Yes that would be nice for previews but I was also thinking of watching ntire shows through a map interface. The wii news service on slidshow mode is a good comparison, just lacking the video bit. The map would move around to the next video, play the whole thing in a window superimposed over the map, then when the video ends it will move to the next video, and move the map accordingly.
But maybe it does work better with short stuff like twitter. Im starting to think that twitter really is a networked version of mobile text messaging, and texting on phones sure is popular. Would a video version of short text messages, ie extremely short video messages or snapshots of a moment, catch on? Not actually seen proof that this will happen yet but yeah, its certainly worth a go, if I were a VC then Id throw money at that. Im hopeful I might be able to get my hands on a N95 on Monday or Tuesday, would certainly make my participation in vlogweek more of a cert. Byhaving a pocketpc-based mobile for a few years Ive become isolated from what sorts of things the masses have as mobiles, so although the N95 is pretty high-end Im looking forward to getting onto a platform that is more widespread. I just hope it doesnt crash or be slow to respond as much as one or 2 people on the net have suggested it might. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Meiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes... in the twittervision grain I could DEFINITELY see something > like videoblogging universes flash previews crossed with vlogmaps to > create a realtime display of videoblog posts around the world with > sweet little flash previews. It might be a little hard for a server > to keep up, but I think it could be done. > > Besides... web based transcoding services are now common, there's > atleast one open source transcoding package. Mux.am is based off of it > as is vixy.net. > > What I'm really interested in is getting nathan to allow you to plug a > feed into mux.am... and have ALL vidoes in that feed transcoded into > 10fp 3gp files that can play on any phone... and/or lowres flash that > can play in any browser. > > It's a REAL simple concept... you plug your feed into mux.am... type > in your twitter user/pass... and then any videos you post to your blog > in addition to any thing you post on twitter will automatically be > cross posted to twitter with two little links... a twitter post might > look like this > > > Was walking home from work today and caught a car accident on film > > 3gp: tinyurl.com/alsdkjaldkj > > swf: tinyurl.com/afkjsafh > > Giving you your choice of viewing the 3gp or the swf file depending on > where you were viewing twitter at. > > It would also be nice if twitter supported minimalistic audio clips > and photos as well. low quality and short clips are the key. Simple > filtration mechanism like mux.am could transparently prepare media for > low bit rate consumption. > > This is what I've been talking about for years about getting "beyond > the desktop" with videoblogging... and how getting beyond the desktop > will *enhance the use of video as communications*... not just as a > form of entertainment. Media including photos, audio and video > should become a ubiquitous part of everyday communications. > > Sometimes words are appropriate, sometimes a picture is worth a > thousand words, sometimes video is the only way to capture the > moment... and sometimes as in song... or speaches audio is the way to > go. > > Twitter certainly get's at the granularity of the experience... by > breaking bitstreams down farther they seem to become even more > organic. I'm amazed at how much easier it is for people to > communicate when they're not trying to summarize it all up in one > post... instead... like IM they let thoughts flow across multiple > posts and lines. > > How would video translate in this space? Suddenly things like the > Nokia N-series and video phones make a lot more sense... it's less > about episodes... and intro's and outros become a mute point... and > more about stripping videos down to their bare essentials the meat of > the video. > > I've said this before... but I think ultimately video and particularly > mobile video blogging will leadest further down the path to video > communications then "video conferencing" ever did. > > I've fond of the idea that "the future is often nothing that we > expect, and yet so much more". > > While video conferencing has been a continual failure in all but the > most niche arenas in manyways youtube and videoblogging in general are > fullfilling it's promise. > > It may turn out... and to me it already has turned out... that > real-time 1 to 1 video communications is not the best form of video > communications... and maybe that it was real-time and that it was 1 to > 1 are the key failures of video conferencing. > > The beauty in vidoeblogging and indeed the keys to it's success are > that it's both that it is NOT realtime... and also one to many. Oh, > and lets not forget that it's also not intrusive... you don't "reach > out and touch someone"... instead you SUBSCRIBE... you "reach out and > listen to someone". I think these three key differences are at the > hart of videoblogging's success. > > The closest thing I've come to seeing twitter for video is how Jan of > Faux Press posts her tiny little poor quality videos to her vlog from > her nokia phone. > > Maybe there's a huge opportunity here. Maybe someone needs to make a > txtamerica or a twitter for video.... how about video dodgeball? A > movlogging network. One that is aimed PURELY at the niche of mobile > video. Maybe the market is near ready? > > Are there enough people out there with video phones? > > The key would be to give users a mobile vlog which would accept video > only from phones... and where you could subscribe to other members > feeds. > > Extremely simple. Extremely twitter of video. > > The same thing could be said of flickr... > > The key is to make it exclusively for movlog content... if the video > can only come from phones... then it'll mean it's live up-to-the > minute telepresence video... no delays... as close to realtime as > web-time gets. If the content was fresh and you could be assured of > opening your phone and finding videos from only minutes earlier from > your friends on this service it would be quite fun and interesting. > The key is... is there a critical mass of mobile-vloggers.. or should > I say... people with mobile video phones... I imagine this would > appeal to many people who have mobile video phones whom aren't even > using them. > > So... there... there;s that... Sometime in the next three years there > will be atleast four mobile video social networks to recieve vc > funding. Mark my words. It's the business plan of tomorrow. > > Peace, > > -Mike > > On 3/30/07, sull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jeroen was working on adding flv support from feeds into his project at > > MappedUp.com > > Keep an eye out. > > I'll ask him how its coming along. > > > > On 30 Mar 2007 11:59:26 -0700, Steve Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I love this stuff to bits, love the way twittervision works, even > > > though Im not a fan of twitter itself really, my fractured > > > concentration span doesnt want things broken down into chunks quite > > > that small. > > > > > > Have dreamed of a vlogmap on steroids for a while, would love to see > > > an animated version of that with videos embedded in the map. > > > > > > Twingly floats my boat a lot too but I do so much prefer browser based > > > crossplatform stuff. > > > > > > When I used silly phrases like 'seeing stuff across time and space' in > > > the past, these are the sort of things I meant, although possibly with > > > more control over time, so the first service to offer a map mashed up > > > with a timeline, animtaed, with embedded video, wins some sort of > > > 'elbows not moaning for once, but congratulating' award. > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, > > > Rupert <rupert@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Someone was saying yesterday that they have twittervision on all the > > > > time on their second screen. > > > > As soon as I looked at it for the first time, I saw a post by someone > > > > I knew from this group - marksmith - what are the odds? I refrain > > > > from further talk of synchronicity. > > > > Have you seen Twingly? Same kind of thing, but for blogs and > > > > 1,000,000x crazier > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgIT-hfgOXY > > > > > > > > > > > > On 29 Mar 2007, at 20:05, sull wrote: > > > > > > > > have you seen http://twittervision.com ? > > > > > > > > Crazy. > > > > > > > > On 29 Mar 2007 11:53:54 -0700, Jan McLaughlin <jannie.jan@> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Oh, man! > > > > > > > > > > This is cool. > > > > > > > > > > Going to find your Auto-Twitter-Vlog post now... > > > > > > > > > > Jan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 3/29/07, Rupert <rupert@ <rupert% > > > > > > > 40fatgirlinohio.org>> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Today is my 2 year vlogiversary. I haven't posted nearly enough in > > > > > > that time, and most of my old stuff is offline. > > > > > > > > > > > > I've always wanted to post more inconsequential short moments, to > > > > > > document cool, beautiful or interesting things as they happen. > > > > > > > > > > > > In the end, I just film a lot of moments, and never post them > > > > because > > > > > > I don't want to clutter up my main vlog. Stupid. > > > > > > > > > > > > I got a Nokia N93 in January and thought that it would mean I would > > > > > > film a lot of short Moments and post straight from the phone, but I > > > > > > kept filming and not posting. More stupid. > > > > > > > > > > > > I thought I would try and use videobloggingweek to force me to do > > > > > > it... but then there are other, longer-form things I also want > > > > to do. > > > > > > > > > > > > SO ANYWAY, I've only been Twittering for a week or so, but I > > > > love its > > > > > > immediacy and disposability - and a lot of the text moments > > > > recorded > > > > > > there remind me of what I wanted to do with vlogging, and with > > > > my N93. > > > > > > > > > > > > Seems to me that these video moments belong more on Twitter than > > > > they > > > > > > do on a blog. They're for immediate consumption, and need the > > > > > > immediacy and disposability and Now-ness of Twitter, rather than > > > > > > being viewed later via feed or on a blog. > > > > > > > > > > > > So I checked it out, and there's a free browser-based tool at > > > > http:// > > > > > > www.twitterfeed.com/ which takes any RSS feed and posts it to > > > > Twitter. > > > > > > > > > > > > I've set it up so that I can film a short moment on my N93, > > > > email it > > > > > > (via regular wifi) to Blip, then Twitterfeed.com automatically > > > > takes > > > > > > my Blip feed and posts it to Twitter - to http://www.twitter.com/ > > > > > > twittervlog/ > > > > > > > > > > > > The result is a Tweet which contains the post title and a > > > > TinyURL to > > > > > > the Blip video (and, if you want, a description in however many > > > > > > characters you have left.) > > > > > > > > > > > > ALL FREE! ALL AUTOMATIC! ALL THE TIME! > > > > > > > > > > > > God damn, I love the web, and all the people that make these things > > > > > > free. > > > > > > > > > > > > Twittervlog is a special video only Twitter account in addition > > > > to my > > > > > > regular one, but you could just set Twitterfeed to post your > > > > Feed to > > > > > > your regular Twitter account. > > > > > > > > > > > > Even better, we should set up a Videobloggingweek twitter account > > > > > > which runs off a feed of all the videobloggingweek videos as > > > > they're > > > > > > posted. I will set this up - which feed should I use? I'm confused > > > > > > about all the different ways we'll be centrally aggregating the > > > > > > vbweek videos. Let me know, if you have thoughts or concrete > > > > info on > > > > > > this. > > > > > > > > > > > > When I have a moment, I will put my Twittervlog process on the > > > > wiki. > > > > > > > > > > > > Rupert > > > > > > http://www.fatgirlinohio.org > > > > > > http://www.twitter.com/ruperthowe > > > > > > http://www.twitter.com/twittervlog > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > The Faux Press - better than real > > > > > http://fauxpress.blogspot.com > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > >
