English Kommunikation: blip.tv portal revver video video hosting youtube
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Customer understanding at blip.tv? Seemingly zero.
I just received an email from the blip.tv support team, automatically generated
“We wanted to let you know that your professional account for “Speaking English Podcast” has expired.”
Not only am I furious because I am still waiting for the day that a video hosting service realizes that their paying customers are a valuable asset for them and that they need to make sure to keep them happy. This reminds me of the beginning of revver.com’s demise. Late payments, no communication.
But in addition, I am speechless about the mechanism. Why the fuck would you let the pro accounts expire? Why wouldn’t you send one email four weeks in advance, “hey, just to let you know, your pro account is going to expire, do you want to renew?” And why wouldn’t you send a reminder a week before it expires? You didn’t, I checked my spam folder. This could be so easy. But I guess it’s not.
English Hockey: goal linus omark nhl omark shootout youtube
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NHL rookies not allowed to score how they want by peers?
So, last Friday was just another hockey game, Edmonton played Tampa Bay. The game went to shoot out and was decided by rookie Linus Omark.
Now, that’s a goal, right? The objective of the game is to put the puck into the net and that is what he did. The fake slap-shot? Part of that. The spin-o-rama? I have no issues with that. Tampa Bay player’s did:
“A … joke,” left wing Ryan Malone(notes) said.
Asked if it was disrespectful, defenseman Mattias Ohlund(notes) said, “Absolutely.”
Omark, in his first NHL game, picked up the puck at center ice and did a spin-o-rama at the blue line before skating down the slot, smacking his stick on the ice and firing through Dan Ellis’(notes) legs.
“It’s embarrassing for him,” Ellis said. “You come into a league, a respectful league like this, and you try a little move like that. It’s not a very classy thing. That’s just the kind of person he is.”
(Quoted from Yahoo.)
What has that to do with classy? It really seems that the “establishment” wants to enforce rules that aren’t there:
Yes, shame on you, Linus Omark, for breaking the No. 1 rule of decorum in a skills competition for rookies, even if that rule is unwritten and was just invented by the Lightning. Clearly, this should have been a 15-foot wrist shot into Dan Ellis’ chest instead of an electrifying game-winning goal whose initial move had the Bolts goalie out of sync and position. Where’s the class, Linus? Don’t you know the man has enough problems?
(same article)
What about this goal then, also disrespectful?
I don’t remember who it was, but some NHLer used that move in a game this season or last, and I don’t remember people calling that disrespectful…
Just to finish with Omark, and another great play, have fun with this fine goal he scored on the national team:
Geschriebenes Wort Tech: iphone Podcast smpr social media wbn:digital youtube
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Links in eigener Sache
Nach einem Wochenende in Dithmarschen war dies eine volle Woche, nicht nur wegen der Verlängerung der AKW-Laufzeiten.
Montag ist endlich eine neue Folge des Social Media PReview Podcast Mittagstisch online gegangen.
Freitag davor habe ich einen Artikel über Creative auf YouTube für das WBN:DIGITAL geschrieben, ausgelöst wegen der Tipp-Ex-Werbung.
Und schließlich gestern auch für das selbe Blog ein kleiner Einblick in meine Lieblings-iPhone-Apps.
English: constantin downfall hitler techcrunch untergang youtube
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Typisch deutsch: Hitler, Downfall and Constantin Film
Techcrunch pointed out this morning (my time) that Constantin Film apparently has forced YouTube to take down the latest take on the Hitlermeme, in which he (Hitler) goes off on the iPhone 4g. This film was just the latest installment of films I really enjoy watching, despite or because I am German. We are known for being very hard on ourselves when it comes to anything 3rd Reich-related, but the brilliance of Bruno Ganz’ performance being juxtaposed by plain humor – I don’t know about you but I find that funny.
However, not funny is the position Constantin Film is taking here. It is stupid. They actually have something going for them. The meme is huge, loads of videos: here are some. iPad. And not just tech-related. Michael Jackson passing away (Hitler hatd tickets), Take That reunion, Springsteen, you name it. Constantin could have been the one different company in an industry that just doesn’t know where it’s heading, only knowing (claiming) that it is losing money and a lot of it. Why not create an official video pool where the best videos are collected and can be voted on? People enjoy this scene so much that they are creating mash-ups. Let them. Empower them. Be a linchpin!
Note: I put in call with Constantin Films inquiring if they will force to take all other Downfall-mash-ups down but was kindly asked to write an email to legal. Which I did.
UPDATE: Constantin Film kindly asked me to understand that they would not comment on this.
UPDATE 2: Samuel Axom reports on Mashable that indeed YouTube was asked to take down several films and for many of the remaining users will now get a “Content is blocked” message. He also provides a quote from the director of the movie:
Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel told New York Magazine that he laughs at the parodies. “You couldn’t get a better compliment as a director,” he said. Unfortunately, Constantin Film’s legal team isn’t as easygoing about it.
