Blip is fundamentally an open system. Anyone can check the box and get ads.
That said, there are two types of ads we run. There are network ads --
generally low paying google ads, sometimes pre rolls --and there are ads that
we sell to clients like GM. Shows cannot get the higher paying ads
Thought I'd chime in about this.
Blip.tv's mission is to make independent shows sustainable. We do this by
providing what we call services of scale: technology, workflow automation,
distribution and business development and ad sales. The theory is that most
independent shows are too small
Mark, replies are inline!
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mark Villaseñor videoblogyahoogr...@...
wrote:
Mike Hudack: Let me know if you guys have any questions about our services,
ad sales, payments, whatever.
Well now that you mention it, Mike, I've a few...
1) If we were to
Hey Chad,
Blip does indeed collect statistics from both YouTube and Vimeo and display
them in the Dashboard. We also bring comments and friend requests from both
sites into the Dashboard. And there's much more coming!
Yours,
Mike
Co-founder CEO, blip.tv
--- In
This is a screenshot of our new episode page, which is coming out soon.
Do you like it? Not like it? I have to say I'm a bit puzzled by the
comparison to YouTube, but hey...
Yours,
Mike
blip.tv
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Jay dedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Paul :) Merry Christmas to you and everyone else who celebrates!
Cheers!
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Paul Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mike Huddack should have been Time Magazine's Person of the Year!!!
Mike Huddack should also be nominated for next years Nobel peace
:) Merry Christmas Loiez. You should be on the new bandwidth now. Please let
us know
if it helps!
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Loiez D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thx Mike
That is a great gift for xmas !
Peace, love and vlogging
Loiez
Le 24 déc. 07 à 15:10, mikehudack
For what it's worth, we've moved Loiez over to the new bandwidth (along with
another
person or two who e-mailed us) and all should be good in France now. Please
drop me a
line ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you'd like to have your bandwidth upgraded in
advance of the overall
switch, which will be a
Hey guys,
Thought I'd chime in here. A couple things:
* You're going to have the best experience using blip to get to iTunes
if you use your blip iTunes feed to do it. Your blip iTunes feed is
http://yourname.blip.tv/rss/itunes/
* If you use FeedBurner in this fashion it'll still work, but
Guys, sorry about that! We had a problem in the overnight hours.
I've posted about it to the blog:
http://blog.blip.tv/blog/2007/03/04/a-service-blip/
Basically, we had a problem with DNS. It was an inconsistent problem,
and started becoming a problem in the middle of the night. We've
fixed
Hey guys,
We're paying attention to this latest update over at blip, and we're
working to release new code that will hopefully avoid these security
pop-ups. We're a little swamped with ongoing business right now, but
we'll release something asap.
Yours,
Mike
Co-founder, blip.tv
--- In
We're working on this. I just forwarded your e-mail to Eric Lunt,
FeedBurner's CTO. Hopefully he'll be able to shed some light on the
issue.
Yours,
Mike
Co-founder, blip.tv
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, B Yen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A friend who was experimenting with vlogging
I apologize for missing it, but how does one make a donation?
Yours,
Mike
Co-founder, blip.tv
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Paul Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi all,
I was so moved and touched by Jay Dedman's donation of £20 towards my
flight to San Francisco, I thought it
FYI, I just spoke with Eric and he's forwarded this issue on to
FeedBurner's development team.
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, mikehudack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We're working on this. I just forwarded your e-mail to Eric Lunt,
FeedBurner's CTO. Hopefully he'll be able to shed some
I've noticed this, too, and it's been driving me crazy. I'm going to
bring this up with our Flash transcoding system vendor.
Yours,
Mike
Co-founder, blip.tv
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Pete Prodoehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jen Simmons wrote:
post. The best / clearest way to make
Hey,
This is very strange. What's wrong with a video/mp4 mime type for a
.m4v file exactly? As I understand it video/mp4 and video/x-m4v
are both acceptable mime types for a .m4v file.
I think this is just FeedBurner being wacky. Do you have any special
settings on your SmartCast that would
..
In the past, there have been some hiccups on Feedburner side (just
look at their forums, it's loaded with frustrated users w/complaints).
BY
On Apr 10, 2006, at 2:10 PM, B Yen wrote:
On Apr 10, 2006, at 2:00 PM, mikehudack wrote:
Hey,
This is very strange. What's wrong
using blip.tv uploaded videos. Is
it Feedburner.com or Blip.tv, or a combination of both?
On Apr 10, 2006, at 3:01 PM, mikehudack wrote:
Here's what gets me.
It's *getting* a content type that should be appropriate. And it's
having trouble enclosing a JPG and can't tell you why
downloading progressively (with an m4v you have to wait for the whole thing to
download
before it will play).
Yours,
Mike
Co-founder, blip.tv
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, mikehudack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I suppose we could try changing the MIME type we report for these videos
, blip.tv
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, B Yen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 10, 2006, at 4:38 PM, mikehudack wrote:
I suppose we could try changing the MIME type we report for these
videos to video/mpeg,
but that would be inaccurate. We do from time to time change our
MIME
Hey Monique,
It sounds like you're having difficulty with the Flash versions of
your videos. You can turn off Flash playback here:
http://www.blip.tv/prefs/flash/ and everything should go back to normal.
(The reason why this happens is that the Flash transcoding software we
and everyone else
Hey Monique,
It's my pleasure to help! :)
You can turn off Flash by unchecking Use Flash Playback in your
Playback Preferences, which are available at:
http://www.blip.tv/prefs/flash/
Yours,
Mike
Co-founder, blip.tv
PS - You may be interested in joining the blip-users group at
Hey Monique,
You can e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your question any time, post it to
the blip-users group, IM me on AOL instant messenger (I'm on as
mikehudack) or call me at 646-827-9773 (I'm in the eastern time zone).
We've got lots of support! :-D
Yours,
Mike
Co-founder, blip.tv
This is exactly what I asked of Dmitry when I spoke with him on the
phone yesterday. I told him that I felt his best move was to
immediately remove all of this content and start from a clean, opt-in
only slate. I also asked him to remove all blip video from Veoh.
Apparently he misunderstood,
=1numResults=20query=dabble
http://tinyurl.com/s2wqk
-- Enric
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, mikehudack mike@ wrote:
This is exactly what I asked of Dmitry when I spoke with him on the
phone yesterday. I told him that I felt his best move was to
immediately remove all of this content
There are numerous feeds in Veoh with no subscribers. How did they
get there?
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, WWWhatsup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No I don't think it works that way.
If you look, f'rinstance, at Ryanne's thing on
http://veoh.com/videoDetails.html?v=e55696wg9YwjDy
This sucks. I'd say more than that, but I don't want to get a
reputation for boudmouthing competitors of any sort.
I think there are a few things we can do from here.
First of all, we can ban Veoh from blip. We would do this to keep
them from scraping any more blip RSS feeds (which they're
Hey guys,
I just got off the phone with Dmitri Shapiro, the CEO of Veoh. I
tracked him down (thanks to a few great people) to discuss this
situation because it seems like much of the video Veoh has been
collecting comes from blip.tv -- and a lot of our users have asked us
to do something about
I'm sorry I missed that. As it happens, I don't think anyone
subscribed them to it. They subscribed themselves. That's what they
mean by unclaimed RSS - no one submitted it, they're just pulling in
the videos and pretending they're their own.
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, WWWhatsup
What do you mean by go in and tag manually? If you post a video
with blip and tag it videobloggingweek2005 you can make sure those
tags get picked up by the other services by checking Include tags in
cross-post in your cross post settings.
That will send out the tags you choose in blip to your
I saw that Andy was asking if there were any vloggers in Monterey, and
it reminded me that I wanted to ask much the same thing.
I'm heading to Atlanta this afternoon for a meeting, and will be there
Monday evening and for much of Tuesday.
Drop me a line if you'd like to get together in Atlanta
I think it's likely that Technorati is just being slow... I've seen
posts take days or even weeks to show up in Technorati, even when
they're properly tagged and pinged.
I'm starting to think that we should have blip use the ping-o-matic
when we send a crosspost through.
Yours,
Mike
Co-founder,
This is another perfect example of why we all need to share tags
through RSS, the Technorati microformat and other methods. People
should be able to tag in one place and have it propagate!
Yours,
Mike
Co-founder, blip.tv
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey guys,
I'm following this thread with a smile on my face, because a lot of
what you're talking about is what blip is all about. We actually
already submit your video to a bunch of different places (Yahoo Video
Search, Mefeedia, the Internet Archive, your own blog, Flickr,
del.icio.us) and
... shouldn't
that have
showed up in Anne's feed?
(by the way, when you list multiple tags in blip should you use
commas to
separate them?)
On 4/3/06, mikehudack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it's likely that Technorati is just being slow... I've seen
posts take days or even weeks to show up
agree!
-Josh
On 4/3/06, mikehudack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is another perfect example of why we all need to share tags
through RSS, the Technorati microformat and other methods. People
should be able to tag in one place and have it propagate!
Yours,
Mike
Co-founder
Hey guys,
I figured I should reply in more detail than simply everything is up.
We are indeed bringing new servers and bandwidth online today, and with this
new
installation we will have triple redundancy (three different sites and sets of
servers serving
blip video at any given time).
We
Hey guys,
If there's an issue with blip serving up your video please let us know
immediately. E-mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 646-827-9773. We will answer and fix your problem,
any time.
If it's something less urgent, please feel free to bring it up on the
blip-users group, too. The
Hey guys,
We're working on this and should have everything resolved really soon
now. We've changed some of our distribution systems to handle the
demand better, and we're waiting on an Internet Service Provider to
get us new lines. We'll keep everyone posted here on the vlogging
list and on
Hey David,
Thanks for joining the group, and everyone else is welcome, too!
http://groups.yahoo.com/blip-users/
As I mentioned in my previous reply, we're adding new capacity again.
We're also working to improve our video distribution system (which
allows us to serve videos from multiple
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Devlon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, they may not even be aware of a problem. I think Mike is
sleeping in the server room these days to keep things up.
The thought has certainly occurred to me! The other day I spent four
or five hours in the server room
Sorry, Bekah! We're working on it!
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, missbhavens1969
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, I've experienced PBS (painful blip slowness) these last two
days as well. Unusually, painfully slow. Oddly so.
Bekah
--
http://www.missbhavens.com
--- In
Hey guys,
We're now using Flash as a default playback mechanism on blip.tv
itself. This is so that our users -- your users -- who don't have the
latest Quicktime or Windows Media installed can still watch the video.
We are NOT sending the Flash format through as a preferred format in
the RSS,
mention EE support hehe! ;)
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, mikehudack mike@ wrote:
Hey guys,
I'm Mike Hudack, one of the founders of blip.tv. Just wanted to let
you know a few things about the current status of blip.tv.
First of all, some good news: I'm going full-time
Hey Andreas,
We're going to add EE support as soon as we can, but they do weird
things in their actual implementation of the Blogger API. Susan and I
have spent a bunch of time on IM working on it, and we're still
tracking down some of the oddities. So stay tuned.
Thanks for the
@yahoogroups.com, mikehudack mike@ wrote:
Hey guys,
I'm Mike Hudack, one of the founders of blip.tv. Just wanted to let
you know a few things about the current status of blip.tv.
First of all, some good news: I'm going full-time. I gave notice at
my day job last week, and my last day
.
Any updates on if/when you will be offering premium accounts?
And can you reveal the data throughputs being offered now and later?
Cheers,
sull
On 2/23/06, mikehudack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey guys,
I'm Mike Hudack, one of the founders of blip.tv. Just wanted to let
you know
to call me on my personal cell phone. My
number is 646-827-9773. You can also IM me on AOL Instant Messenger
-- I'm on as mikehudack.
Please don't hesitate to call or IM. You guys are our business, and
it pains me to have any problems at all in serving you. We have
investment dollars now, we
Hey Brett,
Do me a favor and drop us an e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'll take a
look at your blogging setup and help you out. Also please feel free
to IM me on AOL instant messenger -- I'm on as mikehudack.
Generally speaking, problems like this are caused either by bad
username password
(and relatively unanticipated) surge in usage this
week.
We're growing very quickly, and it's hard to keep up with the demand
while we're self-funded, but we're doing it... and we'll keep doing
it. If you have trouble, please IM me on AIM as mikehudack or you
can drop me an e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED
According to all our diagnostic systems and reports, we were up last
night, and haven't had downtime in some time. It looks like there
were Internet networking issues that may have caused blip to be
unavailable for some people for some period of time.
The best example of this is blip working for
I hate it when that happens, too! I'll get out there and try to find
Chicago...
:-) Looks like this was indeed a networking issue outside our
control. But, as I said in my reply to Josh, we're looking into it.
Yours,
Mike
Co-founder, blip.tv
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, David
Hey David,
We can suppport quite a few concurrent viewers for a 20mb viewer :)
Our infrastructure includes two collocation facilities in New York
City (we'll soon be adding a third in California) with excellent,
burstable bandwidth. In terms of servers, we have about a dozen of
them, including
Hey guys,
Yes, we do allow people to upload video from cell phones.
Both companies have trademarks pending. We're going to work on it,
and that's about the best I can say right now.
Yours,
Mike
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Kinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Is it enough
Hey guys,
First of all, let me say that we're aware of bliptv.com. I don't
think I should say very much about the issue at the moment, but we're
doing what we can (in regular consultation with our lawyers) to deal
with the situation.
I don't think anyone was out to hurt anyone or otherwise do
Not that I know, David...
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, taoofdavid65 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
O crap. Did Blip just take another nose dive?
David
http://www.taoofdavid.com
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, mikehudack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey guys,
Yes, blip
I'll be there, too, for the DIY Now More Than Ever panel.
A get-together would be great... and if anyone is looking to share a
hotel room, that'd be great too :)
Yours,
Mike
Co-founder, blip.tv
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, JD Lasica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm moderating a panel on
mikehudack wrote:
Not that I know, David...
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, taoofdavid65 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
O crap. Did Blip just take another nose dive?
David
http://www.taoofdavid.com
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, mikehudack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote
switched to backup servers quickly, but there were some hiccups along
the way.
As always, please don't hesitate to IM me if you have problems with
blip. I'm on AOL instant messenger as mikehudack practically all
day every day.
Yours,
Mike
Co-founder, blip.tv
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Adam
Hey Bill,
I'm not sure why FeedBurner wouldn't be picking up your videos as
enclosures... Have you tried contacting FeedBurner support?
Yours,
Mike
Co-founder, blip.tv
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bill Streeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey thanks, that transcoding feature would be a
This is really cool, Peter! Thanks!
-Mike
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, petertheman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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/
Our research has, so far, led us to the conclusion that only FLV or
SWF movies play in the Flash player... I'd love to hear if there are
alternatives, though, as we don't much like either format!
Yours,
Mike
Co-founder, blip.tv
http://www.pokkari.com/blog/
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com,
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Pete Prodoehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Starfire wrote:
It's true! According to Engadget we now have a video iPod!!!
Please deliver one to Phil Torrone at Make Magazine, and quick!
Yup, it's landed. Video iPod, iTunes 6, some new media center
software
You need to put the itunes namespace in your RSS feed and include the
custom itunes tags.
Here's a page on how to do it:
http://phobos.apple.com/static/iTunesRSS.html
We're doing it on blip right now for itunes:author and
itunes:keywords, and I'm working on incorporating more of their custom
There's a problem right now with two major Internet Service Providers
that's wreaking a little havoc with some higher bandwidth Web sites.
The best article I've been able to find on the subject is from Tech
World: http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4531
The upshot is basically
I should mention that I don't know for sure that this problem is
affecting the Internet Archive. I do know that the IA has multiple
hosting arrangements with multiple networks, so they should be less
affected than other providers who don't.
In other words, I wouldn't want to say for sure that
Hi Bohus,
We haven't made any changes lately to how we display WMV video... Could you
give me a
URL to the video you're working with and I'll check it out?
Thanks,
Mike
blip.tv
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Bohus Blahut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Steve for including me
Hey Bev,
It's mike from blip.tv... I'm not sure what you mean regarding
preferred format, or if you're talking about blip, but we don't
prefer any particular format. If anything, we like Quicktime more
than WMV... but we support both.
Yours,
Mike
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com,
and we'll work to make sure you're happy. You can also IM me on the AOL instant
messenger network as mikehudack if you get stuck or anything or even just want to chat.
Yours,
Mike
blip.tv (beta) ;-)
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Kunga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They are both squirley. I have
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