First off, if you haven’t check out Vlip, the (free) social video service that is so cool it may expand the domain of webcam owners beyond Macintosh users, cybersex addicts, and frustrated Best Buy customers who couldn’t get their cam to work, then you should check it out now! Why? Because it’s Mac-compatible (not just Windows, doy), it’s designed for virtual discourse (not virtual intercourse), and perhaps most importantly–because it works and works wonderfully!

Thanks to Adobe’s recent intrepid addition of audiovisual input to Flash and some equally intrepid 2.0 speculating at Sightspeed (Vlip’s developer), the world now has a really cool all-video community that’s equally fly on Firefox as it is on IE. Vlip doesn’t muck up the flow of discourse with the busy, scatterbrained “similar videos” links and other nonsense that’s common on YouTube. Plus, unlike YouTube, Vlip is all about YOU–as opposed to whichever mildly amazing police crash video or claymation experiment that you can find, process, and upload to grab people’s attention. In fact, Vlip doesn’t even pretend to be YouTube. Think discussion forums or blogging–only video-fied.

I’ll give you an example–in one video, somebody talks about pizza being one of the major “college kid foodgroups”, and a response video is posted by a guy who is just chomping on pizza. Perfect!

I do have a few thoughts on how Vlip could be improved. First, the list of videos on the left should always sort by most recent unless you’re logged into Vlip–then it should sort by however you prefer it to sort. Secondly, though we (ok, I) absolutely adore Nina and her peculiarly infectious brunette smile, we (ok, I) don’t need to see her welcoming me to Vlip with the same explanatory greeting each and every time I navigate to Vlip.com. People will get the idea of what Vlip is all about with Nina having to explain it just because they’ll see the latest posting. Vlip’s proprietors could even pick 5 or 6 videos per day to be on the “home page” if they want to have a little editorial persuasion over the “first impression” of new visitors. But, please, Nina, we (ok, I) love you, but I’ve had enough of that greeting.

So go check out Vlip. Who knows, you might even see dear old Ted on there.