Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-24

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Blog updates + new biz card design

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Hey everyone who reads this. So I did a few updates to the blog for usability and because I am a designer and that means I spend at least 2 hours a day working on my websites for fun!

1) You can log in through using an OpenID on the register page or on the comment forms below each post. Open ID is awesome, go here to read more about about OpenID.

2) Expandable twitter tweets and delicious links in the sidemenu. Click them twice to open and once to close or open again. (poor jQuery coding on my part, can you fix it?)

3) Thats it I think. Oh ya I added the rss icon on the top right.

Now here is a video of my new business cards that is hosted on my blip.tv channel.

Blip.tv is awesome

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I really like watching video’s online. I just wanted to give a shoutout to Blip.tv for allowing video-bloggers or people who want to start their own show a wonderful outlet to do so. Blip.tv is in beta right now but it works great and has been out for awhile.

Blip.tv allows users to create their own shows with their own “channel” and upload as many shows as they want. It is super easy to use and almost anyone could figure out how to create their own show. Their are thousands of great shows on blip.tv. The thing that I personally like about blip is the varied content. Some shows are about drawing and some about web culture. I am sure their are gardening shows on blip! Their are some huge reasons why blip.tv is better than YouTube, and other video hosting sites or having your own video site. With blip.tv almost every feature you could ask for is available and it is free.

The really cool features:

  • Choose which format to play the video in, I always choose quicktime since it plays so much smoother than flash flv.
  • Allows you to choose your shows copyright license
  • Stats for your own shows
  • Commenting system built in
  • Download videos
  • Auto post your videos to social media accounts or blog
  • Optional advertising on your videos with profit-share

I think the only thing I dislike about blip is the favicon. The one on the left is the current favicon and the one I made is on the right. Which do you like more?
Blip.tv should change their favicon

If you would like to create your own show I really suggest watching this episode from Epic FU. It covers everything from lighting to special fx. Epic FU is also my favorite show on blip!

I have an show I just started a few days ago. Currently it only has a small video of a really cool apple OSX feature that does slow motion. If your using OSX hold shift while minimizing windows, its awesome. You can find my show here.