[videoblogging] Re: New blip.tv show player
Thanks Mike, I appreciate the advice from the source! andy --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Hudack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy, I would definitely suggest having separate blip accounts for each of your vlogs. The way blip is designed, it's best to have one account per show. Yours, Mike Blip.tv -Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of andydragt Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 9:30 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Re: New blip.tv show player Can I just ask a clarifying question... It's seems like conventional wisdom has recommended against using a seperate blip account for each vlog. However, with the new show player, it makes sense to have your content in seperate accounts. Otherwise it's pretty much useless. Heres the question: Is this two weeks comment about a solution to this problem or should I begin to seperate my content into different accounts so I have the option of using the player on one of my sites? Am I right in understanding the best practice has been to have only one account and cross-post to different blogs? thanks all, Andy Dragt www.developinggr.com - a vlog about development in GR, MI www.developinggr.com/house - a vlog about my home renovation... --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Hudack mike@ wrote: Two weeks. :) Yours, Mike -Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mattfeldman78 Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 3:36 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Re: New blip.tv show player Hi, Has anyone found a way to control the order of the episodes within the player? Is this something that Blip is planning on offering? -Matt http://neovids.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michael@ wrote: Yes - point taken about it not being a replacement. It's also good for things like user profiles on various social networks. - Verdi On 4/16/07, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins steve@ wrote: Offering both makes a lot of sense to me. I dream of this stuff being pushed to the extreme and for it to be possible for a blog like experience to be completely available from within a flash player. Complexities quickly arise when the people providing the player are hosting your videos, but are not responsible for the rest of your blog, it leads to an understandable focus on the video hosting page rather than your blog page. This may not be considered a probem because the expectation may be that you embed their player in your site, and your site provides all the other bloggy stuff you want. But this doesnt cover scenarios where our show player may be embedded on another site or used as a widget. I see the guide button is optional, and its easy to rebrand the player so that its got your own site in the bottom right hand corner, which is a clickable link pointing to the URL of your choice. Thanks for mentioning that. I had those pointing to the blip shows, basically by default, but I've switched them now so that they point to the blogs for the shows instead of the blip pages. This helps out the permalink situation A LITTLE BIT, but it still takes the viewer to the most recent post in the blog. The only thing that seems to update with the individual video is if you click guide and then read more about this on blip.tv, which takes you to the individual video's page on blip. -- Bill C. BillCammack.com Id love to see the creative commons stuff thats been requested in the past, be rolled out into this show player in the future, whether it be through a little cc icon on the bottom bar of the player, or the inclusion of this info in the popup 'about this episode' tab. I agree about the font size, hmm this stuff starts to get a bit tricky, a big decision to break away from the player being 320x240. I see that Veoh's player is rather large now, but this makes it look quite good and leaves more room for additional info overlays to be displayed in a larger font. Some other services have really wide players with separate episode bars to one side of the video. Personally Im fascinated by the idea of a flash player for wordpress that can display the entire blog, text video etc, in the flash player. I was looking at WPF/E but I think I'll ignore that technology for now, and go buymyself a copy of flash and join the fun. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging
[videoblogging] Re: New blip.tv show player
Again, THANKS for the heads up! You folks rock! Keep up the great work :) Cheers, Andy developinggr.com developinggr.com/house --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Hudack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jen, We're definitely moving in this direction, it's just going to take us a little while. Because of the way the blip software was originally developed it's a big difficult for us. But we do want things to work this way in the future, no doubt. In the meantime, it's in our roadmap to relax the e-mail requirements really soon. The one email/show/user requirement was designed to prevent spam. We're going to move to requiring a CAPTCHA for signup in an upcoming release (hopefully this one coming up in two weeks, maybe the one after that) and remove the unique e-mail requirement. From there we'll definitely be looking at ways to become more Blogger-like in the way we handle accounts and shows. It'll probably take us a little while, though :( Yours, Mike -Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jen Simmons Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 11:05 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: New blip.tv show player In blogger, it's easy to have multiple blogs in one account. Sign in under one name, pick the blog to work on, and go there. In blip, blip assumes one person = one account = one 'show'. I've got multiple blip accounts going, and have to sign in and sign out to get to each one. Plus, in order to get those multiple accounts, I had to use unique email addresses for each one, and have run out of real email address. So now to create new accounts, I have to go make an email account, and then use that for blip. Hm. Can blip be retooled at some point to make it more like blogger? One sign-in. AND -- have the ability to add other people to the people allowed to work on that account. So I can setup accounts for clients using my log -in, and then invite them to join in... yet still be able to get in myself, and have those log-ins be separate. (Allowing me the ability to uninvite, and for each of us to have different passwords / not get into multiple people knowing passwords) -- just like how blogger works. Jen On Apr 21, 2007, at 8:53 am, Mike Hudack wrote: Andy, I would definitely suggest having separate blip accounts for each of your vlogs. The way blip is designed, it's best to have one account per show. Yours, Mike Blip.tv [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
[videoblogging] Re: New blip.tv show player
Can I just ask a clarifying question... It's seems like conventional wisdom has recommended against using a seperate blip account for each vlog. However, with the new show player, it makes sense to have your content in seperate accounts. Otherwise it's pretty much useless. Heres the question: Is this two weeks comment about a solution to this problem or should I begin to seperate my content into different accounts so I have the option of using the player on one of my sites? Am I right in understanding the best practice has been to have only one account and cross-post to different blogs? thanks all, Andy Dragt www.developinggr.com - a vlog about development in GR, MI www.developinggr.com/house - a vlog about my home renovation... --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Mike Hudack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two weeks. :) Yours, Mike -Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mattfeldman78 Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 3:36 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: [videoblogging] Re: New blip.tv show player Hi, Has anyone found a way to control the order of the episodes within the player? Is this something that Blip is planning on offering? -Matt http://neovids.tv --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael Verdi michael@ wrote: Yes - point taken about it not being a replacement. It's also good for things like user profiles on various social networks. - Verdi On 4/16/07, Bill Cammack BillCammack@ wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Steve Watkins steve@ wrote: Offering both makes a lot of sense to me. I dream of this stuff being pushed to the extreme and for it to be possible for a blog like experience to be completely available from within a flash player. Complexities quickly arise when the people providing the player are hosting your videos, but are not responsible for the rest of your blog, it leads to an understandable focus on the video hosting page rather than your blog page. This may not be considered a probem because the expectation may be that you embed their player in your site, and your site provides all the other bloggy stuff you want. But this doesnt cover scenarios where our show player may be embedded on another site or used as a widget. I see the guide button is optional, and its easy to rebrand the player so that its got your own site in the bottom right hand corner, which is a clickable link pointing to the URL of your choice. Thanks for mentioning that. I had those pointing to the blip shows, basically by default, but I've switched them now so that they point to the blogs for the shows instead of the blip pages. This helps out the permalink situation A LITTLE BIT, but it still takes the viewer to the most recent post in the blog. The only thing that seems to update with the individual video is if you click guide and then read more about this on blip.tv, which takes you to the individual video's page on blip. -- Bill C. BillCammack.com Id love to see the creative commons stuff thats been requested in the past, be rolled out into this show player in the future, whether it be through a little cc icon on the bottom bar of the player, or the inclusion of this info in the popup 'about this episode' tab. I agree about the font size, hmm this stuff starts to get a bit tricky, a big decision to break away from the player being 320x240. I see that Veoh's player is rather large now, but this makes it look quite good and leaves more room for additional info overlays to be displayed in a larger font. Some other services have really wide players with separate episode bars to one side of the video. Personally Im fascinated by the idea of a flash player for wordpress that can display the entire blog, text video etc, in the flash player. I was looking at WPF/E but I think I'll ignore that technology for now, and go buymyself a copy of flash and join the fun. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com, Mike Hudack mike@ wrote: Michael, For some people the blog format is really important. Cross-posting, copy paste and everything else we've built to support the blog format aren't going away. We're going to keep those features, and we're going to keep improving them. It's just that the blog format isn't right for everyone. -Original Message- From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com [mailto:videoblogging@yahoogroups.comvideoblogging%40yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Michael Verdi Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:09 PM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com
[videoblogging] Two New Vlogs from Grand Rapids, MI
I'm just a vlogging newb but I've big plans! a couple of weeks ago I started a vlog called Developing Grand Rapids http://developinggr.com . It's already become pretty popular with the local development junkies. Just today, I started a new vlog to chronicle the rehabilitation of the house we just closed on yesterday. It's called This Old GR House http://developinggr.com/house/ . I've got a lot of work to do on this house and I'm going to try to vlog a good bit of it. Developing GR: http://developinggr.com This Old GR House: http://developinggr.com/house/ I'd love to hear your feedback and comments. Thanks to Josh Leo for discovering and encouraging my vlogging habits early (like within a day of going live ;) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
