Lisa Picarille, Jim Kukral, Shawn Collins and Sam Harrelson sorted out a whole mess of geek stuff and randomness for episode 22 of the weekly GeekCast.
The show kicked off with talk of the iPhone 2.0, and the virtues like 3G speed, as well as the negatives, such as the keyboard, lack of copy/paste, etc.
The rumored ability to capture video didn’t pan out (did RIM start that rumor?), which was a letdown for your loyal GeekCasters.
Sam was excited for his new pet rock, I mean Kindle. I’m sure we’ll have a laugh over that contraption a year from now when it’s propping up Sam’s dining room table.
The new Co-Presidents of LinkShare were on the docket, too, as well as talk of the fantastic hairstyles that Lisa, Missy Ward, and Connie Berg will be bringing with them to the LinkShare Golden Link Awards and Symposium.
Shawn admits to discovering Google Video Alerts about nine months after it came out, and it sounded like nobody else ha really seen it either.
Two death watches: Twitter and the Vado video camera. FriendFeed and Flip FTW.
Also, Jim and Sam had a cat fight about the strategy behind Jim’s ZobZee project.
Then some bragging from Sam on the cutting edge video work by Motive Interactive. He was also quite proud of his metrosexual footwear, as Sam admitted to wearing mandals.
We flipped it back to video business and how it would be great for YouTube or somebody else to create a business channel for video.
Then Shawn lamented that of the hundreds of videos he has created, the most popular one by far has been a parody of 2 Girls, 1 Cup, which has racked up over 100,000 views on Daily Motion.
Some anti-SEO ranting and reminiscing about 80’s music to round things it.
The show runs a somewhat husky 78 minutes, but you’d think it was like 113 minutes with all of the good stuff jammed in there.
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Jim .. I'm with you on the need for specific business video posting / embedding service (you talked about this with Steve on Video Ninjas too) with intentions of a customizable branded player, flexibility regarding ad rev or not, distribution controls, uptimes, specific audiences, etc.
Do you find the Blip.tv pro account handles these requirements for you?
For me the most important thing is the embedded use on my sites with my own branding on the player.. not necessarily relying on them to max the eyeball count (although I'll take anything they can drive to me – but the private setting is also avail). I consider it my job to get the traffic from all the other sources and the embedded video is a close/call to action.
Are there other features for you that I'm not considering?
Thanks.
PS .. once again another great mid-sentence instant ending! It's almost like a weekly cliffhanger ..lol
Hey Joe -
Have you checked out Fliqz.com? That's who I use for Affiliate Summit videos – I get to brand a clickable watermark on the video.
Thanks Shawn .. I'll look at them right now to compare features. Do you embed that watermark at the time of upload? .. I'm just doing it when prepping the video (not clickable though). It's possible that Blip discourages “serious” business content – which is what Jim is saying — but haven't heard they don't like my content (did I say that out loud?)
Hi Joe -
You give Fliqz the image and they embed it into the player. In my case, I already had logos on the videos, so they just made that area clickable for me.
As far as Blip, they booted me a week or so ago for having commercial content. My videos were answers to questions on affiliate marketing with nothing by an open/close that had the url: askshawncollins.com where people could ask the questions.
I appealed and they never responded.
Oh Boy .. ok, thanks for the heads up Shawn. Guess it goes back to the original topic of conversation … I do believe there is a need for a business video service then, maybe Fliqz can capitalize on this need. All brands are going to be using the video communication medium for customers & employees even. Businesses should take their “About us” page and make an interesting video for it …. it needs to be easily uploaded, hosted and embedded by some service.
Thanks for your insights Shawn .. appreciate all you do!
Shawn thanks for mentioning Fliqz.com I will check that out as well – As Sam was mentioning in the podcast everyone at Motive is eager to test the waters with video and social marketing and these and Fliqz.com could be something interesting for Motive Interactive to use. Keep up the Podcast guys !
Shawn thanks for mentioning Fliqz.com I will check that out as well – As Sam was mentioning in the podcast everyone at Motive is eager to test the waters with video and social marketing and these and Fliqz.com could be something interesting for Motive Interactive to use. Keep up the Podcast guys !
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