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uvLayer redefines online video; with uvLayer users can easily manipulate their media, collect and publish to the web and share videos with friends across their social networks, all via an intuitive drag and drop interface.

uvLayer has been created by Unknown Vector Inc, located in San Francisco USA.

Although most of the media I checked seemed to be from Youtube, no where on the main page does it tell you about the sources. Only digging through the help revealed that the videos are from Youtube. I think it’s better to mention the content provider clearly, on whom your product is based upon.

You can make collections of videos, which can be either static, as in it wont update automatically through search, where as if they’re kept live, they’ll automatically update based on the search results you get for videos ( think the search folders in Windows Vista ). The interaction with these collections ( or stacks ) is very much like in Minority Report ( the movie ) or like on a Surface Computer. You can grab media, stack it, fan it out ( like OS X stacks ) or even through it around at your will. And of course these stacks can be used for sharing those videos with friends.

uvLayer also allows you to log in to your Google chat or AIM account from the website, or if you use the cool AIR application, you can also sign in to your Facebook account. You can just grab the video and drag it to the contact.. and that’s it! It’s instantaneously shared.

Also, you can load multiple videos in a single browser window, and the website doesn’t even slow down despite that, which is great.

Although the natural interaction and video previews are nice, as well as the desktop application. There are some things still lacking in uvLayer:

• I would like to see a more colored and lively layout to this website. The grey theme gets a bit boring after a while.

• Although the options of related videos and comments are there, I haven’t come across any of them. All I see is the message on the image shown in the right.

• Also the comments tab doesn’t show the last comments made on the video.

• Neither is there an option to rate the video.

Now that Youtube has allowed access to its API to developers, I don’t see any reason why these functionalities shouldn’t be implemented here.

Overall, I like uvLayer, but it does lack some basic functionalities which are a hindrance for me to use it as my primary Youtube videos website. Till then, Youtube video is serving me fine, although the sharing feature of uvLayer really knocks out Youtube’s sharing feature which requires more clicks then uvLayer’s grab and drag. I hope to see more improvements in this service soon.