Video hosts of the Internet

What is Video hosting?

Ok, well I'm sure you already know, but to give this amazing entry a proper starting point for a change...

Video hosting or sharing refers to websites or software where users can distribute their video clips. So basically, a website where users can upload their video clips for others to view. Generally they are free of charge, but require you to open an account so all your clips can be properly indexed together.

Of all the Video hosts, YouTube is by far the biggest and most popular. When mentioning Video clips on the Internet, YouTube will be the website that most people have heard of. They also provide a HTML code which enables you to put the clips onto other Websites you own or Internet Forums you are a member of.

Look, on YouTube, here's a Lego animation I once did...

Er yes, so moving on. Besides YouTube what other hosts are there?

Well there are quite a few actually. Here are some of the main ones you might want to try if you're looking to get your clips watched by even more of the Earth people.

Dailymotion, Flickr, MegaVideo, Metacafe, Myspace, MyVideo, Photobucket, Truveo, Tudou (Chinese), Veoh, Vuze, Yahoo! Video.

Happy uploading!

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Social Network Popularity - Myspace verses Facebook

When you think about Internet Social Network sites, the two most people will bring to mind are either Myspace or Facebook.

Myspace was established during August 2003 and Facebook a year later in 2004. The rise in popularity of these networking sites has been nothing short of phenomenal. Banks and Business' in London had to ban their employees from using them during office hours due to the amount of valuable man hours that were being lost each day to them.

So what site is the most popular? Myspace or Facebook?

If you go to Alexa.com, the site for measuring Web Traffic, you will get a pretty good picture.



This graph, courtesy of Alexa.com, measures historic web traffic. That is the amount of people who are visiting and using the site on a daily basis, the rise and falls. Facebook is the red line and Myspace is the blue line.

As you can tell, Myspace used to be the most popular site, but then was overtaken by a rising Facebook during April 2008. Myspace has failed to respond while the popularity of Facebook skys ever higher. There is now clear distance between the two sites and if it continues like this for a sustained time, Myspace may find it a little hard to regain its earlier supremacy.

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