Re: [videoblogging] FCC Unimpressed by Comcast’s “Network Managment”

2008-02-26 Thread Richard (Show) Hall
That's cool, but, one thing is the article's author needs to do some checking and editing ... proposed by Democratic Commissioner Jay Alderstein ... it's John Adelstein ... Richard On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you cool kids see this?

[videoblogging] Pop17 Launches

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Baron
Congrats to Sarah Meyers for her new show, Pop17 which launched today. The show is a “a daily exploration to track, analyze and understand the new cultural phenomenon of online micro-celebrity.” http://www.pop17.com You might think I’m biased because I’m close to Sarah but I truly think

Re: [videoblogging] Stage6 flipped

2008-02-26 Thread schlomo rabinowitz
I think its sad. They have been good to people in their community; even offering random gigs along the way. What I dont like is that the user only have 3 days to get their vids off the site before it shuts down. That seems a little too quick as I imagine stage6 has known that things were going

[videoblogging] Raymond and I are presenting for the British Chaber of Commerce -Copenhagen

2008-02-26 Thread Jeffrey Taylor
...as I type! -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654 Fax: +33177722734 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://twitter.com/jeffreytaylor [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[videoblogging] No Idea Which Camera to Get?

2008-02-26 Thread Christopher Bergeron
I've got an old Cannon ZR200 so I'm not exactly dead in the water, although it was damaged last year because of water... BUT I just mailed away my Xacti E1.. Very tramatic. I've been using it with a dead LCD screen for weeks. I'd like to buy another camera to use while I wait for the E1 to

[videoblogging] Re: Stage6 flipped

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Watkins
Yeah from what Ive heard there is some backlash about this, far too little notice, not very reasonable, and no pathway to transfer the videos to another service. Its a shame, DivX stuff in the browser was quite good although Ive long been negative about its chances of success compared to

Re: [videoblogging] FCC Unimpressed by Comcast’s “Network Managment”

2008-02-26 Thread Jay dedman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Richard (Show) Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's cool, but, one thing is the article's author needs to do some checking and editing ... proposed by Democratic Commissioner Jay Alderstein ... it's John Adelstein hey Richard-- I know you have been following

[videoblogging] Re: FCC Unimpressed by Comcast’s “Network Managment”

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Watkins
Greetings, This is the sort of stuff I hoped would happen, and was the basis for my relatively complacent position when it comes to this stuff. I maintain that there are enough powerful people who want to see the internet remain roughly as it is now, in terms of people being able to compete

Re: [videoblogging] Raymond and I are presenting for the British Chaber of Commerce -Copenhagen

2008-02-26 Thread schlomo rabinowitz
Tell them I say Howdy and to please return my Kinks records! On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Jeffrey Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...as I type! -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654 Fax: +33177722734 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: [EMAIL

[videoblogging] Re: Stage6 flipped

2008-02-26 Thread Bill Cammack
Unfortunate. Eggs in Baskets, people. Have redundant copies of your material on the net or at least on local storage. Bill http://BillCammack.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah from what Ive heard there is some backlash about this, far too

[videoblogging] Recording users movements

2008-02-26 Thread Jay dedman
I just saw this discussed on a forum: http://www.robotreplay.com/ RobotReplay lets you record and watch your website visitors in action. View recorded sessions of every mouse movement, click and keystroke: I can totally see how this would be great info for improving your site, but i wonder how

[videoblogging] Re: Stage6 flipped

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Watkins
Yeah. There are threads appearing on stage6 forums about where people are moving to, the scramble has begun. eg: http://www.stage6.com/forum/712/19420/ Things that would have been attractive about stage6 were quality, res filesize limits, existing familiarity with Divx format and/or having

Re: [videoblogging] Recording users movements

2008-02-26 Thread schlomo rabinowitz
A couple years ago I used a program that would make a heat overlay on the page to show what/where the visitor was doing. Basically, I found out that they pressed play alot. And pressed on my archive page second-most. I eventually took it off; I forget the name of the program/site, but could

Re: [videoblogging] Re: sanyo xacti e1 LCD Screen issue

2008-02-26 Thread ryanne hodson
on the upside of their shop looking like it's 1973... the people there were super friendly, returned my phone calls, hell, the even remembered me it wasn't like some insane call center warehouse tech repair place. and then sanyo replaced my camera. so i give them props even though it took too

[videoblogging] Re: Recording users movements

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Watkins
I was just reading about a drupal module that works with ClickHeat library, sounds similar functionality, could it be that you used? http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat/index.html http://drupal.org/project/click_heatmap Its a shame it cant tell you if the user wanted to be in cotrol and press

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Recording users movements

2008-02-26 Thread schlomo rabinowitz
That looks like it! Maybe my site visitor was reaching for the pause/stop button, but the video controls are so close together that the heatmap made it look like they were pressing play:) On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just reading about a

Re: [videoblogging] Re: FCC Unimpressed by Comcast’s “Network Managment”

2008-02-26 Thread Jay dedman
Meanwhile in the UK the Government is also pressurizing ISPs to be responsible for preventing piracy, which is a mess of a policy and will create some interesting battles in the year ahead. this is a good point. Comcast says their network management is about handling traffic, when it may

[videoblogging] Don't Adjust Your Browser

2008-02-26 Thread Renat Zarbailov
This only works in Firefox... http://users.telenet.be/kixx/

[videoblogging] Re: Stage6 flipped

2008-02-26 Thread Renat Zarbailov
Do you remember how DIVX rental DVD's wanted to compete with retail DVD market? It was back in 1999 I believe. The premise was that you buy a DIVX DVD for like $5 and it expires in couple of days without having to return the disc. It required a special DIVX DVD player though. Whoever bought such

[videoblogging] Re: FCC Unimpressed by Comcast’s “Network Managment”

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Watkins
Yes. I think the ISPs have so far targetted peer2peer for technical reasons - it is eating a large chunk of bandwidth. It also exposes the weaknesses in their networks, one of which is that generally they werent designed for people to be continuously uploading. Technical reasons and

[videoblogging] Re: Stage6 flipped

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Watkins
Confusingly, that was a completely different DIVX, unrelated in technology or company to the DivX format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you remember how DIVX rental DVD's wanted to

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Recording users movements

2008-02-26 Thread Brook Hinton
While I can see why incredibly useful information could come from this, it creeps me out. It's still freaky to me that I can see where people came FROM when they come to my site. And even though it looks like this tool wouldn't really reveal anything private, it still gives me pause - and would

Re: [videoblogging] Recording users movements

2008-02-26 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
Hey Jay, This is part of the reason that I was arguing before that the vPIP share code should be an iframe. And not a collection of script's and other kinds of code. For security and privacy reasons, alot of publishers have a policy of not allowing code from anyone unless it is an iframe.

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Recording users movements

2008-02-26 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
I've used tools like Crazy Egg -- http://crazyegg.com/ -- before to see the effectiveness of home pages before. And to help tweak the site in terms of usability. But It does do user tracking. But the info can be useful. BUT... As a personal policy just assume any site you go on it

Re: [videoblogging] Re: Recording users movements

2008-02-26 Thread Markus Sandy
On Feb 26, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Jay dedman wrote: i agree. I wonder how many sites are actually tracking user's movements. and what kind of ethics are involved that encourage site owners to be transparent that this info is being captured. makes me wonder i recorded a video comment live on

[videoblogging] Fwd: Stage6 to Shut Down on February 28

2008-02-26 Thread Patrick Cook
-- Forwarded message -- From: Stage6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:15 PM Subject: Stage6 to Shut Down on February 28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] View this email in your web browser I'm Tom (aka Spinner), a Stage6 user and an employee of DivX, Inc., the

Re: [videoblogging] Don't Adjust Your Browser

2008-02-26 Thread Patrick Cook
Hi everyone: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Renat Zarbailov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This only works in Firefox... http://users.telenet.be/kixx/ The site is down due to heavy usage. :( -- Pat Cook Denver, Colorado PODCASTS - AS MY WORLD TURNS - Blogger Page -

[videoblogging] Re: Recording users movements

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Watkins
DISCLAIMER: Whilst you are reading this post, my computer is pretending it knows what you are thinking, and may use this data to sell you exclusive deserts in future. Well since the web existed most servers keep logs which offer a lot of detail about what users are looking at. There isnt a

Re: [videoblogging] Re: FCC Unimpressed by Comcast’s “Network Managment”

2008-02-26 Thread Patrick Cook
Hi everyone: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Steve Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the sort of stuff I hoped would happen, and was the basis for my relatively complacent position when it comes to this stuff. I maintain that there are enough powerful people who want to see the

Re: [videoblogging] Re: FCC Unimpressed by Comcast’s “Network Managment”

2008-02-26 Thread Patrick Cook
Hi everyone: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile in the UK the Government is also pressurizing ISPs to be responsible for preventing piracy, which is a mess of a policy and will create some interesting battles in the year ahead. this is a

Re: [videoblogging] Don't Adjust Your Browser

2008-02-26 Thread Charles Iliya Krempeaux
I saw it. But that's been around for a while. I remember seeing it a number of years ago. Still funny though. -- Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc. http://ChangeLog.ca/ Motorsport Videos http://TireBiterZ.com/ Vlog Razor... Vlogging News... http://vlograzor.com/ 2008/2/26 Patrick Cook

Re: [videoblogging] Not an example of transparency

2008-02-26 Thread Brook Hinton
Disgusting. On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/02/25/comcast-blocking-first-the-internet-now-the-public/ There was huge turnout at today's public hearing in Boston on the future of the Internet. Hundreds of

Re: [videoblogging] Not an example of transparency

2008-02-26 Thread Patrick Delongchamp
lol. pretty smart. On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disgusting. On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/02/25/comcast-blocking-first-the-internet-now-the-public/ There

Re: [videoblogging] Not an example of transparency

2008-02-26 Thread Jay dedman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Patrick Delongchamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lol. pretty smart. so is rigging elections. i know the Kenyans have been laughing for over a month now. Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790

[videoblogging] Fwd: [j2000] Cameraman in Zurich

2008-02-26 Thread Irina
my alumnus from columbia -- Forwarded message -- From: jordan kronick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know of a great documentary cameraman for hire in Zurich? Thanks so much, Jordan Office: 212-456-5459 Mobile: 646-232-6485 --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this

Re: [videoblogging] Raymond and I are presenting for the British Chaber of Commerce -Copenhagen

2008-02-26 Thread Irina
i'm so impressed to know such fancy pants! On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Jeffrey Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...as I type! -- Jeffrey Taylor Mobile: +33625497654 Fax: +33177722734 Skype: thejeffreytaylor Googlechat/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]thejeffreytaylor%40gmail.com

[videoblogging] Re: Not an example of transparency

2008-02-26 Thread Jay dedman
Here's an audio clip of one of the guys paid by Comcast to fill up seats at the FCC hearing: http://www.freepress.net/docs/paid_to_hold_seat.mp3 (from http://www.getmiro.com/blog/2008/02/comcast-secretly-pays-people-to-fill-seats-at-fcc-hearing/) Jay -- http://jaydedman.com 917 371 6790

Re: [videoblogging] Not an example of transparency

2008-02-26 Thread Patrick Delongchamp
that's a lot of laughing On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Patrick Delongchamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lol. pretty smart. so is rigging elections. i know the Kenyans have been laughing for over a month now.

Re: [videoblogging] Fwd: Stage6 to Shut Down on February 28

2008-02-26 Thread WWWhatsup
Tsk, and I'd just started using as an extra outlet. http://www.stage6.com/videos/tag:punkcast It wasn't a bad interface at all. Nice combination of browse/preview/download. It did seem they were well liable for some copyright suings over some of the content there, tho. They needed the big