YouTube, Metacafe, and Google Video are all video on demand websites websites. These allow you to post videos from home and share them with the world. The problem is, how do you get them easily and quickly on to the web in the first place?

Rather than using a camcorder and encoders to ensure your video goes online, there is a much easier alternative, and that is to use an online video recording tool.

Today, thanks to several sophisticated web applications, you can easily record a video straight from your $20 webcam and publish it on any web page without having to go through complicated procedures: you simply have to click the “record” button and in five seconds you are ready to start.

Online Video Recorders

These web applications are known as online video recorders and I can summarize their characteristics with three adjectives:

• easy to use
• cross platform
• always available on the Internet