videos
videos
Heavy.com and the dangers of social network investing
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 01/04/2007 - 04:26Wednesday’s Tri-State Tech Wire newsletter had an article about Heavy.com raising $12.8 million in its fifth round of venture capital. Over on Don’t’ Go South, they claim the number is $12.3 million and question the wisdom of the business model. “Working your ass off to run a content portal that does $10M in ad revenue and costs $11M to operate is not exactly the golden ticket to paradise.”
Yet there is a bigger problem for Heavy.com. Over on a mailing list of videobloggers, Casey McKinnon, Executive Producer of Galacticast writes, “We found out today that MyHeavy.com has been re-posting our videos with a huge pre-roll banner ad and a second huge ad surrounding the video when it plays (all without our permission or knowledge).”
KLHT Stairwell Singers
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 12/19/2006 - 17:36
Christmas Cooking with Fiona, Episode 1
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 12/10/2006 - 12:57
vlogs from frontline housing activists
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 11/13/2006 - 11:44I also wanted to quickly highlight another site for politically aware videos: Homeless Nation's Videos.
More Second Life Machinima
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 11/13/2006 - 00:18
Today at RootsCamp in Machinima, specifically making politically aware Machinima in Second Life. One of the things that turned me on to the possibility of politically aware machinima was The French Democracy. I’ve often pointed others to this. Tonight, Hiro Quasimodo spoke and mentioned these movies: Jean-Charles de Menezes, An Unfair War
and An American Baby in Iraq
I’ve played a little bit SL based Machinima. My latest effort was filming a Tech Soup party in Second Life on July 18th. Before that, on July 7th, I had taken this clip in my first successful test of Second Life Machinima.
To produce this, I used Fraps. My first upload didn’t work, but when I converted it to MPEG-1 format, it worked nicely.
