November 2007
Another job posting →
Put this up on Craigslist this morning:
Blip.tv, a growing business focused on providing services to Web shows, is looking for an Advertising Sales Associate to support our growing sponsorship sales efforts. The ideal candidate will be an analytical thinker who works well in teams and is comfortable taking a lot of responsibility early on. You’ve got to be able to juggle several projects at a...
Are you a sysadmin? →
Here’s what we just put up on Craigslist New York today: Blip.tv, a growing business focused on providing services to Web shows, is looking for a Senior Systems Administrator and Network Engineer to support our growing infrastructure. The ideal candidate will be a well-rounded BOFH who is passionate about security, system and network design. You’ve got to be able to juggle several projects at a...
It’s Monday morning!
My Times is really nice.
Finishing up materials for the board meeting. New budget, check. Agenda, check. Key metrics review, check. Strategy overview, check.
Safari 3 can walk and chew gum. But not at the same time.
Upload progress in Safari 3 →
We’ve been receiving a smattering of complaints from users that the upload progress meter doesn’t update for them while uploading a new video to blip. We’ve determined that almost all of these reports come from users of Safari 3, and we’ve found that there’s a problem in Safari 3 with talking to our servers for progress information while simultaneously uploading a file.
Safari 2 was able to walk...
Is it just me or is Flickr starting to look dated?
On the train to Philly.
Already planning for the next release →
It’s been barely a few hours since our newest release hit store shelves. It’s time to start planning for the next one. Next Monday we’ll be having our release planning meeting where we choose what we’re going to implement in our next version. Our release planning meetings work kind of like this: The entire blip.tv team piles into our conference room with a list of all of the features and bug fixes...
WordPress just ate my (rather long) post. I feel robbed.
“Another guard later said they were not permitted to do anything about the chants...”
– At Jets Game, a Halftime Ritual of Harassment - New York Times
The new release →
The new release we spoke of yesterday is going live right about… now.
And we’re live. Check out this search for Bre Pettis. I wish I could show you a before & after, but trust me that this is an improvement.
The release is coming! The release is coming! The release is coming!
There’s a new release coming soon →
We’re finishing up the QA process on a new release of blip. This is a “maintenance release,” meaning that it’s intended to make the site faster, more reliable and more intuitive. It doesn’t add many features so much as it makes the features we already have better. One key improvement you should notice after the release is with search. The latest release replaces our homegrown search system with...
Adobe sponsors Beet, Rocketboom →
Congratulations to Rocketboom and Beet.TV, which are both being sponsored by Adobe for the next month, through December 15th. The sponsorship consists of an overlay reading “Powered by Adobe Flash” on the show’s Flash-powered videos. Andy Plesser of Beet.TV wrote: Adobe, the maker of Flash, the ubiquitous Web video program, is launching a major advertising campaign tomorrow with overlay ads...
Players and advertising →
There are two video players available from blip.tv right now. We call them the “Legacy Player” and the “Show Player”. The Legacy Player is the older player that has no bells and whistles at all… it looks just like the QuickTime player. The Show Player is the really fancy one you see embedded by default on blip. We’ve been in the process of transitioning from the Legacy Player to the Show Player...
Advertising →
I’m halfway through writing a very long post about the advertising market and blip.tv specifically. I think that when I finish I’ll break it into a number of smaller pieces. Just wanted to let you know that I haven’t forgotten my promise to write this. It’s underway.
mhudack: Just finished watching part of the Marathon. In Starbucks getting ready for a meeting.
mhudack: Re-watching The Wire on vod — getting ready for next season
Monkey Olympics: Closing Ceremonies →
The Monkey Olympics are over. Closing ceremonies occurred at about 8:30 PM last night.
Here’s a photo of Eric competing in Monkey Curling:
More photos are available on Flickr with the tag “monkeyolympics”.
Break a Leg in the WSJ →
Check out today’s Picks column in the Journal — it features Break a Leg. Congrats Yuri & Co.
Tumblr →
I’ve been playing with the new version of Tumblr off and on today. David and his team have outdone themselves. Tumblr’s very cool, and I’m really looking forward to having a regularly updated blog of my own for the first time in maybe three years. Over the course of those three years I’ve gone through probably half a dozen MovableType, WordPress, WordPress.com and TypePad installs… and every...
The Monkey Olympics →
The first annual blip.tv Monkey Olympics are tonight at 7PM in blip’s new offices.
There will be a number of events including:
Monkey long jump Monkey archery Monkey curling Monkey triple jump Monkey basketball Monkey karate Thanks to Drew Olanoff for the monkeys!
“Did something get into Mahalo’s Jason Calacanis and Dealbreaker’s...”
– BREAKING: Calacanis and Carney Nearly Drop Gloves?! - Silicon Alley Insider
“It all started when blip.tv CEO Mike Hudack, stuck in the office one Saturday,...”
– Living the Life on the New York City ‘Scene’ « NewTeeVee
Frisbee 2.0 →
Check out Jackson West’s column on New York’s online video scene and Frisbee 2.0 at NewTeeVee.