Everyone’s favorite video sharing community Viddler unveiled it’s new Facebook app yesterday to a select number of beta testers. Colin made use of Twitter and Pownce to invite people to the test, and the demand has been quite impressive.
The Viddler app is everything a Facebook app should be; it integrates seamlessly, is easy to use, and provides a legitimate use. It’s essentially a front end to much of what you can do on Viddler already; you can record and post videos from your webcam right in Facebook, you can watch videos your friends have posted, and you can share videos you have posted yourself with visitors to your profile. Nothing new that you couldn’t do before, but now it’s all wrapped up and tightly integrated, so you can access everything Viddler has to offer without having to leave Facebook.
Here’s a video I recorded from within Facebook using the app:
The quality, as usual, is pretty damn good; what’s more, it’s ridiculously simple to record videos like this. Congratulations to the Viddler team; you’ve done another bang up job here and really raised the bar for video on Facebook.
Want an invite to the beta? Add me on Facebook and let me know.
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Thanks for the invite Evan. Have you found that the Facebook Viddler App is as easy to use as Viddler itself?
Thanks for the invite Evan. Have you found that the Facebook Viddler App is as easy to use as Viddler itself?
No problem, Adam.
For most things I’d certainly say I think it’s as simple as Viddler.com, perhaps in some cases even more so. Commenting is easy, uploading and recording is fairly idiot-proof. However, as you might expect, the Facebook app doesn’t have the full Viddler experience. There’s no way to explore the complete Viddler community- your limited to just your friends from within the Facebook UI. Is that a bad thing? I don’t think so, really.
You might even go so far as to think of the Facebook app as a sort of filter, letting you focus on just your closer or real world friends and their videos. More importantly though, I think they went the right route with keeping it all simple and very direct; that’s the key to a get Facebook app experience.
No problem, Adam.For most things I’d certainly say I think it’s as simple as Viddler.com, perhaps in some cases even more so. Commenting is easy, uploading and recording is fairly idiot-proof. However, as you might expect, the Facebook app doesn’t have the full Viddler experience. There’s no way to explore the complete Viddler community- your limited to just your friends from within the Facebook UI. Is that a bad thing? I don’t think so, really.You might even go so far as to think of the Facebook app as a sort of filter, letting you focus on just your closer or real world friends and their videos. More importantly though, I think they went the right route with keeping it all simple and very direct; that’s the key to a get Facebook app experience.
Thanks for the review! Is there anything you’d like to see us add to the app? We really want to make this something people enjoy using, so everyone’s input is more than welcome.
Thanks for the review! Is there anything you’d like to see us add to the app? We really want to make this something people enjoy using, so everyone’s input is more than welcome.