In an effort to socialize online video, BlipSnips has launched an iPhone app to accompany its Facebook application and website.  The BlipSnips for Facebook concept is this: shoot a video, add captions, tag your friends and post it directly to Facebook.  This makes it much easier for people watching your video to skip to the part they’re featured in, or if you’ve captioned the point where you or someone else falls flat on their face, that bit too.

The application is free to download and is very simple to use.  You sign in with your Facebook ID and can either select an existing video in your gallery, or shoot a new video from inside the app.  With that done, you’re presented with an editing page, where you add your captions and tags by scrubbing through the footage, before saving and uploading to Facebook.

When I gave it a try, it took three goes to get the video to appear with all the BlipSnips bonuses onboard.  The first time it only appeared as a video, the second said the video was in my upload queue but it clearly wasn’t; before on the third go, it uploaded and appeared with all the tags in place.  To see the tags and captions, the video plays through BlipSnips on Facebook, which is fine, but the video gets compressed down prior to uploading and is quite small.  We also encountered several error messages on the Facebook side of things.

This aside, it’s very easy to add tags – just start typing the name of the person you want to tag, and the app brings up suggestions from your friend list – and captions too, which work just like tweets.  So although it takes longer than simply uploading a raw video can do, it streamlines the process as much as possible.

If you’re an avid Facebooker who loves their videos – and according to BlipSnips, there are a lot of you – then do give the app a try, as you’ll no doubt love the added features.  Once the odd bug has been worked out, it’ll be interesting to see what comes next.