0 commentsWith Dalas Verdugo certifying Vimeo's place in the history books of media journalism (he got fired for video blogging), I thought it an appropriate point to throw some stones at the future of video sharing.
- Keep in mind, Jakob et al, that I want you to build a web service which I will gladly pay real Visa money for. I can't wait for your site to get better.
- WTF is this, after I log in?
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A friends page must be on the top of your list. - Don't even bother making any sort of new features. You could exactly copy Flickr, down to the CSS, and I would be one happy camper.
- Ultimately, you are sharing video clips. I want to put my videos that I made on my camera into a thumbnail gallery. I want to hyperlink to them and I want to share them with my friends, both on your website and, most importantly, in other media channels that I maintain.
- The reason that I stopped using Vimeo (my vimeo clips) was that it was mostly inconvenient to use the QuickTime encoder tool. I really love the DivX video encoder (that makes it easy!) and I also like Flickr's Windows application for uploading files to their server.
Previously, Vimeo is like Flickr for video clips.
Vimeo is a video sharing project by Jakob Lodwick and Zach Klein, sponsored by Connected Ventures.
We think that there is a huge future for on-line video. Because of this, we have made the decision to invest additional company resources towards developing Vimeo.com and the ideas we have regarding original and user submitted video content on the web.
--CV Internal Memo:Josh
Is Vimeo a test-of-theory from the brothers that started CollegeHumor.com to one day take on the likes of MTV and VH1?
Godspeed, broadband!
I just saw an ad in my Gmail written entirely in Chinese.
THAT advertisement- that Chinese, foreign language ad- somehow ended up in my personal marketplace of vision.
Granted, by using Gmail I've already sacrificed my "personal marketplace of vision" when I read e-mail... But, I don't know, it's different.
Has this happened to anyone else already? I guess so. It's my first time. It feels great, really, to be touched at home by international marketing.
Bunn DUAL DBC
These are Bunn DUAL DBC industrial quantity coffee makers. Found at RaceTrack gas station.
I have a few good books now, and sometimes I want to cross-reference something. (This happens less often than does my want to show off.) So I got a cheap bookshelf this weekend. Now I can see some of my book spines at eye level.
From top shelf to bottom, my new real life bookshelf is:
- Science Nouveau
- BUSINESS
- Periodicals
- OTHER (Fiction and Unread)
- Textbooks
At the time of this blog post, the Periodicals section is largely composed of my wallet, a half-glass of coffee, the Sony Librie, a new paperback book with a pen inside of it, my Bluetooth mouse + Bluetooth PCMCIA card, and a box from Amazon.com containing two new books.
Task: Microsoft decides to offer their standard Office package as a web service to academic institutions. How much should Microsoft charge per user, per month?
- Which New York City summer new media interns/Fall Wake Forest University students will be drawing for the band Guster's upcoming tour t-shirts? answer
- Which American Pie screenwriter recently signed a writer/director deal with Universal Pictures to script an adult comedy about relationships? answer
- Which Omaha-based billionaire recently purchased 1 million shares of LXK? answer
- I wish that I could give you some new amazing insights on my new Sony Librie eBook reader... but I have just been too dang busy to play with it much more. This is a busy week at work (Jay is in town for some meetings with Raytheon) and my 14 year-old cousin Marcus is visiting us from Ohio for a week.
- That being said, I have used my eInk display for about an hour a day since my last post. My Warren Buffet letters are reading great, and- with the help of the Sony Librie Printer Driver- I have even sent some new 'interesting' content to my Librie. Keep an eye on my Librie bookmarks. Tonight I am making some Project Gutenberg LRF files; here are my LRF files as of now.
- On Saturday I went whitewater river rafting on the upper part of the Ocoee River in Tennessee. It was the site of the 1996 Olympic kayak events, when the Olympics were held in Atlanta.
- I posted two new pictures of myself, taken during my recent trip to Thailand.
- I am finally using Google AdWords with great success at my place of employment.
- I am still very excited about the long future.
- I am considering putting BuddyGopher on-hold/offline. If you can help BuddyGopher grow, please e-mail me.
Initial Sony Librie thoughts: It's a very, very nice piece of technology. Tech Specs Here
Last week I ordered a Sony LIBRIe?????? digital eBook reader from Japan-Direct. To my knowledge, it is the most scientifically advanced piece of consumer electronics currently on the market.
- There is zero English language support provided by Sony. I manually loaded an English firmware in a few minutes; it was easy. Now I have finally figured out a "process" to get my English text files (books) onto the device that involves no less than four separate community-created software applications before even touching Sony's USB transfer utility. So it's not a "Drag and Drop" eBook, but it only takes about 45 seconds to get on-line text into this off-line reader once you figure out a routine that works for you. Big thanks to the Librie Yahoo! group that is making this all happen... but major thanks go out to a user named nano who did the English translation of the Sony Librie operating system.
- The screen is as good as you've read: Amazingly cool. I don't want to ruin it for you, but try taking a Librie outside and compare its performance in the sun to any laptop. I have a Thinkpad A30 and a Sony Vaio widescreen laptop with the special XBrite technology, and there's just no comparison. It is like there is a small laser printer inside of the Librie, printing a new piece of future paper each time I turn the page.
And, really, that's what it is.... If you read more about E-Ink you'll see that it's quite a remarkable technology. - This feels like when I owned a Newton MessagePad 100 in the 8th grade. CUTTING EDGE!
- As an excuse to play with this at work, I loaded up a few aviation approach charts. It was easier to make a 10-page eBook composed of 10 unique 600x800 150dpi GIF images in a 4-color black and white palette than it was to type this sentence. And they look great. It was the "hot" talk of the office.
- I have also loaded up some text to read
tonightlast night and will see how it takes a 30- or 45-minute reading test. (It handled great!) - I want the Librie to change how I read the bigger portions of my off-line text. I am starting with Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway stockholder's letters... Printing them out on my home laser printer was really taking its toll on convenience.
- The Librie is very, very thin. Beautiful design. Nice white.
So, I am now the proud owner of a Sony LIBRIe??????, shipped for me for $419 + $55 overnight from Japan-Direct.com. I hope it will be a new weapon in my gadget arsenal.
Addendum- Zach just asked me, "Is it easy to read for lengths of time?" And to that I would say, Is a piece of paper that you printed on your laser printer easy to read for lengths of time? Yes.
Mark Hughes book Buzzmarketing is out in stores now!
I talked to Mark over a year ago about my BuddyGopher project, and sure enough me and Ryan get a nice shout-out on pp134-137. (What has never been printed, but deserves mention, is that Ricky was the biggest adrenaline shot to our traffic growth.)
The Buzzmarketing book even features a good summary from my college semesters working with Burly Bear and Mountain Dew's AMP campaign.
Nick Gray had some experience doing it the wrong way and the right way. The wrong way? It's another Pepsi story; they usually get it right, but not this time. They were launching AMP, a high-energy drink to compete with Red Bull, and Nick had been hired through an agency to become the AMP ambassador. Pepsi's AMP marketers ran the numbers and decided each college would get two thousand cans of AMP every month. Nick was the key man to distribute these cans.
But do the math: Wake Forest has only four thousand students. Nick and two other people would have to reach 50 percent of an entire school. In order to make the numbers, they had to give out the stuff in cases, not in singles. Furthermore, Pepsi gave a cooler big enough to cool only fifty cans. And warm AMP tasted awful.
You can find the book in almost any bookstore these days, so check it out. It is definitely a fun read.
The light airplane danger issue was elevated on the night of June 22 when a 20-year old part-time airport worker, who had apparently been drinking, allegedly scaled the perimeter fence at Danbury, Conn.'s sleepy minicipal airport (DXR) to give two teenage friends a joy ride in a Cessna 172 which he had been taking instruction. The 172 was discovered just before 5 a.m. by astonished Westchester County, N.Y., sheriff's officers, with the three adventurers still inside, on a darkened taxiway at HPN, some 20 miles south of DXR. The 172 pilot, Phillipe Patricio, was held in New York, incommunicado from Connecticut authorities. The two passengers are juveniles. In any case, few if any, state or local laws apply to this specific instance. All three miscreants are most likely to be charged with evading airport security - a federal law and a felony. Things are still in a state of flux as we go t opress with a volatile mix of Westchester and Connecticut airport NIMBYs, U.S. senators and representatives, local law enforcement and the FAA, so you'll have to read how it all turns out in next month's.
Georgia Gas Stations
I would like to try reviewing some of the gas stations available to the suburban consumer in Atlanta, Georgia. Since gas is pretty much the same anywhere you go, our differentiator (in my opinion) is the quality, quantity and convenience of the indoor beverage center.
QuickTrip - On SR141 and Johns Creek Parkway, Cumming GA
List of Beverage Station Features
- Two coffees, same kind (Regular, no indication to country of origin)
- Medium-sized fountain selection of Coke and Pepsi products (Coke on left), including unique 'Rooster Rooster' energy drink
- Two ice dispensers- Crushed and Cubed
- Several iced coffees and other iced sugary drinks (ie Strawberry)
Notes: No water (had to use utility sink) and Mountain Dew Code Red at soda fountain was out of syrup.
FeedDigest lets you easily include RSS and Atom feeds on your website. I love it! You can see FeedDigest in use at the top of my blog; I used it to quickly share my four latest del.icio.us links at the top of this page.
If you have a website, you must try FeedDigest! It's a free web service designed by Peter Cooper, a one-man design rock star.
