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Idea Of The Day: Video Sharing Test Samples

Great ideas come from solving problems. Here’s my problem, let’s see if someone can fix it by building this.

I am putting up a lot of videos online lately. I’m trying to see which video player makes my videos look the best. It would be nice to have a tool that could allow me to “compare” the same video sample uploaded to all the major video portals, allowing me to see which one looks the best.

Someone want to build this for me please?

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Business Around A Lifestyle

The world changed on 9/11 in so many different ways. Since that day, there has been a major shift happening in the way people think and live their lives. Sure, many people still chase the dollar as their ultimate goal. However, many more people have begun to realize that the world could, well, end tomorrow.

That's why people are choosing to pursue a business around a lifestyle, instead of a lifestyle controlled by their business. It makes sense, right? If the world was going to end tomorrow, would you still try to live your life in a way you never wanted to?

Take a look around you and you'll see that this shift to becoming a lifestyle entrepreneur is being adopted by more and more people every day. Some of those people are falling into it because they have been laid off from their jobs and are literally forced into it. Some of those people just figure out a way to make it happen because of the "end of the world" thinking mentioned above.

4 Awesome Comments So Far

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  1. Jon Ray
    September 5, 2007 at 2:47 pm #

    Wow, I wouldn’t mind having an application like that, as well. For the time being though, BlipTV seems to be the best quality video hosting server that I’ve found. A lot of the other video sites distort your footage or audio based on your compression settings. Here’s a really good lens for encoding video for YouTube and a good start for any online video platform. Of course, the better your video looks in its raw format, the better it will look once encoded. So, good lighting, a steady camera with little shake and good audio from the start is recommended. I’m liking your new video cast and that camera looks pretty sweet and hyper compact. Nice!

    http://www.blip.tv
    http://www.squidoo.com/youtuberight/

  2. Jim Kukral
    September 5, 2007 at 3:47 pm #

    Thanks for the link Jon, awesome information. Will try it out. Metacafe looks pretty good too, compared to blip.

    When will Youtube encoding get better?

  3. Jim Kukral
    September 5, 2007 at 9:51 pm #

    Just did some more testing. In my opinion, Metacafe video is looking the best, even over Blip.

  4. Jon Ray
    September 5, 2007 at 10:01 pm #

    Good to know. I think a lot of it has to do with the type of codec you use to compress your video. Different codecs work better with different video sharing sites. Which brings us back to your original post, “It would be nice to have a tool that could allow me to “compare” the same video sample uploaded to all the major video portals, allowing me to see which one looks the best.”

    Yes, that would be nice. :)