Jaap Stronks from The Netherlands has quite an interesting mashup, but one with a purpose: Twitter and live video!

Just wanted to share that I’ve been experimenting with live webvideo myself; I was particularly interested in integrating relevant Twitter messages realtime in a live video, something you may be interested in. At the Next Web Conference in Amsterdam, I produced an interview with Robert Scoble, which I broadcasted in Ustream with added backchannel tweets as a video overlay. If you’re interested in the result, you can watch it here (I simultaneously recorded it with Quicktime), although the web page is in Dutch, the video is of course English:

http://www.jaapstronks.nl/archief/twittercasting-met-robert-scoble/

If you’re interested in the method I used: I use Adium with the Twitter IM function (with a separate account with no friends, only tracking a certain hash code) and a message layout with big white letters and a black screen, plus Camtwist with a desktop video source (custom area) with a chroma key on black, so that only the letters remain visible. I should add a black semi-opaque rectangle to make the letters more easily readible, that’s for next time.

This was just a first video after a couple of tests, I’m thinking of producing a regular live show, perhaps interviewing people using video conference calling services. I just wanted to share this with you because I thought you might find it interesting. I’m now going to dive into your blog and see what things and ideas you’ve come up with.

I keep telling everybody that the WHOLE point of doing LIVE video is that you can interact with your audience – and vice versa.

Twitter in Live Video

Here’s a wake-up call: the only video site on the ‘Net is YouTube – period, end of story. It’s the only video site my mom knows about, and there are more of her than there are of us (at least, those of us who love trying new things – early adopters are a rare breed). There’s a reason I’ve made such a tremendous push with my YouTube efforts, and they’ve all paid off.

If you’re not uploading videos to YouTube yet, there’s no time like the present to start – because it’s more hands-on than it’s ever been. I’d like to throw a request out there to any WordPress and Drupal Developers: I want a way for my viewers and subscribers to be able to leave a video comment here in my blog and have it pushed to their YouTube account in relation to the video that I happen to embed in this post.

I’m not saying that other video sites are dead, but… jeez, I’ve been publishing to as many as possible, and only YouTube can deliver the community, the audience, the growth, etc. Everything else pales by comparison, and I think today’s announcement should make you seriously reconsider the way you produce video podcasts. The next announcement I forsee would be enabling a podcast subscription in iTunes through a button on YouTube (it’s theoretically possible to do).

If you don’t know what YouTube is, you’re in the minority.

Oh, I know – you’re going to argue that Video Site X has better quality – but it’s not just about quality, folks. You are also probably someone who assumes that “everybody” knows what site you should upload your photos to:

If you *DO* know what Flickr is, you’re also in the minority.

YouTube FTW!

Well, there’s a new YouTube video player to embed throughout the Internets – it’s for some of us, apparently…

Doesn’t seem to be too much of a leap forward, although (as evidenced by the following screen shot) you can tweak the colors to better match your site. I find the transitions to be a bit smoother, and my guess is that this new player is going to be forward-compatible with the YouTube advertising strategy.

Not sure if embeds have really helped my subscriber count – as there’s virtually no way of telling where new subscribers come from. I truly believe that YouTube is the vector for newer, better “podcast” subscribers. These are typically people who don’t know who I am – which is the audience I’m looking for (or, largely, the people who used to be addicted to TechTV).

Play with it – see what you think:

I really like the wide player, too – but it’s a bit too wide for me to embed on this particular page. If you’d like a look, it’s already embedded at the very bottom of on our Live site (which likely needs a redesign at some point in the near future). If you’d like to see the wide YouTube player somewhere else, feel free to use this code:

<object width="425" height="350"><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFOi2GvexXT8XYrkkwvNDyARBQeqHsI87Qc='></param><param name='wmode' value='transparent'></params><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFOi2GvexXT8XYrkkwvNDyARBQeqHsI87Qc=' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='780' height='445'></embed></object>

There’s a New YouTube Player!

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Helped friends embed album art within their MP3s…

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I was invited to become a Branded Channel on YouTube this afternoon – largely because we’ve been producing and uploading 5 videos a day for the past couple of weeks. If you thought my live site was being done for pure fun, you’re pure wrong. It’s there to build community, support community, and extend community.

If you’re not putting your videos on YouTube, you’re insane.

And if you’re not putting videos online in the first place, you’re asleep at the wheel.

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