch.com

11) Hosea Frank (aka ZeFrank) - video blogger - www.zefrank.com

12) Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia co-fouonder- www.jimmywales.com

13) Harry Knowles - movie critic - www.aintitcool.com

14) Frank Warren - online artist - www.postsecret.blogspot.com

15) Cory Doctorow - author and blogger - www.craphound.com

16) Xeni Jardin - journalist and blogger - www.xeni.net

17) Leo Laporte - podcaster - www.leoville.com

18) Merlin Mann - blogger - www.merlinnmann.com

19) John H. Hinderaker - political blogger - www.powerlineblog.com

20) Charles Johnson - political blogger - www.littlegreenfootballs.com

21) Kevin Sites - war correspondent - www.kevinsites.net

22) Mark Lisanti - entertainment blogger - www.defamer.com

23) Jason Calacanis - entreprenuer - www.calacanis.com

24) Om Malik - tech blogger - www.gigaom.com

25) Violet Blue - sex educator - www.tinynibbles.com

via MovieNode

Tube Hunter does support a wide variety of video sharing sites and formats, so if you are a hard core downloader, this might be a good option.

Tube Hunter downloads videos from YouTube, MySpace, Photobucket, Metacafe, Dailymotion, iFilm, Flurl, Pornotube, xTube, yuvutu, AlphaCocks, Bebo, Break, VSocial, Grouper, Bolt, Yikers, Revver, Guba, Vidilife and Blip.tv, and saves them on your computer or directly to your iPOD.

All downloaded videos can be converted by TubeHunter to other video formats including MPEG, MPEG4 AVI, iPOD MP4, MOV, Flash SWF, M4A, PSP, MP3, WAV, OGG, 3GP and 3G2.