GoGOOROO—Internet Television Community in public beta.

From the department of shameless self-promotion:

Last year, we've seen how the Internet exploded with video content and gave birth to new models of distribution. YouTube and MySpace have become household names. But are you equally familiar with ZeFrank, It's Your Show, stickam, Galacticast, Singing Fool and LAT34.com?

In this new era, every type of video and film production stands a chance to be discovered and enjoyed by an almost unlimited global audience, including projects that would otherwise be disbanded or never produced. From here on, niche content will be king.

So far, there was only one thing missing: A capable tool that would bring order to the infinite universe of channels and videos out there, a system to help actually find stuff.

The wait is over: Last week we launched parallel public beta versions of a groundbreaking new and free online service in the US and Germany.

www.gogooroo.com (USA)
www.gogooroo.de (Germany)

We envision turning this portal into THE Internet television community destination on the web with one simple goal in mind: To cut through the broadband jungle and share the immense wealth of entertaining, inspiring and informative video programming available over the Internet today.

GoGOOROO is a guide, an index and a community all wrapped into one destination. Unlike traditional program guides, however, you, the user, are in the driver's seat here: Similar to the free Internet Encyclopedia Wikipedia, GoGOOROO is a user-generated online guide and every visitor can submit, review and rate channels and videos alongside the GoGOOROO team.

We painstakingly catalogue and describe both Internet television channels and online videos from countless sources. We've established categories such as art, lifestyle, movies, news, sports and viewer-created content and added even more sub-categories to create a searchable and useful database.

You can already find hundreds of broadband channels such as Super Deluxe, Atomfilms and Snowvision in our index, with thousands more to come. We are particularly thrilled by the arrival of small niche networks who co-exist with TV networks and major media companies on a level playing field.

We're still beta-testing, so please try as many functions as you can possibly bear, create a profile, invite friends, share videos with others and suggest new channels and videos. Most of all, if you like what you see don't be shy and recommend GoGOOROO to your friends.

We encourage you to make GoGOOROO your own and use the service for your very own purposes: List your music video, video-driven website, favorite standup, art performance or the indie feature you're promoting with us and reach a like-minded community of web-savvy enthusiasts.

Send me your feedback to this blog and if you're a blogger or have a site and would consider linking to us or filing a post, you'll know what to do.

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Comments

[Antik]

This is a bilingual video search engine, so has an added bonus!