Brightcove

Jackson West at NewTeeVee picks Jeremy Allaire's Brightcove as one of the best video hosting set-ups around. I was immediately optimistic when I first heard of it a year ago... it smelled right.

My own experience over the past month that I have been using the service is that my original optimism was well founded.

Anyone with design sensitivities must agree that, when embedded in a blog, the Brightcove player invites the play command. The fact that Google selects a random image as static frame produces some horrendously ugly embeds, whereas Brightcove allows a still to be selected for display. Nice!

Another positive point worth mentioning - Brightcove's customer support has been fantastic, fast and friendly, guiding this aged newbie gently through the kind of complexities which always arise when using unfamiliar software.

Thanks, guys!