Embedr

"Another site I stumbled upon that I could see being very useful is ," writes reader svenski. "The problem with video hosting sites nowadays is that they aren't compatible. If you have uploaded 10 videos to YouTube, 10 videos to Vimeo, and 10 videos to Blip.tv, you can't have a uniform user experience when you embed them on your site." Well said. I immediately liked Embedr because it appears to address a significant pain point in managing online video: videos nowadays are posted at YouTube and Vimeo and Yahoo and MySpace and about a million other places on the web--all in different players and formats. You can make playlists of videos at YouTube, but what if you want to watch a set of videos hosted by several different sites, in quick succession? As svenski says, that's where Embedr comes in.

Embedr lets you make custom playlists by inserting the embed codes of videos from virtually any video site, stitches the videos together in one standard (and clean-looking) player, and posts the whole thing at your blog, web site or MySpace page. It's a great way to put together a greatest hits package of music videos or to reassemble a movie video posted in 10 parts at Google Video.

Verdict: Embedr is not a world-beater, but video enthusiasts will find a bunch of good uses for the free tool beyond the ones mentioned above. A good idea well-executed. The developers also get extra points for posting a .

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