VideoValve.tv - Personalized Music Television

Nothing good on MTV? Why not make your own music video channel? That is precisely what VideoValve lets you do, and with minimal effort. Without the need for registration, Video Valve lets you select the music videos you want to watch, and then automatically builds upon your collection by selecting other videos that feature similar styles; in this respect it works similarly to online radio station Pandora. As you add artists and rate videos, Video Valve makes what it claims are more accurate guesses as to what other videos you’ll enjoy. Apart from this main feature, you can also tag videos, comment on them, share them on sites like del.icio.us, and rate them using a sliding bar scale for popularity and “freshness” (how current a certain video is). As mentioned before, you don’t need to sign up to use Video Valve, unless you want to access your videos from more than one computer.

“The VideoValve is an online music video channel that generates a personalized playlist that you can fine-tune to your taste. The VideoValve is pretty smart and will get smarter the more you use it.”

If you like Pandora’s system, you’ll probably also enjoy Video Valve, since it’s essentially as if you had your very own personalized music video channel. The video search process is also simplified by featuring a playable thumbnail of the video before you add it to your feed.

Video Valve isn’t available in most areas of the world; does it plan on expanding its service? Also, there seem to be a lot of new videos, but what about ones from several years back or more? An embeddable widget that could stream your channel on your website would also be a logical extension of this system