When I first discovered videoblogging, it was like the blinders fell from my eyes. Wow. A friend (Peter Durand of alphachimp.com) sent me a link to www.videoblogging.info. Jesse and I had already been putting video online for over a year (see our first site here, watch for pop-ups, and be sure to look for easter eggs!) and we were looking for a community of web video people. Partly because we had this grand scheme of building a worldwide network of vloggers for hire (see the original coBRANDiT site), and partly because we wanted to find people with the same problems we did: how to display and share video online. And how to fund it.
Any way, we quickly found the yahoo videoblogging group, and freevlog, and the original video sharing tools (before google video, before you tube) that got us hooked: ant, and mefeedia.
The people behind these groups and this software are the people who launched vlogging, and video file sharing, and the whole video aspect of social media. I think it's super cool, and I'm very excited to say hello to some of them at the upcoming PodCamp event here in Boston. There are a bunch of them in attendance but what got me writing this post was seeing Peter Van Dijck's registration on the PodCamp wiki. Peter is the founder of mefeedia. Very cool.