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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>, > "Steve Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.com<videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com>] > On Behalf Of Michael Verdi > > > Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 12:09 PM > > > To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com> > > > Subject: Re: [videoblogging] New blip.tv show player > > > > > > Aaron & Steve - you bring up some good points. I do think options for > > > people > > > are important and I do like the ability to look through an archive but > > > the > > > price is that you loose all the other benefits of a blog - permalinks, > > > comments, context, choice of video size and formats. That player is > > > really > > > built on the idea that your blip.tv blog is your blog. So it only > shows > > > and > > > links back to your blog posts on blip. Comments? They have to go > on the > > > blip > > > blog (as long as the viewer know to click through to the blip blog to > > > leave > > > a comment). Plus you have to have the blip hot shows menu. That thing > > > pulls > > > in stuff completely out of context that you have no control over. Of > > > course > > > you do have control in that you certainly don't have to use the show > > > player > > > at all. I just think the blog part of videoblogging is important and > > > desirable and I feel a little sad when people are so excited about > > > dropping > > > it. > > > > > > - Verdi > > > > > > On 4/15/07, Steve Garfield <steve@> wrote: > > > > > > > > I put the new blip.tv player on my 'homepage' this morning. > > > > > > > > http://www.stevegarfield.com/ > > > > > > > > I blogged about it here: > > > > > > > > http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2007/04/blip-video-player.html > > > > > > > > In the blog post I say, "vlogs are dead. ;-)" > > > > > > > > It's a joke, but also ironic since the reason for initially using > > > > blogs to post video in the first place was a technical one. > > > > > > > > There wasn't any easy way to post video to the web. > > > > > > > > Once I figured out that I could put video in a blog post, I got a > > > > very easy way to publish videos, along with the added benefits of > > > > that video being included in a blog post. > > > > > > > > But that method, over time, introduced the problems of old videos > > > > getting lost in archives, and not having an easy way to browse > > > > through videos. > > > > > > > > There are a lot of companies now bringing to the market ways to make > > > > it easy to surf videos and I'm glad that blip.tv has given me a way > > > > to allow people to browse my archives that are hosted with blip.tv. > > > > > > > > --Steve > > > > > > > > On Apr 15, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Steve Watkins wrote: > > > > > > > > > Sounds quite interesting, anybody tried it yet? > > > > > > > > > > Some details here: > > > > > > > > > > http://blog.blip.tv/blog/ > > > > > > > > > > Cheers > > > > > > > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Steve Garfield > > > > http://SteveGarfield.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > http://michaelverdi.com > > > http://spinxpress.com > > > http://freevlog.org > > > Author of Secrets Of Videoblogging - http://tinyurl.com/me4vs > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > -- http://michaelverdi.com http://spinxpress.com http://freevlog.org Author of Secrets Of Videoblogging - http://tinyurl.com/me4vs [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]