Chime.tv: Because The Internets Need More Video

As if there weren’t already enough ways to waste time on the internet, here comes Chime.tv. It’s a website that brings the videos hosted on Youtube, Veoh, Dailymotion, Google video amongst others all to one place. Sounds great, right? With a database that big, you should be able to find anything on Chime. You should be able to watch yourself eating breakfast this morning as captured by spy satellites. You should be able to watch Lebron James’ junior high school games. You should be able to see every episode of Transformers in its entirety. Theoretically, anyhow.

As with all first incarnations of web start-ups, there’s some kinks to be worked out, but how the site works is explained by a blonde hottie in a short instructional video. As for the videos themselves, rest assured that if you search the same term in Youtube and Chime, Chime will bring you different results. It’s especially useful for hard to find videos. For instance, my roommate and I were trying to find videos of an old SNL sketch called “The Chris Farley” show. In one “episode,” Chris interviews Sir Paul McCartney (“hey, remember when you were with the Beatles?”); Chime found it in a Google video, but no one’s uploaded it to Youtube yet. In that sense, Chime is to Youtube as Dogpile is to Google. It doesn’t need to be your first resource — who’s to say it doesn’t have the potential, though? — but it’s nice to know it’s there anyway.

–Dan Steckenberg