Video on Flickr! « Flickr Blog

If you haven't heard of Flickr yet, it's one of the best photo community sites available right now that is actually taken seriously by professionals. Certainly there are competitors out there (like Photobucket) but they are usually frequented by MySpace teens.

However, Flickr has not had the technology or infrastructure in place to allow video uploads and sharing, something that their competitors have had a head start with. But that has just changed! You can now upload videos albeit in a slightly limited fashion. Read more about it at the announcement on Flickr Blog.

Domain Resolving - ColorBurst Video

This is just a quick post to note the fact that as of today, the domains for ColorBurst Video are now resolving to the site rather than redirecting.

Prior to today, when you typed in either - http://www.colorburstvideo.com/ - or - http://www.colorburst-video.com/ - these addresses would redirect to http://colorburst-video.BLOGSPOT.com/. Although the site is still hosted on the same server, the domain will propogate properly.

This is a small technical change, but it will help with our long-term plans. It will be a brand new year for ColorBurst in 2008.

Video: Social Bookmarking in Plain English | Common Craft - In Plain English

The Common Craft Show is about simple video tutorials in "plain english" that introduce consumers to new technology products. Common Craft is a small company run by a married couple who are passionate about explanation.

Our business is explanation. We are hired to take a fresh look at a situation, problem, product or service and create a video that explains the issue in plain English so that a maximum number of people can understand it.

On a recent update, they turned their unique style and technique to the task of explaining Social Bookmarking with services like del.icio.us.

We made this video because we want others to feel the power of social bookmarking and how it works to make web pages easier to remember, organize and share.

Tools like these make the whole internet much more useful. Introducing these tools to the uninitiated is made less daunting using these videos from the Common Craft Show. See their site and other videos at CommonCraft.com - In Plain English.

BackMoves.com

Here's a new site I've stumbled upon.

Backmoves.com is one of the world's first and largest collections of digital stock footage libraries and animated backgrounds. Our mission is to provide video editors and production houses with high quality motion graphics and 3D animations they need to further unleash the power of 3d animation.

Backmoves was founded in 2001 and headquartered in Dokki, Giza, Egypt by a professional team work who wanted to provide Clients with creativity without boundaries, to provide clients with high quality motion graphics at affordable prices with extraordinary customer service and technical support.

Our FREE libraries include Abstract, Blur, Water Effects, transitions and many others that are randomly rotated every month, FREE animations are downloadable in DivX format.

Update (2008-02-13): This site appears to redirect to a different site called Help3D.com.

Search | Firefox Add-ons | VIDEO

Most video sharing sites make it very difficult to nearly impossible to download a local copy of the video files they are displaying. This is good news for those directors who want to keep their content protected, but bad news for those interested parties who want a local copy for reference, backup source material or outright copyright infringement (not recommended).

Those videophiles and collectors that use Firefox will be interested to know that there are several extensions available that make it easier to manipulate video files on the most common video sharing sites like YouTube, Google Video as well as many others. To get an idea, try the following search on the Mozilla Corporation Firefox Add-ons Site. There are currently over 50 results.

So keep this in mind when you share videos through these sites. They can be downloaded and then archived or re-shared onto a different site. You don't use Firefox? You should! Get it today--