VodPod's multi-video embeddable player

Although VodPod has been around since at least December of last year, I have not stumbled upon the video sharing site until today, after they recently launched a brand new widget that allows users to embed multiple videos in a single player. Quite frankly, this is pretty awesome. Using VodPod's service, not only can you leech videos from other websites such as YouTube, Google Video, blip.tv, and others, you can host these videos under custom collections, or 'pods', on the Vodpod website.

Using their new blog badge feature, you can then create a totally separate, self-contained video player including these same videos from multiple sources. Meta craziness! So, you know those folks who love to post a billion YouTube videos to a single webpage, essentially making navigation of said site something of a chore? Well, forget about that now. These multi-video embeddable players automatically update when users add new videos to their pod. In addition to the multi-video player, Vodpod introduced a similarly useful customizable sidebar widget and bookmarklet for instant video adding. Anyway, I'm very satisfied with what I see at VodPod so far, to say the least. To get an idea of what these "pods" and multi-video widgets look like, check out my own personal pod, which I whipped up this morning. And here's a sample of the embeddable widget in action, posted on a Wordpress blog.