Wednesday, May 7, 2008

How-to video sites

Today's Wall Street Journal wrote about three (relatively) new sites that showcase "how-to" videos on a variety of subjects:


This week, I took a look at just a few Web sites that make finding these videos easy, including Howcast Media Inc.'s Howcast.com, WonderHowTo.com from WonderHowTo Inc. and eHow Inc.'s eHow.com. Howcast.com, which launched in February, encourages users to make and share good-quality, entertaining videos by providing tools on its site, and has about 5,000 videos so far. WonderHowTo.com, launched in January, used a different strategy by aggregating over 110,000 videos from various sources -- including Howcast, YouTube and Scripps Networks -- rather than publishing its own content. EHow, a site that started in 1999 with text-only content, contains over 100,000 instructional articles submitted by its users or eHow editors, and has a small catalog of videos.

For full article, click here: http://online.wsj.com/article/the_mossberg_solution.html?mod=djemtct

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