posted by lucky7601 day 5 hours 7 minutes ago • 102 views
We sort of mentioned it in passing a little while back, but it's worth mentioning that we have launched a mobile version of The Sift for your handheld/mobile devices. The first time you visit (with most devices) it will auto-detect that you're on a handheld and redirect you to the mobile version. Or you can just type in the address yourself:
It's a very slimmed down version of VS with just the bare essentials (videos, logging in, and commenting) so that you can still have a very fast-paced VideoSift experience when you're on the go.
Below are a couple of photos of some mobile devices in action. (As an aside, it's really interesting seeing them side-by-side to note the difference in screen size and quality between the Droid and iPhone/iPod Touch.)
All right stop, collaborate and listen Bryce’s gold star has gone missin’ Replaced with a stone cold ruby Hamlet said To be or not to be
Born, when the president was Carter Double-digit inflation made life harder Two thousand eight is when he started siftin’ If you’re old you should avoid heavy liftin’
Comments, he don’t post them often Don’t mean that he lives in a coffin Nice guy who always shows gratitude Longitude is opposed to latitude
Now it’s time to congratulate Bryce Just like a wedding throwing some rice Y'all should be thankful that it’s finally time For me to stop busting these ludicrous rhymes
posted by chilaxe1 day 22 hours 40 minutes ago • 77 views
I see that www.splicd.com is an easy tool to set the start and end time of a youtube link or embed, but using those embeds on Videosift videos only works for the start time, not the end time. (I've tried on two videos.)
Does anybody know a different way to make videos end at a set time?
An on-board security team repelled the attack by using evasive maneuvers, small-arms fire and a Long Range Acoustic Device, which can beam earsplitting alarm tones, the fleet said.
Lion Opens Car Door with Teeth Lion Safari Park in Johannesburg, South Africa allows cars to drive through the lion enclosure so people can see the animals up close. A family in a white Toyota drove through with the doors closed, but apparently failed to lock at least one back door.[Link]
Sports Car/Side Car The Snaefell is the creation of François Knorreck, a French hospital technician who spent €15,000, 10 years, and 10,000 hours of work on the project. It’s a 1976 Laverda motorcycle with a custom-built sidecar made from Renault, Citroen, BMW, VW and Audi parts. More pictures at the links.[Link]
Bottom 10 Records: The Worst Albums Ever Recorded Tired of Top 10 lists? Well, here's the cure: Bottom 10 Records, from the good folks at Bathroom Reader Institute. Behold, the official BRI countdown - and they do mean down. [Link]
posted by cybrbeast6 days 19 hours 27 minutes ago • 199 views
YouTube Blog We're excited to say that support for watching 1080p HD videos in full resolution is on its way. Starting next week, YouTube's HD mode will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p, depending on the resolution of the original source, up from our maximum output of 720p today.
And those of you who have already uploaded in 1080p, don't worry. We're in the process of re-encoding your videos so we can show them the way you intended.
As an example you can check out the Dark Knight trailer in full HD here. That is if your computer can run it. If you right click the video and press "show video info" you can see the amount of bandwidth and the FPS your computer runs it at. If this becomes popular it will require a staggering amount of bandwidth from YouTube. I'm quite surprised they allow it.
...to downvote every submission that starts with a commercial? 'Cause I sure want to. If I was interested in that kind of nonsense I'd subscribe to cable.
MrFisk, whose name sort of sounds like it belongs to a cat (Mr. Whiskers?), just got his diamond. Again. And he did it the hard way: By posting a lot of controversial stuff, which makes it difficult to get stars. And a lot of hip hop videos too. Which also makes it difficult to get stars. So marvel at this achievement, and love up his PQ while you're at it (conveniently sorted from highest to lowest votes.)
Did you know he's a Nebraska boy? I'm from there too, which makes us brothers. With the same wife. Our sister. Help out a brother. My brother. And brother-in-law.
posted by xxovercastxx1 week 2 days ago • 348 views
It's always kinda bugged me that #eia doesn't really have any requirements. I normally associate the phrase "evolution in action" with the Darwin Awards where you must remove yourself from the gene pool (ie get yourself killed or render yourself unable to reproduce) and a lot of other people seem to think the same. Presently #eia only requires people doing something stupid or dangerous.
With the arrival of #fail, we've got a fair amount of overlap between the two.
Bringing #eia in line with the Darwin Awards requirements always felt right to me, but then it would be handicapped by the snuff rule. Can we come up with another definition which avoids this problem yet is still worthy of being evolution in action?
Or should we just can it and let #fail take the reins?
For the past two (maybe 3) days, videos from YouTube have been slow to load. Videos from other sites seem fine. I have to hit play, then pause and go do something else while the video loads.
We're launching a series of interviews with artists and video creators who are known favorites to Sifters.
I'm really happy to announce that our first interview will be with Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn from the musical duo Pomplamoose.
If you have any questions that you would like me to ask Nataly or Jack- please post them here - and while you're at it grab their album on iTunes. I picked it up a few days ago and am liking it very much.
Also, we're looking for ideas for other people to interview - doesn't have to be music related. I've asked the "The Website is Down" people- I'd love to hear how they put their stuff together.
Now that we've all been using 4.0 for a while, I'd like to get some feedback on things that you think could use improving. These could be little issues to do with how you use VideoSift that are frustrating or don't work the way you think they should, or just ideas for improvement.
Our own Campion is hard at work tweaking and prodding the UI for 4.1- so now is a good time to let fly with any ideas for little improvements, glitch fixes or issues.
As usual, thanks for your help in improving the Sift.
Now you can connect to VideoSift through Facebook.
If you are an existing VideoSift member, you can link your VS account to Facebook by selecting the "Connect with Facebook" button at the top of the page. Once you're connected, we'll update your Facebook page with your activities here on the Sift. By default, new posts and comments will be updated to Facebook with a link back to the VideoSift page.
You can adjust the kinds of activities you want to update to Facebook in your VideoSift member profile.
For new VideoSift members, all of the above applies- but we'll also synch your Facebook avatar for use here on VideoSift.
...of being here waiting for admins to give the user, (formerly known as choggie), some basic, operating power back. When, boys? Times' a wastin'...Please, take a fucking poll if it helps to speed things along....I will remind the site and all her users, that decisions made here shape the site's future. Anyone who would like to have direct questions from choggie relative to this post answered on this thread.... feel free to ask here.
I remind anyone in the know how patient and long-suffering we are.
Hey, if you want your Personal Queue to get more attention, sound off here. I'll go first: please browse my damn PQ, it has a bunch of 9-voters and stuff! Maybe post a link to a couple of the vids you'd especially like to see escape purgatory. How about this: I promise to check out the PQ of anybody who weighs in here (votes not guaranteed) so you'll profit from my benevolent gaze, at least, if nobody else's.
Yes, and feel free to pimp out a specific vid or two that you like so well from *other people's PQs*. That is all.
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