Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

Apparently anything warrants a press release these days. RavelBabel has created a system for video comments (via) and they're calling it a hyblog. Part regular blog, part videoblog — a “true hybrid blog”. I'm wondering why they wanted to use this term instead of just calling it a videoblog. After all videoblog implies blog.

But get how you are supposed to add your video comment: You have to upload your video via FTP and they will review each video manually. They turnaround will be no longer than 24 hours on weekdays (if you post during the weekend your comment will be posted the following Monday). Come on, RavelBabel. Get with the program, join the 21st century, wake up and smell the coffee. This isn't 2001 anymore. As Steve points out there are other companies who are much closer to solving the video comments issue. Hell, even the video comments prototype I hacked together in one evening in 2004 is better than this. Comments were automatic and everything. And I didn't even send out a press release.