Everyone’s got their two cents—sometimes even a nickel—about how to combine the most innovative angles of search to make, in this case video search, the most comprehensive ever with the least amount of holes.

So here’s another nickel for you: Mefeedia. They call it “video search and discovery.” Before I go off and tell you about it, listen to the CEO Frank Cinton chat about it first.

On my own take, the most encouraging thing about this video alt are the channels. I’ve been in somewhat of a Seinfeld mood lately, as I’ve been writing a few episodes of a sitcom of my own, so I saw the sitcoms link on Mefeedia’s homepage. Not that I actually found whole episodes of Seinfeld, which might be somewhat of a copyright problem, but what I did find were webshows with episodes listed and an option to subscribe. I checked out some of them, and I actually spent 10 minutes watching one instead of writing this post, which I have to finish soon because I’m a day behind. 10 minutes, for me, requires something to capture my brain. I wasn’t expecting that.

They’ve got a whole bunch of categories, including how-to, do-it-yourself, don’t-do-it-yourself-because-you-could-get-hurt (I’m joking about that last one) technology, travel, etc. Mefeedia also has a social component. Here’s a little pictoral conceptual map of the whole thing:

And these are their services besides search: Vertical video communites that categorize and feature popular videos by topic, event, or location (e.g. sitcoms which we already reviewed). Mefeedia already has over 200 such communities, ranging from cooking to golf, presidential primaries to tech expos.

They’ve got what they call a “Meeps social network”, which makes you aware of what friends are watching. Mefeedia’s social network of Meeps provides the mechanism for users to use their friends as filters, watching only what their friends have watched or recommended. To start one o’ dem Meeps, you’ll have to register.

Apparently Mefeedia has been been getting a fair amount of attention. Just take a look at this table.

Take a look. Could be interesting.

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