I’m testing out VideoCrawler right now, a new web video aggregation and management site from AT&T’s Business Development group and Silicon Valley-based start up Divvio. The site uses Divvio’s platform for searching and distributing content from video sharing sites of all different kinds, from YouTube to MySpace Video. However, I haven’t seen anything pop up from hosting sites like Blip.tv, Vimeo or Viddler yet. Maybe because those tend to lean towards personal video blogging?

The interface is interesting: you can drag-and-drop the different modules around your homepage, which is nice if you don’t care about the popular videos of the day and just want to always see your search results instead.

Videos of a specific topic can be lumped into “collections,” which you can then bookmark for later viewing. Once bookmarked, you can share the collection with your friends via email. It would be nice if you could share with friends on VideoCrawler, social networking style. But I’m not sure if you can even HAVE friends yet, or if that’s something they’re planning for the future.

One other feature I’d like to see that I haven’t yet come across would be a way to make an embeddable player for your website that would showcase your favorite collection, so that even if the collection is made of videos from multiple video sites you could share them all at once in a playlist. Otherwise, I think VideoCrawler is a pretty interesting new way to shift through video content on the web. They have a ways to go before they’ve indexed enough content to keep people happy, but the site is in beta currently.

If you’d like to try it out, here’s how to get in:
User Name: mediorite
Password: beta0529