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Beer can reviews. Yup, it’s been done!

In this episode of TallcanTV (subscribe) the guys review Sparks, a premium malt beverage. They recommend you don’t attempt gay hot tub situations if you’ve never tried Sparks before; they’ve done that for you.

If you’ve spent some time in a hot tub lately, send me your videos!

Rhett and Link are a very clever musical-web-comedy-duo from Lillington, North Carolina. They have been creating video content online since 2000, and now have almost 200 music videos, films, live recordings, and sketches scattered all across the web.

One of their recent series is the Surrogate Sharers. Fans and viewers can send embarrassing experiences to Rhett and Link, and they will create a video you can send to a friend/acquaintance that you’d be too embarrassed to speak to directly.

I know I’ve certainly forgot peoples’ names even after I’ve met them a bunch of times. Alas, this is to all those people whom I call ‘buddy’, ‘pal’, and ‘dude’.

Oh boy. Those guys are a bunch of fun! Be sure to check out the rest of their videos.

Be sure to look out for an interview with Rhett and Link on The Viddler Blog soon. Yeehaa!

Do you have a fun series you’d like to get some recognition on Viddler? Send me a message or leave a comment on this post to let me know.

“What’s next for online video advertising?” This was the main question being asked, and answered, by panelist at the NY Video 2.0 July Meetup in New York City. Panelists include Dan Rayburn of Streaming Media (moderator), Kevin J. McGurn, VP, Advertising for NBC, Jeff Minsky, Director of Digital Media for OMD, Robert Victor, Product Manager, Emerging Media for DoubleClick, and Jed Savage, EVP, Strategy and Development for ScanScout.

With over 200 people in attendance and thousands of subscribers to this event – the NY Video 2.0 Meetup is quickly becoming one of the most valuable monthly meetups on the east coast. If you’re interested in attending, or speaking, at one of the NY Video 2.0 Meetups please see the official Meetup page for this event.

Thanks to Rob Sandie (sandieman), Viddler’s own President, for going to New York City as often as he can to shoot this event and share the video for all to see. I’m looking forward to going to a future NY Video 2.0 Meetup again. (See Aprils NY Video 2.0 Meetup video that I had the privilege to shoot).

Last Friday I was able to sit down with Viddler Brian Shaler (brianshaler) from Phoenix, Arizona to record “A conversation with Brian Shaler“. Brian and I talk about his featured video called Hey Ya – Typography Animation.

We spoke on the phone while we both recorded ourselves with our cameras and then we put the two videos together. Turns out to be a pretty neat way to conduct video interviews when I live in Northeast Pennsylvania and he lives in Arizona.

Thanks for doing the interview Brian. It was a lot of fun.

Each week we take a few moments to answer your support questions. This week is a short and sweet episode with no special guests. Next we’ll have a guest and perhaps a slightly upgraded format! For now, enjoy ViddlerTV – Episode Four.

Support questions answered

1. Skinning the video player — glennlopez
2. Exporting in Camtasia — TonyHine
3. No audio? — EricaLucci
4. Buffering hell — mikey434
5. Where did my videos go? — BambiScott
6. No sound? — peng

Watch all of the featured videos using the featured calendar!

Thanks for watching ViddlerTV!

This week on ViddlerTV we have a very special guest; Rob Sandie (sandieman) the President of Viddler to answer your support questions!

Show notes!

ViddlerTV is a weekly show where we answer your questions from the Support forum, so ask away and get your question answered on the next show. We also have a special guest!

Questions answered

1. Blurry video? – peng
2. Audio and video sync – orchardsix
3. Best codec? – samk
4. Record time limitation – bobd314

Featured videos

1. I turn my stop motion camera on – mattmc
2. VIDEO COMMENTS WANTED – iJustine
3. How Robert Scoble uses Google Reader – masterlock77
4. Exporting Microformats via Bluetooth – adactio
5. The Works Bomb – cdevroe and cfehnel
6. About Pinko Marketing by Tara Hunt – pphc
7. Interview with Jackie Chan? – ijustine

Links mentioned in this show

1. Viddler Viral Team!
2. The Viddler Team!
3. Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris
4. Buffering issues addressed!
5. Citizen Agency by Tara Hunt.

Thanks for watching ViddlerTV, stay tuned every week as we answer your questions, highlight your videos, and have special guests!

We’re at it again! Answering your questions from the support forum and evening having a special guest Viddler user to learn how he, and the businesses he services, are using Viddler in unique ways. Watch Episode Two and let us know what you think!

Questions answered

1. Windows Vista / IE7 problems – dweezel
2. Buddy list problems – dzlater
3. Posting to Live Journal – ballistik
4. Control bar – thetaresearch
5. Uploading, encoding? – green
6. Video question: WordPress.com support? – josiah

This week’s special guest: Chris Fehnel (cfehnel) of Next Step Systems Integration talks about his use of Viddler on the Luzerne County Housing Authority’s symposium videos (lchp).

If you would like to suggest a video, or a topic, or just ask a question for ViddlerTV send me a message, use our forums, or just comment on this post.

ViddlerTV has been around for a little while and we’ve posted some great videos under that banner. And we’ll continue to do so – covering a wide range of topics and events for the foreseeable future. However, we really wanted to start “a show” that had everything to do with Viddler and all of our great Viddlers – so we’re also going to use ViddlerTV for that purpose.

I should have called this first episode “Contact me, and we’ll figure it out, together!” but I’m not that creative it seems. This first run of ViddlerTV is a test and an introduction on how we’ll structure the show and how all of you can interact with it. We’re hoping to do at least one episode per week covering your questions from the forum, highlighting the best videos and hardest working Viddlers that we find. Don’t hesitate to send me a message and suggest topics, etc. So, enjoy our first episode (beta).

Questions answered

1. Using Blogger by vtjones
2. Video to desktop? by Dirty-Dan
3. Change login name? by bkmc
4. Can I use an iSight? by ballistik

Other topics covered:
1. Our issues this morning with our storage server.
2. My cat as a lolcat.
3. The lolrobs!

If you would like to suggest a video, or a topic, or just ask a question for ViddlerTV send me a message, use our forums, or just comment on this post.

Rob Sandie (sandieman) went to the Video 2.0 March Meetup in New York City at Columbia University and records nearly 2 hours of unedited video footage. He took the time to go through and time tag the interesting moments so take a look at the video and experience Video 2.0 as if you were there.

Thanks for shooting the footage Rob. Looks like some really great presentations and an interesting meetup. I hope I never get stood up at the avatar prom.

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.

The entire Viddler team is going to be attending the Web 2.0 Expo and Web2Open in San Francisco, California. Yesterday we had a strategy meeting to get all of our notes about the expo together and go over what we’d like to accomplish while we’re there. Rob Sandie, Donna DeMarco, Harry Snodgrass, and I (Colin Devroe) met in Viddler’s Bethlehem, Pennsylvania offices to have this meeting. Here is a quick recap of what we went over:

We’re looking forward to attending this year’s Web 2.0 Expo and we’re going to be announcing some details regarding what Viddler will be doing at the Expo, where we’ll hanging out after the event – and how you can be involved. More details coming in the next few days, stay tuned.

If you are going to be in San Francisco from April 14th to 19th 2007 – send me a message!