Hi VideoBloggers, Tiffiniy with Participatory Culture here. Big news, good news: we've just released the beta version for Windows of our flagship video player (formerly known as DTV)!
We're also announcing a new name for this free and open-source internet TV platform: Democracy. It's perfect for videobloggers and independent publishers -- covers everything from publishing videos, to watching them in fullscreen, to sharing them over the net. You can download the Democracy player for Windows right now, free of charge as always, on our new community website: http://www.getdemocracy.com/ Mac users: you can grab an updated version 0.8 of Democracy for Mac on GetDemocracy as well. There's a version for Linux users also, so Democracy is now officially cross- platform. On GetDemocracy.com, you'll find lots of new materials: case studies of how the platform flows together, buttons for you to post on your website to help promote open internet TV, testimonials from actual internet users, help documentation, user forums, and more. Tthere's an opportunity for all of us to build a new, open mass medium of online television. We're developing the Democracy internet TV platform so that watching internet video channels will be as easy as watching TV and broadcasting a channel will be open to everyone, and unlike traditional TV, everyone will have a voice. The Democracy platform encompasses four open-source and open-standards tools we've released over the past year: 1. Democracy player. Now available in beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux. New features include built-in video search just type your search terms into Democracy and see what there is to watch out there on the web. Also, Videobomb integarationyou can now "bomb" videos you like from within Democracy player, linking up with the Videobomb.com website. It's all coming together. 2. Democracy Channel Guide. Recently re-designed, a welcoming home base for internet TV. Now features over 300 channels (yes!!!) of fascinating internet video with more being added every day. Please feel free to submit your channel (an RSS feed with videos) by going here, it's entirely free: https://channelguide.participatoryculture.org/?q=submitchannel 3. Broadcast Machine. Free video publishing software. Provides instant video capacity for individuals and organizations -- it's easy publishing for videoblogs, the interface is just like blogging software. Optional BitTorrent publishing makes broadcasting video affordable for anyone. 4. Videobomb.com. The new social bookmarking website for video. Watch and support the best video on the web. Share with friends & family. It's like Digg + del.icio.us for video. Please forward this widely, write about us, tell your friends about us, and write back to this e-mail with your feedback, we welcome your thoughts on the Democracy platform. Thanks! Participatory Culture Holmes, Nicholas, Tiffiniy, Nick, David, Geoff, Matt, Colin, Luc, and friends. www.getdemocracy.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/
