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Yea, whatever you do, don't use a video blog service and show your face all over the internet.

'General' implies usability in production systems. What you really want to read it as is this is the first non-beta release.

We tested many of our sites (including my personal favorite, vobbo, a site for video blogs) and found some very significant speed improvements, especially in some of the math functions (SIN, COS, etc).

The resolution isn't a big deal - we use virtually the same resolution for recording video blogs and the results are great. The color levels, though, will be the problems with this.

It'll be great to watch as it develops though - if we could send videos of drunk girls via email/MMS out to handheld paper displays, I think college students could die happy.

The resolution isn't a big deal - we use virtually the same resolution for recording video blogs and the results are great. The color levels, though, will be the problems with this.

It'll be great to watch as it develops though - if we could send videos of drunk girls via email/MMS out to handheld paper displays, I think college students could die happy.

A good implementation, such as Fords F150 website, can be a powerful marketing tool, but a bad implementation can be horrible.

When creating the tools in vobbo to embed video blogs in other sites, we went out of our way to create nice placeholders that were silent and bandwidth friendly UNTIL the user decided they were ready to get video and sound. This saves us bandwidth, and saves the user a potential annoyance. As with all things web related, its really the implementation that makes the difference

Just make sure you post it to the web otherwise your video recording may get stolen with the rest of your crap.

The real action in vegas may involve cheating, but it isn't in the casinos.

And if you do have an immediate need, it's probably more memorable and meaningful to leave a video message online ( *cough* video recording service */cough* ) than to make people go to a cemetary and squint in the sunlight.

Link into an RSS feed from a video blogging website and they could rotate through good-bye messages ... would be kinda cool, I think.

More useful would be good-bye messages. Easy to do with video blog services like vobbo.

Can you turn on the TV and watch a video of a new baby in the family?

Can you turn on the TV and view a video message recorded for you by a girlfriend/boyfriend/mistress/etc thousands of miles away?

Can you record yourself telling a joke and send it to your friends and family across the country?

There are great uses for video blog services.

Few reasons:
1) The Flash Player is standard across all browsers and operating systems. If the Player is implemented correctly (and for the most part, it is), the video will play correctly on every computer that has flash, regardless of the specific video codecs installed. While you can assume every system has an MPEG player, not all have the same MPEG players (1 v. 2 v. 4), and other formats get even worse (AVI+DivX, Qt 6 v. 7, etc).

On other video blog services, users are given the opportunity to upload in any format they choose; FLV/Flash is only used for recording live videos from webcams. Historically, based on the number of support emails, Flash causes fewer problems than uploaded videos with codec issues.

It's also has the potential to be much more meaningful - consider that it takes an amateur a great amount of time to learn the concepts that allow them to make 'great', meaningful photographs - composition, lighting, patience, whereas it takes only seconds to record a video of a baby stumbling around.

Given the opportunity to send a few great pictures or a single quick video to friends and family, I'd choose video every time.

And judging by the number of baby videos on vobbo, I'm not alone.

Vobbo.com does the same sort of thing, but is focused more on video blogs - lots of tools for embedding video in other pages (such as MySpace). Also have direct webcam recording, ability to upload arbitrary filetypes, ability to post by video/camera phone, XML/RSS feeds for arbitrary search terms (if you want an RSS feed for every post mentioning 'puppy' or 'boobies', go for it), and the list goes on.

http://www.vobbo.com./ You can Record live video directly to sever (no upload required). Upload media (videos, images, audio) for later playback. Post entries via email (camera and video phones). Form communities, groups. Create your homepage using your own URL. Mark your messages as private so only your friends can see. My wife and I use it to show make/show videos of our baby to family all over the country.

More than enough to post stupid ass videos on video blog websites.

You can use RSS as a communication medium within blogs. For example, I likely don't care about every blog entry posted by a certain user, but I may care about those that involve their new baby:

http://www.vobbo.com/feeds/search/tristen/rss.xml

By incorporating some intelligent thought into the XML generation process (in this case, arbitrary/dynamic feeds based on URL), you can get the great communication tool out of the blogging systems, too.

You can use RSS as a communication medium within blogs. For example, I likely don't care about every blog entry posted by a certain user, but I may care about those that involve their new baby:

http://www.vobbo.com/feeds/search/tristen/rss.xml

By incorporating some intelligent thought into the XML generation process (in this case, arbitrary/dynamic feeds based on URL), you can get the great communication tool out of the blogging systems, too.

Blogging -> Podcasting -> Video Blogging / Video Casting.

Your office is 2 steps behind 'state of the art'.

Or you could have nerdtv now - just use www.vobbo.com to record your own nerd broadcasts.

No, it's time to convert to live video over the internet.

Especially when the real innovation comes from small companies who are later purchased. Witness Google and (keyhole/blogger/etc), Yahoo and Flickr, and so on.

Actually, mentioning blogging and innovation in the same story requires that I post a link to Vobbo - perhaps the most innovative blogging site in the last few years. Live webcam recording through the browser via Flash - no software to install. Pretty clever.

Combine that with some of the latest trends (like search-query based RSS - implemented at vobbo - example - search for 'tristen'), and you could have some really great feeds.

I can just imagine, a feed of boobies from around the world.

Combine that with some of the latest trends (like search-query based RSS - implemented at vobbo - example - search for 'tristen'), and you could have some really great feeds.

I can just imagine, a feed of boobies from around the world.

Traditional blogs are going to change. Photoblogs are getting big. With any luck, video blogs are going to be huge.

Note the launch of Vobbo (live video blogs) as an example.

Bandwidth is cheap. Disk space is cheap. Video is going to be very big, very soon.