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Using the Most Popular Online Video Sharing Services

David Wetzel — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:55:54 +0000

Online video sharing is a service provided by companies for individuals to upload videos that they want to share with the world. The company that hosts the video sharing service has a multitude of servers that are used for storing and access of videos. People who want to upload videos for these service companies are required to register. All of these companies provide a free service.

Online video sharing service is extremely popular, because most people do not have a website or the ability to develop a website. It has become even more popular with the introduction of cell phone cameras. Now anyone with a cell phone camera (virtually every cell phone comes with a camera today) can upload videos of breaking news, humorous events, or interesting action that others may want to see.

Advantages of Online Video Sharing Services
Those with website with interactive pages, blogs, or forums take advantage of online video sharing. These people will:

- Embed videos in their blogs or allow others to upload videos which are related to the content of the blog
- Have links to online videos they made or others have made on their interactive webpage
- Use their forum as a venue for others to share videos that are related to the content of their forum

Optimum Video Sharing Service Criteria
When looking for an online video sharing service, there are several attributes you need to check out to determine if the service will provide the video sharing services you are looking for and these include:

- Ease of uploading videos to the video sharing service
- Ability to edit online with the video sharing service
- Unwanted editing by the video sharing service
- Ability to tag videos
- Type and quality of forums
- Channels that restrict use or require payment to view
- Group sharing and ability to set up your own group
- Post to other groups that have related content
- Invite friends to view your video or join the video sharing service
- File size limitations
- Weekly or monthly limits on video uploading
- Your rights related to your videos, do you give all rights or not
- Can you get paid for your videos and what are the criteria?
- Do you have to download software to upload your video?
- Video length time limits, minimum and/or maximum length.
- Pricing structure and any costs related to joining the service or is it free.

There are hundreds of online video sharing services on the Internet today, with the number increasing daily. YouTube, MySpace, FaceBook, Flickr, and Bebo the most popular video sharing services.

Howto: Network 2 Computers Without a Hub or Router

Abhinav Kaiser — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:54:57 +0000

Check out the video below for a recorded demonstration on networking two computers without the need of any other devices.

New Tubetorial Video Tutorial Series

Raj Dash — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:24:15 +0000

Ever wanted to know how to do something software-related and wished there was a tutorial? Better yet, a video tutorial, and free at that? Well Tubetorial, which has been known for some great tutorials when Chris Pearson and Brian Clark created and ran it, is currently under the banner of SplashPress, who also own Performancing, 901am, and Blog Herald, some of which I also blog at.

I’m hoping to follow in the large footsteps of Chris and Brian by running several new video tutorial series at Tubetorial. I’ll be covering tools on the following topics: blogging; content; audio (podcasting, etc.); video; illustration, CGI (3d), diagramming, and image, and anything else that is related to producing content for websites. Hopefully you’ll check Tubetorial, if you haven’t already. My first tubetorial, on mashing together two RSS web feeds using Yahoo Pipes, is up already. I have at least 50 more tubetorials sketched, including a few more Yahoo Pipes videos, as well as other Web 2.0 mashup tools.

Sightspeed vs Skype IMs: Free VoIP Video Calling

Raj Dash — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:23:25 +0000

Text messaging, instant messaging, and VoIP are all pretty hot ways to communicate these days. So a few weeks back, Technopedia’s editor, Abhinav, asked me to review the Gaim and Trillian IM (Instant Messaging) clients. Both are pretty cool, are skinnable, and support a number of other clients including MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, and several others. So it’s easy to consolidate all of your IM accounts.

But I figure why use any of them when there are VoIP clients that can handle text, audio and sometimes video. One cool example is Sightspeed, a competitor to Skype and Gizmo Project. All three are both IM clients and VoIP clients. Thus, if you have a microphone and headset, you can make free VoIP audio calls to anyone running the same software.

In fact, Gizmo Project allows you to also contact people on specific other VoIP soft client networks. Unfortunately, Skype isn’t one of them, as they do not have an open interface.

On the other hand, if you want free video VoIP calling, free video email, and video conference calls with up to three other people, Sightspeed is the way to go. (Skype now has video enabled, but it requires a plugin, and their website does not make much effort to promote the video features.)

I’ve got ALL of the above-mentioned IM and VoIP clients on my laptop, and my fave at the moment has to be Sightspeed. While the free version does not let you do video conferencing, the paid plan is only US$4.95/m or $44.95/yr, which also gives you unlimited 60 second video mail stored for an unlimited time. The free plan gives you unlimited 30 second video mail store for 30 days.

Besides regular VoIP audio chats, you can do VoIP video calling, send video mail to one or more people – even if they are not Sightspeed members – or publish videos to a weblog. The latter two options are done by recording a new video message with your webcam and uploading it (free) to Sightspeed servers. If you are sending video mail, your recipient(s) will get an email with the appropriate URL link. If you want to publish the video for a weblog, Sightspeed will generate a URL link, which you can include in your blog.

Now if that’s not enough for you, anyone who is not a Sightspeed member can still have a video/ audio VoIP chat with you. Both the free and paid plans give you a free web page, where a plugin (IE 6+ only) lets them have a video chat with you.

I tried a cheapo USB “snake” webcam (< $100) on both Skype and Sightspeed and only Sightspeed picked up the signal. Neither seems to be able to receive video from my Palm Treo 650 – though I may have something on it configured incorrectly. (Skype provides a shortlist of Skype-certified webcams on their website.)

The interesting thing is that my laptop RAM is only 512 Mb and the webcam doesn’t function too well on it in other video capture applications (such as Snagit screen capture software). But the camera actually functions well enough in Sightspeed, even with my RAM usage maxed out. Still, I’d recommend either a gigabyte of RAM or dual processors, or both. (I have both on my desktop, and the videocam functions much better over there, but I kept that computer offline, so I haven’t tested it with Sightspeed.)

To put Sightspeed to the test, I called up their friendly Support Guy in audio mode first. I jokingly said that I looked really scruffy, not having shaved in days, and I wanted to see but didn’t want him to see me. He laughed and told me how to change my camera settings. I then called him back in video mode and it worked like a charm. However, I haven’t tested it in the other direction, where I’d be able to see the caller and they couldn’t see me.

I also recorded and uploaded a video mail and emailed it to myself. Very simple process. The email just contains a link, not the actual video. That’s true for blog use as well. I haven’t figured out if I can embed the video on blog, to make it viewable from there instead of having to go to the Sightspeed website.

I’m going to love this software, and you just might too. Now if I can only get my relatives across the world an Internet connection, I can see and hear them at the same time. The drawback is that Sightspeed does not currently allow you to communicate with other audio or video IM clients, so you may have to install several software packages like I have.

Sightspeed is available for Win 2000/ XP and for Mac OSX 10.3.9 and up.

Firefox and the Retarded Browsers(Video)

Abhinav Kaiser — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 19:53:03 +0000

This is a funny Firefox commercial. I can’t resist but I gotta say this : Don’t use Internet Explorer. It will make your browsing life miserable.

Amazing Liquid : cornstarch + water + shake (video)

Abhinav Kaiser — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:28:12 +0000

This is an amazing liquid. It does things that will raise a few eye brows… Have you ever thought about poking a hole in a liquid and the hole not disappearing after its been poked… This liquid does it….

Diet Coke & Mentos – instant geysers?

Fahim Farook — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 06:26:48 +0000

What happens when you mix two guys with two spare lab coats, a couple of protective goggles, 200 liters of diet coke and over 500 mentos mints? Sheer insanity that’s what happens :p This video is one of the most hilarious things I’ve come across in a long while and to top it all off, it’s true. And you can do it yourself – if you’re of a mind to spew diet coke rain on your neighbours that is :)

Just remember folks, don’t try this at home – not unless you’ve got raincoats handy :p And if you liked this one, you might want to pay the folks over at Eepybird.com a visit for more fun stuff.

Laptops that don’t break when dropped… Great

Abhinav Kaiser — Fri, 26 May 2006 06:39:40 +0000

What makes a laptop break when it falls on the ground? The list could be something like substandard mod or hard floor but if we think for a moment, we can determine that the cause of a laptop breaking is due to sheer gravity. So, why not take off gravity from the laptop and make unbreakable laptops. Customer service would be happy not to hear about broken LCD screens or any other stuff. Watch this video if you have no clue what I am talking about.

How To Break Web Software (Video)

Abhinav Kaiser — Fri, 19 May 2006 20:02:21 +0000

A look at security vulnerabilities in web software. The presentation is given by Mike Andrews who is a senior consultant who specializes in software. security and leads the web application security assessments and Ultimate Web Hacking classes for Foundstone.

ABSTRACT It all started out as a place to share physics documents, but has grown into potentially mankind’s largest and most complex creation. The World Wide Web is a lot of things – a soapbox for everyone, a giant shopping mall, an application platform, and unfortunately a hacker’s playground.

As more applications get “web-ified” moving from the desktop or legacy systems onto the web, attackers follow the vulnerabilities. Without sophisticated tools or “1337 5×1llz”, web applications are now the most attacked technology, with the majority of attacks categorized as “easily exploitable”.

So, before your application is placed out into one of the most hostile environments, how do you stop your software from being “0wn3d” by the 14 year old in their blacked-out bedroom, or being used by a Russian crime cartel?

In this TechTalk, Mike Andrews will look at how web applications are attacked, walk through a testing framework for evaluating the security of an application and take some deep-dives into a few interesting and common vulnerabilities and how they can be exploited.

Courtesy : Google