Justin.tv is now available on Moovida. So I joked in my last post about some of the random content uploaded by users, but in all seriousness, Justin.tv is a great plugin which streams content worldwide, that means NO GEO-BLOCKING, and there’s no one more happy about this than me. If you’re not in the U.S. or Canada and miss afternoon programming of classic reruns such as The Office, Family Guy, That 70’s Show, Friends, The Simpsons, as for your daily Star Trek TNG Klingon fix, you’re in luck with the Justin.tv plugin, which streams these shows pretty much 24/7.

They have a loads of content from categories like Entertainment, Gaming, Science & Tech, Sports, Education, Animals, Social, etc. I also found interesting that they categorize High Stakes Poker as a Sport. Probably the only channel in which commentators can get away with describing a female player as having a pair of 10s.

Besides that, make sure to check out the following:

• New Movies (2009-2010)
• Comedy Movies

So do share your favourite Justin.tv channels on Moovida in the comments section. What’s your guilty pleasure?

Moovida’s beta tester program is kicking into full swing by making the Justin.tv plugin available for testing. You heard right, one of the most important live video sites on the web with over 500,000 channels broadcasting live content will be going through rigorous testing before it’s available to all Moovida users. Beta testers, this is your time to shine! If you’re a first timer to this blog and wondering what the heck a beta tester is, find out here.

Justin.tv’s got a large variety of content in 20 languages, in plenty of categories ranging from Entertainment to Animals. There’s even a channel entitled Chicken Coop Living where you can follow the exciting life of chickens in an enclosure… If you already followed the link, I apologize for taking part in wasting 5 seconds of your life you’ll never get back. If you follow the link after this warning, well you asked for it.

Besides useless chicken streaming, there actually is cool content. For a humorous stroll down memory lane by outspoken and slightly nutty commentator ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, check out the Nostalgic Critic. He’s worth it!

Arte, the award winning plugin (as in Moovida’s developer contest award), has been recently upgraded to support videos from the site in German. The plugin reserved for French and Germans will automatically detect in which region users are located to play the corresponding language. If you’re in bizarro world and wish to view videos in the other language, for example a French person living in Germany (crazy!), you can simply change the option in the plugin’s configuration file.

Big thanks to community developer Guillaume Desmottes for this latest plugin release.

Some of you may have noticed that the Grooveshark plugin “went missing” from Moovida’s library in the past few weeks. We’ve had a few mishaps with it and decided to temporarily remove it until it was fixed. Well now that the special day has finally come, I’m announcing its healthy recovery.

Feel free to express your gratitude for its comeback to Moovida, or just give us holla.

As you may have already noticed in an earlier post, Moovida’s dev contest brought some goodies to its user community, namely with the Vimeo plugin.

You’re most likely already familiar with Vimeo, YouTube’s younger, more attractive and less trashy sibling.  Why less trashy? Maybe because Vimeo has strict upload guidelines, and was created by a community of artists.

So yesterday while I was perusing through the Vimeo plugin on Moovida, I came across some good recommended content, like NIN in concert. Cool beans. Image quality is great, and when searching for videos, both Vimeo and YouTube results appear, just in case you wouldn’t find anything in Vimeo (which would be my first choice for the reasons mentioned above). If you’re feeling uninspired, I’d suggested checking out the videos from the always entertaining Montreal based electrofunk duo Chromeo:

Chromeo “Night By Night” Video

Chromeo “Fancy Footwork” Video

Congratulations are in order for Michał Sawicz, Moovida’s tireless community member responsible  for the Vimeo, CNN and We Are Hunted plugins. To show your appreciation for his work and for bettering the lives of Moovidamankind, vote for Michal’s Vimeo plugin.

Remember that development contest we announced a while back? It was decided the Moovida community would determine the winners [1], and now has come the time to act.

Here are the contenders:

• Arte [2]
• CNN
• Vimeo
• We Are Hunted

The criteria to help guide your decision should be:

• Functionality: Does it work the way you want it to? If not, make sure to recommend improvements on our Forum, or report the bug
• Value: Do you dig the content and are you likely to use this plugin?

These plugins are now available, so if it’s not already done, install Moovida now and start enjoying the new content!

Vote for your favourite plugin until December 15th, 11:59 pm CET in the poll below.

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Good luck to our participants!

[1] 1st place plugin developer takes home the 1st prize, 2nd place plugin developer gets the 2nd place prize… you get the point

[2] Arte.tv only makes news content available to all, the rest of the content is restricted to France and Germany

Today another exciting addition was made to Moovida’s continuously growing plugin collection. Thanks to Arnaud Marlot, an excellent French contributor, Moovida users worldwide can now watch all the un-encrypted video content streamed by Canal+, a French premium pay television channel.

Canal+ boasts high quality content, essential for any French speaker. Ranging from the latest news to sporting events, cultural documentaries, and daily political satire such as Les Guignols de l’info, this plugin offers you a wide selection of video content.

Get it now from Moovida’s plugin repository!

Moovida’s plugin collection enriched with a new plugin from the community. Thanks to Arnaud Marlot, a French contributor, everyone can now watch all the video contents streamed by France Télévisions, the French public national television broadcaster.

Quality content, ranging from daily news to documentaries, sport and cultural programmes, await you, and all in French! You will have full access to the contents broadcast by no less than 5 channels: France 2, 3, 4, 5 and Ô.

Don’t wait to try it out, it’s available from Moovida’s plugin repository.