Message it!

Messaging is now available to all users on blogtv.com!
It's super easy; just go to your friend's profile and click "send message." The rest is obvious...

~estelle~

Now we get to see even more of you!

Your wish is our command!
Now you can record your shows in 30 minute intervals. We are also expanding the allowance for total minutes per user.

So here's the complete break down:
Each user is allowed to have up to 5 different shows with 250 minutes of total recording time per show. This gives a total of 1250 minutes of recording time per user.
Oh, and remember, your broadcasting time is unlimited!

~estelle~

LIVE now from Supernova 2007

LIVE Sessions @ blogTV.com/supernova

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

9:30am		The Social Web: Choices and Voices (Mike Speiser, Greg Reinacker, David Liu, Martin Varsavsky) The online environment is becoming simultaneously more personalized to the individual and more socially constructed by communities. Companies must free themselves from traditional proprietary mentalities, without ignoring the bottom line.  How do services, products, content, connectivity, and ultimately, experiences, change when users have an abundance of alternatives for entertainment and commerce, and the ability to connect with one another as never before?
11:00am		Data dump: Lada Adamic         A closer look at online social activity.
11:15am		Do You Know Where Your Identity Is? (John Clippinger, Kaliya Hamlin, Reid Hoffman, Marcien Jenckes, Jyri Engestrom) As our lives increasingly straddle the physical and the virtual worlds, the management of identity becomes increasingly crucial from both a business and a social standpoint.  The future of e-commerce and digital life will require identity mechanisms that are scalable, secure, widely-adopted, user-empowering, and at least as richly textured as their offline equivalents.  This session will examine how online identity can foster relationships and deeper value creation.
12:10pm		Spotlight: Sheryl Sandberg            Google cracked the code on monetizing search advertising. Where is advertising heading next?
12:30pm		Lunch and Roundtable, sponsored by Cisc        Innovation In, On, and Through the Network: Regulatory Duel or Business-Driven?          (Rob Massoudi, Michael Katz, Craig Forman, David Young)          Web-based companies depend on network infrastructure to connect with their users. And network operators depend on “over the top” service providers to generate usage and demand for new network capabilities.  Yet these two communities often talk past one another, or even find themselves in conflict.  With the Net simultaneously becoming bigger, more sophisticated, more lucrative, and more democratic, how can companies at the network layer find common ground with those delivering applications and content?
2:00pm		Disorder: Feature or Bug? (Andrew Keen, David Weinberger)       A debate about the value of authority in a connected world. The greatest business challenge that the New Network poses for many companies is also a fundamental social challenge. The old categories, boundaries, hierarchies, and scarcities are being swept away. To what extent is that a good thing, and to what extent is it a threat to what we truly value?
2:50pm		Spotlight: John Hagel       The agenda for the future: Open questions and challenges in the age of the New Network.
3:15pm		Closing the Interactive Loop: Supernova is People, and the People Are You (Umair Haque, Liz Lawley, Jerry Michalski)          Predictions and reflections.

It's Supernova 2007! get your tech on

It's Supernova 2007 time and BlogTV.com is here to capture it LIVE! From June 20 to June 22, we're sticking our web cams into the guts of this annual San Franciscan technology extravaganza. Look out for words like "open space technology" and "decentralization." Watch, listen, chat and explore with us, the world that is thriving on connectivity. 

Tune in here or host your own live show and tag it "Supernova"

-estelle-

Introducing the incredible ((LIVE)) embeddable

We are excited to  announce our new Live embeddable player for blogs and site owners.
The new LIVE embeddable player enables broadcasters to showcase their live shows in any web page that is located outside the blogTV.com environment. When live, the "incredible LIVE embeddable" plays live video stream of the show's host and co-host, accompanied with the live chat feed. Broadcasters can now start their broadcast directly from their blog. You can grab the code from any show page and just paste it in your page. We will do the rest.

The future of LIVE broadcasting on the net
The LIVE embeddable player is a new tool, in a set of tools that was created for the new breed of bloggers: the live bloggers.  It another tool that helps LIVE content creators focus on their content and their audience without wasting their time and energy on the heavy technological barriers of broadcasting a LIVE show over the Internet. Now they can do it directly from their blog.

We believe that blogTV and the phenomena of LIVE user generated content will have a big part in shaping the future of the media. We discovered that the blogTV experience of standing on a “stage” in front of a live audience allows you to show your uninhibited star quality when feeling the security and intimacy of your own home. The basic need for human communication was here long before the Internet, and showcasing new authentic content made by real people cannot be achieved by today’s traditional media.

We thank you for your feedbacks. More cool features that match your needs are coming soon!
~ Nir~

Post Prison Blogging

A 37 year old man gets out of prison after being locked up for 18 years and sees a new strange world of cell phones and the Internet! First thing he tries is a live broadcast on blogtv.com!

Clad in typical post prison attire - a shaved head, bare chest and a huge tattoo, a man who calls himself Rowdy69 leans back on his black leather couch and talks to the world through his web cam about his time in prison and what it's like to get back on his feet in a changed world of the Internet: "When I got locked up, cell phones were big enough to knock a man out."

He calls his show Rowdy69-Hard Times. Here's a clip!:

You can subscribe to his show here

-by estelle-

You can Broadcast LIVE from WWDC

Attending WWDC? Broadcast LIVE from the conference using http://www.blogtv.com. It works great with Firefox on a mac and its easy too. Check out our technology channel for live WWDC feeds

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3 tips for live broadcasting

After doing some live broadcasting on the road using blogTV - here are some tips for a successful shows by Kfir Pravda. Thanks Kfir!

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the unconference is unveiled

The Online Community Unconference 2007 just whirled through Mountainview, CA and Kim Bayne or "mincedmedia," highly acclaimed and best selling author of "The Internet Marketing Plan" blogtv'd it for us. After she arrives at the Computer History Museum, where the "unconference" is being held, she spends a full day of traveling around with her webcam (someone should make her a hatcam) and shows us what a room full of online community professionals looks like. Everyone is seated for a full day of learning and blogging. A welcoming speech is given and small groups cluster out for the remainder of the day to gab about open space technology.

Kim has broken up the conference into 9 recorded broadcasts. Check out this sample:

-by estelle-

Step into the light with our new Tips and Tricks page!

We are constantly finding ways to improve the quality of our freshly launched site. And this next improvement should help you find ways to improve the quality of your shows. Lights, Camera, Action! That's exactly what our new page, "Tips and Tricks" should cover. Everything from "setting" to "shots" to "lighting" will be discussed in an, oh so amusing thick Russian accent; because everyone loves an accent. To top it all off, we invite you to record your own tips and tricks (don't forget to use a "blogtvTips" tag) and add them freely to this page. What democracy!

- by estelle-