Re: [videoblogging] Re: breakthrough for open video on the web
i dont think the purpose of the video tag is to elliminate the use of javascript on a site. it is to provide a simple means of embedding video without being dependent on other techniques that satisfy different web browsers. this does not mean that, for example, you should not make use of javascript/ajax/css to handle the presentation and loading of a video using video tag. so whats the argument? i guess i would have to find the thread(s) over on the other list. Agreed. The real purpose isnt just having an agnostic video tag. As you said, simple javascript can replicate what the tag does. It's also important for the W3 to encourage and recommend a patent free video codec as a standard to maintain openness on the web. Just like we have patent free image and document extensions that everyone has adopted. Here's a video we just posted to help bring together some of the voices behind these ideas: http://openvideoconference.org/about/ Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Re: breakthrough for open video on the web
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:34 PM, tom_a_sparks tom_a_spa...@yahoo.com.au wrote: have a look at mv_embed (http://metavid.org/w/index.php/Mv_embed) and while your at it look at http://wiki.transmission.cc/index.php/FOSS_Codecs_For_Online_Video:_Usability_Uptake_and_Development_1.2 Yep, Michael Dale created the mv_embed to solve his own problems. The video tag is something that got adopted by the big boys in the HTML 5 standard. Both share the same principles. By the way, Michael Dale wrote a great blog post about why Ogg/theora is important and the challenges against it. http://metavid.org/blog/2007/12/11/the-attack-against-ogg-theora-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-proprietary-web *Theora is not widely used and has lost in the marketplace, the w3c has no place recommending a new not-widely supported codec. * Let us rewind to October, 1996, here the w3c recommend a little used patent-free image format. How many png images where used on the web before it was a standard? Where there other proprietary image technologies of course, but adopting them or recommending an agnostic image tag would have crippled the Full Potential of the Web and today web sites benefit tremendously from png images even as companies such as Microsoft dragged their feat on full support for almost a decade. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Leaders using video for dipolmacy
We know that Obama used web video effectively in his campaign, but now he's using web video to reach out to an entire nation and their leaders. http://www.whitehouse.gov/Nowruz/ They even include an MP3 and MP4 download. Subtitles in Farsi. Here's an article with more details: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/world/middleeast/21iran.html?hp The presidents message released with Farsi subtitles to some broadcasters in the Middle East and marking the Nowruz Spring holiday in Iran echoed sentiments in Mr. Obamas first televised interview from the White House in January in which he hinted at a new openness toward Iran. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: breakthrough for open video on the web
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: snip Agreed. The real purpose isnt just having an agnostic video tag. As you said, simple javascript can replicate what the tag does. It's also important for the W3 to encourage and recommend a patent free video codec as a standard to maintain openness on the web. Just like we have patent free image and document extensions that everyone has adopted. snip I agree where would the internet be today, if every corporation had a patent on http, html, email, etc ps: sorry for double posting
[videoblogging] Javascript of video tag
Here's a great example of how javascript, the video tag, and Ogg/Theora codec (available in the new Firefox) will enable some cool features. http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=1173 If you watch the screencast, someone created a bookmarklet that will allow the embedded player to change. You can DRAG the video to be as big as you want. Add different controls etc. With an open standard, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] How patience made a good camera
Intersting post about how the Flip camera has evolved into a pretty great, inexpensive camera: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/19/flip-video-wrong-wrong-wrong-and-then-so-so-right/ The San Francisco-based company is well known today for creating extremely small, well designed and inexpensive video cameras that take exceptional video. And the software that comes with the devices provides easy to use tools to edit that video and upload it to the web. But Pure Digital wasnt always selling hit products - it took seven years for the company to get it right. In the meantime, they launched products that just werent quite the right thing at the right time. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] How patience made a good camera
I was just about to buy myself an HD Xacti - but after reading that, I might get myself a Flip Mino HD instead. Last time I saw a Flip in action, I was amazed by how the sound and image were so much poorer than the video on my cheap digital stills camera. I was sure they were going to go bust. Sounds like they've sorted it, and had the money to stay afloat. Does anybody here have anything they've shot on a Mino HD that I can look at? And, more importantly, listen to? One of the commenters mentions the Kodak Zi6 alternative, which has rechargeable batteries and removable SD card instead of having to recharge and download by USB every time you run out of juice or space - so that sounds better for extended roaming use. My four year old little Kodak point and shoot digital camera is one of the best (and most durable) video cameras I've had, with great sound and colors, even though the camera body is ugly. One of the other commenters mentioned that the buttons on the Flip were badly designed so they go off accidentally in your pocket, record stuff, delete stuff. Any experience of this? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 20-Mar-09, at 8:07 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Intersting post about how the Flip camera has evolved into a pretty great, inexpensive camera: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/19/flip-video-wrong-wrong-wrong-and- then-so-so-right/ The San Francisco-based company is well known today for creating extremely small, well designed and inexpensive video cameras that take exceptional video. And the software that comes with the devices provides easy to use tools to edit that video and upload it to the web. But Pure Digital wasnt always selling hit products - it took seven years for the company to get it right. In the meantime, they launched products that just werent quite the right thing at the right time. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Leaders using video for dipolmacy
That is the most insanely awesome thing. It's an election year in Iran. This is the tone and content the people need to hear if they're not going to re-elect Ahmadinejad. I watched with Persian captions, you can turn them on with a click in the YouTube player. And the video quality was great. On 20-Mar-09, at 4:50 AM, Jay dedman wrote: We know that Obama used web video effectively in his campaign, but now he's using web video to reach out to an entire nation and their leaders. http://www.whitehouse.gov/Nowruz/ They even include an MP3 and MP4 download. Subtitles in Farsi. Here's an article with more details: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/21/world/middleeast/21iran.html?hp The presidents message released with Farsi subtitles to some broadcasters in the Middle East and marking the Nowruz Spring holiday in Iran echoed sentiments in Mr. Obamas first televised interview from the White House in January in which he hinted at a new openness toward Iran. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] How patience made a good camera
I forgot that Vimeo has sample clips of just about everything. Learnt there that the Kodak Zi6 has low light problems and is being superseded by the Zx1 next month, which has a smaller screen (only 2 inches) but has a splash proof / weather proof case. On 20-Mar-09, at 9:08 AM, Rupert wrote: I was just about to buy myself an HD Xacti - but after reading that, I might get myself a Flip Mino HD instead. Last time I saw a Flip in action, I was amazed by how the sound and image were so much poorer than the video on my cheap digital stills camera. I was sure they were going to go bust. Sounds like they've sorted it, and had the money to stay afloat. Does anybody here have anything they've shot on a Mino HD that I can look at? And, more importantly, listen to? One of the commenters mentions the Kodak Zi6 alternative, which has rechargeable batteries and removable SD card instead of having to recharge and download by USB every time you run out of juice or space - so that sounds better for extended roaming use. My four year old little Kodak point and shoot digital camera is one of the best (and most durable) video cameras I've had, with great sound and colors, even though the camera body is ugly. One of the other commenters mentioned that the buttons on the Flip were badly designed so they go off accidentally in your pocket, record stuff, delete stuff. Any experience of this? Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 20-Mar-09, at 8:07 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Intersting post about how the Flip camera has evolved into a pretty great, inexpensive camera: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/19/flip-video-wrong-wrong-wrong-and- then-so-so-right/ The San Francisco-based company is well known today for creating extremely small, well designed and inexpensive video cameras that take exceptional video. And the software that comes with the devices provides easy to use tools to edit that video and upload it to the web. But Pure Digital wasnt always selling hit products - it took seven years for the company to get it right. In the meantime, they launched products that just werent quite the right thing at the right time. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] How patience made a good camera
Earlier TechCrunch post where Arrington wonders why the Flip has been so successful when it's not as good as the video feature that most people have on their digital stills cameras. The answer is in the comments - like this one: Here’s why I like my flip: Number of videos of my kids shared with the grandparents before the flip = 0 Number of videos shared after the flip = zillions Sure, I can probably do all the same stuff with something else, but I didn’t. That’s why it’s great. Non-techy people love 1) the fact that there's no cable and 2) that the Flip software lets you can transfer, edit and upload to youtube really easily. They're prepared to sacrifice quality and features for simplicity and ease of use. Having better quality pictures isn't worth it if you're less able to share because the technological process daunts you. Also, it's a purpose-built video camera - therefore people instinctively trust it more than the extra video feature on what is supposed to be a stills camera. They assume that the video shot on their stills camera won't be much good, and that it'll be hard to do anything with it. And maybe they're right. My mother in law brought back some very short video clips that she'd shot on her Canon stills camera in Burma/ Myanmar. They were in AVI format that were too big to email and she'd taken some of them portrait instead of landscape. So she didn't know what to do with them. I had to get her to upload them to Blip, download them, transcode them to mp4, rotate them in Quicktime Pro, then reupload them. If she didn't know me, they would have sat unopened forever on her hard drive, considered useless. Now they're up on Blip - little moving snapshots from inside Burma - http:// jossy.blip.tv Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 20-Mar-09, at 8:07 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Intersting post about how the Flip camera has evolved into a pretty great, inexpensive camera: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/19/flip-video-wrong-wrong-wrong-and- then-so-so-right/ The San Francisco-based company is well known today for creating extremely small, well designed and inexpensive video cameras that take exceptional video. And the software that comes with the devices provides easy to use tools to edit that video and upload it to the web. But Pure Digital wasnt always selling hit products - it took seven years for the company to get it right. In the meantime, they launched products that just werent quite the right thing at the right time. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] How patience made a good camera
Non-techy people love 1) the fact that there's no cable and 2) that the Flip software lets you can transfer, edit and upload to youtube really easily. They're prepared to sacrifice quality and features for simplicity and ease of use. Having better quality pictures isn't worth it if you're less able to share because the technological process daunts you. By the packaging and marketing, I think Flip camera has borrowed their aesthetic from Apple. They are really good at one thing. The iPhone isn't as feature packed as the Nokia, but much easier to use. (we played around with the N96 the other day and it was way too confusing) People like devices that don't need instructions. We've been teaching some non-profits how to document their work...and the Flip camera is really the easiest thing to get them to use. Rupert's reasoning fits our experience. Maybe the Flip is like the gateway drug. Gets people comfortable shooting/uploading...then they'll crave more control and quality. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
[videoblogging] Happy IE8 Day
For all of you who design your own videoblogs, or design sites for other people, this is a red letter day. Internet Explorer with web standards. Many hours of wasted life reclaimed. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] How patience made a good camera
Making an usual foray into pessimism, I have to say that we thought the same thing about YouTube. Maybe it just needs more time. Or maybe... To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence. - Nietzsche On 20-Mar-09, at 10:10 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Maybe the Flip is like the gateway drug. Gets people comfortable shooting/uploading...then they'll crave more control and quality. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] How patience made a good camera
Imagining the possibilities of Flip + Cisco... When high-speed wireless networks are pervasive (and not constrained by Telecoms), and low-cost purpose-built cameras like Flip can share to the network immediately That will be the AK-47 of video cameras ~ Josh On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: Non-techy people love 1) the fact that there's no cable and 2) that the Flip software lets you can transfer, edit and upload to youtube really easily. They're prepared to sacrifice quality and features for simplicity and ease of use. Having better quality pictures isn't worth it if you're less able to share because the technological process daunts you. By the packaging and marketing, I think Flip camera has borrowed their aesthetic from Apple. They are really good at one thing. The iPhone isn't as feature packed as the Nokia, but much easier to use. (we played around with the N96 the other day and it was way too confusing) People like devices that don't need instructions. We've been teaching some non-profits how to document their work...and the Flip camera is really the easiest thing to get them to use. Rupert's reasoning fits our experience. Maybe the Flip is like the gateway drug. Gets people comfortable shooting/uploading...then they'll crave more control and quality. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] How patience made a good camera
and/or more wifi sd cards http://www.eye.fi/ On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Joshua Kinberg jkinb...@gmail.com wrote: Imagining the possibilities of Flip + Cisco... When high-speed wireless networks are pervasive (and not constrained by Telecoms), and low-cost purpose-built cameras like Flip can share to the network immediately That will be the AK-47 of video cameras ~ Josh On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.comjay.dedman%40gmail.com wrote: Non-techy people love 1) the fact that there's no cable and 2) that the Flip software lets you can transfer, edit and upload to youtube really easily. They're prepared to sacrifice quality and features for simplicity and ease of use. Having better quality pictures isn't worth it if you're less able to share because the technological process daunts you. By the packaging and marketing, I think Flip camera has borrowed their aesthetic from Apple. They are really good at one thing. The iPhone isn't as feature packed as the Nokia, but much easier to use. (we played around with the N96 the other day and it was way too confusing) People like devices that don't need instructions. We've been teaching some non-profits how to document their work...and the Flip camera is really the easiest thing to get them to use. Rupert's reasoning fits our experience. Maybe the Flip is like the gateway drug. Gets people comfortable shooting/uploading...then they'll crave more control and quality. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] How patience made a good camera
Some people in the TC comments were wondering what was in it for Cisco - why they were buying what was apparently just a Consumer Electronics product. Somebody suggested that it was to bump demand for their other products by having millions of users flooding the internet with huge HD video files. Yours seems like a better fit. A potential future wireless n camera that does what I loved my Nokia N93 for - cut out the computer, allow you to just upload via your (Cisco/Linksys) router straight to YouTube or similar. Add to that a proper browser-based editing program and you'd have both an AK-47 and a Swiss Army Knife. Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 20-Mar-09, at 10:41 AM, Joshua Kinberg wrote: Imagining the possibilities of Flip + Cisco... When high-speed wireless networks are pervasive (and not constrained by Telecoms), and low-cost purpose-built cameras like Flip can share to the network immediately That will be the AK-47 of video cameras ~ Josh On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: Non-techy people love 1) the fact that there's no cable and 2) that the Flip software lets you can transfer, edit and upload to youtube really easily. They're prepared to sacrifice quality and features for simplicity and ease of use. Having better quality pictures isn't worth it if you're less able to share because the technological process daunts you. By the packaging and marketing, I think Flip camera has borrowed their aesthetic from Apple. They are really good at one thing. The iPhone isn't as feature packed as the Nokia, but much easier to use. (we played around with the N96 the other day and it was way too confusing) People like devices that don't need instructions. We've been teaching some non-profits how to document their work...and the Flip camera is really the easiest thing to get them to use. Rupert's reasoning fits our experience. Maybe the Flip is like the gateway drug. Gets people comfortable shooting/uploading...then they'll crave more control and quality. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Nice way to tell a story
Love it! It's like NPR radio with photos. nicely done. 2009/3/20 Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com Here's a hybrid of web video that's really effective: http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html The NYTimes interviews people about who they are...and overlay it over quality photos. Smart. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 679 . __,_._,__ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Happy IE8 Day
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote: For all of you who design your own videoblogs, or design sites for other people, this is a red letter day. Internet Explorer with web standards. Many hours of wasted life reclaimed. Is IE8 really that make of a sea change. Is it like Firefox now? are we talking about just coding one page for all browsers? Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] How patience made a good camera
Yeah, Nokia's features are good, and beat Apple in lots of ways. But the Nokia UI is a disaster. They either don't test, or they don't listen. Or both. Given my history, I should be their greatest ambassador, but I've gone off them in a big way. Not that I have an iPhone either. In fact, I don't even have cellphone service anymore. So much for the concept of Twittervlog! Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 20-Mar-09, at 10:10 AM, Jay dedman wrote: By the packaging and marketing, I think Flip camera has borrowed their aesthetic from Apple. They are really good at one thing. The iPhone isn't as feature packed as the Nokia, but much easier to use. (we played around with the N96 the other day and it was way too confusing) Jay [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Happy IE8 Day
Well... as discussed on a local web professionals group that I'm part of in north Vancouver Island, we're not talking about forgetting IE7 and even IE6 just yet. They'll be around for a long time. In London, almost everyone I knew and worked for had XP and was willing to install FF and IE7. Here in the sticks, some people are still on Windows 98. They couldn't download new software even if they wanted to. One very talented local designer said, Two years ago we had to build a site that rendered well on Netscape 4 for Mac because that's what our client used. We just finished a project where the client was on IE 6 on an 800x600 monitor. Fair enough, in both cases, but hugely frustrating and quite limiting. That kind of compatibility requirement from clients is going to carry on for years. One of the things I've realised is that people with really old PCs running Windows 98 can still see YouTube, even though they can't see any type of video or video sharing site. Which just illustrates YouTube's genius in choosing to stick with their crappy Flash 7 codec. When all the other video sites were competing in quality and features, YouTube's priorities were maximum compatibility and not caring about copyright infringement. That's what made them win. They didn't listen to what everybody else was saying was important. Their site worked for 99% of users, as opposed to the 60 or 70 that could see Blip because they had to have Flash 8, 9 or 10 installed. And their site had the clips that people wanted to share - old TV clips and music videos. Like with the other discussion about the Flip, even though it was crappy quality, YouTube *just worked* for everyone, so everyone used it. R On 20-Mar-09, at 11:27 AM, Jay dedman wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote: For all of you who design your own videoblogs, or design sites for other people, this is a red letter day. Internet Explorer with web standards. Many hours of wasted life reclaimed. Is IE8 really that make of a sea change. Is it like Firefox now? are we talking about just coding one page for all browsers? Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Happy IE8 Day
About freaking time. 2009/3/20 Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org Well... as discussed on a local web professionals group that I'm part of in north Vancouver Island, we're not talking about forgetting IE7 and even IE6 just yet. They'll be around for a long time. In London, almost everyone I knew and worked for had XP and was willing to install FF and IE7. Here in the sticks, some people are still on Windows 98. They couldn't download new software even if they wanted to. One very talented local designer said, Two years ago we had to build a site that rendered well on Netscape 4 for Mac because that's what our client used. We just finished a project where the client was on IE 6 on an 800x600 monitor. Fair enough, in both cases, but hugely frustrating and quite limiting. That kind of compatibility requirement from clients is going to carry on for years. One of the things I've realised is that people with really old PCs running Windows 98 can still see YouTube, even though they can't see any type of video or video sharing site. Which just illustrates YouTube's genius in choosing to stick with their crappy Flash 7 codec. When all the other video sites were competing in quality and features, YouTube's priorities were maximum compatibility and not caring about copyright infringement. That's what made them win. They didn't listen to what everybody else was saying was important. Their site worked for 99% of users, as opposed to the 60 or 70 that could see Blip because they had to have Flash 8, 9 or 10 installed. And their site had the clips that people wanted to share - old TV clips and music videos. Like with the other discussion about the Flip, even though it was crappy quality, YouTube *just worked* for everyone, so everyone used it. R On 20-Mar-09, at 11:27 AM, Jay dedman wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.orgrupert%40fatgirlinohio.org wrote: For all of you who design your own videoblogs, or design sites for other people, this is a red letter day. Internet Explorer with web standards. Many hours of wasted life reclaimed. Is IE8 really that make of a sea change. Is it like Firefox now? are we talking about just coding one page for all browsers? Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Jeffrey Taylor 912 Cole St, #349 San Francisco, CA 94117 USA Mobile: +14157281264 Fax: +33177722734 http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor http://organicconversations.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Kiva.org video
Hey all, A friend of mine is working with Kiva (http://kiva.org). They are in need of an entertaining video to explain Kiva to investors, something along the lines of this animated Credit Crisis Visualized video ( http://vimeo.com/3261363). Unfortunately they don't have a budget for such a thing, so they're looking for someone who could benefit from a bunch of exposure in exchange for some donated video production work hours. If anyone is interested, email me back and I'll put you in touch with them. Thanks, Adam Quirk http://wreckandsalvage.com http://theinterwebs.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Kiva.org video
Wow - that Credit Crisis video is great. Tall order - getting something as good as that. As well as looking for one person who could do it, you could look for two: a illustrator and an After Effects whiz to work together on it. On 20-Mar-09, at 12:23 PM, Adam Quirk wrote: Hey all, A friend of mine is working with Kiva (http://kiva.org). They are in need of an entertaining video to explain Kiva to investors, something along the lines of this animated Credit Crisis Visualized video ( http://vimeo.com/3261363). Unfortunately they don't have a budget for such a thing, so they're looking for someone who could benefit from a bunch of exposure in exchange for some donated video production work hours. If anyone is interested, email me back and I'll put you in touch with them. Thanks, Adam Quirk http://wreckandsalvage.com http://theinterwebs.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: How patience made a good camera
I've been saying since I have been on this group, that ease will almost always trump everything else... We are just a small group when compared to the world and for most people, they just want it to work and to be easyI mean let's face it, that's why Itunes and Ipods were/are so successful, why DVD's were adopted so quickly, etc... ease, ease, easepeople just want it to work and not put a whole lot of effort into thinkingsad but true.. Heath http://heathparks.com/blog1 --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rupert rup...@... wrote: Making an usual foray into pessimism, I have to say that we thought the same thing about YouTube. Maybe it just needs more time. Or maybe... To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence. - Nietzsche On 20-Mar-09, at 10:10 AM, Jay dedman wrote: Maybe the Flip is like the gateway drug. Gets people comfortable shooting/uploading...then they'll crave more control and quality. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Kiva.org video
Yeah, it's quite an enormous order. Good idea though to try to find a pair of folks. I think this particular project (Kiva) is incredibly awesome, and if I had any spare hours I'd definitely donate them to this. I'm just barely making time for my billable work right now though, so it's out of my hands. On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Rupert rup...@fatgirlinohio.org wrote: Wow - that Credit Crisis video is great. Tall order - getting something as good as that. As well as looking for one person who could do it, you could look for two: a illustrator and an After Effects whiz to work together on it. On 20-Mar-09, at 12:23 PM, Adam Quirk wrote: Hey all, A friend of mine is working with Kiva (http://kiva.org). They are in need of an entertaining video to explain Kiva to investors, something along the lines of this animated Credit Crisis Visualized video ( http://vimeo.com/3261363). Unfortunately they don't have a budget for such a thing, so they're looking for someone who could benefit from a bunch of exposure in exchange for some donated video production work hours. If anyone is interested, email me back and I'll put you in touch with them. Thanks, Adam Quirk http://wreckandsalvage.com http://theinterwebs.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Does anyone have a copy of FCP to sell?
I finally treated myself to a new Macbook Pro. It's a beautiful thing. Now that I have moved beyond my G4 Powerbook, I want to get myself a more up-to-date copy of Final Cut Pro. I'm currently stuck back in version 4.5 Does anybody have a copy they'd like to sell? I know it's a long shot, as most of you will still need your copies. But perhaps you bought one and found it was overkill? Or perhaps you are checking this list one last time before turning Amish? I also wouldn't mind a copy of After Effects. Email me offlist at rupert at twittervlog tv Rupert http://twittervlog.tv Rupert http://twittervlog.tv/ Creative Mobile Filmmaking Shot, edited and sent with my Nokia N93 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[videoblogging] Re: Roadtrip 2009
Thanks, Jay! We saw a lot of stuff today, now I just have to put together some videos before we go out for dinner! --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman jay.ded...@... wrote: Hey everybody. I'll be going on spring break this week in Alton, IL and Hannibal, MO, and I will again be documenting the whole thing on my videoblog,http://www.newroachmotel.com. Also, you can follow me on Twitter, at http://www.twitter.com/newroachmotel. There, you can see pictures and even follow my GPS co-ordinates. It all starts Wednesday. Tell your friends! Im digging your videos. road trips are always a good frame for posting videos. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
