[videoblogging] Re: is Revver no more?

2009-01-31 Thread Steve Watkins
Still down. Even if they are not dead, outages of this length are very bad for their business in future. There also seems to be some people complaining on revver wikipedia page that they didnt get paid for 2nd half of 2008. Doesnt bode well. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In

[videoblogging] Re: is Revver no more?

2009-01-31 Thread Steve Watkins
Looks like the parent company has been wobbly for months: http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2008/10/peerflixlive_universe_is_a_dea.html http://www.moviemarketingmadness.com/blog/2009/01/05/just-leave-the-money-on- the-dresser-still-nothing-from-live-universe/

Re: [videoblogging] Re: is Revver no more?

2009-01-31 Thread Tim Street
If you remember Kent Nichols of Ask A Ninja pulled his content from Revver a long time ago. kentnichols.com/2008/02/14/congrats-goodbye-to-revver/ Tim Street 1timstr...@gmail.com http://1timstreet.com/blog http://twitter.com/1timstreet On Jan 31, 2009, at 6:36 AM, Steve Watkins wrote:

[videoblogging] Re: is Revver no more?

2009-01-31 Thread Gena
How hard is it to understand the concept of communicating with customers and clients? Part of the reason businesses are tanking is that whether brick and mortar or online merchants fail to inform about planned outages or changes in services. This is astounding that so many companies just don't

Re: [videoblogging] Re: is Revver no more?

2009-01-31 Thread Jeffrey Taylor
Be astounded no more, Gena. My experiene tells me that businesses having to do with effective external communications are oftentimes the absolute worst at logistics and...you guessed it...communications. 2009/1/31 Gena compumaven...@earthlink.net How hard is it to understand the concept of

Re: [videoblogging] Re: is Revver no more?

2009-01-31 Thread Rupert
How bloody difficult is it to put up a Revver is undergoing maintenance page. You do it if you're offline for an HOUR, let alone a week. They must be unable to pay their bills and have been cut off. The story they told Andrew Baron doesn't ring true at all. But you'd think to back it up they'd

Re: [videoblogging] Re: is Revver no more?

2009-01-31 Thread Freya
You make a good point Rupert! Redirecting the URL somewhere should have been the thing to do whatever the circumstances, I mean it wouldn't be that expensive and they can't be THAT broke! I bet I could make a very fancy page like that in well under 1k, so even bandwidth can't be an issue! I'm

[videoblogging] Backing up your media

2009-01-31 Thread Josh Paul
After the recent discussion about Revver, and the need to backup your videos elsewhere, I thought I'd mention Mozy (which now has a Mac client). I recently had a nasty drive failure (my Drobo and its backup both failed on the same day...with Seagate drives no less). For $4.95/month I now

Re: [videoblogging] Backing up your media

2009-01-31 Thread Rupert
Thank you. This is just what I was about to ask. Apart from YouTube, I don't think we can take any of them for granted this year. None of their revenue models are obvious as far as I can see, and their data costs must be big. Back up! On 31-Jan-09, at 2:53 PM, Josh Paul wrote: After the

Re: [videoblogging] Backing up your media

2009-01-31 Thread Kath O'Donnell
what about uploading to archive.org as a backup? don't they have good financial backing to keep it going in the future from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle Kahle and his wife Mary Austin created the Kahle/Austin

Re: [videoblogging] Backing up your media

2009-01-31 Thread Markus Sandy
On Jan 31, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Kath O'Donnell wrote: what about uploading to archive.org as a backup? don't they have good financial backing to keep it going in the future Great point! i recently asked andrew davis (papyromancer) to put together a new promo video for the archive he just

Re: [videoblogging] should youtube just start a new brand for Pro Content?

2009-01-31 Thread @sull
i think it can be wedged while also being separated. an example would be a google search where you are presented with top youtube video results first. On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:10 AM, @sull

[videoblogging] Made the press with my blog post today

2009-01-31 Thread quintanomedia
come check it out.. I made most of the major networks here locally in ny http://www.quintanomedia.com/index.php/2009/01/31/breaking-news-caught-us-airways-flight-1549-being-towed-to-teteboro-airport-on-rte-46/ http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2015298l=4558did=837243661

Re: [videoblogging] Made the press with my blog post today

2009-01-31 Thread Jan McLaughlin
Way to go! How did it happen they found your footage? Jan On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:05 AM, quintanomedia aquint...@gmail.com wrote: come check it out.. I made most of the major networks here locally in ny

Re: [videoblogging] Made the press with my blog post today

2009-01-31 Thread Steve Eisenberg
I would like to know too. On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Jan McLaughlin jannie@gmail.com wrote: Way to go! How did it happen they found your footage? Jan On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:05 AM, quintanomedia aquint...@gmail.comaquintano%40gmail.com wrote: come check it out.. I made