Sorry I’ve been away
By DavidFisher. Filed in life |Tags: away, blip.tv, blogger, comments, posting
I’ve been away the past few days attending to life. I went to NYC/NJ for a few days, had a terrible cold, was crazy busy at work, etc.
I came back to find that I had 12 unmoderated comments, with speculation that I was intending to censor them. I won’t censor any comment here that I can foresee. I just want to have a good tab on what’s being said, and keep the spammers away.
Just as an interesting note. I’ve been working to figure out the best video hosting site out there. So far the number 1 has came up as Blip.tv.
Blip is pretty awesome. There’s no hard cap on the size of files. You can upload via FTP, a client, or a variety of other methods. The quality of the videos is top notch. Developers have told me the API seems to work ok. They do advertising if you ask them to. Overall it’s pretty sweet. Beats the pants off YouTube for putting video on your site IMHO.
My only complaints with it being that editing large batches of files is a bitch. Seriously. I have nearly 100 videos I’m working with right now for a super-secret project for work, and dealing with the Meta-data is a hassle.
Blip- look at Flickr and Apple’s Aperture for how to deal better with metadata. Metadata editing shouldn’t make you want to shoot yourself.
And also of note, while they’ll let you upload it… I haven’t been able to get a file larger than 500MB to playback properly, which is understandable 