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Reggie Watts, with his friend Jakob (jakob) at the other end of the camera, records Lost in the options a musical improv. Hotness!

Nice work with the video and nice improvisation Reggie. Very well done. The creativity of our Viddlers is getting more and more astounding every single day.

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Talk about meta. Viddler Brian Shaler (brianshaler), Flash developer from Phoenix, Arizona, shares his typography animation that he set to Obadiah Parker’s cover of Outkast’s Hey Ya.

I loved the original song by Outkast (Buy now on iTunes), I love Obadiah Parker’s cover (Buy now on iTunes), and now I love this video. Great job Brian, looking forward to seeing more of your work!

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I’m very excited to announce that we’re live testing a new player today! This new player addresses our buffering issues that have plagued some of you, and we hope we’ve solved that issue. Help us test it out by watching some video! Please let us know what you think here on this post, or in the forums. Here is what the player looks like, and what’s changed.

In the above screenshot you can see how we’ve given you a really quick way to switch between progressive and streaming download options. If you are having buffering issues, switch to progressive, if not - stick with streaming. Now the choice is yours and your preferences will be saved so that no matter where you view Viddler video - the option will be remember.

Thanks for helping us test this and please provide feedback if you experience any issues with this new player.

Update: Someone asked me to link to a video to test, but we want you to test any video that you’ve wanted to watch but have had buffering issues on. So go forth, and explore!

Update 2: A quick description of the difference between streaming and progressive might be in order here. Streaming a Viddler video will buffer only a few seconds worth of video in front of the playhead. By doing this you’re able to jump around inside of a video as much as you want, right away, without loading the entire video. Progressively downloading a video will download the entire movie in the background, allowing you to watch the movie from the beginning but limiting where you can “scrub” to (which is only in the video that has been loaded which is indicated by the blue background). All other features including timed tagging, video commenting, etc. all remain the same. You will not lose out on any features should you choose to stream or progressively download videos. Any more questions? Don’t be afraid to ask!

Justine (ijustine) and Desiree (dezzychick) have a new venture! iJustine.tv launched today and they announced it on Viddler!

Congrats and good luck to both of them as they embark on doing this lifestream thing. Be sure to watch for more updates between Viddler and the iJustine crew. We think they are just getting warmed up.

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Are you doing MeToday videos yet? Let Rob describe why they are cool. Also, today is the 6-month anniversary of the photo version of MeToday.

Rob (sandieman) is doing a great job keeping up with his MeToday videos. Oh, and don’t miss The Clearlake Show where he goes to his parent’s crib in Clearlake California for some wakeboarding, his sister’s birthday, and The Phil.

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In this episode of Fresh Lime Soda Suw (SuwC) and Steph (steph) talk about “talk about giving presentations, what makes for good slides, and their top five tips for speaking”. A great episode for sure.

Great tips ladies. Be sure to check out Fresh Lime Soda. Consider me subscribed!

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How can you get a wine cork out of a bottle without breaking it? Viddler entr200 has shared a video with us explaining just that.

I would have never guessed that this would work. Now I’ll know for the next time I try really, really hard to get a cork into a wine bottle!

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RapidWeaver by RealMacSoftware (realmacsoftware) is a web design application that gives you themes, slideshows, and much more all that output standards compliant web sites. Here is the RapidWeaver Quick start guide to give a pretty good overview of the application.

Thanks to realmacsoftware for signing up to Viddler and sharing their videos with us. You guys make some great products and you’re guides are very well produced.

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One of the first tasks of the Viddler Viral Team was to create a simple way for Wordpress users to show their Viddler videos on their site using a plugin. I’m excited to announce the immediate availability of the ViddlerRSS Wordpress plugin (download .zip file).

ViddlerRSS was worked on my Viddler Josiah (josiah) and myself (cdevroe) and was derived from a version of FlickrRSS since this plugin already did most of what we wanted to accomplish.

Thanks to Josiah for his hard work on this plugin and to all of the Viddler Viral Team for what we’ve accomplished in just the first week. If you think you can help the Viddler Viral Team spread the word about Viddler through software plugins, graphics, blog posts, etc. - please be sure to check the wiki for details on how to get involved.

You know I’ve been sitting here thinking of what to say about Viddler drkn’s video “Grandma Techno” and I just can’t come up with anything that really describes it well. So, just watch.

Maybe you can do a better job than me at describing exactly what is going on in this video. Is it dancing? A seizure? An earthquake? Who knows.

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