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Using Radar to Share Photos and Video

Jason Bean — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:55:46 +0000

A while back my brother gave me the heads up about a website called Radar.net. Today another twitter friend recommended the site to me. Normally I’m pretty good with peer pressure, but since two people asked me to check it out, I figure I will.

The basics of the site are a place and a service for you to share videos and photos with others whether it be on the Radar.net site, twitter, Facebook, flickr or your own blog. All the features you’d expect are here and then some.

I’ve normally been a fan of TwitPic to share photos on twitter, but since they’re still not taking advantage of the Oauth functionality, I haven’t been using them as much. I still haven’t gotten Facebook to allow me to post images from my phone yet for some reason either, so I’m hoping this service will kill these two birds (well, one bird and one face) with one stone.

Sign-up for an account on Radar, link your twitter, Facebook and flickr accounts and you’re ready to roll. You’ll get a private Radar email address to use to send images to when you want to share them. There’s also a mobile app you can download to make it even easier to send images from your phone while you’re on the go.

When you make an update to Radar, you can decide whether or not to include the update to your twitter or Facebook feeds as well. Very nice and very easy to get going on.

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Using Radar to Share Photos and Video

Crossposts Get Most Play on YouTube

Mike Abundo — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:29:32 +0000

Anyone who crossposts videos to multiple video-sharing sites already knows this, but TubeMogul now confirms it: when posted to multiple sites, your video will get the most views on YouTube. TubeMogul posts and tracks creators’ videos across multiple sites, so they know of what they speak.

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Crossposts Get Most Play on YouTube

12seconds: Video Twitter

Mike Abundo — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:27:37 +0000

12seconds is exactly what its name implies: a video-sharing site with a twelve-second length restriction. Yes, it’s video Twitter, and they’re not ashamed to call themselves that.

Given that Twitter’s having trouble scaling with just text, you have to wonder how a video Twitter would scale. Twitter’s architecture is built to handle its microblogging aspect, but not its messaging aspect; that’s why it goes down a lot. Hope 12seconds avoids that pitfall.

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12seconds: Video Twitter

DivX Kills Stage6

Mike Abundo — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:54:48 +0000

See, this is why small agile players thrive inside online video. Unless they happen to be the clueful likes of Google or CBS, big corporations tend to trip over themselves in this space. Michael Arrington recounts the long, sad, dramatic tale behind the imminent shutdown of high-quality video site Stage6.

Long story short: big egos at parent company DivX alienate smart team at promising startup Stage6. All this happens just as Stage6 was about to get $27 million in investment and $10 million in revenue.

DivX just threw away a fortune over an executive ego battle. How fitting that the CEO of DivX is named Kevin Hell.

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DivX Kills Stage6

Vertical Video Can’t Compete on Content

Mike Abundo — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:44:06 +0000

We\\\\\\\’re seeing all sorts of online video sharing sites catering to various verticals — from intellectuals to venture capitalists to gamers to otaku to music fans to masturbators. Barely a week goes by that I don\\\\\\\’t hear about some startup touting itself as \\\\\\\”YouTube for ________\\\\\\\”. Porn and piracy aside, I don\\\\\\\’t see any way these guys can differentiate themselves from general video sharing sites unless they offer features (not just content) specifically useful to their niches.\\\\r\\\\n\\\\r\\\\nThat\\\\\\\’s why I don\\\\\\\’t blog a lot of these vertical video sharing sites unless they offer some feature especially useful to their verticals. Examples include Storm Berry\\\\\\\’s subtitling for otaku and WeGame\\\\\\\’s screencasting for gamers. Now that anyone can post videos about anything anywhere — and find any audience anywhere in a search-powered video world — vertical video sharing sites cannot compete on content alone.

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Vertical Video Can’t Compete on Content

How to Cheat on YouTube

Mike Abundo — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:28:44 +0000

Google\’s antispam abilities are legendary, and many YouTubers wish some of those abilities would rub off on YouTube. That need has been further underscored by Dan Ackerman Greenberg, a Stanford student who\’s revealed some horrific ways to cheat on YouTube. He knows of what he speaks, because he\’s a hired gun for corporates faking cluefulness.\r\n\r\nHis repertoire of dirty tricks ranges from fake headlines to sockpuppet comments. While market leader YouTube is the primary target, the impact of this trickery will only get bigger as other video sites gain popularity.\r\n\r\nWhile reading Dan\’s post makes me sick to my stomach, it certainly highlights issues video-sharing sites must face as they become increasingly attractive targets for unscrupulous advertisers.

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How to Cheat on YouTube

SciVee: YouTube for Science

Mike Abundo — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:30:47 +0000

How geeky can you get? Find out at SciVee, a video-sharing site for presenting scientific papers. Niche-specific features include figures, references, and full papers.

My biggest beef: no embeds. It’s a huge missed opportunity: SciVee embeds could incorporate SlideShare-like features for the figures and Scribd-like features for the papers. Then again, bloggers probably don’t want to put their readers to sleep with talk of scientific papers.

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BBC: Embeds Work

Mike Abundo — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:07:14 +0000

Oliver Luft, Om Malik, and Liz Gannes all highlight how the BBC is looking for greater relevance and added value in online video use. I’d like to point out something else BBC News Interactive head Pete Clifton mentioned at the Future of News Conference, something far too many online marketers still don’t understand: video embeds generate clickthroughs.

“The results from the trial we did with embedded video were hugely positive in terms of the conversion rate of people reading the stories and watching the video,” Mr Clifton told the conference.

“With the embedded video, up to 40 per cent of people were watching it. In its normal format, when you watch it in a different place [in a standalone player], it’s about two per cent.

The BBC has always held a positive attitude towards video superdistribution, hence their awesome deal with YouTube. I’m not surprised they’d quantify the benefits of embeds. Far too many online video producers still trap their videos on their sites like greedy little dinosaurs.

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BBC: Embeds Work

YouTube Launches Active Sharing

Mike Abundo — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:38:53 +0000

YouTube just added a very “live” community feature: active sharing, an opt-in service which displays the usernames of people currently watching a specific video. It also displays your recent viewing history on your profile.

This thing’s just begging for chatroom functionality.

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YouTube Launches Active Sharing

Jen kisses Courtney. Sweet.

Minic Rivera — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:30:39 +0000

Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston are friends. They both came from Friends. So, it appears that Cox needs some help to boost the ratings of her show called Dirt. So what do you do? Ask your friend Aniston to appear as guest. Cool. How about asking your friend for some kissing scene? More coolness. It’s a hit in YouTube. See for yourself and tell me what you think about it.

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Jen kisses Courtney. Sweet.