Web 2.0 is a phenomenon and YouTube is the perfect symbol of Web 2.0 applications. It has become wildly popular - one of the most popular, most-visited sites on the internet. No matter how often you visit it, you always come back. Below, we present to you the best applications for dealing with Youtube.

iDesktop.tv - iDesktop.tv is basically a Youtube but with a way more interactive interface plus an option to download and save any video to your PC. It also allows user to choose and download video in desired format, including AVI (Windows), 3GP (Mobile), MP4 (iPod), and MOV (Quicktime).

OrbitDownloader (Windows) - Powerful all-in-one media downloader for your desktop. OrbitDownloader removes the download barriers from almost all popular social media websites, i.e. Youtube, Dailymotion, Pandora, Rapidshare and many others. Once installed, you’ll be able to speedy download from almost any video or music streaming website.

Highlights include:

• Download from social music and video websites.
• Download acceleration. Outperforms most of the traditional Youtube downloaders.
• Option to pasue and resume download at any time.
• Check out full feature list here.

Videoembed (Greasemonkey script) - This one is really cool. Youtube videos are linked from everywhere these days. And this addon lets you watch the video right on the page it’s linked from. It automatically adds embedded video after each link to pages like Metacafe, Youtube, Myspace… and many others so you can view the video without going to the website. Check it out in action on the Digg’s video section.

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VideoFocus - Want to watch online videos without any distractions like ads, chats, comments, etc? This Greasemonkey script strips everything (ads, comments, related video…) but video and a plain background. Works with 30+ video sharing sites.

Enjoy!

YouTube has certainly set the gold standard in online video sharing. However, there is another video sharing service called Blip.TV which goes above and

beyond what YouTube offers and is an excellent choice for video bloggers to upload their videos.

blip.tv is the world’s leading videoblogging and podcasting service. PC World calls them  ‘online video done right,’ and Tech Crunch calls them ‘a great platform for videobloggers. Here are some of the killer features of Blip.tv compared to YouTube.

 More File Formats supported:  YouTube allows users to upload only in avi, mov or mpeg formats. blip.tv allows many more file formats including the immensely popular Flash Format producing excellent results.  No Lmit on duration or video file size: YouTube imposes a 10 minute or 100 MB file limit. blip.tv has no such limit. In addition, blip.tv has more playback options for viewers - the user can chose to view videos in flash or in the original format in which the video was uplaoded. Also, blip.tv will automatically syndicate your videos to many other websites, and you can choose to place midroll, postroll, adjacent, and overlay advertisements in your uploads. Additionally, you can track your shows’ statistics quite closely and allow users to download your videos.

Here is an example of a high quality blip.tv video which shows how to use the vPIP tool which allows authors to design how their videos are viewed.

 Enjoy!

YouTube’s market share of the video blogging arena is about 64%. However, by limiting yourself to YouTube only, you might be missing an opportunity to expose your vidoes to the remainder of the market, which is quite a significant number (36%).

So share your videos on the smaller video blogging sites with lesser content. This is a great strategy to get listed in the top search results and distinguish yourself from the clutter. I know, uploading videos to multiple sites takes time - but fortunately, TubeMogul has the ultimate solution for you.

TubeMogul allows you to upload your video to all Popular video sharing sites in just one click (sites like Blip.Tv, Google Video, Facebook, MySpace, Metcalfe etc).

 TubeMogul is a free service that provides a single point for deploying uploads to the top video sharing sites, and powerful analytics on who, what, and how videos are being viewed. TubeMogul adds the analytics component to their Universal Video Uploader.

So try out TubeMogul - the king of Video Sharing on the Internet. It gets a Two Thumbs up from TakeOneFlix!