Something I’ve been mulling over for the last few months is the best delivery model/method etc., for making my movies, films, productions, documentaries, clips etc. easily aquired by the mobile web user. I currently have more ways to deliver a video on the web than I can count. But what I don’t have is a really slick interface that allows me to post all my vids and provide the user with a variety of ways to download them in the appropriate format; from full HD QT vid, a BRD file if they wanted to, .M4V files for the PS3 users, and little H.264 files for the phone people. Whatever…I want to be able to provide it.

To my knowledge, no current online video host provider has this feature. YouTube formats videos for proper viewing on mobile media, but not to download. I want to freely give my stuff away. Share it, use it, talk about it.

I’m not a programmer at all. I have the full sweet of Adobe apps so perhaps a dabble in Flash here or Adobe Air there. But it’ll just make my head swim. I’d like to provide an interface that I’d host on my own site that would provide all the necessary information on a film/short etc., and all the links to share, download, and love on. A sweet little app I can do my editing of content locally, then update automatically with the web app would be sweet.

I don’t have any solutions yet, but I’m working on it. Do you?

Tags: discussion, tech, tools, video, web

I would even drop Facebook. Here’s why:

Twitter is where I meet new people. People in my industry, people I discuss with, bounce stuff off of, converse with and engage. Out of the 79 people I actively engage with on Twitter, ALL of them are new relationships. Yes, I said relationships. I would venture to guess that most of the people I engage with wouldn’t mind meeting up for drinks, talking shop, swapping stories, sharing tips etc.

No other social medium has enabled to me to meet so many NEW people in my industry. This is particularly appealing to me because I am able to have peer review and engage in a way with folks of my profession that would not be possible otherwise. This is the same reason I appreciate Vimeo over Youtube; it caters to the professional.

Facebook is a time waster. Does it really keep me in touch with friends and family? Not really. It’s become a substitue for a much more valuable phone call, or even *personal* email. (remember the debate over impersonal email vs. personal snail mail?). Facebook is more or less a giant, oversized, information rich black book. All the friends I’ve ever had or ever known (that I truely want to keep in touch with), I can contact. I have their email, instant note-dropping, etc. I can safely say though that while I appreciate having instant access to all my cool friends, it has not enabled me to grow professionaly, grow closer to any particular person, or really enabled any form of meaningful connection.

Other social media is mainly convenient: Flickr allows me to post easily to my blog from my phone. Youtube and Vimeo allow me to share my video content with out me hosting and taking up bandwidth. LinkedIn? That’s not done anything for me, save simply being a living resume I guess. Digg is something to do when I read stuff around the web, De.lic.ious keeps track off all the stuff I read that I want to hang on to but isn’t localized to a particular machine. Friendfeed? I haven’t figured out what to do with it yet…if anything.

So those are my thoughts. Twitter is actually valuable, Facebook is a time waster, and all others are a matter of convenience.

Cheers!

Tags: philosophy, web

5 Things We Wish We Knew Way Earlier

This is great.

Tags: philosophy, web, workflow