Like many other video sharing sites, San Francisco’s Mesmo lets you collect and share videos from other video sites. Its specialty, though, is social video recommendation, to help you find new videos you’ll like. It wants to create a community on the site this way, by matching you up with similar channels and users.
They’re aiming to make a video version of Flixster or iLike, which also use recommendation filters to suggest movie and music, respectively. These engines work as follows: If you’ve tended in the past to enjoy content that your friend, Bob also enjoys, these engines will recommend you other new content that Bob is enjoying. These recommendation filters weren’t present in the first wave of popular video sites like YouTube.
To take advantage of this trend, Mesmo is also offering a Facebook application , although it’s not listed yet as one of 113 Facebook “video” applications at this time. They also claim to have around 50,000 registered users now — though it’s unclear how many are active....
Don't forget to add your own videos - you can just by entering your URLs, after registering. Which, coincidentally, didn't work for me on my Mac Safari browser. And there isn't even a "Beta" sign next to the site's logo!
I hate when people don't test for cross-platform compatibility. Negates the whole experience for me. So wrong, Mesmo!
P.S. Turns out the registration went through, but without any visual cue or message from the site you wouldn't know....
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