An oldie but goodie TED Talk. These are consistently the most engaging and interesting speeches. FYI I run a video site called Chime.TV and we created a channel just for TED Talks:
http://chime.tv/tedtalks
And that is the answer to the old question of "When is it a good idea to plug my site?"--when you've made something people want, in that particular situation.
Jaed: Great suggestion, I think we will implement that idea, thanks
Zach: It's actually just an issue with flash on OSX i believe, but we're looking into how to fix that now, thanks :D
Vuknje: If you grab the blue bar just above the playlist, you can resize the playlist to your liking :)
Staunch: Actually if you check out our Net100 Channel ( http://chime.tv/#net100/ ) it combines the top videos from digg, mefi, youtube etc all in one place!
I've been hiding on News.YC for a few weeks now, and have been loving the content and feedback this community has. I'd like to submit my latest startup that a friend and I created over 6 months in our spare time.
Any feedback/critiques/ideas very, very welcome!
Here's the quick summary:
Chime.TV aggregates millions of videos from across the web (from blip.tv, Break.com, DailyMotion, Google Videos, Kewego, MetaCafe, MySpace, Veoh.com, YouTube) to create a tv-like experience within your browser. With over 20 editorially-programmed channels, you can get started right away watching everything from documentaries to music videos.
Or, you can do a search to find what you are looking for. You can save favorites, create your own channels to share and even send video-mail to friends. With a fullscreen, non-stop playing experience that is always on-demand, Chime.TV is truly lean back internet TV.
Congratulations on a very well done site. I don't personally have the desire to have content "pushed" to me, but you certainly have done a very nice job of making it work well.
Maybe you could add Top 10 Digg videos as a channel, that's a very heavily filtered list of almost all interesting stuff.
However, I've gotta say that I'm accustomed to using my scroll wheel to roll through lists like the one on the bottom. If there's some way to make that work, that would be cool.