Watchitoo Has One Great Use. Home Movies.

A new website currently in beta, Watchitoo is a web video site with a twist:

What makes Watchitoo stand out is the synchronized experience. Users watch media and each other, via webcams, at the same time in one browser-based interface. They also can share control of the screen, rather than being restricted to one presenter controlling the content as with a webinar/demo situation. LINK

Now, it seems like the site is focused on groups watching various types of pro content together, like a LOST viewing party in cyberspace but I think they are missing the best market for a service of this kind.  Families and friends sharing home movies.

Think about it for a minute.  You just shot a video of you son taking his first steps.  In minutes you can have it uploaded to Watchitoo, send the link to your son’s grandparents who can jump online and then all of you can watch the video together and enjoy eachothers reactions to the video in realtime.

If this doesn’t sound like a big deal, go ask for a beta invite and try it for yourself.

I witnessed a demo of a very similar website about 18 months ago using the basic scenario I just proposed and an entire hall full of jaded webheads “ooooh”d in unison.

Attn: RIAA! Quick, Sue ListenToYouTube.

It must be so tough being a RIAA lawyer. Every morning you have wake up and face the fact that 100 new sites just popped up hoping to make music more fun and accessible and it is your job to sue them out of existence as quickly as possible.

Today, RIAA is going to have to decide how many hours ListenToYouTube.com is allowed to live:

ListenToYouTube is a simple web-based application for pulling the audio out of a YouTube video and converting it to MP3. The service is free and simple: you plug in the URL for the video, it grabs the audio, you download the MP3. LINK

Considering how easy it is to find nearly every song ever made on YouTube it is only a short step from there to creating your own entirely illegal collection of ripped music.

Poor RIAA.  Some many people to sue and so little time to do it.