1. NicoVideo.jp – Japanese Videos And News

NicoVideo.Jp is a great site where you can find a lot of different types of videos, most of them from Japan. NicoVideo.jp is also Japan’s second most popular internet video website, the first being Youtube. You will be able to find many articles and videos about many topics like Sports, science, cuisine, politics, history, nature, etc. It has comments scrolling over video and is more anonymous, just like many japanese want it to be. It also allows for longer video and higher quality than youtube, which is nice since youtube can’t even do 16:9 videos right! In case you are interested about Music, there is a section where you will find all the different songs and artists you might be interested in. New anime raw is probably the main reason for many here to check this site out. Of course this is not the only thing you will get from NicoVideo.Jp. In addition to videos, movies episodes, chat, tests, as well as questionnaires. You need an account to watch videos on nicovideo.jp and just follow the instruction here.

2. NBC Direct Offers Free HD Downloads

NBC Direct is back with a new version of its download video player  allows you to download the video to your desktop or laptop. The reason NBC wants to go with P2P technology is because it wants to start distributing high-definition videos. Pando’s P2P system can help NBC not just to lower the cost of distributing large files, but also to differentiate itself with HD video downloads. Installing NBC Direct means downloading a little applet, which then puts an add-on into your Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox browser, and runs a system tray applet to download and watch shows offline. When you’re connected, it seems, you’re also a peer source for other NBC Direct users:

3. The845Club.com – Video Based E-courses

The 845 club offers an alternative to business training. It gives better solution  for businessman who has no time to be sent on full day or week courses any more. Individuals and businesses of all sizes and sectors can learn techniques across key business areas in a simple, easy to watch video format, alongside e-books, links, downloadable documents, free software and podcasts. In addition, materials such as PDFs, e-books and downloadable documents are duly included.

4. Rouxbe  an online cooking school

Rouxbe,  (pronounced roo be) a start up from Vancouver, Canada that produces some of the nicest instructional cooking videos Watching most of the videos requires a free membership (which gives you a 30-day pass to everything), but you can check out a couple of the videos without signing up. Rouxbe focuses on technique but then supplies a recipe to go along with that technique. There’s also a cooking school section with tips ranging from skinning hazelnuts to butterflying a chicken

Thre are two basic membership options: free or premium, which is $99 for one year or $199 for a lifetime membership. The free membership level will get you access to text recipes and the drill-downs (videos featuring techniques and tips), and you get recipe previews and one free cooking lesson.

5. Watch web video while getting work done with Double Vision

Double Vision is a software application that will let you browse the web employing a transparent window.  In practice it works like this: particularly suitable for video, you can see transparency in a television program on youtube or similar as you continue to work on your main window. Not only video but still a complete web browsing. The transparency level itself can be customized, and there is also a “Quick hide” feature that comes complete with an automatic muting functionality. This is useful if you employ Double Vision in your workspace, and wish to go as unnoticed as possible.

6. AppTheater The YouTube of iPhone Apps

AppTheater.com is the YouTube of iPhone Apps. You can not only watch videos of apps but you can upload your own too. At AppTheater, videos can be sorted by the game’s price, rating, title, date added, and view count. Much like the YouTube experience, users can comment, rate each video, and add tags. Some of the videos are merely of people playing, but others are full reviews, making the rating system fairly valuable.   Clicking on “Channels” will show all the various categories of application — at present, almost all the videos featured are games, with very few (if any) in other categories such as finance, travel and sports.

7. CastTV Video Search

CastTV , a Web video search start-up backed by the Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen which has the objective of indexing every video on the Net — from YouTube to iTunes — and be your one-stop shop for TV show and specialty program viewing. The existing video search will let you look up current news clip, viral videos and TV episodes, whereas you can come across video reviews and clips. The company’s proprietary technology addresses two main video search challenges: finding and cataloging videos from the web and delivering relevant video results to users. Plus, you can see news clips from hundreds of different stations to keep you up on current events

8. MediaMelon.Com – Online Video Distribution

MediaMelon, Inc is an innovative video delivery service, designed to securely deliver HD videos that can be accessed and played from a web-browser without the need for a dedicated desktop application. The MediaMelon Video Overlay network integrates several leading edge technologies such as multi-sourcing and adaptive streaming to improve the efficiency and visual quality of online video.   Also, its use of multiple protocols such as http, rtp, rtsp and p2p, decreases bandwidth costs while enabling instant and smooth playback of video content.

9. Sososher Media.Com

Here is a great web site for the shade tree mechanic in all of us. On Sososher Media.Com you can find and watch guided car repair videos such as how to change brakes, check fluids and tire pressure, change battery, improve gas mileage… etc. You can browse videos by vehicle type or search by job that needs to be done. It completely free no registration required to seee the videos in the site. HOwever, registering on the site will let you keep track of your gas mileage, keep track of maintenance schedule and get alerts

10. VideoJug

Videojug is an instructional video website, which aims to provide a how-to guide for many differing subjects . The company bills itself as the “encyclopedia of life” because it offers videos which teach you, step by step, about hobbies, fashion and pets to more serious issues such as money management, parenting and education.The website provides both professionally made videos produced internally, as well as videos produced by and uploaded by amateurs.

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