I’m testing out VideoCrawler right now, a new web video aggregation and management site from AT&T’s Business Development group and Silicon Valley-based start up Divvio. The site uses Divvio’s platform for searching and distributing content from video sharing sites of all different kinds, from YouTube to MySpace Video. However, I haven’t seen anything pop up from hosting sites like Blip.tv, Vimeo or Viddler yet. Maybe because those tend to lean towards personal video blogging?

The interface is interesting: you can drag-and-drop the different modules around your homepage, which is nice if you don’t care about the popular videos of the day and just want to always see your search results instead.
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My poor friend Justin had a bit of a disaster today. He imported his Google Reader feeds into a service called Feedly, and didn’t realize that editing/deleting the feeds in Feedly meant that he was also changing them in gReader — they were linked. In doing so, he lost a ton of valuable and tailor-made (via Yahoo Pipes) feeds.

This post isn’t about Feedly though, since this is an issue they’re addressing (and they’re also only 5 days old, so we’ll cut them some slack this time). I just wanted to remind people that they can import and export a snapshot of their feeds with OPML, and bookmarks with HTML and OPML. If you’re switching bookmarking services or installing a new RSS reader, it’s much easier to use these files than manually upload everything. However, it’s not the kind of thing that will sync itself automatically, so you need to save it every once in a while to stay current (if you’re using it for backup purposes, and not just as a one time import).

Del.icio.us:

Which then leads to:

Google Reader:

Yeah, most of you already knew this, probably. But I figured that a reminder is always nice in case it’s been a while since you’ve backed up all you bookmarks and feeds. I mean, most of us backup our computer files every day, so why not our data online? You never know what can go wrong.

UPDATE: Joffi sent me this handy blog post that might save a few Google Readers too!

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Coodoodle is ready to be voted on (unfortunately, we can’t link to specific creatures, but you’ll find me up there somewhere…)! Looks like we’re already getting creamed by Phil Defranco, but hey… I think there’s still a little time! My charity is the James Kim Technology Foundation, and the winning cause gets $15,000! Either way, it’s been a fun contest, and may the best abomination win!

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I did an interview with PlayStation: The Official Magazine for their August 2008 edition! It goes on sale July 1st (isn’t it weird that magazines do that? I don’t get it). P:TOM and Qore are both owned by Future US, so I suppose I had a bit of an “in.” Anyhow, it’s my first time interviewed in a paper magazine, so I’m a bit excited over the whole thing!

Favorite line? “I never knew there were so many bacon-themed products out there!”

Photo in the mag by the wonderful Lan Bui.

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