MeFeedia Blog » Buzz http://blog.mefeedia.com The Latest from the MeFeedia Team Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:55:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 ABC News and Mefeedia http://blog.mefeedia.com/abc-news-and-mefeedia http://blog.mefeedia.com/abc-news-and-mefeedia#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:01:09 +0000 Frank http://mefeedia.com/blog/2007/07/196/ We are very excited to to let everyone know that Mefeedia is working with the ABC News – i-Caught show and website to help discover great videos and report on online video trends, particularly in the vlogosphere.

Based on some initial conversations that we have had with their team, they have “really liked the subjects Mefeedia brought because they give [i-Caught] a nice change up from what the typical viral video expert will talk to.”

What does this mean?

Great stories are great stories, and the vlogosphere is telling many of them! MeFeedia will help ABC discover such stories through our platform, tools, and analytics available at mefeedia.com and send them links to videos that are being discovered on Mefeedia.com. Of course, ABC will contact each video producer directly to get permission to use your video should they decide that they would like to.

Why Mefeedia?
Mefeedia brings a different perspective than YouTube and many of the other “viral” video sites. We help people discover great indie videos – videos from indie video producers / the vlogosphere.

How are videos discovered on Mefeedia? 
Great videos and videoblogs are discovered on Mefeedia in many ways! These include:

  • Social Network / Your Friends (see what frank, mike, and devlon from Mefeedia are watching, for example)
  • Favs
  • Recommendations
  • Metrics (both available to the public and internal metrics to the Mefeedia team)
  • Subscribed feeds
  • Comments

Playlists such as:

Guides such as:

How can I get involved?

  1. Keep producing great videos.
  2. Add your feed to Mefeedia (we are looking at the entire vlogosphere, but it would certainly help to have your feed in Mefeedia’s directory already…).
  3. Join Mefeedia and start Faving, recommend, subscribe to, add to your queue, become friends – use all of the tools to discover great videos and that will help us discover great videos!
  4. We will have a special section on our site soon devoted to this project.

You could, of course, submit your videos to the i-Caught site.

What about the Show versus the Website?
Their website will launch soon and show videos. The show will be broadcast at night on ABC nationwide, and will start with a set number of shows.  Mefeedia will be providing our favorite videos to the website (ABC won’t post without permission of the creator) and who we think would be great to interview on the show, although ABC can not make any commitments as to who will or won’t be on.

We hope to help those creators who would like increased exposure, and, most importantly, to bring attention to the great talent and stories to people who appreciate it.

]]> http://blog.mefeedia.com/abc-news-and-mefeedia/feed 2 Frank talks with Robert Scoble at Podtech http://blog.mefeedia.com/frank-talks-with-robert-scoble-at-podtech http://blog.mefeedia.com/frank-talks-with-robert-scoble-at-podtech#comments Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:02:23 +0000 Mike http://mefeedia.com/blog/2007/07/193/ This just popped up on the Podtech.net video blog. Scoble did an interview with Mefeedia CEO, Frank Sinton right before PixelodeonFest 2007 on trends in social media.

MeFeedia’s founder talks about online video trends

]]> http://blog.mefeedia.com/frank-talks-with-robert-scoble-at-podtech/feed 0 Mefeedia congratulates the 2007 Webby Award Winners http://blog.mefeedia.com/mefeedia-congratulates-the-2007-webby-award-winners http://blog.mefeedia.com/mefeedia-congratulates-the-2007-webby-award-winners#comments Tue, 08 May 2007 19:01:15 +0000 Mike http://mefeedia.com/blog/2007/05/166/ Video was hot this year dominating the Webby Awards, with lots of great videoblogs and videoblogging services representing.

Youtube, Ask A Ninja and Lonely Girl 15 took the top honors Special Achievment. The only non-video related top honor was David Bowie for his famed bowie.net an innovator back in 1998!

Also receiving awards were the videoblogs Terra Online, Cool Hunting and the Jet Set Show. Blip.tv also won for their yummy hosting services! And the vlog DriveTime received a nomination.

All in all RSS syndicated video and videoblogs in general were a big winner. Though some big names like ZeFrank and a few others were noticeably absent.

We’ve put together a a guide to the 2007 Webby Awards representing all the videoblogs. Enjoy!

]]> http://blog.mefeedia.com/mefeedia-congratulates-the-2007-webby-award-winners/feed 0 Search Mefeedia in SongBird! http://blog.mefeedia.com/search-mefeedia-in-songbird http://blog.mefeedia.com/search-mefeedia-in-songbird#comments Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:58:32 +0000 Devlon http://mefeedia.com/blog/2006/11/118/ Thanks to the good folks over at SongBird, you can now choose to search Mefeedia in the search list. They are releasing nightly builds, so you might have to update to the latest to see the new search options.  

]]> http://blog.mefeedia.com/search-mefeedia-in-songbird/feed 0 Mefeedia mentioned in Rolling Stone http://blog.mefeedia.com/mefeedia-mentioned-in-rolling-stone http://blog.mefeedia.com/mefeedia-mentioned-in-rolling-stone#comments Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:15:35 +0000 Frank http://mefeedia.com/blog/2006/04/89/ Rolling Stone : The Rise of the Video Blog: “Rocketboom may be the vanguard in the march of the vlogs, but it’s hardly alone. Video-blog monitor Mefeedia.com currently lists more than 6,900 vlogs. And while the vast majority are essentially home videos glorifying children, hobbies and pets, vlogs are beginning to infiltrate the mainstream media, part of the increasingly seismic shift in the way we get our news and entertainment.”

Right. Big media continues to struggle in understanding videoblogs. It’s not just about home movies or funny dogs, it’s about personal expression and voice. That must scare them.

]]> http://blog.mefeedia.com/mefeedia-mentioned-in-rolling-stone/feed 0 vlogs en su tinta http://blog.mefeedia.com/vlogs-en-su-tinta http://blog.mefeedia.com/vlogs-en-su-tinta#comments Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:17:03 +0000 Frank http://mefeedia.com/blog/2006/04/88/ vlogs en su tinta: “mefeedia, el primer agregador y directorio de vlogs da historia d’humanidad no deja de obsequiarnos regularmente con novedades que contribuyen a la calidad de vida de nosi, i videobloggi. lo último es la adopción del estándar rel=tag”

One day, this year I promise, I want to do a Spanish version of Mefeedia.

]]> http://blog.mefeedia.com/vlogs-en-su-tinta/feed 0 http://blog.mefeedia.com/81 http://blog.mefeedia.com/81#comments Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:21:19 +0000 Frank http://mefeedia.com/blog/2006/03/81/ A Zulu In Silicon Valley: Mefeedia – Video feeds for iTunes and your Browser: “I like mefeedia. Why? Because unlike Yahoo! Podcasts (which I like), I can accumulate all my video feeds into a single feed which I can stream into my iTunes player. And this is great because I can only add video posts within feeds that match my tags selected[...]
This service is not pretty, but it’s fun to use and easy to get going.”

]]> http://blog.mefeedia.com/81/feed 0 French buzz http://blog.mefeedia.com/french-buzz http://blog.mefeedia.com/french-buzz#comments Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:43:12 +0000 Frank http://mefeedia.com/blog/2006/03/74/ Pause café – Love in a White Room: La vision d’un monde idéal…: “Mefeedia: un source inépuisable de vidéos.”

]]> http://blog.mefeedia.com/french-buzz/feed 0 More linky love for the vlogosphere http://blog.mefeedia.com/more-linky-love-for-the-vlogosphere http://blog.mefeedia.com/more-linky-love-for-the-vlogosphere#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:02:49 +0000 Frank http://mefeedia.com/blog/2006/02/72/ I’ve just changed mefeedia so that tag pages (like http://mefeedia.com/tags/nyc/) and feed pages (like http://mefeedia.com/feeds/553/) have even more direct links to your videoblogs: each video has a big big link to your blog permalink.

People already tell us they get a lot of traffic from Mefeedia, this should increase it even more for feeds that have lots of tags.

I added +20,000 links on 5,000 pages to permalinks in about 800 videoblogs (the ones with tags). Linky love for the vlogosphere – spread it! If you use feedburner the permalinks go through feedburner (they rewrite the RSS feeds) so you might see an increase in referrals from them.