As a confessing Youtubaholic, I went to accidentally discover 5min this morning and loved it. This “beta” totally web 2 site wants to be called a videopedia and manages to actually demonstrate it’s concept. Yesterday, I was interviewing Romain Bedard, editor in chief of the canadian portal “Canoë” about the developpment of video content on existing information portals. He was confident in the fact that online video could be “something else” than just lo-def television remakes. Canoë has initiated a “mobile journalist” crew that delivers first-person videos in a vast array of styles and fits them in the sections of it’s portazl. 5min goes beyond this approach by mixing online video and a kind of “easy e-learning” editorial approach that is actually more centered on personal expression than pure news information. They also have a very cool player. Will they manage to keep the editorial diversity that the beta shows ? I hope so.
UPDATE : YouTube goes the editorial section way too (the link on this may be found as soon as Scoopeo goes back to life…)