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Chinese Videobloggers

Someone just pointed me to a user-genrated video website in China called TooDou.com. Supposedly it is a community that has grown into the thousands since earlier this year. People are uploading video and audio in Chinese. This is awesome. Here is their about page with some articles in (rough) English. Wong of Duller says:

Toodou has been up since April of 2005. Currently it’s members have reach: -unknown- anyway, they have more than 13,000 channels now and increasing rapidly for both members and channels. Everyone can be a member. “Everyone can be director” is the slogan they’re using to promote their service… like blogger, everyone can have several ‘channels’ and each channel are given 100 mb. Users are encouraged to use p2p software… lol… I’m not from China so i’m not very sure how popular about that… but one thing I’m sure is podcast is more pop than vlog in China… what’s more concern by China blogger/podcaster/vlogger is the revenue they can make.

It’s something exciting because I have had very little success finding Chinese videobloggers. The language and cultural differences are still very dense, but maybe this is changing as people start making their own media. The “bridge builders” will show up and start introducing their community to know what’s happening “outside”. Then a common language can start forming. This is the dream.

Cross-Posted from Jay Dedman’s Momentshowing

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Published by Collaborative Effort on December 2 . No Comments.

Are You (iPod) Ready?

Now that the iPod is out in full swing for the holidays, some of you may be wondering how to get your videos iPod-ready. Have no fear–Raymond is here!

Raymond of DLTQ put together a great little screencast to show you how to make your movies iPod-ready . This tip is essential in the vlogosphere, as vloggers are watching their viewing leap from hundreds of viewers to thousands once they get on the bandwagon. So be sure to watch this video, and then go on over to DLTQ and give Raymond a big thank you for helping you make your dreams come true!

For additional information on how to make your movies iPod ready, you can also visit the tutorials at Freevlog.

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Published by Jennifer Rundle on December 1 . 5 Comments.

Current TV Video Blog?

Current TV has been lauding viewer created content or “VC2″ as they like to call it. They have been taking submissions from viewers and running it on their independant cable network for some time now. But it has only been recently that they have put some of those submissions into an RSS feed ready for your aggregator. They call it their “Video Preview” and it holds a few select videos that they air on their network. So if you haven’t found the cash to get Current in your cable package, this is a great way for people to still see what kind of content they are putting out. Ideally, all their content would be made available on the web, but I guess that isn’t how the television industry works… I’d love it if all those Current contributors, bypassed all the mumbo-jumbo involved with getting a “pod” on television and just made video blogs themselves, then they could be their own network!

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Published by Josh Leo on December 1 . 3 Comments.

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