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1 stars. Here�%(ref)s;s the video of the rehearsal two days before his death.
Thanks to CNN for the footage.Performing "They Don�%(ref)s;t Care About Us".www.youtube.com
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MX_50540rk&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] La
fête nationale américaine précède de dix jours la fête nationale
française. Dans les deux cas, pétards et feux d'artifice sont de sortie, l'occasion
pour HowStuffWorks de s'intéresser à ce que contiennent ces éléments
pyrotechniques festifs. [HowStuffWorks]
If you have your photos and videos spread across multiple social sites then thisMoment could be
useful for you. As they mention, “thisMoment is about saving and sharing the Moments of
your life”. Like most of the social networks, thisMoment allows you to upload content like
photos and videos to your account. But there are 2 main things which set it apart.
First, you can easily combine your photos and videos from your other social accounts ( Facebook,
Flickr, YouTube… etc) into one sharable multi-media canvas, your friends public photos and
videos can also be included. And second, it has a really cool user interface which makes
navigation through your combined content entertaining and fun.
The site does require your logins for the other networks if you want to connect those accounts to
your thisMoment account ( they do promise complete privacy ).
Features
Create a moment by adding photos and videos.
Add your content from Facebook, Flickr Youtube and other popular networks.
Shared videos and images of your friends can also be added.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxb5R4rSgxE&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Ed Hebb,
dont on ne sait pas trop s'il a travaillé avec Henry Ford lui-même, nous montre
comment démarrer et conduire un modèle T. C'est très intéressant de
savoir comment manier un pareil engin, notamment pour le cas où votre garagiste vous
proposerait ce genre de véhicule de courtoisie. [Neatorama]
When you sign up for a newsletter, or an RSS feed, using your email, you may not always be able
to see the images in a post or message when receiving it in Gmail.
Why Gmail ‘hides’ images
To protect you from spam and other malicious emails. Apparently, spammers and scammers use images
in emails to see whether your address is real or not. By not showing the images, Gmail is
actually protecting you to some degree from these threats. However, when you know a message is
from a reputable sending, like for example if you signed up to the Google
Tutor RSS feed, you can set up your Gmail to display images from the same sender each time.
Displaying images in Gmail
There are some easy steps to assure you can see the images you want to.
If you want to display images only once: At the top of your email message, you
will see a blue bar with two links. The first one says “Display images below”. By
clicking on this, images for this one email message only will be displayed, and not for any
other emails you will receive from the same sender in the future.
If you always want to display images from a particular sender, simply click on
the second link that says “always display images from sender@senderyoutrust.com”.
Here are two screen shots showing before and after clicking either of the links:
In the first screenshot, the images in my Gmail email are still disabled.
After clicking either link at the top of the Gmail message, the following happened:
You can also stop Gmail from displaying images after you initially allowed them. You can do this
by clicking on show details at the top of the message, and selecting “don’t display
from now on”.
Happy
4th of July, America. When was the last time that actually meant anything real?
Forgive me if i feel strongly about this, but it seems us Americans are only good at complaining,
blaming others, and consuming. I am aware that many of us are patriotic Americans who take pride in
their country, but how many of us actually do our part to make it better? We all consume
irresponsibly, complain about the state of things, and blame "them" for all of our problems.
Democrats and Republicans blame each other, but i'm an Independent, and although my views are very
Left (Liberal) Libertarian, i put the blame on all
of us, the citizens. Our apathy and inaction is what maintains the status quo. We as a nation have
the potential to be so much greater than we are, and no single issue is as sad as the total of all
that wasted potential. It seems we won't rise to action until things are bad enough that we can't
tolerate it anymore. I, for one, refuse to conform to this mentality.
I will do everything in my power to make a difference because as Bill Clinton stated so eloquently
at the funeral of Coretta Scott King, "the difficulty of success does not relieve
one of the obligation to try". Those words have ever since resonated with me, and regardless of
how you feel about Clinton, i hope they will do the same for you. People always argue that nobody
cares, but this hyperbole needs to disappear. If everyone has the mindset that they can't influence
change, then true change will never come. If most people are not going to take action, does that
mean that nobody should? No, because the right thing to do is not what most people
actually do, but what everyone should do. "Nobody cares" is a shameful
denial of all the grassroots progress that has been made. "Nobody cares" is a pathetic excuse to
shirk one's collective
social responsibilities. "Nobody cares" is a weak will that ignores the efforts of all those who do
care. We all have an obligation to do something, so for those of us who are already active, we
should encourage others to care as well.
I propose that we don't just use July 4th as a day to spend time with family,
grill some barbecue, and watch fireworks come nightfall, but that we give the day some true justice
and do something meaningful with it. The Fourth of July should be a day on which we not only
celebrate our independence, but also exercise it: embrace the principles that this country was
founded on by putting our freedom of speech into action. This should be a day where we give back to
our country, care about it, and help shape it. Democracy is
participatory; it depends on us.
Today, as we're celebrating, let's reflect on the rights we take for granted, the ones that give us
reason to celebrate the founding of our country. Think hard on your responsibility to be a part of
this country that is your home. The greatness of this nation is in its limitless potential. When
the next Independence Day comes around, let's act to protect and fulfill the purpose of those
rights. We can gather together in every major city to rally for the causes we care most about, no
matter what they are or what side we take, and grow stronger together. Join your favorite
organization(s) in holding up signs, handing out informational materials, and simply discussing
your views and ideas with others. Or create your own materials and head out on your own or with
friends. By sharing knowledge and opinions, even conflicting views, we can reverse the dividing
polarization that has separated and pulled us apart and we will reunite our states. Doesn't
Independence Day deserve something like this?
I
know this idea may sound crazy, even hopeless, but I know that it can make a difference-- that it
should make a difference. We need this, an annual day of action to reaffirm our
independence, to bring us together around all of our disagreements, to take control of our own
country. What better day than the anniversary of our Declaration of Independence? Imagine it: the
entire country coming together not just to celebrate its past, but also to improve its future;
thousands of people in the streets connecting with others and sharing information on the causes
that matter to them; activism on a scale we've never seen before; real change in the hands of the
people; us taking genuine ownership of our own country. This is the perfect way to commemorate this
day and honor the value behind it. Plus, we can still enjoy the fireworks come nightfall. Consider
this a call to arms. Let's transform our Independence Day, together! Who's with me?
If you support the idea, please repost it somewhere else and start organizing! Post to
(micro)blogs, forums, YouTube, flyers on the streets, or anywhere else. Contact any organizations
or groups you care about and get them involved. So far, all i have is the Facebook event from which the idea
originated. We should get this to go viral or something. If you have any ideas or suggestions on
making this a more successful effort, please post in the comments.
Check out some of the
latest MakeUseOf discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free
account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For more cool websites and web app reviews
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(1) DocShare - Document sharing community that enables
everyone to easily find and share documents online. It’s pretty much like YouTube for
documents, you can search the documents by entering the title or browse through the categories.
You can also go for the most popular, most viewed and the most discussed ones. Read
more:Â DocShare: Find And Share
Documents Easily
(2) IconFinder - Great resource for finding icons
online. It lets you search over 90,000 web icons by keywords or browse them by icon sets, tags
and filter results by icon size and  background color. Download any icon with one
click in PNG or ICO format. Â Read more: IconFinder: Great Resource For Finding
Icons
(3) Mookal - Online calculator which lets
you quickly calculate your monthly mortgage or refinance payments. The calculator has
a clean design, user friendly interface and results are presented in easy-to-understand format
along with detailed graphs and tables. Read more: Mookal: Best Refinance
& Mortgage Calculator So Far
(4) NutritionToolbox -
Comprehensive food nutritional information database where you can look up information (e.g.
calories, vitamins, minerals) on more than 40,000 foods including brand name grocery items and
fast food products. Read more: NutritionToolbox:
Food Nutritional Information Database
(5) TwitLogo - Free logo generator that lets you create
custom Twitter-like logos for use on your website or online profiles. Simply type in the text and
click make to preview your logo. You can also customize logo size, logo text and background
color. Read more: TwitLogo: Twitter Logo
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I don’t recall how the YouTube user Pruane2Forever, aka
“Sexman”, came on my radar, but I definitely remember a few of his videos from a
couple years ago. (Here’s a old favorite
— Not Safe For Work.) Basically, it’s this kid who does movie and
new media reviews that are (or at least used to be) unintentionally hilarious. These days, he
apparently has quite the following on YouTube, as he has over 150 videos that range in popularity
from tens of thousands of views to over a million.
One of his most popular ones was a video from 4 months ago in which he calls out rapper 50
Cent. Sexman wonders how 50 still has “street cred” after doing endorsements for
Vitamin Water, makeup and dildos (I’m not kidding). “What else is he gonna do? 50
Cent diapers for your little gangsta?,” Sexman wonders at one point. He concludes that 50
Cent is “just a media whore!”
Well, 50 Cent has responded.
Yesterday, the rapper posted a video
alongside Sexman, who apparently flew from Canada to New York to meet up at the rapper’s
request.
Pure. YouTube. Gold.
Here’s another old classic. Sexman’s review of the latest Rambo review.
[thanks Corentin]
Crunch Network: CrunchGear
drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.
D2DVD recently blogged about whether or not online video has some sort of value not
based in money. While many of us equate popularity and views with value ,some of us might have
forgotten about a great deal of other avenues that might be considered to have value for the
creators. Sure retail sales tracking and ad revenue are valuable, but what else is there?
When talking about video views there are two pieces (so we’re told) that are import to
consider, who and how many. How many we know as views and is good for ad
revenue, while who boils down to demographics. The demographics are where a true hidden value can
come in. If those viewers are say, studio executives, commercial ad agencies, public relations or
other content buyers that video could result in revenue from other projects which were spawned
because of the original work. This would not be readily apparent when you look at YouTube and see
that a video has a lowly 1500 views.
Another facet is simply exposure…publicity / Brand Value. When a film
becomes popular on YouTube or another video sharing site people begin to talk about it. That
means they will blog, write and generally point links to the video, the creators or related
websites. This could be an extremely useful tool for the content creator when they want to find
new work or get their name out in the industry. This is also valuable in SEO for search results
and pagerank.
Another value add to online video is that it’s persistent. You place it
online and for the most part it remains there for some length of time unless the services it is
on go under or it’s deleted. It is a perpetual record of the creator’s works and can
lead others to other pieces that they have created thereby increasing their popularity all
around.
I’m going to lump the next two together – Education and
Experience. The library of online video serves as both a record of the creator’s
experience and their education. As time progresses and their videos become more complex, have
better editing, writing or storytelling it becomes apparent through a chronological look at their
body of work. Additionally, as it is all online, people can learn from the mistakes they made as
well as discussions about the videos which sometimes have a fair amount of value in them in
regards to technical issues and the like.
The reason I put them together is that as you create more and more video you not only gain
valuable experience and show that you can work on your own but it also shows that you’re
learning from your past work and mistakes (we all make them, it’s ok). The videos also
serve as educational material for others who want to get into the online video market. By seeing
what has come before they can determine what works and does not, what should be done and what
shouldn’t. This gives them a leg up in their beginning if they’re wise enough to use
it.
Finally, there’s the networking value or the social value. You create a
video you put it online at multiple sites and you end up meeting new people. These people either
become fans of your work and strive to see more of it in various ways by supporting you or they
become involved in future endeavors or present projects to work on. That means that you might not
only increase your fanbase but you’ll also find new business partners and contacts so that
even if they don’t bring you any projects you might be able to bring them and their
particular skills in on one of your future projects without having to go on a lengthy search for
the right individual.
Overall there’s most likely more intangible value for online video creators than actual
tangible value. Sure the one might lead to the other and mean more money in your pocket or it
might simply mean you have a contact list close to bursting with fans, friends and colleagues so
that when your next project is ready to go you won’t need to spend as much time getting the
project going or marketing it when it’s done. That’s a definite win in any industry.
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Get ready for funkyzeit as Austria's greatest fashionista arrives on the big screen this week.
But how would Bruno advise Gordon Brown, style Obama and deal with the BNP? We found out
Bruno – it's just Bruno – has four major loves in his life:
fashion, celebrities, entertainment and homosexuality (his and everyone else's). It is, perhaps
unsurprisingly, the latter that gets Sacha Baron Cohen's Austrian TV reporter into the most
trouble. If you thought Borat bringing a plastic bag full of his own excrement to the table was
uncomfortable, imagine how the people of Fort Smith in Arkansas felt when they'd bought $5
tickets for a Redneck Rumble only to see Bruno and another chap strip down to their smalls and
get it on. Cohen, almost unbelievably, is still alive and his film is set to be the feel-dirty
hit of the summer. But upsetting stupid people is easy- what's hard is bringing real and lasting
change to the world. So how would Bruno solve some of this season's biggest issues?
Hello Bruno, how are you?
For a herpes-free 19-year-old with a perfect body, ich am pretty good – alzo
ich have lost ein gramme since ich last weighed meinself an hour ago.
What are you wearing?
On my feet, a pair of powder blue Cavalli snakeskin courier boots, on my legs, a pair of low-rise
velvet Vivienne Westwood culottes und on my chest, ze sweat und "manmilch" of a Cuban roomservice
waiter named César.
Be honest: could the Guide get away with it?
Ich don't think so; César is pretty choosy, he is not like some dog marking his territory.
That Eminem incident ... we think he looked dangerously aroused. What about you?
Ja he vas very aroused. Let me tell you, the real Slim Shady vas beginning to stand up. Ich vas
not so bothered. Ich vish ich had landed on Kanye Vest und he had assumed ze role of ein "Bruno
Digger".
The British political scene is in crisis, MPs have never been so reviled. How would you
restore confidence?
Ich do not like to talk about politics. Ze last time an Austrian got involved in politics it
resulted in ein horrific var, which resulted in ze annihilation of all major European fashion
shows for six years. Ich know it's controversial – but in my opinion
– Hitler vas a bit of a bitch. I know someone who vas ze grandson of his
personal assistant; apparently behind ze scenes he vas a real tyrant. Vorse zan Elton!
The ex-home secretary's husband tried to claim his adult movie habit on expenses. He
watched Raw Meat 3 – do you know it?
Nein, ich do not vatch adultmovies. If ich am feeling horny ich vatch Daniel Radcliffe movies.
Zey are best watched on DVD vhen ich can pause it, und not run ze risk of accidentally finishing
meinself off vhen ze old vizard ist on the screen.
Britain is about to be taken, if not roundly thrashed, by a group of smooth-cheeked
public school boys. What should we do?
If you're you are not into ze spanking, pull out ein dildo. Most guys will run quicker zan an
Austrian child who has just found ze door to his dungeon unlocked.
How should Gordon Brown improve his YouTube hit count?
Lose ze grimacing: he has ze sort of creepy smile zat makes you check your drink for Rohypnol! He
alvays looks so sad – ich think he needs some new batteries in his love eggs
und ein makeover. He needs to go in some skinny jeans, und change his name to "DJ Shadow". Und
get some shpray tan – hello.
The crypto-fascists of the BNP are on the rise in our country. Do you have a message for
them?
It is the wrong vay to get your message across! Look at Adolf, everyone remembers him for ze
invading und ze fighting. No one remembers his bold use of colours and inventive accessorising.
Or ze fact zat he could co-ordinate zose big shows vith thousands of people und hundreds of
costume changes. Let me tell you, if Donatella Versace had been in charge of ze Nuremberg Rally,
it vould have been a disaster! Ich have seen zese angry men mit zere shaven heads hanging abaus
outside gay clubs. Too scared to come in. Ich says zere's plenty of room in ze Jacuzzi for all
types of guys. Not all gays like immigrants you know, so it's no big deal, vassever.
Quantitative easing – is it a good thing?
Is this ze new colonic process? Ich think Gwyneth Paltrow vas talking about zis. Zey flood your
arschenhalle vith yoghurt und you vear ein nappy for a veek vhile it seeps out. Nicht for Bruno.
How do you feel about Barack Obama's first 100 days?
He has been OK, but Bruno vould have liked it more if he'd have set up en actual Fashion Police
Department vith full powers of arrest. Zey should be able to baton-charge anyone in sweatpants.
Would you style him differently?
Ja, ich vould set that hot body free from its prison made of suits! He should follow Bruno's
rule: treat your clothes like you would do a pet. Love zem for a week, zen stick zem in a zip-up
bag und throw zem in ze Danube. Then again Obama has to vear ein suit, or else zose gay marines
who guard him vould be all over him like puppies on ein dropped ice cream.
Are you planning more Prop 8 demonstrations?
Of course! It is disgusting zat gay people don't have the same rights as straights: the right to
be trapped in a loveless sex-free marriage that ends in a massive legal fight over a house. And
as for kids, why shouldn't gays be able to adopt? Ein Third World baby is zis season's must-have
accessory, and it is discrimination to deny zem this.
Could you design a car that would save General Motors?
Ich had a dream about a car made of denim! Great for parking, you just fold it up and put it in a
bag. If ich had to design ein car ich vould start mit ze driver und zen accessorise. You vould
build your own car every morning like you build your look for ze day. You're vearing platforms
– make ze seat higher; going to ein fetische party – build
it from wipe-clean PVC.
Is Bin Laden right? Is Obama antagonising Muslims?
Zose Al Qaida guys are so touchy! But then if all ich had to vear vas a black sheet und some
sandals, I vould blow myself up too.
How would you tackle the Taliban's takeover of Pakistan's Swat region?
All ze problems in ze vorld and ze politicians just stumble around avoiding ze obvious solution
– call Bono.
How will Bruno The Movie get around China's internet ban?
Ze Chinese abuse of ze internet sickens me: everyone should have ze right to use it for vas
intended for – porn und looking at how fat Britney's got. If zey don't allow
access to mein movie via ze internet, then I suggest ein United Nations airdrop of it. Zis is ein
humanitarian crisis und ve need to act now. Und vhile zey're about it zey should drop ze Chinese
some decent clothes. Zey all dress like zey are all still vorking on ein Olympic stadium building
site.
Dubstep and electro-pop is the sound of the UK's summer. What's rocking Bruno's iPod
right now?
Ich have ein really vide taste in music – everything from early-90s techno to
mid-90s dance. Ich like literally everything from Aqua to Scooter. Recently ich have got into
Pink – he's so hunky! Ich have several playlischts on mein iPod
– Chillaus, Maximum Techno Love Party, und Bulimian Rhapsodies
– zis is actually just Paris Hilton's album on repeat. Brings up ze cookies
every time.
What three changes would you make you heal the world?
* Ban ze elasticating of jean vaists.
* Free colonic hoses on street corners.
* Make Karl Lagerfeld head of ze UN – he got Tyra Banks to appear on ze same
runvay as Naomi, he could easily fix ze Middle East.
Uma propaganda on-line para o Internet Explorer 8, que mostrava uma mulher vomitando, foi
considerada teve péssima receptividade pelos internautas, a ponto de a Microsoft optar por
removê-la da web, na quinta-feira (2). A propaganda, que tem a
participação do ator norte-americano Dean Cain, mostra uma mulher
vomitando após seu marido contar uma história a respeito de um browser. Embora o
vídeo ainda esteja disponível no YouTube, a Microsoft afirma que irá
removê-lo. Reprodução Microsoft vai retirar vídeo de vômito da internet devido a críticas
de espectadores
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This week there was a
good post by Michael Kolowich of ChannelOne Marketing titled,
“Ten Ways Marketers Drop the Ball in Video Marketing.” Â Michael
offers some good advice as far as what not to do upon deploying a web video marketing project.
 I thought it would be a good idea to summarize and elaborate a bit.
You’ve either made these mistakes in the past or seen others make them. Let hope that if
you are a reader of ReelSEO, you aren’t making too many of these web video marketing
mistakes
Common Web Video Marketing Mistakes Marketers Make
Here is a my summary of the 10 common mistakes that marketers make deploying an online video or
web video project:
1.) Video Deployment as an Afterthought
As Kolowich writes, ”Very often, the production of a video is driven by a big
live event, a trade show, a product launch, or a live presentation… Only after the event
is over does the attention shift to distributing the video on the Internet. That’s too
late.”
Ill add here that another common mistake I see related to this is what I call, deploying video
for video sake. Â Yes, online video is HOT… Â But don’t just
produce and deploy videos online without a video marketing and video deployment strategy.
 Not only will this not work, but this just adds to all the crap video content that
is out there these days, and I, for one, am sick of seeing it…
2.) Using Outdated Video File Formats
All too often folks deploy web video by merely posting a video file up on their site such as a
WMV, MOV, or even a RealMedia file format. Â I’ve seen many times folks save a
video as an SWF by itself rather than using an SWF player to play a video file. Â That
is better for usability vs. posting a WMV since flash swf’s are basically ubiquitous and
can be played everywhere. Â However, the better method is to use Flash swf as a video
file container for playback. Â FLVs, MP4 (M4V), etc.. Â are all great
formats and can showcase video in excellent quality (assuming you don’t make mistake #3).
 If you want to get even more advanced and take a look at what some folks think will
be the future of web video deployment, check out our article on Ogg Theora and HTML5
3.) Failure to Have Videos Properly Encoded
As stated above, FLVs and MPEG4 .H264 can help to showcase your video online in excellent quality
– IF the video file has been encoded properly. Â The right combination of
resolution, bit rate, frame rate, keyframe frequency, and deinterlacing methods are required to
encode your video properly for the web. Add to that the fact that there are various applications
available for video encoding with many different settings and the fact that users are watching
your video with different connection speeds, and it is crucial that you encode your video
properly.
4.) Not Using a Video Host or CDN
Most web servers are just not optimized for video playback. Â Additionally, the
bandwidth required to play a video, especially one that is popular, can cause issues with sites
run on that web server. Â There are many different solutions available to host videos
these days. Â I wont go into all the solutions here as we tend to cover these on a
daily basis at ReelSEO. Â However, your best bet is to leverage a CDN or a video
hosting provider for deploying video on your site. Â Depending on your budget, CMS,
and strategy, some solutions may be better than others.
5.)Â Failing to Optimize Videos for Search
Do we really need to go into this one? Â Well, this is the reason that I started
ReelSEO. Â I cant tell you how many times I spoken with companies and individuals that
have spend tremendous effort and resources deploying online video only to ask one of the most
important questions in terms of strategy, last. Â Namely, “How do I
get users that would be interested in watching my videos to
find them.” Â Oops. Â That’s one reason why we are here.
 If you want some tips to start, we’ve collected a ton of Video SEO tips
here.
6.) Using YouTube the Wrong Way
We all know that YouTube in many cases is an excellent vehicle for increasing reach with your
videos. Â That being said, there are many best practices to keep in mind when
distributing your videos to YouTube, especially if you expect to drive traffic back to your own
website (see mistake #7). We’ll be featuring some tips in the near future from
our friend and expert, Greg Jarboe of
SEO-PR, who is currently finishing up a powerful book on the subject of YouTube Marketing.
Additionally, using YouTube as your video host has all sorts of implications even though it is
“free.” Â We will talk about this another time but one potentially
negative implication that immediately comes to mind is with regard to ranking. Â If
you put the video up on YouTube (owned by Google, with a PR of 9), guess who will outrank your
site in Google for that video?
7.) Not Leveraging Calls to Action
Calls to action are an effective way to leverage your video when your purpose extends beyond
branding alone. Â As Michael puts it
“Once you’ve engaged and touched a viewer with your message, they often are left
asking, ‘So what do I do next?’”
What purpose do you have with your video marketing if it isn’t to have entice viewers to
follow up with you in some way? Issuing a call to action is extremely important, especially if
you are posting your video to video sharing sites like YouTube. Â Even when you do
post to video sharing sites, there are effective ways to issue calls to action within your video
and in the case of YouTube, within your Youtube user channel.
Consider creating creative calls to action within your video. Â How you do this will
of course depend on the goal that you have in mind as well as the type of business that you might
be promoting. Â If you are selling a product or service, try including a unique promo
code in your video that you can track when users make a purchase. Â This is not only
an incentive to get the viewer to inquire more, but is a good way to track and measure the ROI of
your video marketing effort. Â Other ideas include teasers, contests, etc…
 Even a call tracking number within the video sometimes works.
If you have control over the video player, consider including interactive features within the
video player. Â For example, the ability to fill out a quick email inquiry from within
the video, hyperlink overlays, etc…
Beyond calls to action, dint forget the importance of showing your brand within the video.
 This can be done with watermarks or even just showing your website URL in a
lower-third.
8.) Failing to Take Advantage of Social Media
How you seed a video is important and using social media is one great way to kick start your
video marketing effort, especially your video appeals to a special-interest community.
 Even YouTube sees the importance of this and recently launched the ability for users
to notify twitter and facebook accounts when a new video is uploaded to their account (see
YouTwitFace).
” Tweeters, bloggers, and Facebookers love to be the first to talk about new video programs
in their area of intere.st” – states Kolowich
In addition to proactively notifying social communities, don’t forget to allow viewers of
your video to do the same (see mistake #10)
9.) Failing to Leverage Email Marketing in Conjunction
Michael includes this as a common mistake for web video marketing and I hate to say it,
but… Â Ive made this mistake. Â I suppose it is time for me to take
the time to dive into this…. Â There are even options available these days to
directly include a video within your email
marketing message.
Video messages can inherently lift click-through rates for email campaigns. And email campaigns
can have a profound effect on the distribution of a video. There is a growing body
of knowledge about what to put in your email message to encourage click through.Â
Hint: plain text links saying “watch our video” are not the answer.
10.) Failing to Enable Interaction & Sharing
Just as it is important to seed your video using social networking, it is just as important to
allow users to spread your video to their social network. Â The easiest way to do this
is to allow users to share your video using viral sharing widgets and tools that are embedded
within the video player. Â Again, you can look at the way some of the major video
player and video sharing sites already do this. Â There is a reason why they have
included this functionality. Â They know that it helps to increase views, which then
helps to increase their own visibility, pages views, monetization, etc… Â Let
users email, digg, tweet, share on facebook, etc…
As we’ve covered before, allowing sharing and interactivity is also a best practice when it
comes to search engine optimization of video content.
Additionally, unless you have a really good reason not to allow users to embed your video
(perhaps there are legal restrictions on the content)Â let users embed the video..
Lastly, let users comment on your videos. Â There are many reasons that this is
important. Â One reason in particular is the fact that it can help to add additional
relevant on-page text to your video landing page which will assist with search engine indexing.
Conclusion – Don’t be Afraid to Ask for Help
“With the web video landscape changing literally month by month, it’s nearly
impossible for any marketer to keep up with the options and optimal choices for video
preparation, hosting, and promotion,” Kolowich said in an interview. “Increasingly,
it’s important for marketers to work with production partners who not only are great visual
storytellers but also have mastered the process of creating and distributing highly effective
video-based interactive web experiences.”
And here is my favorite quote from:
“And the next time your webmaster says “I’ve got it covered” with respect
to web video, make sure he knows what he’s talking about.”
Let’s take it one step further. You are better off at this point in assuming
that your webmaster doesn’t have it covered. Â Not that I have anything against
webmasters, I’m one myself. Â But keep in mind what Kolowich states above in
that it is next to impossible to stay up to date completely with all that is going on in the web
video marketing space. Â Get yourself an expert or partner who specializes in this
quickly growing field, and more than anything, try to avoid the common mistakes covered in this
post. Â Good luck!
A construction crew contracted to do a survey of the condition of water and sewer infrastructure
in Raleigh, North Carolina, filmed a mysterious slimy pulsating mass on the inside of old pipes
with a sewer cam.
The video footage of the phenomenon was uploaded to Youtube (see the video embed below) on June
30 and has since gotten nearly 5 million views at the time of writing, with some people
speculating that the globs could be an alien life form growing in the sewer systems.
Ed Buchan, the environmental coordinator at the Raleigh Public Utilities Department squelched the
rumors that the video was of a new life form, saying that it was actually a colony of worms that
live in sac-like blobs attached to tree roots that grow in and around the older pipes. The sacs
of worms are extremely light sensitive and move in response to the brightness and heat from the
camera lights.
Even though the worms are not alien in the sense that they are actually from this planet, they
are still a disturbing sight for anyone who has never seen something like this before, except
maybe in a horror movie.
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Rest in piece Michael Jackson! One of the major casualty of the Michael Jackson sudden death is his
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Was wir hier immer wieder gerne sagen,
nämlich das Bloggen der neue Punk ist, wurde jetzt in einem schönen Video festgebannt,
das zwar ein paar bessere Zeichnungen vertragen hätte, dafür aber mit schöner
Hintergrundmusik daherkommt.
When I was a kid, I had to do a self-portrait in the third
grade. It wasn’t a pretty good likeness of me. If I wanted to do a self-portrait now,
I’m certain it would be as good.
Perhaps this is why Jen Hui Liao invented a self-portrait machine. This device is designed to
take a snapshot of the user, and then it will draw a picture of you.
You might wonder how this works. I’m not certain either, but if you thought that this
device comes with some robot arm to draw for you, you’re half right. There is a robot arm,
but the user actually handcuffs his or her wrist to it. You might want to check out the YouTube
video after the jump to see it in action.
From there, the user just sits and watches as his or her likeness as it is made on paper. My
source is somewhat negative on this device, saying that it is a robot who is making us to the
work. I suppose this is bringing about our dystopian visions of a machine-dominated future, but
let me put a positive spin on this.
I don’t know how to draw myself, much less anything else. If I could have a machine do it
for me, I suppose that works. After all, we have machines do a lot of hard work for us these
days.
So, why not have a machine do it for us? I suppose that passing a machine’s work off as
ours, calling it a self-portrait, is nigh cheating. I wonder if I’m the first tech blogger
to bring that up.
Most know how James Dean died; driving his Porsche 550 Spyder on Highway 466 in California. Dean
even received a ticket earlier in the day, prompting many to assume that he was driving recklessly
when the accident occurred. Later examination of the crash showed that the Hollywood icon was
likely driving around 55 mph at the time of the crash; which was the legal limit at the time.
While Dean was shooting the film Giant (released posthumously in 1956), the Hollywood
superstar shot a quick public service video for the program Warner Bros. Parents. The short was
about the dangers of speeding on the highway, and Dean insisted that speeding was for the race
track and not for public roads. Chillingly, he ends the interview saying "Take it easy drivin'...
the life you might save might be mine." As Dean died soon after filming the short segment, it
reportedly never aired. Hit
the jump to view the two minute interview.
Hey everyone, I'm having a YouTube contest to give away an NVIDIA e-GeForce 8800 GT
graphics card that i bought for $180 last year, for free! The contest is for the best
informative, promotional, or awareness video for anything i like or might be interested in. So, you
can pretty much do anything you want but some good topics include: Free Culture, Polyamory, Lojban,
Atheism, Ubuntu, Anarchism, Creative Commons, Free Software and Open Source, etc, etc.
I'd like to get new people involved with the YouTube community so if this ends up being your first
upload then bonus points to you! Also, uploading to The Internet
Archive and The Video Bay (if it's functional yet) is a
plus but completely optional. The only rules are:
You must be subscribed to my YouTube channel and following my blog
Your video must be licensed under a
CC-BY-SA license or freer like Kopimi and
The video must be created for this contest so no old videos.
Don't worry about camera quality, being super-creative, or having fancy special video effects
because those things are nice but you really don't need them to make a good video. I'll be
judging based more on the content of the video than any of those things so really use whatever
you have whether it's a digital camera, crappy old webcam, or camera phone. I'm aiming for 50
video responses so you'll have a one in fifty chance of winning! The deadline will be August
3rd or until i get 50 responses, whichever one comes later. So, that's it. Start making videos!
Good luck, and I look forward to seeing them!
Like everyone
else I’ve been reading, talking to friends and thinking about this for the last couple of
days. What I’m about to say is the result of that — my own opinion and nothing more.
Let’s start with a great fact: that, as Rasmus Fleischer of Piratbyran points out, the
entire Pirate Bay could fit on a single USB stick. This got me thinking: what if someone was to
simply scrape and copy all The Pirate Bay’s torrents over to a new tracker and Mininova and all the other indexes currently using the TPB tracker were
to change their listings to point to that? OpenBitTorrent.com for example, an independent open tracker
which started recently.
What if someone else — it could be anyone; it could be you! — decided to make a new
index of these torrents. Call it ‘The Pirate Ship’, ‘Brand New Pirate’,
whatever. I’m sure someone has already got a domain ready and waiting for this.
This new index would be functionally equivalent to The Pirate Bay. By the magic of
copy-and-paste, TPB would have transplanted itself somewhere new. The corporate
‘buyers’ are free to run the old site into the ground with whatever specious business
models they care to waste their shareholders’ money on, while The Pirate Bay’s new
foundation uses it to fund interesting, new projects.
Think about it for a moment. What would be the downside of the sale here?
Privacy, possibly — a serious concern. Had The Pirate Bay been keeping logs of seeders and
leechers, the acquiring company could — after flailing about for a few months trying to
sell bits and bandwidth — auction this to the highest bidder. But TPB have been
scrupulously failing to keep such logs. So provided people switch at the right time — as
I’m sure they’ll have the intelligence to — there will simply be nothing to
sell.
Let’s not be glib about it: after the shenanigans with insider trading, who knows if the
deal goes through. But if it does, those behind TPB may have managed to square the circle,
sliding out from behind the old, compromised identity while handing-off everything of value
(tracker, torrents, users) to the community.
The very fact that this is possible should give those backing business models based on
copy-restriction something serious to think about. Not only is this not a blow for P2P,
it’s a signal of something very worrying for the MPAA and Co. Spend years going after the
world’s most prominent pirate site, only to find that when you get it, it dematerializes
and by the magic of copy-and-paste, reappears elsewhere in a different guise. It’s like
Whack-A-Mole with infinite holes, infinite moles, and just one hammer. Your odds: not good.
The feelings of betrayal and being ’sold out’ by the TPB founders are natural. We
believe(d) in The Pirate Bay; The Pirate Bay was ‘forever’. But in one way, an
important way, this belief was right: what made The Pirate Bay possible is forever.Even
if I’m wrong, and a service like OpenBittorrent doesn’t immediately get populated
with all the torrents from the old database, the ‘community’ should learn some
lessons from this:
(1) Big != Good
Let’s face it: The Pirate Bay itself had become a huge focus of attention for those trying
to preserve the old copy-restriction model of the culture industries. By some accounts
TPB’s tracker has been responsible for 50% of all Internet traffic, and its founders have
been looming larger and larger, waving their pirate flags more and more visibly, for quite a few
years. They are international celebrities and, love them as we might, that made them and TPB
targets. It’s not a secret that quite a few peers on the TPB trackers today are
’spies’, there to gather data on legitimate peers — a real danger to Bittorrent
users. And as well being feted, Brokep, Anakata and Tiamo have been followed, spied on, raided,
arrested, maligned, sentenced and, now live under a real threat of imprisonment.
The bigger we get, the more of a target we are. Mininova, isoHunt and TPB have all been under
siege these last years. We need to stop thinking about ‘one stop shops’ for our
media. Distribution and aggregation point the way: think ’separation of powers’.
Clients like Miro can aggregate feeds from a variety of sources
according to the needs of the user. TPB may have represented the needs of the community for half
a decade or more, but we don’t need them. We are our own media infrastructure!
(2) We are all The Pirate Bay now…
… and this is why we have to amend our idea about what being a ‘pirate’ is. In
the P2P world, as in that of Web 2.0, it’s us and our sharing that makes the
value. Hopefully some of the indignation leveled at The Pirate Bay in the last few days will
cause us to think not only about the weirdness of entrusting all this value to TPB, but about all
those corporate behemoths — Facebook, say, or Twitter or YouTube — who play
fast and loose with the value that we create for them every day. Make no mistake, we’ll
wait a thousand years for the Mark Zuckerbergs of this world to start a foundation with the
billions they have made from us and our interactions.
We’re all The Pirate Bay now because we all make media; we all copy media, we all
redistribute media and because the ‘war against piracy’ has criminalized us. Young or
old, middle or working class, any of us could expect that letter from the RIAA or MPAA at any
moment. Our online activities are routinely surveilled in the attempt to preserve a paradigm that
is manifestly outdated. That fits well with the totalitarian mentality of many of our governments
and it isn’t to be accepted casually.
So is it really enough to throw a little bit of bandwidth into the cloud, vote Pirate Party, and
then wax indignant about betrayal of a ‘community’ when its end (however temporarily)
comes? Is that a sufficient resistance to the erosion of our liberties, to which the ‘war
against piracy’ contributes?
What about grabbing one of the many, free ready made trackers
out there and starting up our own Bays? By letting a thousand Pirate Bays bloom, we can
demonstrate the futility of trying to prop up the old system, speeding the adoption of new models
to help artists and ourselves make and distribute culture.
(3) Copy + Paste will never die.
Actually, as I’ve said, I suspect that none of TPB’s functionality, not a single
torrent, will have been lost in this ’sell out’. I say this partly because of what I
know of its founders, and partly because of my conviction that we live in a world in which the
copy predominates, evading all attempts to outlaw it and rendering attempts to ‘buy it
off’ futile.
Let’s just remind ourselves again: the entire code and all the torrents for TPB —
information which accounts for half the traffic on the internet — fits on a single USB key.
Perhaps someone will find a way to make a torrent of THAT. And then we can all sit around and
wonder what it is, precisely, Global Gaming Factory have bought for all their millions.
The Darvaza (Darweze) natural gas crater is an
endlessly smouldering geological anomaly located in the isolated Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan. Known locally as the “Door to
Hell,” this close relative of the “Pool of Fire” and little-known
tourist attraction has been on fire for at least three decades.
Above, we see the natural gas crater (barely) as a glowing red spot in an otherwise unremarkable
landscape. Given the low quality of the satellite imagery in this area, it is surprising that
anyone knows that the “Door to Hell” even exists. This begs the rather existential
question: if a crater is burning in the middle of nowhere, does anyone see it?
As a matter of fact, a group of Russian geologists experienced it first hand in 19711 when the ground beneath their drilling equipment collapsed creating
the abyss. Dispatched to the Karakum desert by the Soviet Union, they were searching for natural gas
and found so much of the stuff that harvesting it became unsafe. With noxious gases threatening
to harm nearby villages, the geologists set the seeping crater ablaze, unwittingly lighting the
largest barbecue known to man.
The “Door to Hell” crater has been on fire ever since and shows no sign of stopping.
Visible from a great distance, the glow from this eternal flame can even be seen in Google Earth’s
City Lights layer.
Wow, that’s bright! Visitors to Turkmenistan can venture out to see hell first hand, but
there aren’t any organised tours so you have to hire your own driver2. Now who’s up for toasting the World’s Largest
S’more?
Some really awesome photos of both craters can be found on this photography site and an
impressive video of the “Door to Hell” is available on YouTube.
Thanks to Cris Diaz and Marc Buma
Depending on the source, at least three separate years, 1958, 1971, and 1986, are listed for when
the expedition took place. I chose to go with Wikipedia’s 1971 date, mostly because it was
in between the other two. ↩
*I’m guessing this iphone app comes pretty cheap, but how much do you
think they spent on this viral youtube promotion? One pound and ninety-nine pence,
maybe?
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This week there was a
good post by Michael Kolowich of 
When I was a kid, I had to do a self-portrait in the third
grade. It wasn’t a pretty good likeness of me. If I wanted to do a self-portrait now,
I’m certain it would be as good.
Like everyone
else I’ve been reading, talking to friends and thinking about this for the last couple of
days. What I’m about to say is the result of that — my own opinion and nothing more.
Recommandations
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and reject those that you are not interested in
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