Remember Jennifer Gray? She was Ferris Bueller's sister and "Baby" from Dirty Dancing. I had a crush on her back in the '80s. Sure, she couldn't compete with my Farrah Fawcett poster, but she was interesting, had a vivacious personality and I was attracted to her uniqueness.

Then she had a nose-job, and she looked completely different. She was now a classic beauty, and never to be heard from again.

Is it possible that we like things because of their imperfections, rather than in spite of them?

This is my fear in releasing the new VideoSift. I'm voicing my fear because with my particular neuroses, talking about a bad thing prevents it from happening. I use this technique every time I have a headache - I tell myself it's a brain tumour. So far, so good.

More than just rhinoplasty, VideoSift is gaining some very nice features that will make it more fun and useful:

Ajax Commenting - Now you can leave a comment without interrupting the video. I love it.

Dupe finder - This works on submission, similar to Digg's feature in finding similar videos, that could be dupes. If the video is the exact same embed as an existing submission, it will prevent you from posting it.

Video thumbnail images - Very nice for getting a little more detail in the top 15 list.

Related Videos -Under the comment form this feature displays 3 similar videos to the one you are watching.

VideoSift 2.0 has been a full-fledged community project so I want to call out the people who have made it possible:



First off, thanks to Ender and team Poland for creating the layout and design. Very talented and responsive front-end designers - I can't recommend their work highly enough. If you are looking for some hot designers, these are your guys.

Next, thanks to Lucky760 for stepping up with his sweet Ajax, PHP and Perl skills. Lucky has taken on the job as a permanenet developer here.

Also, thanks to everyone who submitted a logo design. I know there will be some grumbles with the choice, and it was very difficult, but in the end, this comment swayed us. The sifter is an evocative symbol, and worth keeping.

Lastly, thanks to my comrade James for keeping the site running while I've been busy.

So, there are still little things that we will be working on before we launch officially. Some items in the sidebar will be a bit out of date in the preview, they'll be fine when we launch.

If you find any bugs (you will), or have any ideas on other areas we can improve - this is the thread to post in, and remember, nobody puts Baby VideoSift in the corner.