Five Best Video-Sharing Sites [Hive Five]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/k1xSB1Q1b6E/five-best-video+sharing-sites

With everything from our cellphones to laptops to keychain trinkets coming sporting video cameras these days, more and more people are capturing and sharing digital video. The following video sites make sharing your video missives easy.

Photo by Jakob Montrasio.

Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite video sharing web site and tell us what made it your favorite. We've read over your comments, tallied the votes, and now we're back to share the most popular video sharing sites.

blip.tv (Basic: Free, Pro: $96/year)

Blip.tv is a video-sharing service aimed at people producing web shows. The site isn't designed for or marketed to people uploading single videos or viral-video content. The site is strongly oriented towards users producing continuous videos and includes revenue sharing to help independent producers make money—50% of the ad revenue from your content is shared with you. Both the basic and the professional account are limited to file sizes of 1GB, but one of the benefits of the professional account is that you get priority conversion and additional conversion time per episode, which allows you to use higher quality video. The professional service is really only necessary if you're consistently uploading large amounts of long videos and want priority conversion, so the free service should cover the needs of nearly everyone besi! des peop le producing full out web-based television series.

YouTube (Free)

YouTube has reached a level of ubiquity in the video-sharing market that for millions of internet users, YouTube is not only how they were introduced to video sharing—it's also the only video sharing site they're even aware of. Videos uploaded to YouTube have to be smaller than 2GB, and they must be 10 minutes or shorter in length if you're using a basic account. YouTube places no restriction on the number of videos you can upload as long as they follow the 2GB/10min rule. You can't edit your videos once you've uploaded them to YouTube, but you can annotate them with additional information and links. YouTube lets you embed and customize the player, again, for free.

Vimeo (Basic: Free, Plus:$60/year)

Vimeo is a video sharing service with a heavy emphasis on community and creativity. You can't host commercial content on Vimeo; instead, all uploaded content must be original and non-commercial. Vimeo accounts come in two flavors. The basic account is free and includes 500MB per week of uploaded video, including one HD video per week. You get three albums, one group, and one channel with basic accounts. Basic accounts also let you embed and share your work as well as set basic privacy restrictions. Upgrading to the Plus account kicks your upload cap to 5GB, removes the restriction on HD movies, lets you embed HD movies, and gives yo! u unlimi ted album, group, and channel creation. A Plus account also expands your privacy control and allows you to customize the embedded player.

Viddler (Free)

If you're put off by the length restrictions of some video-sharing sites, Viddler has no limit on length. As long as your file is 500MB or less in size, you can make it as long as you like. (500MB holds a lot of web-cam quality video.) In addition to the 500MB limit, you're restricted to 2GB of storage and bandwidth per month. If you sign up for a partnership account, instead of a personal account, your videos are overlaid with advertisements but the storage and bandwidth restrictions are removed. Both the personal and the partnership accounts are free.

Dailymotion (Free)

Dailymotion offers two different accounts for content sharers. The basic account allows you to upload videos up to 1GB in size. If you're sharing original content, you can sign up for a Motionmaker account. Motionmaker accounts are intended for the distribution of Creative Commons videos and allow you to upload HD content. Original content by Motionmakers is more aggressively promoted on the front page and through search results.

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The technical information on the various video-sharing sites is usually buried in help files and not particularly clear in most instances. If you're basing your selection on a very specific aspect of the service like whether or no! t you ca n upload .mov files without converting them or whether or not the site supports 256kb audio, we'd highly recommend checking out this extensive set of charts on Wikipedia to see if the site meets your needs.


Now that you've had a chance to look over the top five contenders for the crown of Best Video-Sharing Site, it's time to cast your vote in the poll below:

Which Video-Sharing Service is Best?(polls)

Can't believe your favorite site didn't make the top five—or maybe we missed mentioning the feature you like best? Sound off in the comments with your video-sharing tips and tricks.

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HousingMaps Scours Craiglist For Home and Apartment Deals [Housing]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/6bYuGjYo9rg/housingmaps-scours-craiglist-for-home-and-apartment-deals

Craigslist has tons of listings for apartments, houses, and rooms but it's not particular convenient to click each listing and then cross-reference it to a map. HousingMaps combines Craiglist listings with Google Maps to make it easy to pinpoint locations.

HousingMaps searches apartments, condos, houses, and rooms for rent, as well as homes and condos for sale and subletting offers. You can narrow your search to most of the markets served by Craiglist and by price range. Additional filters allow you to search by keyword, number of rooms, pet policy, and whether or not the listing has pictures.

Search results are displayed on a map of the city and listed to the right of the map. The columns in the listing chart can be ordered ascending or descending by the various categories like price, number of rooms, and so on. It's a pretty great service when it works, and was mentioned in passing in our roundup of the top 10 real estate search tools. In passing because, like anything hooked into Craigslist's data, occasional push-back from the classifieds site can leave sites like HousingMaps high and dry, at least for a time.

HousingMaps is a free service and requires no signup.

HousingMaps [via GeekSugar]

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Intel Buys RapidMind, a Company That Makes Multicore Parallel Programming Easier [Intel]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/FqmWUbSgap0/intel-buys-rapidmind-a-company-that-makes-multicore-parallel-programming-easier

Intel just picked up RapidMind, a company that specializes in making it easy for developers to optimize and program their applications for multicore processors. Their technology sounds a little bit like Apple's GrandCentral technology built into Snow Leopard, actually. It's an interesting move, since Intel already hires more software engineers than hardware dudes because of the difficulty of parallelism. [PC World]

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Northern Michigan University teams with Motorola for campus-wide WiMAX

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/22/northern-michigan-university-teams-with-motorola-for-campus-wide/

Northern Michigan University was fairly early to the game in offering laptops and campus-wide WiFi to its students, and it looks like it's now stepping things up even further with a little help from Motorola, which is providing the backend for NMU's new campus-wide WiMAX network (a first in the US). Better still, the university is also providing some brand new WiMAX-equipped ThinkPads to nearly 3,000 of the school's more than 9,000 students, and it's also making a range of laptop and desktop WiMAX adapters available to students with non WiMAX-enabled computers. With a radius of some 30 miles, the network will also encompass a number of off-campus sites, and be made available to local schools and municipal offices though a licensing arrangement.

[Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons]

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Northern Michigan University teams with Motorola for campus-wide WiMAX originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Enhanced Gmail Plug-in for BlackBerrys arrives, but only syncs one way

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/22/enhanced-gmail-plug-in-for-blackberrys-arrives-but-only-syncs-o/

Lackluster Gmail support has been a real pain point for BlackBerry users, and we've really been hoping that this new "Enhanced Gmail Plug-in" would solve all that. It's out as of today, and we've certainly gotten some improvements, like support for archiving messages, marking spam and managing labels / stars. Unfortunately, these new management features are only live synced one way, from the phone to the Gmail server, so many of the actions that take place desktop side won't be reflected on the phone once that particular message has been picked up by the BlackBerry Internet Service. There's also the small problem of installing the thing: we haven't been successful so far on two different BlackBerries, and you have to make sure to uninstall the existing Gmail Plug-in. Meanwhile, in BlackBerry Enterprise Server land, the Google Apps Connector has now gone live, which means Google Apps users get push Gmail and what seems to be much tighter Exchange-style syncing. Let us know if you get either of these things working with your particular setup.

[Via Boy Genius Report]

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Enhanced Gmail Plug-in for BlackBerrys arrives, but only syncs one way originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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PCI Express 3.0 specification formally delayed, products pushed to 2011

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/23/pci-express-3-0-specifications-formally-delayed-products-pushed/

We've been enjoying (or just dealing with, depending on perspective) PCI Express 2.0 since early 2007, and it now looks as if we may still be utilizing said protocol come early 2011. Way back in June of '08, we began to hear whispers that the next iteration of the technology would be finalized by the end of this year, but now the PCI SIG has formally delayed the release of the specification until the second quarter of 2010. What does that mean for the consumer? Try coping with the fact that you won't see a PCIe 3.0 product until 2011. As the story goes, the delay was needed in order to "maintain backward compatibility with current PCI Express standards," and while the technical details of all that may interest some, it's the awfully unfortunate setback that's most notable here. But hey, at least all those PCIe 1.0 cards that are still totally relevant will work with your next (next-next?) PC!

[Via Reg Hardware]

Filed under: Peripherals

PCI Express 3.0 specification formally delayed, products pushed to 2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AOC's 2436Vw does 24-inches of power sipping LCD on the cheap

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/23/aocs-2436vw-does-24-inches-of-power-sipping-lcd-on-the-cheap/

It's nothing too astonishing in the specs department (300 nits, 60,000:1 contrast, 5ms response time), and the DVI and VGA plugs are rather lonesome without an HDMI or DisplayPort plug to tag along, but we can't fault AOC for the 2436Vw's $220 pricetag. The 49W of power draw in a 24-inch 1080p display doesn't hurt either, and we're sort of digging the clean design. The 2436Vw is out now.

[Via Electronista]

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Pharma Giants Shift Tactics in Wake of FDA Crackdown on Search - http://bit.ly/12Polo

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Contextual Bubble Help

Contextual bubble help for webpages/blogs: dictionary, thesaurus, wikipedia, amazon, and clip2send (1-line install) - http://bit.ly/34Tca0

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HDMI 1.4 Rocks for Six Reasons, Sucks for Four More [Hdmi]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/X_UkQnD1c-w/hdmi-14-rocks-for-six-reasons-sucks-for-four-more

The new HDMI standard—1.4 to be precise—is pretty excellent, since it has an integrated Ethernet channel, 1080p 3D support and oh yeah, delicious 4K resolution images. But, like we said before, you need all-new everything for it.

TechRadar breaks down everything you need to know about HDMI 1.4 into an easy-to-digest 10-thing listicle. Personally, I'm most excited about the new Micro Connector, since I just love new kinds of cables, though sad I'll have to wait a whole year to buy it. [TechRadar, Image via Sam Catchsides/Flickr]

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World's Biggest Water Pump Under Construction In New Orleans, Would've Been Cooler Four Years Ago [Engineering]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/PpgeALwb4uM/worlds-biggest-water-pump-under-construction-in-new-orleans-wouldve-been-cooler-four-years-ago

The Army Corps of Engineers has broken ground on a serious construction project: a 150,000-gallon-per-second, $500m pumping station charged with keeping the city of New Orleans a little, uh, dryer than it has been in the last few years.

The pump is just a small part of a larger $14bn plan to seal up New Orleans' levees and bolster the city's disaster preparedness, but it's without a doubt the most visually impressive. PopSci's thrown together a couple of diagrams to give us a sense of scale, and trust me, they're necessary—see that little white thing next to the diesel engine? That's a full-sized human being. There aren't a whole lot of companies that make combustion engines that cartoonishly huge, so my money's on something from a company like Wartsila-Sulzer, which makes engines like this to spin the props on ultramassive cargo ships, and conceivably, pumps:

At any rate, the pump is expected to be operational—and NOLA slightly safer—by 2011. More at [PopSci]

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Plasma HDTV Sales Soar, LCD Sales Steady, Sony Loses Ever More Market Share [HDTVs]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/49gdSHBRMxI/plasma-hdtv-sales-soar-lcd-sales-steady-sony-loses-ever-more-market-share

HDGuru has some notes from the now-concluded second quarter HDTV sales, and they show some interesting movement: With dirt-cheap prices, high end plasmas (42"-50") surged almost 40%, though LCD sales merely held steady. The big loser? Sony.

Total plasma sales went up 31% compared to the first quarter, mostly due to the high value attached to them in this economic downturn. In terms of LCDs, Vizio continues its hold as the number 1 maker, and in fact grew their market share, as did Samsung, Toshiba and Panasonic. Sony, unfortunately, lost more than 3% of the market—a huge piece of its share—though the Japanese giant did retain its third place position. Check out HDGuru for more info and analysis of the numbers. [HDGuru]

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Lenovo's Sleek IdeaCentre Q110 Nettop Has Nvidia Ion Graphics [Lenovo]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Sxz0-aCeJkM/lenovos-sleek-ideacentre-q110-nettop-has-nvidia-ion-graphics

After teasing us over Twitter yesterday, Lenovo has now outlined full specs and pricing for its new Q100/Q110 nettops, and D400 Home Server. Both nettops are 0.7-inches thin, and the Q110 has Nvidia Ion graphics with 1080p HDMI output.

The $349 IdeaCentre Q110 has 2GB of memory and a 250GB hard disk, versus the $249 Q100's 1GB RAM and 160GB hard drive. Both use a lowly single-core Atom 230 processor, but I guess they are tiny systems, and Atom is a requirement for Ion.

Each also has Gigabit Ethernet, an 802.11b/g Wi-Fi dongle, and run either XP Home or Vista Premium. No keyboard or mouse is included.

Meanwhile, the IdeaCentre D400 will start at about $499, and support up to 8TB of storage over four hard drives. Specs include an Atom 230 single-core CPU, 1GB memory, Gigabit Ethernet, plus 1eSATA and 5 USB ports.

The company has had a bunch of new gear of late, including the IdeaCentre C100 All-in-One and IdeaCentre Q700 HTPC.

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Asus Tops Apple Again in Reliability Rankings [Reliability]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Vkc_XaA28t4/asus-tops-apple-again-in-reliability-rankings

Asus has held onto its lead over Apple in the second quarter RESCUECOM Consumer Reliability Report, scoring 416 to Apple's result of 394. IBM/Lenovo and Toshiba came in third and fourth, with scores of 394 and 314, respectively.

The report aims to provide unbiased data on big name computers by taking into account both market share and the amount of repair and service calls RESCUECOM had to handle.

"Because ASUS just introduced the newest version of the EEE laptop last fall, the original predicted computer reliability of this laptop has been somewhat up in the air," says David A. Milman, RESCUECOM's founder and CEO.

"However, a good eight months later, we're still receiving the fewest calls for computer repair and support with ASUS, while their market share is increasing, adding the EEE desktop to their line as well, indicating that this PC is continuing to prove itself in terms of computer reliability."

[RESCUECOM Report via PR Newswire]

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ASUS' Ion-based Eee Top ET2002T makes itself known in France

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/18/asus-ion-based-eee-top-et2002t-makes-itself-known-in-france/

ASUS sort of got official with its Eee Top ET2002T back at Computex in June, but it's looks like things are now a whole lot more real in France, where Blogee.net has gotten the pics and the complete specs of the all-in-one desktop. In addition to that all-important (and already known) Ion chipset, this one comes packing a 20-inch 1,600 x 900 display, an Atom 330 processor, 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, a DVD burner, and even an HDMI input in case you want to simply use it as a display, among some other fairly standard specs (detailed at the link below). Still no word on an official price or release over here, unfortunately, but it'll apparently be available in Europe in "several weeks" and run a not so low €598, or about $845.

Filed under: Desktops

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