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Testing the New Video-Share Sites

Gayle Forman sat through 25 random travel videos and found four main themes. This being the Internet, of course, one of them was sex.
By Gayle Forman , March 2008 issue |

Sex sells Many of the sites have trouble fending off risqué material. A video on Travelistic called "Miami--Girls, Bikinis, Cars, Clubs, Bars, Beach, Sun," for instance, saves you the trip if all you want to do is drool over women.

It's a zoo out there Spanish bullfights and Dominican cockfights appear on several sites; the clips, thankfully, aren't very gory. Revver also has videos of elephants in Thailand playing soccer, throwing darts, and racing.

Everybody is a star Give some people a camera and they become the host of their own Travel Channel show. Take MostlyLisa (please?): She has videos on Revver depicting such mundane things as visiting an Apple store in London.

See the world Well-shot clips about unusual destinations really do inspire wanderlust. In a Trip­films video, two guys have adventures in China: skiing on slopes near the North Korean border and climbing on the Great Wall.

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