WeShow

I don’t know if you’ve seen it yet, but WeShow "” touting the tagline “The Best Videos Everywhere” "” made its official launch into beta recently after sitting quietly, racking up users. With editions in the U.S., U.K. and Brazil, I guess I should be riveted and be sitting glued to my computer screen.

Not really. Or at least not yet. The site has big financial support from MTV founder Bob Pittman, so I’m paying respect, but I’m just not entirely convinced. WeShow gets real, actual people to sift through tons of videos (I imagine it’s like what the producers had to go through on America’s Funniest Home Videos, with or without the therapy required afterward) from places like YouTube and Google Video and put up the ones they think are the most worthy on different “channels,” so algorithms and other fancy computations based on clicks go out the window. It’s an attempt to try to organize the mess of videos out there. According to Kelton Research, a research company WeShow quoted, 46% don’t watch online vids because the amount is simply too insane to wade through. Another 46% only watch what their friends forward to them. I’m part of both groups. WeShow is making the leap to provide what you really want, even if you don’t know what it is. I’m part of that group too.

Check it out for yourself and let us know what you think.