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Exactly I completely own every Kid from 12-17 that comes over. My daughter hates it when I'm playing and hew new boyfriend comes over ot visit. It usually ends with her pissed, he's sad and dismayed that a old bald fart kicked his ass effortlessly over and over in every game he chose.

My nephew is a avid gamer, he plays all of them and when he comes over he gives me a fight but I win 40% of the time which upsets him.

Last time I owned him 100% of the time and he got pissed. Granted it cheated...

I built one of these....

http://www.vimeo.com/920214

He whined like a little baby for 2 days over that.

The display is very cool. But has anyone here looked at the openFrameworks library that they used in building the software? People are doing some things with it that I, at least, have never seen before, by the looks of this video (which I found by linking through their site): http://www.vimeo.com/921725

I've never seen such a boring visual representation of music! While it may be accurate, even MS Media Player Visuals are better!

I was expecting to be blown up with something like this:
Flight 404 on Vimeo

http://www.vimeo.com/ ????????

http://www.vimeo.com/688747 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krysgUj9_hU

I'll absolutely agree with some of the points - mainly that cheaper videocameras have made amateur videographers more numerous and producing more professional looking shots.

I'm not so sure AVCHD is going to replace HDV anytime soon - maybe for true amateurs. But I digress.

The raving about the Canon HV20 being the best consumer HD camera today, is, in my opinion correct. Now, I'm one of those new breed of "amateur" videographers, but instead of making nature shots, I'm filming feature indie documentaries with the tech - the fact that my footage is pretty damn good and I'm hoping to sell my work - but haven't yet (first one's still in editing, I've got about 12 hours of footage and some pick-up editing to do.)

But honestly, I don't think it's because of HD cameras that videography as a hobby is getting started. I've always been into videography but unfortunately, they haven't been making good consumer video cameras until the HV20. Even the HV10 was a major disappointment. Why? No audio input. C'mon guys, you had mic jacks standard back in the days we were all recording to VHS in these big bulky boxes. Why did you take them out, screwing those of us who bought cameras and wanted to use them for more than home movies? That's why amateur videography never really took off - never mind YouTube and Vimeo.

To give you the idea of the impact of good sound on a production - I'm spending $10000 on an indie documentary in New Zealand coming up soon. But before I learned about the HV20 and it's mic jack, I was going to go with a much lower-video quality camcorder because it had a mic jack for about twice the price. The mic jack is that important.

That said - I will now take the opportunity to shamelessly plug my projects.

"Makers" - A short subject documentary that asks the question: If American do-it-yourself ingenuity has become a counter-cultural movement, what does that say about our culture?

Preview Video up at Vimeo.

"Following Alexis West" - A feature documentary that follows the spirit of "Democracy in America" writer, Alexis de Tocqueville into the 21st century. An American travels to New Zealand to figure out the secret behind New Zealand's peaceful 1993 switch from a two-party, American-style system to a European-style proportional multi-party system, and the effects it's had on the country 15 years later.

You know youtube posts all its; stuff in even tinier than hell 320x240 resolution at a partly 300kbit encoding bandwidth.

Even though almost every other site uses better video quality people are still stuck on youtube. Hell I see people attaching music to a single image so they can upload it to youtube and share their favourite tracks - all that effort when there's sites like imeem.com that let you post and share the mp3's, and do it legally.

So, viacom has added one more media site to the mix.

copy/paste
Very difficult to see how it could be implemented, could be valuable.

Well, here is a pretty well done and funny proof of concept of copy/paste on the iphone: http://vimeo.com/266383

I would say that people here never experienced an economic bump, although with the dot bomb bust from 2000-? I guess people have experienced at least one. Before that was the early 1990s recession, the 1982 recession, downturns in the 1970s etc. All of which have really been minor recessions - the economy derailed in the 1930s, only brought back by a major war and the government taking a permanent central spending role in the economy. There have been depressions before that as well.

The economy has gone in the toilet every decade or so for the last few decades, so I don't see why this is "chicken little"-ish. I personally think the opposite, I think people haven't seen a big bust since the 1930s in the US, and probably in my lifetime they're going to be reintroduced to a full-out depression. The way things are headed, there is plenty of fuel for that fire - overproduction, widening gap between rich and poor, the annulment of the Glass Steagall act, a housing bubble, massive debt in every sphere (government, personal) etc. I don't think doom is around the corner (although it could be), but anyone who thinks the US can not enter another depression is a fool.

Enjoy!
http://www.vimeo.com/78881

What do AOL, Yahoo, MSN, and the like snap up to compete?

FileRatings ( http://www.fileratings.com/Video ) lists these as the top sites:

http://www.metacafe.com/
http://www.castpost.com/
http://www.clipshack.com/
http://www.blinkx.com/
http://dailymotion.com/
http://blip.tv/
http://vidoegg.com/
http://www.vimeo.com/
http://www.phanfare.com/
http://vobbo.com/
http://ourmedia.org/

950M, 650M, 250M, 250K. It's pulling 20gbps of data and has millions of eyes watching ad-ready video players.

It's only worth what it can make in a reasonable amount of time, and that time is growing short as video blogging competitors build their userbases.

Eventually their huge market share will begin being split by competiing sites that slightly beat their technology, and then the value starts to fall...

there are more site than just those there are http://www.stickam.com/, http://vsocial.com/, http://www.gofish.com/ http://grouper.comhttp//www.blip.tv/, http://eyespot.com/, http://www.bolt.com/, http://jumpcut.com/, http://ourmedia.org/, http://revver.com/ http://vimeo.com/, http://www.videoegg.com/, http://clipshack.com/, http://www.dailymotion.com/, http://castpost.com/, http://www.blinkx.com/ now what do u say about google video, youtube and the new yahoo one i say there is plent of them ou there for competitions tell us what one you like and if you thnk any of them compair to the three in the artical

Vimeo is really the only video sharing service that doesn't look like it took a page out of myspace's design book, i.e. it doesn't look horrible, like youtube, yahoo pages etc. I mean, come on, Yahoo even looks identical in its colorscheme to myspace. I mean, they have the flickr team behind them now! How can they let something this awful in appearance come out of their shop?

One simple question: How does YouTube plan to make any money? Right now they're making $0 and spending tons on bandwidth. The main reason people visit the site in the first place is for content that's infringing on someone's copyright: TV shows, commercials and similar fare. There are a few user-created videos that actually draw traffic, but still, that traffic is pure loss. The only thing of value they have is the brand name. Everyone at my college talks about wasting time on YouTube, but their technology itself is worth next to nothing because it's so easy to build. That's my YouTube has so many competitors. If they don't get bought by anyone, they're screwed.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's a good time to be living off of VC money. It's fairly clear that many of them are being advised by underpants gnomes.

You can download it in quicktime on the site. Or just go here

This guy wasn't very helpful. Neither were the other four people before him.

It'd be nice to boot into Windows for my day job and OSX for home usage.

That was the original starting point for the prize:

I told my boss that this would replace my IBM desktop and I could boot Windows XP on it. I am still confident it can be done. I am giving $100 of my own money [snip] as a prize for the person / group that can make dual-booting Mac OS X and Windows XP happen on an Intel Mac.

But the real question is how did this win the prize. Based on the video, the computer, upon booting, went directly into XP, while the requirements for the prize clearly stated:

Your method, upon starting the computer, must offer the user to boot either OS X or Windows XP

I'm still not sure what Web 2.0 is (other then some js,xml,ajax,etc..), but at least it lets me listen to a aussie chick complain about petrol and an id.

Upset about petrol

The list:

* Flickr * Vimeo * Del.icio.us * Digg * Bloglines * Netvibes * Writeboard * Google Maps * Google Local * Meebo
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and of course, vimeo.com as well