Live and Rolling — Handroll.tv Dot2 “Malware”
We didn’t get the software out before the Man came down so GropeCamp is now renamed Malware. Our release names are Firefly references from here on in. That’s what I get for introducing @donnabella to Serenity.
As we dug further into the future of distributed video, two things became clear:
- YouTube keeps all the social goodies it gathers around publisher videos for itself. All those comments, likes, etc., need to benefit the publisher and actual video distributors—embedders from here on out. It’s not acceptable for your text post comments to vanish into WordPress or Disqus, so why is it ok with your videos?
- There’s a lot of room to maneuver on Twitter. Hats off to the TwitVid guys for making linking and posting easy, but the content of the video needs to be mined and hacked.
The main change that you’ll notice with Malware is the addition of a basic Twitter client. It”s intended to aid and abet dialog about the videos’ content, building a resource of high and low points.
We’ve got a couple of how-to posts written on self-hosting video [update: now posted], page layout tips [update: now posted], including pointers to examples that I’ll get up in a jiffy. In the meantime here’s a screen shot of the player and a link to an example blog as we can’t yet post HTML5 video here on Tumblr. Only Chrome and Firefox work with this particular video compression algorithm (OGV).
