On Feb 9, 2006, at 2:18 PM, Stephanie Bryant wrote: > I need to provide a direct link for those without a video-enabled RSS > reader anyway. > > Plus Blogger provides that as an option with the Link field. And > theoretically, FeedBurner can now just snag your first link and is > *supposed* to accept rel=enclosure (but I haven't gotten that to work, > and I stopped trying since the "link" field option works). > > Here's what's wrong with the popup and link-through options: > > 1) POP-UPS. Am I the only person who still HATES POPUPS?!?!?!? I can't > stand them. Hates, hates hates. Maybe I should "get with the program," > but popups suck. > > 2) Both of them require the user to make an extra click to get the > video. What's the point? I want the few people who actually view my > vlog in my blog space to just have a one-click option. Boom, you're on > my page? BOOM! There's the video! Click to play, you're done. > > Since I know that means anyone visiting my vlog starts getting hit > with a big download, I don't embed more than one video in a single > page, and my videos don't auto-play when they download, so people can > stop them from downloading (click ESC), or just not play them if they > don't want to. > > --Stephanie
I like your ideas. Can you give us your video-blog URL, I'd like to check it out. Can you tell me what "link" field option in Blogger is? Is it just using <a href="myvideo.mov">my video</a>, & Feedburner will pick it up? That's what I've been using up to now.. I was involved with an "A+B" LiveWebCast last weekend for the Parker 425 offroad race: A) Information (via IRC/Iritrack) live satellite vehicle-tracking B) Entertainment (via me/Jumplive.com) live multimedai: pics/videos See http://e-track.fr/irc [ click on the lower-left icon, it produces a pop-up screen with a flash-gallery of LIVE pics/videost at http://www.jumplive.com/ parker425/index.html, which "reflects" the LiveWebCast over the Textamerica.com moblog at http://parker425.textamerica.com ] You could select 4 vehicles to track, & see their icons move on the map. When you clicked on one of them, there would be a screen giving driver name & other info ("Information"). There was also a link "Click HERE for pictures", which produces a pop-up screen of a Textamerica.com moblog for that driver. Like: http://vildosolaracing.textamerica.com http://mcmillinracing.textamerica.com http://jonesracing.textamerica.com http://tscoracing.textamerica.com In this situation, with a lot of drivers, I think pop-up screens are appropriate. If you have any ideas along your line of "anti pop-up screen", I'm open to suggestion. Our "test" at the Parker 425 attracted a LOT of favorable attention, & the word is big-time funding is very imminent. Something like Rocketboom hopefully, or even bigger. Think NASCAR business-model: "a bilboard on 4 wheels", where every advertiser on the planet wants in for product-exposure. The above is a LiveWebCast using "Mobile Blogging" (aka moblogging) servers. The 2nd medium is Video-Blogging, where I have content at: http://jumplive.blogspot.com that is *syndicated* over iPod/iTunes (& hopefully TIVO). There are race-videos & audio race-traffic available over iTunes ("free"). The niche-sports market I'm working in (Offroad Racing) has NO live-TV coverage, only 1 month tape-delayed episodes on an obscure/niche cable channel. I think video-blogging (syndicated as a video-podcast over iTunes) could be the answer to Offroad Racing's longtime dilemma. I have a website http://www.jumplive.com/parker06/index.html which summarizes the 2 mediums (LiveWebCasting & iPod/iTunes VoD/"Video on Demand") I've been playing with. My post was motivated by wanting a more polished Look & Functionality ("Substance & Appearance"), to make it easier for people to browse the video-blog. Your UI philosophy of: "Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication" -- Leonardo da Vinci is something I'm into. That's how cellphones, iPod have become mass- consumer devices: they have become "accessible to the masses". I think is a really KEY idea, on getting video-blogging to TAKE-OFF. The "Standard Model" (passive-TV/Print-Media) is old-fashioned, tiresome, slow..whereas the "Alternative Model" (technology-based mobile media solutions) could make a charge. I talked to Technical Director of a major software firm (RealViz), & he told me 80% of their time is spent on UI..User Interface. It has to be user-friendly to the target market. BY > > On 2/9/06, Joshua Kinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If you embed the videos in the blog entries, then you also need to >> provide a direct link to the video file in order to use a service >> like >> FeedBurner to create enclosures. >> >> This is why the video popup method is good. It preserves the direct >> link to the video for FeedBurner, but also gives an embedded video >> solution for playback in the browser (including IE, which requires >> embedded video playback). > > -- > Stephanie Bryant > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Blogs, vlogs, and audioblogs at: > http://www.mortaine.com/blogs > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > 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/
