IP Democracy: Video Sharing Cheat Sheet - Fark.Com is Coolest

LightReading’s Phil Harvey, with a giant assist from research associate Raymond McConville, has produced what he calls “Web Video Cheat Sheet,” a comprehensive guide to 61 (!) sites that support video sharing on the web.

Although the cheat sheet doesn’t really offer reviews, Harvey points out that Fark.com, which hand-picks the user-generated videos submitted, is “simply the coolest user-generated (yet edited) site around” and is “the Internet equivalent of ‘must see’ TV.”

Fark.com relies heavily on YouTube videos, but does pick from other sources, such as CNN, local broadcast stations, and MetaCafe and so forth, and that’s part of its charm — the videos have been hand-picked so that viewers don’t have to sit through promising-sounding but ultimately lame videos, which happens so often on YouTube. The best thing about Fark.com is that it produces daily video lists that reflect recently posted videos or timely ones.

Today Fark has a very poignant link — CNET’s video look-back on James Kim’s work. Take a look.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on December 7, 2006 8:28 AM to IP Democracy