[videoblogging] Re: feedback on vblog hosting features
- Syndication. Is being able to syndicate your video to other sites of any value? The idea would be to have the option to publish your video to other sites and then they can decide if they want it or not, furthering the reach of the video. Do you mean RSS? RSS is crucial. Peter Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: feedback on vblog hosting features
- Blog integration. Allowing you to easily publish the video to blogger.com or other blog engines. I hate this feature. I prefer the flexibility of sharing html video code myself. I love this feature. So there you go :) Peter Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: A question to the video bloggers
Let's say there was a website that allowed you to post your video clips to be viewed and purchased by mobile phone customers. Would you use it? Only if the licensing wasn't restrictive (I own my content and can take it anywhere I like). Then I would try it. If it generated some real $, I'd continue to use it. Hell, if it was easy to use I'd probably use it even if it generated no significant $ (for anyone), just as a service to my users. Peter Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Wikipedia videoblogging entry
I removed most outside links from the Wikipedia videoblogging entry (including the one to Mefeedia), leaving only a link to a few key, nonprofit sites: this group, freevlog and vlogmap. Sure, disagree, but its better this way than with a long list of self-serving commercial links. Wikipedia is not a directory. Then again, I'm sure someone will change it back. Oh well. Cheers, Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: YouAreTV: New and improved with better features and better terms .
So you will be syndicating Flash FLV files using RSS enclosures? If that's the case, then FireAnt is the only aggregator that supports this at the moment. Don't forget Mefeedia.com, we support Flash video ;) Flash may be more lightweight but its certainly not as portable. Absolutely, as in: you can't play Flash on your video iPod. Do you really want to ignore the iPod market? It's a big choice, and Flash is the somewhat easier choice technically, but not necessarily the best one marketwise. Peter Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: new strmz.com beta
The site is a mashup of programming from major media outlets; popular video-blogs and podcasts; and top-rated content from video upload services Nothing against mashup services, and I hope this one has a great future, but I see a problem: - major media outlets - popular videoblogs - top-rated content If you focus on major, popular and top-rated, you will not add any real value in letting discovering people cool stuff. The only way to add value as a mash-up service or aggregator is to show people obscure, unknown or unpopular stuff that is good, that you have discovered. Just a tip :) Don't focus on the popular or you're competing with AOL video on *their* terms. Better to compete with them by offering us something different. Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Wall Street Journal: Videoblogging
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Devlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice to hear about some new videobloggers in these articles. Yeah, totally. I think we need to start highlighting unknown vloggers on our blogs, send the love around :) I mentioned a few lesser known vlogs to the journalist when talking to them, but it doesn't seem like she included them in the article. And: Peter Van Dijck, who runs the mefeedia site, says that in past months the vlog boom has paralleled the increase in numbers of people switching from slower dial-up Internet connections to faster broadband connections. Well, that's not really what I said or meant, but oh well. I don't think there's been a boom in broadband connections specificaly in the past months :) Cheers! I'm off on a long holiday today, backpacking in Thailand for 5 weeks. Have fun vloggers. Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- AIDS in India: A lurking bomb. Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/9QUssC/lzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Wall Street Journal: Videoblogging
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Devlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice to hear about some new videobloggers in these articles. Feather on my own cap: I did mention the laughing practice woman to her, so that's one unknown vlogger I promoted successfully :) The idea behind laughpractice.blogspot.com is to find hilarity in the mundane and spread goodwill through laughter. Anyone anywhere in the world can log into the blog and have a laugh along with me, says Ms. Agnew, a technical-communications professor at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology in Toronto and self-described certified laugh leader. Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/.QUssC/izNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Wall Street Journal: Videoblogging
of course. seems to be an A-List of vloggers, evangelists, services that are repeatedly mentioned over and over. I suppose this makes sense for the latter groups but its def good to see new vloggers getting attention... The variety is usually good... from rboom to laughterpractice. just wish the reporters/editors would not 'borrow' so much from other articles and resources and go out and find the nuggets themselves. Reporters are busy (ie. lazy) ;) Whatever vlogs you mention to them they will probably check out, so make sure you can mention a few unknown ones :) Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income homes are not online. Make a difference this holiday season! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5UeCyC/BWHMAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] For next year: promote unknown vloggers
So here's my plan for next year (just thought of this): every time I talk to the press, I'll try to promote a few unknown videoblogs, instead of the usual suspects. Sorry usual suspects, but the newbies need the love more :) I'll make a list of newbie blogs that I like for myself so I have something handy. If not, I tend to mention the ones that come to mind, and those are the already famous ones that don't need my help promoting them. :) I'm *really* signing off now. 30 hour flight! Wooh! Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/.QUssC/izNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] video Flickr?
A short video: http://news.com.com/1606-2-5997652.html (About video Flickr) I can't make any announcements along those lines, but it is certainly something that is hotly discussed and debated in the team. Which I take to mean: some Flickr people want to keep their focus on fotos, others want to jump in the video space. We'll see. :) Peter -- http://mefeedia.com = Try the new BlogThis for revlogging! Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/.QUssC/izNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Wall Street Journal: Videoblogging
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Devlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love Vlog Soup Steve, Love it :) me too. Vlogsoup rocks. Totally. Peter -- http://mefeedia.com - Now supports easy revlogging with BlogThis! Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: For next year: promote unknown vloggers
Not sure why you would be interviewed yet have nothing appear in the article about you or your site at all? Rather odd doncha think? No that's normal. A lot of stuff gets edited out of articles, nothing to worry about. Peter -- http://mefeedia.com - now supports easy revlogging with BlogThis! Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/.QUssC/izNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Wall Street Journal: Videoblogging
Having said that, I do think that FireANT (on the Mac at least) could have a much larger directory of feeds to choose from, and perhaps an 'activate' checkbox... I'm thinking of the huge list available in standard aggregators like NetNewsWire. Would be a nice touch and appear less like a cliquey club. Yeah.. I've removed the default subscriptions (the usual suspects) from Mefeedia for that reason, to level the playing field. I know ANT is coming out with a new directory which probably will do its best to level the playing field as well. Now, a new subscriber to Mefeedia gets 1 video (a really crappy one of me welcoming them), and then they just have to go discover feeds in the directory and subscribe themselves.. Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Another bug in FeedBurner stats?
I'm beginning to wonder what happened to FeedBurner's validity. It all started with the bloated Mefeedia numbers, but now I'm seeing other aggregators get reported wrong (or at least I have good reason to think so). Just to be clear: the Mefeedia numbers were wrong for 6 vlogs for 1 day. The problem is fixed now, the Mefeedia numbers are correct and real for everyone. :) Matt, you can email Feedburner with questions like this. They're very helpful and I'm sure they'll answer your questions in detail. Cheers, Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income homes are not online. Make a difference this holiday season! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5UeCyC/BWHMAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] quick release note
The new version of Mefeedia is live. With funky revlogging functionality ;) Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income homes are not online. Make a difference this holiday season! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5UeCyC/BWHMAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] WikiTags
One of my favourite new features in Mefeedia are the wikitags: you can now edit the description of any tag like in a wiki. For example: http://mefeedia.com/tags/evilvlog/ I really like what people are editing. There's an RSS feed of the edits here: http://mefeedia.com/rss/tag_wiki.php P Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/2jUsvC/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: 3974 subscribers? not quite
http://mefeedia.com/feeds/96 Ryanne's blog has 89 subscribers in Mefeedia, and that's the number we're reporting to Feedburner. Perhaps they cache something, and perhaps you cache something and it takes longer to update? I'll check with the Feedburner guys :) Peter 4009 for Ryanne and 1061 for LeanBackVids yesterday... Looks like the bug is still causing inflated numbers. http://www.vlogmap.org/feedburner/ -Matt --- http://ridertech.com http://leanbackvids.com http://vlogmap.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, ryanne hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i knew it was an error i usually get from 400-600 downloads of my videos peter reported that yes, this was an error and also seemed to have mistakenly deleted about 220 subscribers of mine in mefeedia. sooo. if you were subscribed to me through mefeedia, and now i'm not in your Video Queue... please re-subscribe! http://mefeedia.com/feeds/96/ -- me: http://ryanedit.blogspot.com educate in person: http://nyc.node101.org educate online: http://freevlog.org videos i want you to see: http://revlog.blogspot.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/WpTY2A/izNLAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: 3974 subscribers? not quite
Cool, thanks Matt. I'm looking into it with the Feedburner guys. Peter Not an error on my end. Here is the data directly from the FeedBurner API... http://api.feedburner.com/awareness/1.0/GetFeedData?uri=RyannesVideoBlog -Matt --- http://ridertech.com http://leanbackvids.com http://vlogmap.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, petertheman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://mefeedia.com/feeds/96 Ryanne's blog has 89 subscribers in Mefeedia, and that's the number we're reporting to Feedburner. Perhaps they cache something, and perhaps you cache something and it takes longer to update? I'll check with the Feedburner guys :) Peter 4009 for Ryanne and 1061 for LeanBackVids yesterday... Looks like the bug is still causing inflated numbers. http://www.vlogmap.org/feedburner/ -Matt --- http://ridertech.com http://leanbackvids.com http://vlogmap.org --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, ryanne hodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i knew it was an error i usually get from 400-600 downloads of my videos peter reported that yes, this was an error and also seemed to have mistakenly deleted about 220 subscribers of mine in mefeedia. sooo. if you were subscribed to me through mefeedia, and now i'm not in your Video Queue... please re-subscribe! http://mefeedia.com/feeds/96/ -- me: http://ryanedit.blogspot.com educate in person: http://nyc.node101.org educate online: http://freevlog.org videos i want you to see: http://revlog.blogspot.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income homes are not online. Make a difference this holiday season! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5UeCyC/BWHMAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Lost Mefeedia ID - How to retieve ?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, deepstream_nl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, Does anybody know how to retrieve your Mefeedia ID. I'v misplaced it! I follow the simple steps at Mefeedia and seem to hit a brick wall! Ron at - DutchVlog hey Ron, email me (at the email on the mefeedia homepage), I'll fix it for you. :) Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: 3974 subscribers? not quite
OK, it is as I thought: the data is being cached. I just talked to the Feedburner guys. The stats are just a little out of date because of caching. We've been sending the correct amount since yesterday, and by tomorrow everything should be showing the correct amount. The Feedburner live stats go back 24-26 hours (interesting to know!), so today in about an hour or two those should show the correct amount (we've been sending the correct stats since yesterday). The other stats (chicklet, API used by vlogmap, ...) are cached a bit longer, so they will show up correctly tomorrow. Sorry 'bout all this :) Let me know if any more questions or concerns! Cheers, Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Mefeedia subscriber stats now tracked by Mefeedia
Hi all, if you use Feedburner for your RSS feed, your stats will show your Mefeedia subscribers from today on. Here's more explanation and screenshots: http://mefeedia.com/blog/2005/12/52/ Enjoy! Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/2jUsvC/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Mefeedia feed subscriptions tracked by Feedburner
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Verdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, Ryanne even outdid the porn site! -Verdi On Dec 13, 2005, at 10:49 AM, Josh Leo wrote: wow looks like Ryanne is the new queen over at vlogmap.com/ feedburner now that Mefeedia is in thereeveryone got a big boost...some more than others! Ryanne's numbers (and 6 other vlogs) where wrong, it's fixed now. By tonight it will be showing the correct numbers. Cheers! Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Mefeedia feed subscriptions tracked by Feedburner
u i don't understand how that happened my videos only get downloaded by about 400 people a day according to blip stats but i guess that means people are on text browsers and not watching the vids? or on mefeedia, but that should register too? Hey Ryanne, your subscriber number had a problem, it's fixed now, by tonight Feedburner should report the correct one. There is a difference between subscribers and people who watch. Someone might be subscribed to you, but they might never turn on their computer, so they're not watching any videos. ps: yes, if they watch it on the Mefeedia site that registers too. Some of those 400 are probably watching it through Mefeedia. Hope that helps? Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/u8TY5A/tzNLAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Mefeedia feed subscriptions tracked by Feedburner
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I answer the question, How many people are subscribed to my feed? That's the number Feedburner gives you. Or maybe there's still a misunderstanding? What Mefeedia reports to Feedburner are actual people who have subscribed to your feed. Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Mefeedia feed subscriptions tracked by Feedburner
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, LeanBackVids.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oops- Peter responded while I was typing. -- Matt Yep. There were 6 vlogs that got 1000s of vloggers reported, that was a bug. It's been fixed now :) Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income homes are not online. Make a difference this holiday season! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5UeCyC/BWHMAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: making directories
You're assuming that the lact of a directory is a problem. Here's my view. First, with video, you need a lot more info to decide where to put your attention than with text, because video demands more attention (you can't just quickly scan it like a text post, for example). So for video, you need more filters, metadata, information that helps you decide what to put your limited attention towards. It's an attention war. Hence, directories can be useful. Second: we as vloggers, for some reason, aren't really linking a lot to each other's videos. I'm not sure why that is. But it does mean that we have less interlinking than textbloggers to help people discover new stuff. Hence, a directory makes sense, again. Third: search for video is an unsolved problem, and will continue to be, especially for our type of long tail video. Hence, .. you get the picture :) Then again I could be wrong also and Google might come out with a great algorythmic way to find videos you want to watch, or we might all start linking like crazy to each others videos and we wouldn't need directories to discover cool stuff. Oh well. Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/.QUssC/izNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Multiple file formats in MT feeds
(Kinda a beginners question) Is it possible to save an MPEG4 movie that works then on PSP and iPod (and possible other devices)? What kinds of settings would I need? I'm looking for something with greatest compatibility.. I don't want to change all my videos again in 6 months when the next big device comes out.. Also, links to good resources about transcoding appreciated.. Thanks! Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/I258zB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Vlog porn - my fix for now: comments?
Hi all, so I implemented a fix (it's not live yet, but will be next week). Here are some screenshots: http://flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/69373519/ http://flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/69373437/ http://flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/69373386 What it does is put a 'parental advisory thumbnail on feeds that we have flagged as porn (it is surprisingly easy to catch most porn feeds and flag them manually). If you subscribe to this feed or queue its videos, you get the real thumbnails. This addresses the problem of innocently browsing Mefeedia and seeing pictures that can be fairly heavy, especially before breakfast. It doesn't censor any feeds in any way apart from just not showing the picture - you can still subscribe to the feeds, watch videos. If you want to. But it does make browsing videoblogs a nicer experience, and de-emphasizes the inevitable porn feeds. Of course this is just my first stab at fixing the problem, and this approach will evolve over the coming months and years. What do you guys and girls think about this approach for now? Does it work? Does it address your concerns? Would you show Mefeedia to your kids/students as a place to find videoblogs? Cheers, Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/I258zB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Bad internet archive URLs
I've added some code to Mefeedia to check for bad internet archive URLs and provide fixes for the vloggers. It'll be out next week, here's a screenshot of a feeds details page: http://flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/69379495/ and http://flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/69379752/ (Michael, those are yours!) So if you're not sure you might have used some bad Archive URLs in the past (most people have), next week when this is live go check your details page. (or you can go to the beta site today, I'm sure you can figure out the URL ;) Peter (sorry for the spam, I am just going crazy with Flickr today..) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Vlog porn - my fix for now: comments?
What about the text descriptions? The text descriptions are still there.. the idea isn't to remove any porn feeds... it's to make it less offensive to browse mefeedia. I don't want to censor anything at this point. Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- AIDS in India: A lurking bomb. Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/9QUssC/lzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Porn on mefeedia??
I wouldn't go with G, PG, X type ratings... As mentioned, 'adult' doesn't always mean X, etc. Perhaps following the iTunes model of marking things as 'mature' or 'explicit' or whatever might work. For people not logged in, I would filter out all 'mature' content. For people who are logged in, provide a checkbox for whether they want 'mature' content displayed to them or not. Don't the various search engines do something similar with the results they display? Good ideas. I am taking the light approach here: take it easy on the fixes. Step by step. In a month or two, I am sure we'll add some more features. There's a distinction between 'porn' and 'kid-safe' yes. The kidsafe tag is a good example: http://mefeedia.com/tags/kidsafe know that I'm sometimes not even sure if I should want videos in FireANT when my kids are in the room. Yep. It's a complex issue. I just want to make sure we provide solutions that scale and that work, but don't censor. There is enough censorship out there. Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Porn Shmorn. Grow up! There's real life going on.
It's a good idea, but requires more coding than I can muster right now.. Will probably implement this in January.. Peter Not that this thread hasn't run it's course, but I do like one suggestion that was made, and I sincerely hope that Peter takes it into serious consideration. The suggestion was to safe filter by default, much the way Google does for image searches. Considering how public (both figuratively and financially) Google is, I feel they devised a very good solution; the filter is easy enough to disable should you desire to. My 2ยข. - joshpaul On Dec 2, 2005, at 9:17 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: the kid can also google porn and BOOYA!! of course some kids may be a little too curious too soon... but we should discuss the issue broadly and generalize, knowing that their are always exceptions. no solution will ever be perfect. On 12/2/05, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Pete Prodoehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jay dedman wrote: Maybe the opposite approach would be logical? Instead of filtering the not for kids stuff, filter the kid friendly stuff. And include a warning on site stating that there may be adult content within, but check out our kid-friendly zone here You can then have categories/tags/sections of kid safe video content which could be many things and is up to the directory curators to decide how best to approach that. My point is, IF the concern for children resides in the sites owner and IF they care to put effort towards designating a section on the site geared for children education and entertainment etc, then this could take care of most of the aforementioned issues maybe ;-) great idea. very proactive. eric rice and ryanne made a kidsafe feed a while back for eric's kids. http://video.ericrice.com/videoblogs/ANTresearch.mov but i think the feed died out. see this is a great idea: a kidsafe directory. itll come as content grows. im not interested in censoring, but in organizing and educating. everything will exist. we can simply chose where. Well, we already have yahooligans.yahoo.com, what about kids.mefeedia.com? :) It would be cool to be able to point kids to a videoblogging directory and let them explore what's there. Sometimes the most creative stuff comes from kids and the way they look at the world. You know, before the reality of it all crushes their spirit and makes them just another cog in the corporate machine that is today's society. Pete -- http://tinkernet.org/ videoblog for the future... I remember when I was a kid I didn't want to read books for children but those adults thought were important. I think I kids section will interest parents mostly. -- Enric Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/I258zB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links -- sull - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The hybrid or the meeting of two media is a moment of truth and revelation from which new form is born - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://vlogdir.com - The Videoblog Directory http://videobloggers.org - Free Videoblog Hosting / Vlogosphere Aggregator http://interdigitate.com - on again off again personal vlog SPONSORED LINKS Individual Fireant Typepad Use YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group videoblogging on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/u8TY5A/tzNLAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Porn on mefeedia??
Hey Jay, yes, I noticed it as well. It was inevitable, I am actually surprised it took this long.. So here's the plan we have, for now. In a few months we'll probably add more features. I have given this some thought over the past months, and there is a balance: I want mefeedia to be an open directory, which means we don't censor feeds (except in extreme cases of hate speach and such...), not even porn. The best example of a feed I don't want to censor is Richard's (MAdge Weinstein), which is sometimes very good, and a great videoblog, but also could be called pretty nasty porn, sometimes. So: if we don't want to censor, but we do want to protect, what do we do? While surfing Mefeedia, the shock I get is from seeing the thumbnails. It's just not nice to see a thumbnail of some naked guy if you're not expecting it. Bad experience. So I have decided to, for porn feeds, *not* to show thumbnails in the website. The feeds are still there, you can still subscribe to them. But the pictures are hidden: so you can browse the website and you won't see any naked people. I think that's a good first step. It's a careful step. I am very conscious of not wanting to censor people's feeds. But I think this will help. It should be live in about a week. Any comments? Peter Just wanted to throw something out to the vlogger community. I just went to check mefeedia site. Because of an email from Devlon and was bummed to see some one had submitted a Iporn site which was inevitable. I personally am not opposed to porn but when it comes up so blatantly we as vloggers are going to need to find away so that when we are showing new people youth how to Vlog and the tools that are available that this stuff does not hit us in the face. Hopefully someone is exploring ways to deal with it. I am commited to helping others learn to Vlogg. Jay Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.superioradventurestv.com/ http://www.superioradventurestv.blogspot.com/ http://www.superioreducationaltelevision.org/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Porn on mefeedia??
I personally am not opposed to porn but when it comes up so blatantly we as vloggers are going to need to find away so that when we are showing new people youth how to Vlog and the tools that are available that this stuff does not hit us in the face. This is by the way exactly the way I feel about it. I want Mefeedia to be a place you can send your kids, but at the same time not censor feeds, continue to be an open directory. Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Porn on mefeedia??
Why not provide an option for users to flag certain content as questionable or offensive, then put that content/feed into moderation queue for possible removal. Flagging is another thing we're working on. The key is this though: I don't want to remove feeds like Richard's, even though they contain porn. If you have an open directory, you need to be open. I *will* remove things like children's porn or hate speech, or course. But anyway, giving users the choice is the way to go I think. I want to work on various ways to avoid seeing stuff you really don't want to. Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/I258zB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Porn on mefeedia??
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, andrew michael baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think you should be required to sensor anything if you dont want to. In order to gain a lasting trust with the users of your system, however, I think it would be important for you to provide a rating system for adult content. Its not just for kids - I would like to see an alert that gave me a chance to know that a video was porn or violent BEFORE I discovered that from watching it. I have seen so many disturbing war killings and violent sex acts recently via sites like del.icio.us and blogdigger that I really do feel changed in a negative way and if asked, I would have declined the opportunity to see them. It's as if I have lived through a generation of global psychological tragedy in a single season. Andrew, that's a really valuable comment, thanks. I will work on it. We want videoblogging to be a positive experience, and limiting exposure to certain types of video (without censoring) is a part of that. I agree with that. Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/I258zB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers
OK, Here's an overview of the Mefeedia thumbnail feature. 1) It doesn't generate thumbs for *all* types of movies. For most movies it does, including Flash movies, Windows media movies, you name it. There are some codecs that it can't handle, unfortunately, but it gets most of them. 2) It takes the server about 3 minutes of hard, processor intensive work per movie: download movie, create thumbs, resize thumbs, cleanup. This is a dual processor server with 2 Gigs of RAM. 3) We do 2 movies per minute now (before we switched to the dedicated server we did 1 movie each 5 minutes). So far, in total, we've generated thumbs for 64,695 movies. Mefeedia has 111,054 movies in its database, so we are clearly behind. More and more people are starting to videoblog, so its like a race to keep up. 4) We are currently working to find solutions that don't require me to pay 10s of 1000s of dollars in server fees (out of my pocket).. 5) The reason that old movies still haven't been thumbed is that there are about 55,000 movies in the queue right now - it just takes time. We're working on solutions. So in short: hang in there. It's always getting better, and this is one of the biggest priorities we are working on :) Thanks for your patience! Let me know if you have any other specific questions I can answer :) Isn't this fun? Hey, for competing with Yahoo and Google I think we're doing alright ;) Cheers, Peter PS: the math below is somewhat mistaken. For each movie, we generate about 20 thumbnails, so our total so far is well over 1,000,000 thumbnails generated. i understand all that but do the math: there are less than 2000 feeds as of today i think 500 videos per feed is grossly over estimating most people's *average* output that's 100,000 thumbs we have been told that they have been generating them for several weeks (months?) now let's assume only 6 weeks = 6 x 7 x 24 x 60 = 60480 minutes that's 16 minutes per thumb and counting more likely, there is an average of less than 200 videos per feed at this time so 40 minutes per thumb or higher? wow, that's a lot! this still does not explain why older video thumbs are not slowly showing up for me and why some new ones aren't (no changes in codec here) Joshua Kinberg wrote: Thumbnail generation is a very CPU intensive process. Mefeedia's server must download your videos, extract thumbs and save them, then remove the video. Not to mention there are often errors due to various video codecs and the fact that it can be hard to decode all types and extract images. Even Yahoo! has difficulty in this area, and they have much better server resources than MeFeedia. Someone in Yahoo! Media Search once told me that it can take several days for a video to be indexed properly even after the crawler has discovered the video. Its for the same exact reason. There is a batch queue set up to extract the thumbnails and do whatever other processing needed on the file before it gets indexed properly by the search engine. -Josh On 11/29/05, Devlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our thumbnail generating code got a bit behind, but it will catch up soon. On 11/29/05, Christopher Ivanyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem with using mefeedia's archive code is that it does not consistently show thumbnails for all videos. Why do some vlogs don't have pics, and others do not. That's been an ongoing problem for a long, long time. Chris On 11/29/05, Steve Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: set blogger to show one post per page that takes care of question #1 you can use mefeedia's archive code to display a list of thmbnails for previous shows http://mefeedia.com --Steve On Nov 29, 2005, at 11:18 AM, Fire wrote: Id like a template that could make my site (look and operate) like rocketboom.com (see below) I like their interface... nice and simple... with the most current video automatically loading on the first page, and thumbnails of the recently archived ones below... --Steve -- Home Page - http://stevegarfield.com Video Blog - http://stevegarfield.blogs.com Text Blog - http://offonatangent.blogspot.com Like Paul Revere, leading the citizen's media revolution. Yahoo! Groups Links YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group videoblogging on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. -- ~Devlon http://mefeedia.com/ See what we are up to: http://mefeedia.com/blog/ Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Links -- My name is Markus Sandy and I am app.etitio.us http://apperceptions.org http://digitaldojo.blogspot.com
[videoblogging] Re: Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers
PS: Marcus, we're doing number crunching and analyzing ourselves these days.. results still pending. :) Cheers! Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/KIlPFB/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Blogger templates SPECIFIALLY for bloggers
with all video formats, but is it some sort of theoretical possiblity at least? Yep, it's theoretically possible. The amount of development work would probably be high though, so then it ends up being cheaper paying for a few more servers, in the short term :) It's all a balance about where to focus our very limited resources... Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- AIDS in India: A lurking bomb. Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/9QUssC/lzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Spirit can not be spoken for
the directory is where the popular control lies now, especially when a directory is large and not open, as we have all learned. Interesting.. what do you mean by popular control, Andrew? Peter -- http;//mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Spirit can not be spoken for
Nevermind the fact that this is an easy path to an exclusionary clique of accepted goodness. Plus, the secondary part of Randy's point -- that having an open, accepted directory would prevent other closed ones -- just won't happen. If anything, I think the folks working towards building/tweaking directories should put their heads together to open up ratings, comments, tags, feeds, etc etc. We are working on that :) Expect more open goodness in the next months, and if you don't get it, let us know! API's. Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Thumbnail archive with videos only?
I really don't see why anyone should be limited to just posting video to their blog if they want their blog to work in mefeedia misunderstanding alert!! OK: so Mefeedia works like this: you can (of course) post whatever you want in your blog. Mefeedia picks up only the posts with video in them. That's all. There's no limitation of any kind. Cheers, Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/WpTY2A/izNLAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Thumbnail archive with videos only?
On 11/25/05, missbhavens1969 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just in the middle of adding a mefeedia thumbnail video archive to my sidebar with help from the freevlog tutorial and I realised something: it's going to create thumbs for my text posts as well, right? No, it won't create thumbs for your text posts, ONLY for your video posts. Mefeedia ignores your text and audio posts, it only focuses on your video posts. Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- AIDS in India: A lurking bomb. Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpTY2A/lzNLAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: modifying a Wordpress template
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Antonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I move towards adding video to my site, I'm thinking of moving over from Blogger to Wordpress. Does anyone have any advice on creating my own template? In Blogger it was as simple as creating a HTML page and popping in the Blogger tags in the right place. It seems more difficult in Wordpress. yes, you need some basic understanding of the PHP programming language in Wordpress.. You can also take the route of only customizing stylesheets and images, but then you need a good understanding of stylesheets. Have you looked at the 100s of templates available? There's probably 1 that is close to what you want that you can then just adjust a bit. Good luck! Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Stop this petty Squabbling
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Kent Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, petertheman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The mefeedia directory at http://mefeedia.com/feeds/ is a much better source to find good videobloggers - there are over 1200 videobloggers listed there. I think there are probably at least 500 out there that are not in Mefeedia yet. Cheers, Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Great. I'm there too, but mefeedia.com doesn't recognize .m4v, the annointed iPod video format as a legit video yet. So the ten videos I have up there aren't showing up. Mmm, that sounds like a bug, Mefeedia actually does support .m4v now. What's your feed? I'll check it. Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Stop this petty Squabbling
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Deirdre Straughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mefeedia also seems to be the most widely-referring vlog directory - it's well up in my list of referrers every day - I usually get more viewers/visitors from Mefeedia than iTunes. Yes, I make a point of it to add many links to your vlog if you are listed in Mefeedia (and the more your videos are tagged, the more links to your vlog). Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Stop this petty Squabbling
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, one other point to make... seeing a spike in statistics may mean very little (or at least may be pin pointed as uncharacteristic) if that spike is not sustained or representative of sustained growth. Trend analysis is always more important than random spikes. -josh Josh is right, people get way to excited about a temporary change in stats. For example, we will *all* see an increase in traffic around the holidays. Why? Because that happens every year, *all* websites see an increase of traffic around the holidays. More people with time to kill. However, don't forget the big picture. Everyone on this list will see their traffic grow a lot over the next year. That's just big picture stuff: more interest in video. Another interesting point: any website will grow if you keep at it, because the internet grows. I have had various websites since 1998, and each one of them grows at least 50% in traffic every year. The internet just gets bigger :) Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Video Distribution (Brightcove)
From the Forune article: While the service won't prevent amateur videographers from offering their creations for commercial viewing, Allaire said the service's initial focus is content from more traditional providers. In other words, they're going were the big $ is: traditional BigMedia putting their stuff online. Fair enough. I guess we'll see innovation for the long tail of video coming from others. Cheers, Peter -- http://mefeedia.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, robert a/k/a r [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all If you haven't yet seen the announcement, Brightcove have snatched up a few bucks in funding and are [getting] cozy with AOL. http://blog.brightcove.com/blog/2005/11/big_investments.html cheers r -- URL: http://r.24x7.com Deconstructing the status quo, collaboratively Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/WpTY2A/izNLAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Stop this petty Squabbling
Great, but again, mefeedia does not recognize m4v extension. Aha, I've found the problem. Mefeedia recognizes m4v extensions in the *next* version, but that isn't live yet, it will go live around next week Monday. Doh! I thought we'd already made that live... Let me know if next week it still doesn't work. Cheers, Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Stop this petty Squabbling
mefeedia and FireAnt, the two tools that have grown out of this community, are really just gettting revved up. Indeed. Of course Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft, you name it are building tools for videoblogging. The importance of independent tools lies in 2 things: 1) It shows the way to the big guys, then they just have to copy, but... 2) ...we build our values into our tools. This is the most important thing. For example, in FireAnt there is always a link back to the vlog. For example, all the open tools respect RSS. And so on... It is very easy and subtle to build closed technologies, the differences are often subtle but have a big effect. Apart from that, Mefeedia is right now just plain the best place to find videoblogs. Perhaps in a year from now, vlogs.yahoo.com will be the best place to find videoblogs, or perhaps not :) Who knows. But meanwhile I am committed to building the absolute best site I can, and to make sure all the videobloggers are represented in there. In a future of 1,000,000 television channels on the internet, it's important to have independent places where people can find videobloggers. Here's the deal: the Time Warners/MTVs/... of this world are busily working on building great places where you can find 1000s of hours of commercial video. Who will build the places where you can find the independent videobloggers? Not them. And apparently not Brightcove. Anyways, enough with the preaching already! I'll shut up now. Cheers! Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/eMf55D/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: revlog
is it customary to ask permission when revlogging someone's work in your on vlog? If you want to link to someone's blog and to their video, you don't have to ask permission. This is the web, linking is what we do. Not even a need for a CC license. The only problem arises is when you make it look as if these videos are being created by you, or are coming from your site. Cheers, Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- AIDS in India: A lurking bomb. Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpTY2A/lzNLAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Send your movies to me i would love to see them
Well the time has come. I want to see all of your movies. I have tons of subscribers and they want movies for their ipods. This is a website designed with you in mind and your talent. The theater if full and it is time for you to perform. I want your short and long films. Um, Paul, excuse my language, but this list does not consist of idiots. Your message was, frankly, insulting. People work hard on their videos, and have video blogs to show them. This is personal media. If you want to feature *our* content on *your* site, you better be clear about the license, your intentions and such. Why would someone send you a video, for free, instead of featuring it on their own videoblog? We have RSS for distribution. If you want to link to videobloggers , promote them and in that way contribute to this ecology, feel free, that's how the web works and that would be really helpful. Perhaps you just misunderstood the culture of videoblogging and of this list. Cheers, Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Send your movies to me i would love to see them
I realize I was a bit harsh here. Paul, perhaps you can explain a bit why you want to show videos on your own blog instead of linking to and promoting the blogs of the people who created the video? Cheers, Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: mov in to wmv
Crazy Apple. Mefeedia supports m4v, btw. Peter There was no such thing as m4v a few weeks ago before the video iPod. The next release of FireAnt will support m4v... stay tuned. -Josh Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Happy new year
Same here, trying to figure out what to do next year.. In my case, it always ends up involving Mefeedia. Being more international and connecting different communities is superimportant I think.. As a first step, I'm gonna make a Spanish Mefeedia version, so it becomes easier for Spanish speakers to browse the 1000s of videobloggers and discover what's being done.. Later I want to go French, Japanese, you name it.. And I also want to build in ways that those different languages can easily find each others' stuff... because that's the great thing about video! You don't necessarily *have* to speak English to appreciate a lot of the stuff we're doing... Substitling is another part, if I can find a way to let people subtitle each others' videos, that would help spread video as well... When we started this the dream was always to be able to see videos from other countries.. We're already partly there: you can go to http://mefeedia.com/tags/ and there is a list of cities and countries you can browse around in.. Africa, Asia, you name it... The next step is to get them involved and connected. Don't underestimate them: the French, Japanese, Spanish are starting to videoblog like crazy. I want Mefeedia to be a place where you can explore these different parts of the world, and where they can connect. So I guess that's my mission for next year! What's yours? Peter -- http://mefeedia.com the last year i made my first gretting card for the new year on video http://www.loiez.org/2005/07/apprenons_a_faire_des_miracles_5.php title traduction in 2005 learning to make miracles Now i am thinking what i could do for 2006 ? May be we could make a big project with all the vloggers in the world ? Ideas ? ive been thinking something similar. vlogmap.org was the big thing for me this year...becasue it helps us show the network we are creating. but how do we work together...break out of our individual worlds? Jay -- Adventures in Videoblogging URL: http://www.momentshowing.net http://feeds.feedburner.com/Momentshowing Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: The Videoblogging Group Has Hit the 1600+ Member Mark
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Its A Mystery and So Im I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The way things are going now, we might double or even triple that by next year. It'll be 10-fold, and next year more and more other groups will grow out of this mother one (like the Spanish and French ones, but not just by language). The rate of adoption of videoblogging is starting to speed up fast. Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Looking for the perfect host site....
Dreamhost is not a solution for a site with major traffic. They cant support it. Thats a matter of fact not opinion. Thats what they say: Dreamhost does not have any dedicated servers avil. at this time and shared server are too big for the kind of traffic you have. You mentioned you were in the terabyte range so that too big for Dreamhost. True. I was lucky enough to get one of their last dedicated servers for Mefeedia.com. They will have dedicated servers again next year. The good thing is: they are growing fast and they recognize it. Dreamhost is one of the few hosting companies that would rather turn clients down than deliver a crappy hosting experience. I have nothing but good to say about them :) Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Looking for the perfect host site....
If you're looking for extremely high amounts of people watching video, go with the professionals. Check out http://www.limelightnetworks.com/solutions.video.html, for example. Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Looking for the perfect host site....
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Vincent Njoroge Ndonye different audience and am wondering about recommendations for hosts who can handle around 5TB reliably. Who is the best out there for this level of Hey Vincent, why the 5TB number? Don't worry about hosts and numbers, you can always scale up. Just get a Dreamhost account and start posting. Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Approximating subscribers
you need to be able to parse the user count (often passed through in the user agent field) Yes, Mefeedia will soon report this info in the header of its spider, so that Feedburner stats can take your Mefeedia subscribers into account. But again, subscribers is just a number. It doesn't mean watchers, and it doesn't mean they like your videos ;) It's all just numbers, and this isn't a numbers game, that's why I added reviews to Mefeedia.. go review a feed you like today! Just find the feeds details page. That'll give more feedback to the vlogger than numbers. Cheers! Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Approximating subscribers
And of course popularity doesn't mean you're good :) I always go to the end of the popularity list in Mefeedia, like here: http://mefeedia.com/feeds/pop/1050/, and subscribe to the *unpopular* feeds. There are some real pearls there. preach mode onI think it's very important that directories and such don't just focus on the most popular stuff, but give easy access and even promote the unknown, new, unpopular stuff. And that's also why having *independent* directories is important (not directories whose purpose it is to sell popular videos, and where you (supposedly) pay for top spots, like iTunes' directory). end preach mode Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Lobby iTunes to make comments!
That's why both ANT and Mefeedia show a comment link to the permalink of the post, so you can get comments on your blog.. Apple really doesn't care about videoblogging, they just see this is free content.. Peter -- http://mefeedia.com (new!) --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Brett Gaylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone with Apple's ear ought to push them towards creating an interface within iTunes where users can leave comments. I've seen a lot of my subscribers coming from iTunes, about 1/4, but there isn't any way for them to interact with my or my site. It's kind of a shame. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] ABC videoblogs?
I heard ABC News mention their videoblogs (of people quitting smoking) today on television. I couldn't find them on their site though.. anyone know where they are? Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Vlog reviews
The reviews that we launched in Mefeedia yesterday are starting to work: so far the quality of the reviews is really good. Charlene's vlog for example has 2 already: http://mefeedia.com/feeds/7/ I really believe that reviewing each others' work is going to help a lot to spread the word about the values of videoblogging: be real... don't try to copy tv... speak out... those kind of things we talk about on this list.. I purposely did not make it about popularity: reviews don't have ratings. Check it out, and maybe make a vlogger happy by writing a review of their vlog.. Cheers, Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Where are the VloggerCon videos?
Just go to http://mefeedia.com/tags/vloggercon/, most of the session videos are there, plus many of the unofficial vloggercon videos. Cheers! Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Vlog reviews
Peter, awesome work on new mefeedia... checked it out, plenty of nice new improvements. Thanks :) We work hard on it! More coming soon... Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Does iTunes indicate somehow which videos will play in the iPod?
I am trying to synch my vide iPod with my videoblogs in iTunes. But only some videos show up.. Does iTunes somehow indicate which videos won't play on the video iPod?? Man, this definitely isn't easy to use, Apple is putting out some hasty stuff these days... Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Does iTunes indicate somehow which videos will play in the iPod?
Thanks.. but my question is: how do you know, by looking at iTunes, if a video is gonna play? I have a list of videos, but only 1 gets sent to the ipod, so I wonder: is it a setting somewhere, or are the other videos not compatible? Peter --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only had 1-2 vlogs that wouldn't play on my ipod--and I have 30-40 vlog subscriptions. I would contact the owners of the vlogs that won't play and let them know; maybe they will change the format of their future posts. Susan http://vlog.kitykity.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, petertheman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to synch my vide iPod with my videoblogs in iTunes. But only some videos show up.. Does iTunes somehow indicate which videos won't play on the video iPod?? Man, this definitely isn't easy to use, Apple is putting out some hasty stuff these days... Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Does iTunes indicate somehow which videos will play in the iPod?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A good question, and an area Apple need to improve. Theres no easy way to tell. I havent automatically transferred any podcasts to video ipod, I drag the video files (either from itunes library of file straight from elsewhere on hard disk) onto the name of the ipod in itunes. Thanks! Is anyone automatically transfering videos to their ipods? How do you use it? Peter If it says 'copying' when I do this, then the file is compatible, if its not compatible then nothing happens, no error message, the file just doesnt get copied. I assume that when setting itunes to automatically sync podcasts, the same will apply, and it will simply ignore any files that arent compatible. The behaviour is identical whether the files are mov, mp4 or m4v. As for settings, the only options really are the podcast ones, specifying whether all podcasts get synced, or just specific ones you tick, or none (manual). This behaviour isnt particularily intuitive, and definately needs to improve. Ideally we need either itunes to use a different icon next to ipod-compatible podcasts, or maybe apple will make itunes automatically convert files to an ipod format in the future. Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, petertheman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks.. but my question is: how do you know, by looking at iTunes, if a video is gonna play? I have a list of videos, but only 1 gets sent to the ipod, so I wonder: is it a setting somewhere, or are the other videos not compatible? Peter --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only had 1-2 vlogs that wouldn't play on my ipod--and I have 30-40 vlog subscriptions. I would contact the owners of the vlogs that won't play and let them know; maybe they will change the format of their future posts. Susan http://vlog.kitykity.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, petertheman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to synch my vide iPod with my videoblogs in iTunes. But only some videos show up.. Does iTunes somehow indicate which videos won't play on the video iPod?? Man, this definitely isn't easy to use, Apple is putting out some hasty stuff these days... Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] New Mefeedia out today
Hi all, just now, we launched the new Mefeedia. If you had Instant Archive problems of posts not showing up, check it now. Let me know if you still have the same problem. You may also want to have a look at your feeds details page, lotsa new stats there. If you have a video iPod, try entering your new video queue RSS feed to iTunes or ANT to synch it up with your Mefeedia queue. And for other stuff, have a browse around. Lotsa new funky stuff there. In a few weeks the next version of Mefeedia will come out, I still don't think it's good enough. Meanwhile, enjoy this one, let me know if you find any problems! Props to Devlon for lotsa help with lotsa parts. Oh, and we have reviews of blogs. Write a review of your favourite vlogs, I'm sure the vloggers will apreciate it, and it'll help others find good vlogs. I decided against doing a star rating system (thanks Ryanne!) because videoblogging is not about popularity... what 1 person thinks is great is boring to the next. But reviews are useful I think though. They're moderated.. And feel free to blog about the new site :) Cheers, Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: New Mefeedia out today
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Markus Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sounds good can't wait for those thumbnails to kick in Markus, there were 2 probs with the Instant Archive. 1 is that some posts just didn't show up. That should be fixed. The other is that some posts have the grey thumbnail coming image. That will slowly catch up over the next weeks and months (it's been catching up since we moved to the new server a few weeks ago). Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: YouTube - WTF?
Oh, and something else: we should all blog about why YouTube sucks, so that it will become well known and videoblog businesses don't model themselves after that. Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] watching personal videos
I was in the laundrymat, and I had just filled up my video ipod with a bunch of movies (plug: the beta mefeedia makes it real easy), so I was watching a video of the party at Jakob's place in nyc a while back at vloggercon... but what I wanted to say was: it was a strangely emotional experience watcing that in that laundrymat at 129th Street in NYC. And all the other people were watching the shows on the televisions that were hanging from the ceilings. I really think we're on to something with this video blogging. Watching a video from my own past was.. weird. Intense in a way that commercial TV can never be.. Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: What do you guys think about Blogtelevision.net
I get a nice warm fuzzy felling from services like MeFeedia, BlipTV, and application-based aggrigators like FireAnt, and iTunes because they say the video is from (and link back to) DavidMeade.com. Some even (like MeFeedia) direct the viewer to my site should they want to leave comments. Yes.. I've always felt it was wrong to take comments away from the blog itself.. I'd rather actively point people to your blog, since that's where it all happens.. Peter -- http://mefeedia.com (new version next week!) Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Let's stake our claim by cross-promoting vlogs
I think having promos for vloggers is a great idea. I've been hoping this would happen. I'll support whatever we do in Mefeedia. Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: One Click buttons
Thanks Lucas! But if I don't use that application/xml+rss, it doesn't work. here's what happens in Win Xp with Firefox: application/xml+rss: ok, iTunes opens up. application/xml: FF shows XML file no special header: FF shows it as an html page. What should I do? Peter --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Lucas Gonze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/26/05, petertheman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess this is the right time to point out that Mefeedia will generate the pcast file for you: http://mefeedia.com/help/javascript/itunes.php?id=1118 Bug report for the windows version: It returns application/rss+xml for the MIME type, which is used for one-click subscribe of the kind voted on by the ipodder-dev list, and which is actual RSS rather than those new itunes pcast files. All you need to flag for iTunes is a .pcast extension, I think. - Lucas Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: I need to get a friend.
Exactly. That's why I never let people comment on a video at mefeedia, but send them to the blog instead. p I myself probably would take advantage of the ability to turn off comments or moderate them at blip.tv. I've always reserved the right to just that with any post on my own website (which is where I consider 'official comments' need to be placed :-P ) Yes. I don't get why people are commenting on blip and sharing links to the video directly on blip. What happened to the blog permalink? I think we've got to keep that. That's what makes blogs work. It sucks to have a post in one place and a video in another - both of them having separate conversations going on. For example, when I put a video on the new vlog feed or the classic vlog feed (at FreeVlog) I always disable comments and write Comment here with a link to the blog permalink. -- Verdi URL: http://michaelverdi.com/ URL: http://freevlog.org/ URL: http://node101.org/ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] mefeedia feed problems
Hi all, I am working on mefeedia this week, and I wanted to ask everyone who has had problems with their feed in mefeedia to send me an email. That will help a lot with fixing the problems. The most common probs are: can't add feed to mefeedia, or there is something wrong with the instant archive. Email me at petervandijck at gmail if you've had any problems with your feed and mefeedia.. include the feed url.. and describe the problem.. Thanks so much! Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: While iTunes is In Spot Light is it killing ground roots podcasting?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Scott Prentice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then pretty much out of the Blue... Major networks whom didn't want to report this media phenomenon other than spuratic blips... started to develop their own podcast, which are now the only listings on News Podcasts On Front Page of Podcasts!!! Gee, Thanks Steve. I Totally. Apple's directory is a vehicle to promote their business deals with Big Media. Not to promote videobloggers. Which is why we need directories like Mefeedia (disclaimer: I work on that), and why we'll need them for years to come.. If you're gonna have places where independent media can be easily found, you need independent directories. Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] 1000s of new vloggers coming - it is the time to talk about content
I was just trying out Typepad's new integrated video posting. (http://typepad.videoegg.com/faq.html) It makes posting videos really, really easy. All you do is drag and drop a clip (straight from the camera or saved on your computer) onto the field. Then you can cut it, and then click upload, and you're done. Supereasy. I don't wanna talk about the pros and cons of Flash and all that, but about the content. This means that 10s of 1000s of people now have the easiest videopublishing tool built into their blog software. Some of them at least will try it out. I think that what we've built here over the past year is a really rich way of communicating with video. Forget the geeky stuff. But the *kinds* of videos people here make are amazing. Personal. Real voices. Truth. As opposed to the funny stuff you see on AOL video portal and such. So I think we need to educate. Each of us can be a teacher. And each of us will have 1000s to teach. Go to typepad vlogs and leave comments about the *content* of their videos. Tell them to be free, speak truth... It's not just typepad by the way. Livejournal. Myspace. And others. Video is finally happening. And I want people to realize the power of this medium.. the stuff we talk about here.. But I do think we've created something unique here. And now's the time to spread the word. That's what I think, sorry for the evangelizing :) Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: 1000s of new vloggers coming - it is the time to talk about content
I wrote this (in the excitement of having just tried the typepad thing) before reading the latest posts, and yey, we're already talking content. Here are some of the most important things in my mind (they are very basic): - you have something to say. Try the videoblogweek for yourself and at first, you'll feel like what can I have possibly to say. Then you realize everything is interesting. - it's about connecting people and speaking truth. Vlog what you really believe. It's a great exercise in not becoming the fake person, the corporate drone you always feared of becoming. I think people become that way because they just lack the practice of saying what they really think. - small cameras (the elph for example) work fine. It's not about the gloss. - as you becom better, you can do most editing while filming. - make sure to always put your url at the end of a video. You don't know where it might end up. Eh, I think I might post these on my blog :) P Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Mefeedia API
You have to view source, it's an xml file. Peter Works for me... remove the 44 at the end: http://images.mefeedia.com/video/2005/07/05/07/RUN-13706/frames/90x68/ -Josh On 10/25/05, Devlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The url that this link returns is broken? If I go to: http://images.mefeedia.com/video/2005/07/05/07/RUN-13706/frames/90x68/ 44 I get a 404. On 10/24/05, petertheman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real Mefeedia API is still a few months off, but meanwhile, if you want to use the thumbnails pictures mefeedia generates, you can use this: http://api.mefeedia.com/ant/thumbs.php?url=http://www.momentshowing.net/momentshowing/files/amyjoy.mov This api will continue to be supported. The number is the number of pics generated. (Mefeedia generates 1 picture every 5 secs for most movies, this movie is an exception with 1 picture every sec.) Let me know if you're using it, and don't use for commercial purposes (check with me first). Apart from that, do with it what you please :) Enjoy! Peter SPONSORED LINKS Individualhttp://groups.yahoo.com/gads?t=msk=Individualw1=Individualw2=Fireantw3=Usec=3s=38.sig=OHeQJKby66gg3t35np-qiw Fireanthttp://groups.yahoo.com/gads?t=msk=Fireantw1=Individualw2=Fireantw3=Usec=3s=38.sig=hK8TfZa7ClhTIxDJdP6Cbw Usehttp://groups.yahoo.com/gads?t=msk=Usew1=Individualw2=Fireantw3=Usec=3s=38.sig=fljF53rXtnOMjmpIySYbqA -- YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS - Visit your group videoblogginghttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging on the web. - To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] - Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ . -- -- ~Devlon http://8bitme.blogspot.com http://whiteguyforeignfoods.blogspot.com http://devlon.blogspot.com -- YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS - Visit your group videoblogginghttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging on the web. - To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] - Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/. -- Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Mefeedia API
bear with me, this is like a temporary api until, in a month or 2, we get the real api :) P petertheman wrote: You have to view source, it's an xml file. Any chance you could use utf-8 instead of iso-8859-1? ?xml version=1.0 encoding=iso-8859-1? Pete -- http://tinkernet.org/ videoblog for the future... Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Mefeedia API
Yeah, basically, either we have thumbs (in which case we tell you were and how many), and you can use 'em, or we don't.. P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nice. thanks, peter. so how do I use it? the video urls must already be in mefeedia database? sull On 10/25/05, Pete Prodoehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: petertheman wrote: The real Mefeedia API is still a few months off, but meanwhile, if you want to use the thumbnails pictures mefeedia generates, you can use this: http://api.mefeedia.com/ant/thumbs.php?url=http://www.momentshowing.net/momentshowing/files/amyjoy.mov This api will continue to be supported. The number is the number of pics generated. (Mefeedia generates 1 picture every 5 secs for most movies, this movie is an exception with 1 picture every sec.) Oooh, I can think of some cool mencoder tricks to do with the output. ;) If I may ask, what are you using to generate the thumbnails? (Don't answer if you feel it's a Mefeedia secret.) Pete -- http://tinkernet.org/ videoblog for the future... Yahoo! Groups Links -- sull - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The hybrid or the meeting of two media is a moment of truth and revelation from which new form is born - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://vlogdir.com - The Videoblog Directory http://videobloggers.org - Free Videoblog Hosting / Vlogosphere Aggregator http://interdigitate.com - on again off again personal vlog Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: iPod reviews
I just got my video ipod today, watching you all vlogs on it, and it's fantastic. The biggest surprise is this: you know how we always said that video is different than audio because you can't do anything else while watching video? Not true. With the earplugs in the ipod, I can watch movies, meanwhile check my email (loosing sight of the video but still listening), then glance back at the ipod when it sounds interesting again... A strange experience. Peter -- mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: iPod reviews ( Mefeedia question)
MEFEEDIA QUESTION: I was wondering about the Mefeedia thumbs. Is there any reason why one or two of my videos might be skipped when the thumbnails are made? At least one of my videos always seems to be missing. I can't figure it out. The reason was probably this: until yesterday, mefeedia was running on a 20$/month shared host. The generation of thumbnails was very slow, and running way behind, so I had to skip many movies in order to keep up. Since yesterday, it is running on a shiny new dedicated server, so it will start catching up. Your old movies will slowly, over the following weeks, have thubms generated for them. http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/mefeedia-users/ is a good place to keep track of what's up with mefeedia, by the way :) Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Mefeedia API
The real Mefeedia API is still a few months off, but meanwhile, if you want to use the thumbnails pictures mefeedia generates, you can use this: http://api.mefeedia.com/ant/thumbs.php?url=http://www.momentshowing.net/momentshowing/files/amyjoy.mov This api will continue to be supported. The number is the number of pics generated. (Mefeedia generates 1 picture every 5 secs for most movies, this movie is an exception with 1 picture every sec.) Let me know if you're using it, and don't use for commercial purposes (check with me first). Apart from that, do with it what you please :) Enjoy! Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Your mefeedia Instant Archive
Don't freak out :) I changed the Instant Archive code, so that now it shows ALL your videos, not just the ones we have pictures for. The result is that your archive will be complete, but not all pictures will be generated yet. Here's an example of how that looks: http://diariodeviaje.typepad.com/diariodeviaje/2005/08/archive_de_vide.html Tonight, we are moving Mefeedia to a new and much faster server, so that it will start generating pictures for your archive much faster. Practically, this means that, for now, your archive might have a lot of thumbnail coming pictures, but over the next few weeks, those will be replaced by real pictures of the videos.. (To put an instant archive on your blog, go here: http://mefeedia.com/help/javascript/feedthumbs.php) Let me know if you have any questions :) Cheers, Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: I am looking for more subscribers
Oh, one more comment on looking for more subscribers: make sure it's listed in Mefeedia too. We turn all videos into a MediaRSS feed which is the ONLY way to get into Yahoo video search through RSS (and we add thumbs too). (Regular RSS doesn't work, I just heard this on a podcast). So that's nice :) Cheers, Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Aggregator based videoblogging financial model
Ted said: Add a third that are out there that I would like to see more of: Storytellers. +1. I totally agree. --- Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One kind is like mine: personal...like home video. I dont expect anyone to pay for it. I'd say that is a BIG part of the vloggers. Similar to blogging: you don't make money *from* your vlog, you make money *because* of your vlog (because you get exposure). they are setting up the Apple Music store that lets you buy episodes of lost for 1.99. But Apple isn't letting in the little man. You need to be Disney to be part of that. The main reason is porn I think - they don't want to be associated with that now. like my Pop told me...do what you love and the money will follow. Amen to that! Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] mefeedia back up
Mefeedia is back up, sorry for the problems with your Instant Archives. Cheers, Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Mefeedia?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: peter know. Is Mefeedia down? Yep,and bad timing too ;) I am trying to figure out what's going on. Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] We're in. Categories. Yey.
We are totally IN the videoipod. All videobloggers can expect traffic spikes the following months, so if you need anything sorted out now's the time. I installed iTunes6 and it did something very cool: it took all the videos from my vlogger subscriptions and populated the VIDEO category with it. So we're no longer a subcategory of podcasting, we're a subcategory of VIDEO, at the SAME level as Movies, Music videos and TV Shows. As it should be. I posted a screenshot on my blog: http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/ The ease with which it just put all your videos in the same bucket as movies, music videos and all the big media stuff means that we ar now playing on a level playing field. Big Media be scared! Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: 997 feeds and counting
Now, if I could only get my posts from the last 6 weeks to show up in mefeediaDon't mean to bitch, but I couldn't resist. Anyway, happy almost 1000! Hang in there, working on it as we speak.. Keep bugging me, too. Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Starting a conversation about money
I'd like to start an intelligent conversation about money. Right now, I am moving Mefeedia to a dedicated server. That costs some money. And more imnportantly, I am spending a lot of time on it. So I'm thinking about ways to perhaps turn it from a hobby into a business. The same issues arise for blip.tv, ant and other businesses, so feel free to add to this conversation guys. I think if we can have a conversation here, then perhaps the vloggers can steer the future into a path that they like. So that'd be cool. So here's 1 idea I am playing with. Let's say Mefeedia can get your vlog accessible on the PSP, and through the PSP users paying a fee or something we make some $$, and give you a % of that, maybe half. Only if you opt-in of course. That way you get more viewers, and make some $$ of it, and Mefeedia makes some $ too for making the deals and the software to make this possible.. You would still have you videoblog wherever you want, nothing would change, all you need to do is opt in at mefeedia to allow this. Would that make sense? Good? Evil? This is just one crazy idea, I'm just trying to see what people think about things like this.. Cheers, Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] 997 feeds and counting
Mefeedia shows 997 feeds right now, yey almost 1000! Have you added yours yet, I want the vlogosphere to break through that 1000 feeds barrier.. http;//mefeedia.com/feeds/ Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job). Welcome to the Sweet Life. http://us.click.yahoo.com/A77XvD/vlQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] crazy blinkx rumors
I don't think Mefeedia would never do anything intentionally malicious. Let's wait and hear from Peter and Blinkx. I'm at this information architecture conference (this is my day job), but let me try to asnwer the question. Also feel free to email me at any time, my email is on the mefeedia homepage :) Mefeedia does NOT have a deal with Blinkx. So this is not true in any way, shape or form: Blinkx and Mefeedia have a deal for Mefeedia to distribute other peoples content to Blinkx. NOT true. I have never talked to the Blinx people, never met them. Mefeedia produces 1000s of RSS feeds (every tag has an RSS feed for example), and anyone can use those. The only deal we have is with I/ON, the open source and free desktop aggregator: they use our directory, and I'm quyite proud of that. It's an example of 2 small projects working together. There's no money or contracts involved in that, there's no exclusivity. I think that's a good thing for videoblogging. Mefeedia is still a hobby project, even though I am putting in my time and money, and even though VC's call me all the time. If I ever sell out I'll be sure to let you all know ;) So yey, I hope that answers any questions people may have. I'll take some more time tomorrow.. I totally understand people being sensitive about where their videos are used. I always make a point of it to provide the links back, and if your vlog is listed in Mefeedia and tagged then there will be hundreds of links to your website from mefeedia. People have told me that Mefeedia is actually their number 1 referrer, I try hard to find ways to send traffic to vloggers and to get you all more viewers.. that's the whole point. If anyone has more questions, feel free to ask them here, email me (my email is on the mefeedia homepage), or call me at 646-549-1513 (USA). Hope that helps. Now I'm back to the fascinating information discussions here at the conference. Cheers! Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Mefeedia down
Mefeedia is down, I'm working with Dreamhost to get it back up. Something seems to have gotten lost with the problem in LA. Apologies for the inconvenience! Peter Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[videoblogging] Re: Mefeedia down
It's back up - and sorry, I shouldn't have spammed this list. Cheers, Peter -- http://mefeedia.com Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
