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In today’s age of fast progress and in a generation with smart and savvy individuals who want to make sure they accomplish as much in their time by multitasking, newspapers are competing against time and machine communications such as with computers and the internet. Much of the extra time in the general demographics of newspaper article readers is now spent online. What the major threat here is that newspapers have to compete against time spent online versus time spent with a traditional newspaper and what value the consumer places against both. In other words, people need to be attracted more to one or the other to choose which one they will use for their source of information and news events. At first my thoughts were on the fact that computers are the new wave of the future and it might be a trend for people to just go online but then I thought about the workforce and companies that hire employees, then thought about schools and their teachers and students, most of them use computers as part of their daily routine and not because they like to but because they have to, so when certain information is needed in regards to current events they can easily click on a browser and log on to a newspaper website instead of trying to drive around and find a stand or wait for the next volume of the paper to arrive at their doorstep.

Although perception of the internet gives the user a certain degree of openness and the right to free information, the internet evolution and its progress has been built upon by corporations that rely on advertising dollars to keep them “afloat”. From the very start of newspapers along with others have had part of their company structure and growth to thank from advertising revenues. Advertisers can now see that newspapers can have big visitor numbers towards their websites just as in the decades before the internet they had true subscribers. This helps the newspapers survive by transitioning their advertising revenues that were typically made from the newspaper classifieds, marketing and the such to transition into the new media format and keep people reading. People still feel conformable on relying these newspapers for bringing them news because they are established entities that have been around from generation to generation so there is a certain degree in which newspapers can count on in regards to customer loyalty and readership for generations to come. I, personally would rather read the news about an event from The Los Angeles Times then some Joe blows blog in the middle of the internet ocean (like me) . Although perception has it that newspapers are bias, intelligent people can count on the fact that reliable newspapers either on the internet or in print will more than likely not have any propaganda attached to their editorials. So part of it is the easy transition from print to digital as far as sales and bringing in revenues and from trust that people still have in newspapers.

I believe that the users-gratification approach should be taken into consideration when trying to identify your market reach and penetration with a film product in order to make it successful. What does this mean? It means that you must take into account all the things that make human curiosity and apply it to your movie when producing/developing it.

The uses-gratification approach is most of the time based upon a four-category human need system that is part into a cognition, diversion, social utility and withdrawal account when the evaluation of an individual approach is carried out.  The first category is the act of the person to simply start knowing something and clearly identify parallels to that knowing or for their own using such as updating on political events that will influence their lives or understanding what is going on and or simple just want to learn and satisfy their human curiosity. Second, diversion which can take on a diversity of forms for an individual such as stimulation activities to that contrast of everyday life or just for relaxation. It could also be an emotional release function which is more complex such as watching a dramatic movie that the person can relate to his or her own life experiences.  Social utility is basically tools or currency communication to initiation an addressing of a certain subject or even. Such as when a person asks you “Did you see that blockbuster movie last opening weekend?” In most cases the initial message is secondary to that of the importance of actual social gathering. The last of the categories is withdrawal which can be a mass media to create a barrier or excuse between other people or activities. Television, radio a book can be used to draw a line between wanted and unwanted communication such as not disturbing someone while watching a favorites show versus someone commenting on a show and the other person agreeing but not continuing the conversation.

Take for example “chick flixs” or love stories, even though they are the same kind of story over and over again most of the time, the demographics are known to attend because of what’s playing in front of your screen and who is next to you eating popcorn…

This basically gives a category to try to simplify some of the drive in which someone might go and see your movie or rent it. That is of course once you have it distributed!

Minorities in television, film and commercials… Well this fall more onto film and television series. As you know the media portrays many minorities in a bad light, you never see them as heros or mixed into scripted shows as the lead as much. This is due to something beyond what we understand as far as research and data analysis approaches that are applied to media communcations because everything in entertainment is a communication, they are trying to tell us something or at least that is what the purpose of watching a film or producing a film product is to make it attract as many people to make as much money. Let us look at the main approaches that most market researchers for the entertainment use…

The “functional” approach bases its data on audience observation and experiences of these individuals such as a questionnaire while critical/cultural research uses a more of broad mass communicative study of culture within the audience. Both approaches may or may not come to the same conclusion based on the communication that is trying to be delivered because the major critical/cultural differences may have an impact on the outcome. The diversity in society and the account of examination of different concepts, ideology, politics and social structure vary greatly when taken on macrolytically and much of the research is aimed at describing these depictions within the society. Many views can be drawn when using a critical/cultural approach such as a something produced with certain characteristics such as a Mexican or a Black man playing a criminal in the entertainment industry, the entertainment industry from data gathered sees this in a functional approach by data gathered from society versus how the audience might see it as insulting and degrading society. Both approaches from either side have viable application in understanding how mass communication effects audience and the society.

You see, it’s not really the filmmakers fault that they CHOOSE to make a mexican, latino actor into a criminal, the research department are the ones that TELL us who the majority and minorities are in a perfect and unperfect world.

For those of you who haven’t noticed, an updated version of twiddeo has been released.

“Twiddeo is a powerful but simple service that let’s you do one thing very well: Twitter updates with Video.  Upload from the web, your cameraphone and record from your webcam. That simple, that straightforward, that great!”

Along with a well overdue design update comes a couple of neat new features. You can now record video from your webcam directly on twiddeo. Good news, there isn’t a silly 12 or 15 second limit to how long your webcam rants go. So go ahead, feel free to tell all of your twitter followers exactly what you’re thinking with out staring at the clock.

Twiddeo also uses the Disqus Commenting System. Disqus easy enhances the ability for users to directly discuss specific videos right on twitter.

“Disqus, pronounced “discuss”, is a service and tool for web comments and discussions. The Disqus comment system can be plugged into any website, blog, or application. Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community.”

Another feature that will be coming soon to twiddeo will be the API, currently it is still in the testing stages but will be ready soon enough. It will allow 3rd party applications the ability to use twiddeo’s services.

To get started using twiddeo just go to http://www.twiddeo.com/ enter your Twitter username and password and you’ll be on your way to adding video to your twitter updates!

So check out my twiddeo page http://beta.twiddeo.com/user/view/mikeluby for some of my video twitters.

For more information about Twiddeo check out the about page.

(Note: I’m one of the developers on twiddeo)

Did a post on oEmbed over at the vSocial Blog titled “oEmbed: oVerkill?” Check it out.

I know, 2 posts in one day, crazy.

Websites:

FieroEntertainment.com

CastingJoseph.com

FieroCasting.com

LifeAsAStrugglingActor.com

FieroPhotography.info

FieroDesigns

Joey Fiero is a Independent Producer and Filmmaker and a producer for Creative Entertainment Media Inc. (www.CreativeEntertainmentMedia.com) partially responsible for television/film development, acquisitions and business introductions. He Co-Founded GBTVOnline.com a online music network that showcases nothing but the hottest A-List celebrity artists along with fellow actor and producer Stacy Hall.

Mr. Fiero brings more then a decade of experience from within the entertainment industry that expands from the arts trenches to business product development. A graduate of Broadcasting in television combined with his years of experience as early as in his teens, Mr. Fiero prides himself on building long-term, personal relationships in business which he credits as the secret to his success. Joey Fiero formed Fiero Entertainment Inc. In 2006 and is expanding in all areas of the Entertainment Industry from Production and Development to Casting.

In addition to continuing on his career way, Mr. Fiero devotes part of his time to a non-profit foundation; Global Alliance for the Arts & Humanities Inc. This non-profit is designed to give others the training, experience and access of opportunity to pursue “key decision making” careers in the television and film industry.
Business Inquires: JosephFiero@gmail.com

The number of video-sharing sites has shot through the roof recently, as dozens of companies try to become the Flickr of the online video world.  To this end, many video services have started offering new features like editing and remixability in an attempt to snatch a piece of the ever-expanding online video pie.  But for the average user–who just wants to post a video on the ‘net and share it with some friends–there are already too many options out there.  All one really wants to know is, which site is going to work, with the least amount of hassle?

I took 10 of these sites out for a test drive, and picked some winners.  If you want to post, watch, share, or edit video online, this post’s for you.

To test each service, I uploaded my demo reel (a 15MB Sorenson 3-encoded Quicktime file) to each site and compared video quality, site interface, community features, and functionality.  Where applicable I also tried to embed the resulting video in a WordPress page.  Many of these sites are still in beta, and their functionality could change in the coming months, but if you’re looking to post and share video today, this is the current state of things.

Eyespot

Appeal: Easy-to-use video uploading and remixing.
Interface: Bright and colorful.  Tagging, forums, groups.  Not a lot of community features.
Editing: Trim beginning and end, reorder clips on a timeline, add music and photos.
Sharing: Post to a group, invite a friend to the service (but not directly to your clip).
Verdict: Uploading straightforward and painless.  But: 25MB filesize limit too small.  Mashup features fall short of Grouper’s “groovies,” and it’s not even in the same ballpark as Jumpcut when it comes to mixing and editing.  Not a lot of reason to use Eyespot, in its current incarnation.

Google Video

Appeal: It’s Google.
Interface: Typically clean and sparse Google layout.  Uploading requires you download the Google Video Uploader.  Allows you to add plenty of metadata, including a transcript.  You can monetize your content by assigning a sale price to each clip (you can also give users a “day pass,” giving them access to the content for a limited time, but not ownership).
Editing: None.
Sharing: See below.
Verdict: Google Video requires a “video verification” process, where your submission is reviewed to ensure it conforms to Google’s technical standards and legal policies.  This process “may take several days,” so check back for an update.

Grouper

Appeal: YouTube with a file-sharing application built on top.
Interface: For full functionality, requires an application download. Windows Media Player-based (converts other formats).  Ratings, tagging, groups, RSS feeds.
Editing: Create mashups of your videos and photos, set to music (“groovies”).
Sharing: Post direct to myspace, friendster, eBay.  Download to hard drive, iPod.
Verdict: “Groovies” are easy to create and could be very popular.  But: File-sharing application seems half-baked (and is undifferentiated from existing options).  “Groovies” will prove much more popular if they can be built online without having to download the app.  E-mail registration system was a pain; had to do it twice to get confirmed.  After several hours, my file was still unavailable, as the service was still “upload processing.”

Jumpcut

Appeal: Create, edit, and remix video online.
Interface: Slick interface feels more like an application than a web page.  Scales all videos to a larger size than other sites, but videos don’t autoplay and there is no indication of what portion of the video has already been downloaded.
Editing: Bar-none the best editing options of the bunch.  Splice your footage, reorder the shots, add music, photos, transitions, even effects–think iMovie in an online interface.  Very, very slick.
Sharing: Email to a friend, embed in a web page (worked flawlessly in WordPress).
Verdict: Playing with Jumpcut’s features, you immediately understand that the future of online video is here.  No current competitor can touch it.  But: Get too effects crazy and your video slows down.  Jumpcut doesn’t re-render your files with every remix–which leaves the original video quality intact–but playback of edited files is not perfectly smooth. Don’t throw out iMovie just yet.

Ourmedia

Appeal:  “The Global Home for Grassroots Media.”
Interface: Slow, confusing, and messy.  Requires an Internet Archive account, and the integration of the two services is convoluted.  Keeps your content in its native format, which is both good and bad–it doesn’t recompress your video, but it requires its users to have several different players installed correctly.  Creative Commons licenses built-in.
Editing: None.
Sharing: RSS feeds, email to a friend, direct link to files from your own site.
Verdict: Going forward, a good place to upload your media if it is socially-conscious or activist by nature.  Also works as an online repository for video/audio storage.  But: One of the most difficult sites to upload video to.  Current “alpha” version falls far short of potential–wait for the next version.

Revver

Appeal: YouTube with monetization–if people watch your video (and the embedded ad), you get paid 20% of what the advertiser pays Revver.  If they click on the Revver link at the end, you split the proceeds 50/50.
Interace: Quicktime-based.  Requires you to download a client for uploading content.  Tagging, emailing, rating, playlisting.
Editing: None.
Sharing: See below.
Verdict: Offers a unique revenue-sharing model that may appeal to content owners and producers.  But: Uploading process is convoluted (the promised drag-and-drop functionality was nowhere to be found).  After trying to upload my file using the Revver client twice, my video was still listed as “unavailable.”  I later received an email from Revver stating that my submission may contain unauthorized material that requires clearances–which is true.  Because Revver and Google Video are the only sites in this roundup that let you monetize your content, we’ll be back with an update comparing the two.

Videoegg

Appeal: Lets you painlessly upload video of any format to the web and post it to other sites or share it with friends.
Interface: Requires you download an application in order to upload.  The download seamlessly embeds in your browser to give you drag-and-drop functionality.
Editing: Basic trimming of beginning and end points.
Sharing: Post direct to eBay, Blogger, and Typepad.  Creates a simple URL, lets you email the video, and gives you javascript and html code for embedding in your own pages.
Verdict: Painless experience.  If you only need to post and share video with friends, Videoegg just works.  Flash 8 video quality is pretty decent.  But: Video didn’t embed properly in other pages (WordPress).

Vimeo

Appeal: Flickr for video.
Interface: Nice and clean, uses a flash wrapper to play native formats.  No download required, simple and easy uploads.  Tagging, commenting, voting.  Nice player with a volume control and no burned-in logo.
Editing: None in the current version.
Sharing: Post to Flickr, send to del.icio.us, download original file, embed in your MySpace profile or blog, create an RSS feed.
Verdict: Good video quality. Embedding the video in WordPress worked flawlessly.  But: Light on community features, and weekly storage cap of 20 megs is too limiting.

vSocial

Appeal: “The fastest, easiest way to upload, watch and share your favorite video clips.”
Interface: All Web 2.0′d-out.  Big fonts, AJAX, tagging, rating, reviewing, RSS feeds, creative commons licenses.
Editing: Offers “edit this video” functionality, which I couldn’t test (see below).  Can also create “Video Rolls,” which are customized playlists generated from your selected criteria.
Sharing: Embed in your own page, MySpace, Typepad, Blogger, del.icio.us, Flickr, Blog It! (write a post on your own blog about a video without leaving vSocial).
Verdict: Lots of community features.  But: Didn’t live up to their “fastest” or “easiest” claim–I never successfully got a video uploaded (tried three times).  Quality of existing clips is less than stellar–everything’s resized to 320X240.  Your mileage may vary, but even with a Quicktime file that uploaded to other sites without a problem, I never got vSocial to work.

YouTube

Appeal: The video-sharing site everyone’s already heard of.  Mindshare-winner by a mile.
Interface: Tabbed pages feature ratings, favorites, flagging, tagging, and commenting.  Create playlists, subscribe to other’s uploads, subscribe to tags.  The player only features a mute button (rather than level control), and full-screening the video opens a new window and starts playback over.
Editing: None.
Sharing: Embed in other websites, including Friendster, eBay, Blogger, MySpace.
Verdict: Easy to use, no major issues.  Decent video quality, audio sounds compressed.  Video embedded in WordPress fine (but was off-center).  But: No progress bar for uploading.  Fairly lengthy “processing” delay before you (or anyone else) can watch your video.

AND THE WINNERS ARE…

For posting: If you just want to get a video clip online and share it with friends via email or on your own blog, Vimeo wins for its speed, ease-of-use, and simple playback functions.  It also lets users download the original file, and features some light community features (note that a new version is launching very soon).  One of the few sites I used that I never had a problem with.  Alternate choice: Videoegg.

For viewership: If you want to step up to more community features and get widespread viewership of your viral clip, YouTube gets the job done with a lot less hassle than vSocial or Grouper.

For editing: If you want to alter your video online in any way–through editing, remixing, or combining your clips with those from other users–then head on over to Jumpcut and don’t look back.  Jumpcut really offers the first leap forward in online video sharing, and is worth a look even if you have no use for editing features (its full-fledged community is launching “very soon”).  Alternate choice: none, yet, although Motionbox looks to be a potential competitor.

Social media marketing is sometimes hard to describe but you know what it is when you see it. Today millions of people are connected through social networks such as Myspace and Facebook. Social media marketing allows brands to use social technologies such as blogs, interactive websites, and video, just to name a few, to entice users to contribute to the brand’s messaging creating their own buzz about the brand. Users virally spread their messages through the use of the social media technologies. These like-minded individuals build their own communities around the brands they like and use. Through the use of these technologies a greater percentage of the brand’s target audience can now be reached, tracked and serviced. I guess in a way social media marketing puts the power in the hands of the users and in turn the users basically do the rest of the work for the brands.

http://theanswer.ad-tech.com/view/answer/What-is-social-media-marketing-6

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Akhir-akhir ini semakin banyak website yang diblokir institusi, baik oleh pemerintah, hingga level ISP hingga level user. Keputusan pemerintah memerintahkan para Internet Service Provider untuk memblokir website-website tertentu (secara keseluruhan) adalah tindakan MENEMBAK NYAMUK DENGAN MERIAM. Hasilnya, bukan hanya nyamuk yang mati, tetapi tembok rumah hancur seluruhnya. Sehingga, tindakan ini bukan menyelesaikan permasalahan, tetapi memperburuk dan memperlambat pola pikir bangsa dalam memahami teknologi.

Baik buruknya tindakan ini pada akhirnya relatif, tentu. Dengan skenario adanya ahli telematika yang kurang kompeten tetapi beruntung, ditambah elemen aji mumpung dari penulis yang seenaknya menerbitkan konten internet kacangan, menyulut api pertentangan di Indonesia akhir-akhir ini. Akhirnya, kita semua sulit menemukan siapa yang salah dalam permasalahan ini. Tetapi, lepas dari siapa yang salah dan siapa yang benar, jangan mengaku orang kreatif dan jangan mengaku hacker yang intelek jika kita mampu memecahkan masalah ini. Puihh

Akhir kata, tulisan ini bukan untuk membahas politik yang segala hal lain yang bersangkutan. Tetapi, fokus pada sisi kreatifitas yang bisa membantu memahami teknologi untuk mempermudah hidup dan bukan sebaliknya. Berterimakasihlah kepada Tuhan yang menciptakan otak manusia yang sempurna, yang dapat digunakan untuk mencegah kematian kreatifitas, yang lagi-lagi diakibatkan ‘ketidaktahuan’ para pengambil keputusan di negara ini.

Mari membangun generasi teknologi lebih pandai di negara ini.

YouTube, Multiply dan MySpace

Adalah daftar website yang diblokir oleh sebagian besar penyedia jasa layanan internet di Indonesia. Ini adalah website-website yang banyak penggunanya di Indonesia.

Informasi pengunjung 6 bulan terakhir menurut Alexa:

Multiply
Traffic website ini mencapai rata-rata 6 juta perbulan dan 12.4% dari traffic tersebut berasal dari Indonesia. Multiply.com merupakan website terbesar ke 9 di Indonesia dan nomor 116 di dunia.

MySpace.com
MySpace.com didatangi kurang lebih 60 juta orang perbulan. Tidak ada detil berapa pengunjung dari Indonesia.

YouTube.com
YouTube.com memiliki perkembangan luar biasa dan hingga saat ini, menurut Alexa, adalah website terbesar ke 2 di dunia.

Jutaan orang yang datang ke 3 website ini bukanlah tanpa alasan. Mereka datang untuk mencari informasi, bersilaturahmi, mencari koneksi dan alasan-alasan lainnya. Ada user yang buruk? Tentu, saya percaya dengan ungkapan dari teman saya seorang blogger dari Amerika, ‘there are assholes in every part in this world’. Tetapi sekali lagi, tindakan memblokir mereka dapat membuktikan bahwa tindakan tersebut adalah tindakan membabi buta.

Hacker dan Kreatifitas

Menurut Wikipedia, Hacker dalam konteks komputer didefinisikan sebagai:

1. Hacker (computer security), someone who breaks computer and network security

2. Hacker (free and open source software), a programmer in the free software and open source movement

3. Hacker (hobbyist), an enthusiastic home computer hobbyist

Sementara itu kreatifitas adalah:

Creativity (or “creativeness”) is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts.

Seorang hacker di Indonesia selalu diibaratkan seorang penjahat yang selalu merusak tatanan komputerisasi. Padahal, hacker itu adalah orang pandai dan kreatif. Dengan kepandaian dan kreatifitasnya, seorang hacker mampu menciptakan jaringan keamanan komputer menjadi lebih baik, menciptakan software open source yang membuat hidup banyak orang lebih baik, dan mereka itu penghobi komputer yang akut.

Dari latar belakang tersebut, dapat disimpulkan bahwa dunia internet tidak akan pernah berkembang tanpa hacker dan kreatifitas. Dengan catatan para hacker dan calon hacker sebaiknya menggunakan pola pikir ‘Hack to Learn’ dan bukan ‘Learn to Hack’. Dengan menggunakan prinsip tersebut, siapapun yang belajar dengan menggunakan teknik-teknik kreatif yang tidak diajarkan di sekolah komputer, akan mendapat lebih banyak daripada yang belajar teknik-teknik jitu untuk berbuat tidak baik.

Website diblokir, pembunuhan Kreatifitas?

Yang sulit adalah mentalitas blokir website. Jika mentalitas itu tetap ada, maka pemblokiran website dimasa depan akan berlanjut terus. Maka, sebenarnya membuka blokiran website-website tersebut merupakan tindakan kepemimpinan yang bijak, tetapi jikapun tidak, tindakan ini tidak akan pernah mampu membunuh kreatifitas.

Meskipun lebih sulit mendapatkan informasi, ada banyak website lain yang tidak akan pernah mampu diblokir oleh para anti teknologi, dan cara-cara yang membuat kreatifitas hacker tidak pernah mati.

Dibawah ini adalah beberapa pendekatan untuk mengatasinya:

Pendekatan 1: Gunakan Free Proxy.

Free Proxy adalah sebuah teknik dengan menggunakan proxy server yang merupakan sebuah server (sistem komputer atau program aplikasi) yang melayani permintaan klien dengan memforward permintaan tersebut ke server lainnya. Caranya mudah, ketika salah satu dari alamat website dibawah ini, dan ketik youtube.com atau multiply.com atau myspace.com. Anda akan diantar dengan aman ke tujuan anda.

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Pendekatan 2: Gunakan website URL Redirect

Ada banyak lagi website URL redirect yang biasanya digunakan untuk memperpendek URL yang panjang. Diantaranya adalah tinyurl.com or snipurl.com.

Pendekatan 3: Gunakan Search Engine

Ketikkan alamat website yang anda tuju ke Google.com atau Yahoo.com. Ada hasil ‘tembolok’ atau cached pages, klik disana dan masuk ke website yang anda tuju.

Pendekatan 4: Gunakan Yahoo BableFish.

Coba klik link ini untuk mengakses YouTube. Untuk mengakses MySpace gunakan link ini, dan Multiply gunakan link ini.

Pendekatan 5: Gunakan Google Translate sebagai proxy server.

Biasanya bisa juga digunakan untuk masuk ke video-video di YouTube yang hanya bisa dilihat oleh pengunjung dari region tertentu. Translate URL yang anda tuju menjadi bahasa apapun, anda akan diantar ke halaman yang anda tuju.

Pendekatan 6: Gunakan WatchThis.com.

Caranya mudah, klik link ini, masukkan url yang anda ingin dapatkan beritanya dan alamat email anda. Sesudah itu, setiap ada update dari website tersebut maka Watchthis.com akan mengantar perubahan itu ke email anda.

Pendekatan 7: Gunakan website PDF Converter.

Sign up untuk account gratis di Adobe Create PDF Online, isi URL content yang anda butuhkan. Hasil website dalam bentuk PDF akan dikirim ke email anda untuk di download.

Pendekatan 8: Gunakan alternatif video hosting site (untuk pengguna YouTube).

Ada beberapa alternatif video hosting site selain YouTube seperti Veoh, Stage6, BlipTV, Vimeo, Metacafe, Vidilife, ZippyVideos, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, Eyespot, Grouper, Jumpcut, OurMedia, Revver, VSocial, BigContact, Blinkx, Bolt, Boltfolio, Broadsnatch, CastPost,
Clipshack,DailyMoti on, Divicast, Dropshots, Everybit, Eyespot, Fireant.tv, Flukiest, Freevlog, GetDemocracy, GlideDigital, Grinvi, Kolablog, Lifeblogger, Loomia, Magnoto, MediaMax, MediaTurner, Mefeedia, Myvideokaraoke, Openvlog, Orb, Ourmedia, Phanfare, PicPix, Pixpo, Poddater, Podesk, Pooxi, Popcast, SelfcastTV, SevenLoad, Sharkle, Shozu, Stickam, Strmz, Trueveo, Turnhere, Videobomb, Videosift, Vlogmap, vMix, Vongo, Woomu dan hosting sendiri video di account hosting anda.

Pendekatan 9: Ketikkan IP Address dan bukan URL.

Metoda ini tidak selalu berhasil, tetapi dilaporkan bisa beberapa user berhasil menggunakannya di Cina, UAE, Iran dan Arab Saudi.

IP Address YouTube adalah 208.65.153.253, MySpace 216.178.38.116, Multiply.com 66.246.179.201.

Pendekatan 10: Mulai blog sendiri.

Untuk pengguna MySpace dan Multiply, lebih baik pindah ke website penyedia blog gratis seperti blogger.com, wordpress.com, typepad, tumblr.com, bloghost.com atau bahkan alternatif seperti getshifter.com.

Pendekatan 11: Gunakan custom domain dan self hosted blog.

Meskipun menggunakan website gratis terlihat mudah, tetapi seperti Multiply dan Myspace, user tidak dapat menggunakan namasaya.com, tetapi hanya menjadi subdomain di domain utama, jadi seperti namasaya.multiply. com. Menggunakan custom domain dan self hosted akan membuat anda terlihat lebih cerdas dan dapat mengkustomisasi brand anda. Ada banyak cara, misalnya menggunakan custom domain di Blogger.com, upgrade custom domain di WordPress.com, membayar hosting di typepad.com atau self hosted blog dengan menginstall Drupal, WordPress, Joomla ataupun TextPattern.

Pendekatan 12: Gunakan video downloader.

Salah satu kelebihan dan kehilangan yang sangat besar yang dialami oleh YouTube user adalah fitur embedable player. Anda tidak bisa lagi menyimpan video Youtube di postingan anda. Tetapi, jika anda menggunakan software video downloader seperti Orbit, anda masih bisa mendownload video tersebut. Setelah mendownload video itu, upload ulang ke alternatif YouTube yang ada di nomor 8.

Pendekatan 13: Jika tetap ingin menggunakan YouTube dan tidak bermaksud meng-embed-nya, gunakan HeySpread! untuk mengupload video ke YouTube.

]]> http://lubymike.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/kudostar-the-mobile-social-rating-system/ Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:58:13 +0000 Mike Luby http://lubymike.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/kudostar-the-mobile-social-rating-system/

KudoStar is a mobile social rating system, based on Google’s Android mobile phone operating system, connects your contacts and favorite locations. People and places accumulate positive and negative Kudostars (KudoScore), with relevant sound, images, and video while keeping the user interface intuitive and simple to use. KudoStar then uses this information and ties it in with not only other Android phones but also your social networking sites. KudoStar will also utilize Facebook’s F8 and Google’s opensocial platforms to virally spread the collected data to a multitude of users. Tying Google Maps, and v:social’s media platforms KudoStar will allow a vast array of viewing options for the data that is collected.

Any Comments, Questions, or Suggestions please contact kudostar@gmail.com

http://code.google.com/p/kudostar/

http://www.kudostar.com/

Google delivered something elegant, simple and amazingly powerful. Amazingly overwhelmed by both the potential and the way they executed on the concept. Definitely looking to wrap both the app aspect and the container aspect into V:social.

Desde Blogmundi nos ofrecen estas 11 alternativas para alojar y visualizar nuestros videos. Poque no sólo de Google y Youtube vive el hombre…

Y a través de Blogoff y Ratillos nos ofrecen 10 alternativas más para suplir al popular software de grabación Ahead Nero. ¡Y además  gratis! 

Para que podamos grabar nuestras cosillas con total garantia y tranquilidad.

Ahí queda eso.

Here are some more suggestions I have for Twiddeo.

• Pagination of videos. Currently you can only view 5 videos on the front page. There isn’t a really good/easy way to view all of a users videos.
• A better “call to action” on the front page. Explain the service a little bit better. Tell everyone exactly what “Twitter+Video” means.
• Not sure if this one is possible but have twitter replies to a video add as comments on the video page.
• Allow users to rate the video
• Twiddeo Facebook application.
• Have Twiddeo reply back to the user telling them that their video is encoded. “@prob1em: your twiddeo is ready”

Twiddeo is a mash up of Twitter’s mobile “what are you doing?” service with V:social’s social media tools. All a user needs is a Twitter username and password and they are on their way. So Twiddeo gives users the ability to attach short video clips to your Twitter updates. I think this is a pretty good Idea ( of course I do, I work for the company that built it, and it uses the UPSLite that I developed ).

You know what would be cool for Twiddeo?

• Allow images to be added as well ( now I’m not sure if there is something like that out there ).
• The ability for a user to browser his or her videos easier, maybe http://www.twiddeo.com/prob1em ( my Twitter username is prob1em if you haven’t guessed ).
• Lets add to the viral aspect, why not allow users to share the videos via email
• Allow users the ability to embed the video elsewhere. When the video is embedded don’t forget to add the description of the video that the user sends in.
• Add a “Twiddeo this Video” button to the V:social player
• Add a “Follow this User” button to the player and/or video page.
• A more aesthetically pleasing layout.

If I get anymore Ideas I’ll just post them up here.

Ok, so Brad wrote on his blog ( http://seeteeohh.com ) about twiddeo.com. Twiddeo is a cool little twitter + V:social mashup that Brad and Jonathan made last week with my new V:social player system. Pretty cool stuff, too bad it’s quite ugly! So instead of working on my own stuff this weekend I’ll probably designing some new layouts to pitch to Brad.

Oh a little side note, the new V:social player system, UPSLite ( Unified Player System version “Lite” aka UPS 3.0 ) is going to be pretty “ballah”. It’s a totally new way that we ( V:social ) share videos. More to come on that later!

P.S. Brad it’s salmon not brick.

So… we just launched Twiddeo and folks are starting to poke around. It’s been something I’ve wanted to push us to do for awhile, so I pulled Jonathan Apostoles away from the grindstone for a week, and he banged things out. Aside from having a very spartan look (which I’ll take the blame for), it works great — both elegant and simple, but powerful and useful all at once. Great job by Jonathan, the V:social API, and the new version of our Flash player application (written by Mike Luby!)

Mashable did a quick pre-launch writeup (and hopefully will do a post-launch writeup!) here.

P.S. My twitter user ID is dskwared — wordpress.com doesn’t let me post the widget on here. We need to get that fixed, imo!

So I’m going through a whirlwind 2 weeks starting tomorrow. I’m going to be in SF from Monday AM-Thursday PM, then back for the weekend to hang out with the fiancee and my son, then I’m off to NYC from Tuesday AM-Sunday PM. Anyone reading who wants to get together while I’m in town, drop me a comment or email (brad A.T vsocial D.O.T com) and I’d be happy to grab a cup of coffee or some food. Also, for folks that follow that want to see posts, expect a few while I’m out of town. I find that hotel time is one of the most productive times for me, and I have at least a half a dozen topics I want to get up on a soapbox about. Airplanes and frequent flier miles, here I come!

So I got in on the Pownce beta and promptly sucked all of the vSocialites into it. Honestly, the comparison with Twitter is way off. Honestly, I think a better comparison at this point is AIM or Gtalk. As well, to that end, at this point, it’s more useful, in-office, than any “old school” IM client. I can post updates, send mockups, send links (as I’m going to do with this blog!) and keep up on what everyone else is doing. Wanna go to lunch? If I Twitter this, a bunch of people that don’t care will recieve this. The big feature difference that I’ve seen so far is the User Set piece. Once this becomes a filterable meta type, Pownce will be able to shift from casual “hey sup” into workgroup and business unit focused communication tool. Now, does Mr. Rose want this to be an inter/intra-office focused tool? That, I’m not sure about. If he puts the features in to make it as much, I surely know we’ll be dedicated, fervent users.

So this week is truly cut in two. This sucks. Two 2 day work weeks makes for some funky work patterns. It also makes customers really tough to get ahold of, because a great deal of the true decision makers are taking 5 day weekends. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of long weekends, but it’s a crappy way to start off a new quarter. As well, it’s really difficult to get the nerds into a pattern when they’re going to be here, then not, then here. That being said, it’s great for me because I can do some really solid tactical planning, both because customers aren’t 100% available, and because it’s a slow rolling start to the quarter. So I’m going to roll up the sleeves, get spec’ing and start some roadmaps.