Sunday, December 31, 2006

Curret TV + Shins + Fans Video = New Shins Music Video

The below video was produced by Current TV and features video content from over 200 fans who witnessed the show at Austin City Limits...

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Custom Modules: Splashcast

Thanks to TechCrunch (via George) i came across this new application looking to launch in January. Looks like it will let you upload media, then create custom module to embed all over net. http://splashcast.net

The below diagram gives pretty good explanation of the flow:

Saturday, December 09, 2006

VodPod: Video Social Network

VodPod just launched. Another video social network, but this one lets you add videos from other sites (myspace, youtube, metacfae, etc). Its very easy - see a video you like on another site and click the "add to VodPod" on your bookmark tab. they have a video search that works across youtube, myspace, google, and daily motion which is still a work in progress.

Also have embeds widget of your videos:

...but i guess the embed doesn't work on blogger so you'll have to check out the site...but here's a screen shot:



http://jps.vodpod.com/

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Swivel.com: blog your graph

Swivel.com is the social network for data freaks. you can upload your own data from spreadsheets, websites, or graphs within documents to create original grpahs; explore other graphs, and then blog them...

Below is an example that tracks the growth of WarCraft vs. 2ndLife

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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Musicbox: Powered by Sony BMG

Sony has done their own Youtube like solution using the Brightcover player.

They allow you to embed a preview then this links to their full site using brightcove:

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Sam Has 7 Friends

Daily videocast using Revver about the life of an actor in LA who then dies...



The site for she "show" is pretty cool. Done by this agency Ksite (www.ksite.com) - they basically sell a white label site that can be easily customized.

Props to Ricky for showing me this.

Foureyedmonsters

This film is the epitome of using grassroots digital techniques to market their film.

Here's the trailer for the movie:


The below are examples of the tools they have on their site to enable word to spread:




Here's the sticker pics. you can apply to get stickers then post pics of where you post them:
Check out Four Eyed Monsters!

Video Podcast | Film Trailer | Shirts | Stickers


Here's the T-shirt pics, you buy T, then post pic of you rockin in:

Check out Four Eyed Monsters!

Video Podcast | Film Trailer | Shirts | Stickers


The film has episodic podcasts that you can easily subscribe to via myspace, youtube, itunes, or rss. Below is a youtube playlist embed with all 15:



and here's the site to check it all out: http://www.foureyedmonsters.com

Props to Vik for sending me the link

Saturday, December 02, 2006

BrightCove

Another player in the Embed game is BrightCove...but for some reason it won't work on blogger.



They are allowing some partners to embed entire channels or entire selections of videos into their sites, check out this link for example: http://www.ggleezy.com/

Friday, December 01, 2006

Heavy joins the video / social network game

Embed the videos you upload:


Heavy created a social network that allows you to upload video, create profile page (blog, comments, etc.) Its built as individual modules that you can move around to decide exactly how your page looks

check it out @: www.myheavy.com