The video-uploading services like YouTube are taking a big part in the history of the web 2.0. Many people became popular for just uploading a weird video on such a site. So I want to give you a short overview of some big video-sharing services. I compared 7 videoportals in the categories quality and community. I’ve chosen 5 well-known and 2 special-interests portals. I know there are a lot of other good videosites on the internet and maybe, I present them in another article.
YouTube
If someone talks about video-upload services, the first site everyone mentions is Youtube. It was the first big one and has the largest community. And to reach a wide audience, you should upload your video to this portal. Uploaded videos can have a maximum size of 100MB and a maximum length of 10minutes. The allowed formats are: .wmv, .avi, .mov, .mpg. The quality you can present a video is acceptable but there are better services for high quality videos on the WWW (e.g. Stage6).
A few weeks ago, the startup Anywhere.FM opened it’s gates for the masses. It’s a service where you can upload single music files or your whole iTunes library (they offer a good tool to manage this) .
You can listen to your uploaded songs, through their intuitive and well-designed online player. Upload, create playlists or find friends and see/hear what music they prefer. I spend a lot of time using their service. I added a few friends to my buddylist, compared our likings and just listened to wonderful songs for hours 
. Until now the site has about 2.7Million uploaded titles and is still growing.
So I warmly recommend you to at least have a look at their beautiful and useful service. Listen to your music from ‘anywhere’ was never easier!
Update: A user called attention to other sites flying out there and offering similar services. If you like Anywhere.FM also see: MediaMaster, Imeem, Streampad, Maestro
Hi and welcome to my first post! I want to give you a list of helpful FireFox add-ons. Each of this plugins will make some certain things easier and more comfortable for you, e. g. web developing, news reading or even downloading. I know there are a lot of other good plugins not mentioned in this post, but for the beginning of my ‘FireFox Add-on Series’ I think this is enough.
RSS and Social News:
- Wizz RSS News Reader is a complex RSS News Reader with a lot of good features.
- Brief is the same as Wizz RSS News Reader but with less features and therefore it isn’t as complicated as Wizz.
- A nice tool for all Twitterusers, Twittbin. This tool will add a Twittersidebar to your FireFox to keep you up-to-date and let you post new messages right from your browser.
Quite everyone who wants to create a website or blog needs icons. But what if you haven’t got enough skills to make them on your own? Or maybe you haven’t got the time to think of good icon designs? - Get Free Icons! You can find a lot of free icons on the internet, but you just need to know where to look!
Free Icon Sets:
FamFamFam’s legendary free Mini Icons and Flags
Over 320 mini pixel icons designed at 14×14px, given away by the N.Design Studio
Sweetie Base Pack 182 free icons for your web applications
Get the standard feed icon with customizable color
Mini Icons V2 more than 100 free 10×10 greyscale icons in .gif format
The Drunkey Love Iconset a great pack containing over 100 mini (16×16) icons
