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Have you checked out any of the music videos from Radar Music Videos (friend: RadarMusicVideo)? They ve got some really great content, including this video for Hey La La s Art of Toys, which was directed/animated by Eric Power of Clear Productions. Radar Music Videos connects filmmakers with bands and artists who need music videos, and they re very excited to bring their videos to Viddler. This particular video was an Official Selection for screening at the SXSW Film Festival. (Watch the enclosure in full screen, if you d like.) If you would like to suggest a video to be featured on our blog, feel free to send me a message, use our forums, or just comment on this post.

Add To Your Site: At Gear Live, we use ExpressionEngine to manage our vast array of sites, authors, and blog posts. Things like MovableType, WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal just don t cut it for us. During SXSW, we got the opportunity to get an early looks at ExpressionEngine 2.0. If you have a blog, or want to blog in the future, you need to watch this video to see what is coming soon from the crew over at EllisLab. Seriously, we can t praise these guys enough for what they do. If you ve never heard of the product and want to give it a shot, you can download the free Core version over at the ExpressionEngine website. If you go for the full version, you have access to all sorts of upgrades. Of course, ExpressionEngine 2.0 isn t available just yet, but something tells us we will be seeing it sooner rather than later. A big thank you goes out to HP and Verizon FiOS for sponsoring this episode. Here's how to get the show: Subscribe: iTunes iPod / H.264 | iTunes MPEG-4 | RSS H.264 Feed | RSS MPEG-4 Feed |Download| - iPod-formatted H.264 |Download| - Apple TV High Resolution |Download| - MPEG-4 Tags: Read More | ExpressionEngine product page

| View | Upload your own This is from a session at SXSW, a presentation by Shiv Singh from Avenue A | Razorfish, one of the largest interactive marketing and technology consulting firms. You more about his thoughts on social influence marketing. Somehow related to David Glazer's fortune cookie analogy from Graphing Social patterns?

You only get to lose your virginity once First, sorry for the light posting, I ve had a bad cold for the last 3 days, and have mostly been sleeping and getting caught up on Battlestar Galactica in preparation for the season premiere on Friday. Some call it the SuperBowl of SciFi. I can t wait. I ve been keeping an eye on the blog discussion about the faceoff between Demo and TechCrunch50, trying to figure out what it means. First, I think what Arrington said about Demo needing to die is way over the top. Can you imagine Pepsi marketing against Coke saying Coke needs to die. Or even Apple saying to IBM that they need to die. There s a reason people don t go this far in marketing it puts others in the uncomfortable position of appearing to agree with you if they buy your product. You don t want anything to stand in the way of that. Scheduling it on exactly the same days as Demo is too predatory for my taste. Why not win on the merits? Why not let Demo have a chance to morph, to learn from the competition, maybe as a result we ll have two great conferences. I haven t been to a Demo in many years, but I was one of the founding Demoers of the conference, and was once offered the job of running it (I declined because I was running a software company and felt that would conflict with the demoers). Originally, only a handful of products were demo d on stage, most of the demos took place in a ballroom. The presenters were seated, and there were two or three chairs for people receiving demos. All the desks were the same, the signage was the same. It was designed to be a civilized version of Comdex. Instead of walking between the few far-apart booths that had interesting demos, and having zero percent chance of getting a demo from someone who could answer your questions, at Demo you would be guaranteed that the person giving the demo was either the developer, product manager, or CEO of the company. Someone in a position to answer a question. Stewart Alsop chose the products, I don t remember if they paid or not (I have an email into Stewart asking) but it wasn t a lot of money. It was nothing like $18,500. I ve started two companies. At either of them, we might have spent $18,500 to get our product in front of the right people. We were spending several times that every month on advertising. Today there aren t as many places to run ads, and startups raise more money. If I were running Demo and there was a product I really wanted to have and they couldn t afford the fee, I d comp them. I hope IDG does that. (I paid expenses for some people to come to BloggerCon because I wanted them there, and they couldn t afford to come without the stipend.) However, I can t imagine that I, as an entrepreneur, would choose to roll out my product at either conference. They re both shitty deals for entrepreneurs. At TechCrunch50 there are 50 products. At Demo there are 70. Since they re happening the same week, at best I m one of 120. I would rather, as Jeremey Toeman advises, roll my product out on a quiet week in the middle of summer when my product is the only new thing shipping. Much better chance of finding new users and maybe getting a review or two. Or pick a venue where not many new products are shipped, like SXSW or Foo Camp (as Twitter and Chumby did, respectively, with good results). You only get to lose your virginity once, so choose your venue wisely. Honestly, what both conferences say about the technology industry is that it s way over-supplied with new product. There s no way there s demand for even a fraction of those products. It s probably not true, esp if the rollouts were spaced out over a few months, but blowing them out all at once only serves the conference promoters. It s hard to see what s in it for the entrepreneurs or their investors. I got a response from Stewart Alsop: Calacanis and Arrington are both troublemakers, which as you know could be said about me too. So I can t too exercised about the debate, other than wish they would get their facts straight. Neither one asked me the question you did below, so thank you for asking! Demo has always charged a fee to Demonstrate. It has never charged a separate fee to be on stage. One thing that Chris Shipley has done that is different than the original Demo is that every company is introducing a new product that has not been previously demonstrated. (They define never broadly, but you get the idea.) When we started Demo, the idea was that all interesting new products that were current would be demonstrated but only truly new products would be shown on stage in live demos (along with bake-offs and other fun stuff, but no panel sessions). So all companies that had a station in the demonstration hall paid a fee to demonstrate, which was really to cover the cost of providing the stations and (most important) the infrastructure for having the demos work, although the internet wasn t an issue then; it was client server time and we needed to put in a LAN. We (Alsop Louie Partners) had portfolio companies at both events (Cake Financial at TechCrunch and both Ribbit s Amphibian and Redux at Demo 08), so I got to see how both operated. The difference was that TechCrunch was inexpensive, which meant that the infrastructure didn t work well (demonstrators had to be prepared to demo without the internet and the schedule was managed loosely). Demo was on schedule and the infrastructure worked because they had redundant systems. On relevance: People still like to get together and do demos to talk about products and design and coding. But it s much less about client apps and PCs now and much more about web apps and systems. Infrastructure and systems don t demo well (remember the bake-off between dBase and Access?). So it s really all about doing demos of Web apps now. It s an open question if that s big enough to draw people to a resort or if it s better in a major city like SF

One of the great things about SXSW is all of the online community support that conference garners. Specifically the folks at Frog Design got to handle and build a great web site to help the community come together. They built a web site called the pulse and you can find it here: http://pulse.sxsw.com/ The pulse allows the attendees of SXSW allows the community to come together in a mashed up style of site, that includes blog commentary, pictures and videos. All the content can have comments and discussions, a very cool design! Well during my walk, I got to speak with Matt Howell about the pulse site and how it was built! Check out the interview below and let me know what you think! Just click on the control to watch the Silverlight Stream: Click here to view the Windows Media player version: Talking with the Creators of the Pulse for SXSW Resources: The Pulse site: http://pulse.sxsw.com/ Frog Design: http://www.frogdesign.com/ *You be asking what SXSW stands for? It stands for South by Southwest, a great music festival. Wait a second I know what your thinking, what is Microsoft doing there? Microsoft Silverlight was a major sponsor for SXSW Interactive which is celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology. While I was there I had my camera along with me and decided to talk with some folks!

What was Scoble up to one year ago today? Check out today s video for a trip down memory lane. And for more context, check out his blog, from one year ago today! At SXSW I talk with Ryan Dawson and Doug Cook, who have created one of the first killer 3rd party desktop apps for Windows Vista. Their toolset bridges the gap between designers and developers. Other posts from a year ago: Thirteen23 demo with Scoble at SXSW Tags: SXSW, Ryan Dawson, Doug Cook, Windows Vista

Who says geeks and art don't go hand in hand? Well, certainly not the judges at this years South by SouthWest Festival. Microsoft employee, Jeff Weir, created Viscosity - an online abstract art application- and it won the Best Art award at this years SXSW. It's fun, it's beautiful and it's free. Hear from the man himself in this clip and then go play with it and start creating.

FLYLEAF just returned from a humanitarian trip to Rwanda and played SXSW 2008 in Austin, TX. Lead singer Lacey Mosley talks about how the trip gave them a new perspective on life, shares their thoughts on the next CD release, and also performs an acoustic version of Broken Wings with Sameer

@msg went around and did short video interviews at SXSW asking people a simple question: WTF is Twitter? As one might expect (considering how amorphous Twitter is), the responses are all over the map. Go check out the project and @msg s breakdown of each contribution for a deeper dive. My favorite responses are @innonate s EKG and @laughingsquid s people mover, both of which are embedded below. Twitter according to Scott Beale from michael galpert on Vimeo. Twitter according to Nate Westheimer from michael galpert on Vimeo.

this week we are in berlin, germany! communication across nations is on our mind, we look at social network aggregators, and we go back to sxsw for an interview with nerdcore godfather mc frontalot about the new documentary nerdcore rising. show links: FUnetics will continue later this week!, FU of the week: nerdcore rising, mc frontalot, negin farsad, epic spotlight: like a drug by kamera (their site) (their myspace), artist of the week: kindermassive, campfire: what is the biggest problem, other than language, communicating with someone from another country?, credits video: c'mon by canoe (their myspace), show links: transatlantic network 2020, friendfeed, socialthing (note: incorrect link in the video), iminta (first 10 people to email us get a beta test invite), graffiti archaeology (thanks jordan - original thread), featured MIX member: oblivionus, title music: nadeya (tribal bump mix) by yellowjacket_osx, bumper music: catapult2 by bre pettis, yesterdays (reggaeton stylee) by paulus, thanks to our sxsw sponsor: xbox live

At South by Southwest, Michael Scherotter met Jeff Sass of Myxer a company that has built an ASP.net/SQL Server-based web service for ad-supported mobile content.They were at SxSW to show their service to artists and musicians to be able to get their content into mobile ringtones and other mobile-oriented services. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video

Happy Friday and it is: Time to Rock Out I did not spend all my time on the show floor talking to some fantastic folks, I rocked out on Guitar Hero with one of them: Christoph Schittko Check it out and watch us rocking out on medium! :-) Just click on the control to watch the Silverlight Stream: To watch the Windows Media player version: Rocking out at SXSW! *You be asking what SXSW stands for? It stands for South by Southwest, a great music festival. Wait a second I know what your thinking, what is Microsoft doing there? Microsoft Silverlight was a major sponsor for SXSW Interactive which is celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology. While I was there I had my camera along with me and decided to talk with some folks!

Did you think Viddler was a band name when you first heard it? Do you know, or care, what Ruby on Rails, PHP, and the iPhone SDK means or is? Justine Ezarik (friend: ijustine), while attending the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas - asks the music festival attendees and bands these questions - lets see how they respond. It is pretty interesting to hear their responses - and I wonder how this would have gone if the rolls were reversed? What would we answer if asked about frets, Rock riffs, our favorite chords, what a harmony is, or maybe to sing in falsetto? I think we d react the very same way the music crowd has. Great interviews Justine to watch more coverage of SXSW look no further than SXSW Videos.com. Watch the enclosure in full screen! Don t forget: If you would like to suggest a video to be featured on our blog please send me a message, use our forums, or just comment on this post.

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In this video podcast, we travel to Austin, Texas and the SxSW Interactive festival, to focus on what s inside people s computers, and just how much they re relying on those computers for work, communication and - all-important at the SxSW Festival creativity. Intel s Bryan Rhoads took the opportunity to blog from the conference using a MID. He used the mobile Internet device to bring his blog readers along with him to breakfast, and to snap a picture of two of Intel s tiniest products - the Atom processor and the silicon core of an Intel Core 2 Duo. We showed those tiny products to attendees at SxSWi, and found out how some creative folks are interacting with their computers (and what s inside). Related Stories: IntelMooresLaw, IntelMobility Tags: SxSW Interactive, IntelMooresLaw, IntelMobility, video podcast, Austin, SXSWi, South by Southwest, SXSW, Intel, Interactive, ultramobile, Atom, Bryan Rhoads, MIDs, mobile Internet device, Core 2 Duo, processor

Epic Fu (friend: epicfu), formerly called JETSET, is one of only a few video podcasts that I have been subscribed to since their early beginnings. I m pretty sure you can guess the other ones. The Epic Fu team recently hit SXSW and played a little Zuma, check em out. With over 100 episodes in the tank, Epic Fu is one of the best video podcasts out there, and we re happy they ve begun sharing their videos here on Viddler. Show them some love, friend them, and become a fan like me. For more great videos from South by Southwest to go SXSW Videos.com. Watch the enclosure in full screen! Don t forget: If you would like to suggest a video to be featured on our blog please send me a message, use our forums, or just comment on this post.

Talk about funny, Battledecks is competitive improv for the biz/geek crowd take a dozen or so rediculous powerpoint slides and improv a presentation within a set time limit. I guess the crowd chooses the winner. That s a recipe for comedy. Here s some of the slides from the recent SXSWi Battledecks session: | View | Upload your own Via Ted (who tied for 2nd, sweet!) [I m going to SXSW next year if I have to swim] Originally posted on Surfarama Battledecks

On the last day of SXSW Interactive 2008 Veronica visited Tears of Joy, a legendary Hot Sauce shop on East 6th Street, Austin Texas. Established in 1988, the shop was originally a restaurant with a speciality for Tamales - since then it has moved to exclusively selling Hot Sauce, including a variety of sauces with some very interesting names. Story Links: Hot Sauce Tamales Food Mexican Food Black Pepper Episode download: MOV | MP3 | M4V (for iPods and iPhones) Meet other people who love Mahalo Daily and discuss the show: Facebook | Ning | YouTube | Flickr | Break | Twitter Subscribe: RSS | RSS (MP3) | iTunes | YouTube | Zune | Email Show Archive: Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | All Email Mahalo Daily: Permalink: http://daily.mahalo.com/2008/03/17/md079-tears-of-joy-hot-sauce-shop/ Previous popular episodes: How to Speak French Grammy Awards 2008 in 60 seconds Steve Jobs Keynote in 60 seconds

Greg Laswell, who spends a lot of time performing in various parts of Europe, recently did a live performance at The Parish Room during the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas. Viddler Justine Ezarik (friend: iJustine) recorded and shared the live performance with us. I ve never heard Greg Laswell before today, and after spending a few minutes listening to this performance, as well as the songs freely available on his MySpace page, I m digging his style and voice. Thanks to Justine for sharing this performance with us! For more videos from the SXSW Music Festival visit SXSWVideos.com. Watch the enclosure in full screen! Don t forget: If you would like to suggest a video to be featured on our blog please send me a message, use our forums, or just comment on this post.

SXSW2008, at the Bloghaus room.

SXSW2008, at the Bloghaus room.

story links: I Can Has Cheezburger founder Eric Nakagawa and CEO Ben Huh discuss the LOLcats phenomenon during the LOLWUT? panel at the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival.

this week we're at SXSW! we get some FU's of the week from awesome peeps, but first we give you the lowdown on free sxsw music, play a new flash game, and follow-up on the 90 day jane campfire discussion. oh yeah, and that whole FUnetics thing... show links: FUnetics: level ii, FUnetics group on MIX, FU's of the week (from sxsw): lisa nova: daxflame, kenyatta cheese and jamie wilkinson: rick roll database, kelly sutton: juicy campus, sarah meyers: flixwagon, michael lambie: get satisfaction, ijustine: chocolate skittles, steve garfield: moblogic.tv, ellie rountree: bloglines, brian tong: taj tunes, tell us your FU of the week!, epic spotlight: the wrath of marcie by the go! team (their site) (their myspace), artist of the week: kent rogowski, credits video: dvno by justice (their myspace), flash game: zuma!, show links: technical difficulties last week (MIX discussion), sxsw 2008, sxsw music homepage, alpha listing of all sxsw artists, band aid tool by last.fm, greg hewgill's sxsw music torrent, the ishoes, sneaker freaker magazine, campfire follow-up: 90 day jane: where is the line between art and real life?, screen shots from the blog, featured MIX members: vincent, lvs, rupert, serafina, corey, dan, ritalin, michael, title music: yesterdays (reggaeton stylee) by paulus, bumper music: bre pettis, thanks to our sponsor: xbox live's bringing it home sxsw coverage

The kiss pistachio idea, explained! There was a qik version of this, but apparently it expired after 2 days?

Sunspot on the beginning of their trip on their way down to Austin for SXSW 2008!

ThreadBanger (friend: threadbanger) has an exclusive interview with the director (favorite) of Beautiful Losers, a film which premiered at the SXSW Film Festival this year in Austin, Texas. It is great to see interviews like this with independent film and music producers so that we re able to see films that we may have never had the opportunity to before. Video podcasters really are the new, worldwide journalists for news and information that may never hit the mass media. If you d like to see more interviews, conversations, music, and just about everything else that is happening this month in Austin, Texas - be sure to check out our brand new site at SXSWVideos.com. Thanks to ThreadBanger for bringing us this interview and sharing it with the Viddler community. Watch the enclosure in full screen! Don t forget: If you would like to suggest a video to be featured on our blog please send me a message, use our forums, or just comment on this post.

At the tail-end of SXSWi in Austin, Ryan Stewart and I wrap-up what we've seen and done at SXSW, more or less relevant to RIA land. As we note, the main thing at SXSW is hanging out with people during the day and late into the night. Indeed, I didn't even manage to go to any sessions. We also talk about the theory that Microsoft could use Silverlight to make parts of the web "go dark" for Google (thus, harming Google's revenues). We then get into a discussion of people making money selling RIA applications, sort of micro-ISVs if you know that term. Finally, we end up with tips and tricks for SXSW, imploring all of you, dear listeners and watchers, to come next year. Also, we spend some time talking about the character of the folks at SXSW: in summary, they're ready to get down to business, no need for the beginner level stuff, which explains some of the crowd rebellion people saw this year. Disclaimer: Adobe and Microsoft are clients. See the RedMonk client list for more clients mentioned. Formats available:MPEG4 Video (.mp4), MP3 Audio (.mp3), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv) Tags: riaweekly, ria, sxsw, sxswi, microsoft, google, silverlight, flex, air Share This

Scott Stead captures an interview of me with Jonny Goldstein at SXSW. Madness ensued...3 guys, 3 cameras, 1 conversationFormats available:Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)This video was originally shared on blip.tv by scottstead with a No license (All rights reserved) license.

Watch the Video Actor Billy Bob Thornton, speaking at the 2008 SXSW festival in Austin, TX, describes the fight he had with a Hollywood studio over his creative independence while making the film All the Pretty Horses. -andyFormats available: mp4, iPod, mobile