Oortle is taking video sharing site such as YouTube to the next step. The company behind Photophlow which is a site that presents a lively chat room around the flickr photo-sharing site, is announcing Videophlow, their second product. Videophlow allows people to post a video into a chatroom and allows the users in that chatroom to control the video playback. And as with photoflow, users can use VideoPhlow to take advantage of the YouTube features such as leaving comments, marking videos as favourites and searching videos.

Videophlow allows a group of people to watch and share a video simultaneously as they interact with each other; by chat, emoticons, gestures, or even perform tasks such as throwing virtual tomatoes at the screen.

Videophlow was announced to the public on the very first time in 24 April, 2008, and a private beta test version will be unleashed in two weeks.

1. http://extratech.blogspot.com/2008/04/videophlow-tries-to-enliven-youtube.html
2. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/24/videophlow-makes-youtube-a-group-experience/