Your video introduction to the top Web services
The range of subjects covered by Grovo's videos is impressive, but missing from the roster are Yahoo, Wikipedia, Microsoft, and news sites (including a certain tech-news site). Several free videos are provided for specialty services such as the OpenTable restaurant reservation service, the Retargeter online-advertising site, and the Aviary image markup tool.I was a little surprised to see nearly a dozen videos related to Google's Chrome browser but nary a word about Firefox, let alone Internet Explorer or Safari. But I was very pleased with the quality of the video content, even with the cheesy wild-west chase scene introducing the security video.If you register with the site, Grovo offers pop quizzes on all the subjects covered in the videos. The quizzes have about two dozen true-false and multiple-choice questions; I took the Gmail test and scored 82 percent, although I didn't study the night before.It's very nice to find Grovo free of ads--at least at present. A big question is whether the subscriber base and partnerships will continue to subsidize the free videos. I imagine a pay-per-view model for the business topics would require a form of micropayments, like a mini-iTunes. If ever a site cried out for such a revenue model, it's Grovo.
