What You See, I SeeToo

What's missing from today's video sharing sites? Togetherness. Sure, you can comment and chat back and forth, but don't you want that community experience of watching the same video at the same time as your buds? Problem solved! SeeToo is a service coming soon that will let you stream a video direct from your computer to any other--and the person on the other end gets to see the video in an easy-to-view Flash video, as though it were on YouTube. But it's not. It's not even permanently stored at the URL a viewer visits. Nothing is stored by SeeToo at all.





The viewer and the video owner both watch the video play at the same time, and a little chat window underneath allows them to comment. SeeToo thinks this is a great solution for those people with extremely long and/or large files, the kind YouTube might not even allow with its size limits.

You, as the video owner, have to download and install a utility that runs in the background. It loads the SeeToo page, where you then pick a video to share. The video is is transcoded to Flash on the fly. The Invite Buddy link lets you copy a link to the clipboard to send via IM, or to send a link via email.

Then you wait for the viewer to click the link. If they don't, you're left twiddling your thumbs. It's not really something you'd use unless you're well aware that someone is waiting to see the video with you. Arguably, it's best used if you're on the phone with someone.

It might seem odd in this day and age of sharing video everywhere for the masses, but if you like your privacy--for instance, you don't want your kids' videos all over the Web--SeeToo makes sense. And it provides something even more important than privacy: instant gratification.

Public beta of SeeToo should be open before the end of the year.

Post by Eric Griffith