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Embedding Videos from Facebook
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If your video camera operator (thanks to Linda) has turned their apparatus sideways, the resulting portrait styled video works better uploaded to facebook and embedded than it does on youTube. As discovered over on http://andyroberts.me/havering-folk-club/the-rowan-tree-song-at-haverfolk-for-cloudstreet-guest-night
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May 18 2012, 1:00am | Comments »
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andyrobertsmusic's Webcam Video from March 18, 2012 05:33 AM
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March 18 2012, 7:36am | Comments »
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http://orbittower.org.uk/85/video-orbit-tower/ Video from inside the Orbit Tower
February 27 2012, 7:22am | Comments »
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Winter in Andalucia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC8wCm680VU
February 8 2012, 7:21am | Comments »
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Day 13 Songwriters Circle on YouTube http www…
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Day 13 Songwriters Circle on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fIssF1DpMs
January 15 2012, 7:18am | Comments »
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A Taste of Spain Delicatessen Box unboxing video…
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A Taste of Spain Delicatessen Box unboxing video on OrganicBoxes youTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=RpNmS4QJI9M
December 9 2011, 1:26am | Comments »
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Living Here ( youtube Video song by Andy Roberts ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY0FcoqmEJI
November 26 2011, 1:19am | Comments »
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Delete WordPress Plugins with ManageWP
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I’ve just been using ManageWP beta – the web utility for managing multiple WordPress installations – to delete an obsolete plugin from several of my older blogs. The functionality to delete or deactivate plugins was a much requested feature that was added to the many useful operations that ManageWP can perform for you just a couple of weeks ago, and it really does make this web service indispensable for anybody with more than just a couple of WordPress installations. I was recommending before, but even more so now. The plugin I wanted to deprecate in my installations was called Viper’s Video QuickTags, very handy in it’s day for embedding youtube videos withing blog posts, but that functionality was added into the core WordPress code several versions ago, which renders the plugin redundant for me. Plugins and Themes With ManageWP I could select “plugins and themes” from the sidebar, then chose All Websites, tick plugins, active, and search by keyword: “viper”. That gave me a list of five blogs that still had the old plugin active. I could have deactivated the lot in one fell swoop just like that, but I wanted to make sure all my old posts with videos embedded would still work so, without even leaving the ManageWP dashboard, I went to each affected individual WordPress dashboard in turn, and searched through the posts for the string “[youtube”, that being the way the old plugin recognised source posts needing to have the embed code added. I then removed the shortcodes from each end of the video identifier leaving just the youtube url on one line by itself, which WordPress now interprets as a request to embed video inline. Once the legacy code was removed, I could then deactivate and delete the plugin, leaving me with a nice feeling of having tidied up a longstanding loose end.
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November 20 2011, 7:03am | Comments »
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Kew Gardens
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There are many folly buildings at Kew Gardens and yesterday I learned that the person who instigated them had a swivel chair installed inside the little domed colonade at the top of the hill near the lake next to the Palm House. From that vantage point she could survey the results of the gardeners’ labour. The view would have been much different in those days but I thought I’d make a mock swivel chair video of the view from yesterday at Kew Gardens.
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October 11 2011, 9:04am | Comments »
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Cooking Monkfish with Cider in Galicia
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Hello, I’m cooking fresh fish with cider over a trangia camping stove in sunny Galicia, northern Spain. With videography by Evan Roberts, this youTube is pretty self explanatory.
The actual location is a campsite at Camping Moreiras, O Grove, Pontevedra, Galicia. The fish, a whole monkfish, came from the fish market on the harbour at O Grove itself, as did the vegetables and the cider is an Asturian Sidra Natural obtaine en route from one of many Eroski supermarkets. Just a bit of fun really, but it captures one of many happy mealtimes from a memorable holiday touring Asturias and Galicia in September 2011. There are loads of photos online at both my collection and Linda’s Flickr photostreams. Thanks for subscribing to Andy Roberts blogCooking Monkfish with Cider in Galicia
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September 28 2011, 7:13am | Comments »
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Google+ Hangout for Podcast #47
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For this week’s podcast I wanted to experiment with using Google+ , a new(ish) social networking site which has a feature they call “hangout” for bringing groups of people together by video link. It’s kind of like a group video call with a text chat, so superficially not that disimilar really to the ustream and livestream systems that I’ve been using for the weekly Tuesday night broadcasts up until about April this year. Do you need a Google+ invitation? Click here The Google+ service as a whole is getting a lot of attention even though it only launched to the public this month, and even though the circles metaphor can be a bit cumbersome, there’s a tendency towards fuller conversations and better discovery that makes it interesting for musicians, I think. But all that could change as the new platform develops, we’ll have to see. What intrigues me though, is the way that Google is integrating many of their popular services together, and Google of course is behind youTube. I’ve been waiting for youTube “Live” to open up but for the time being that seems to be open only to a few international TV stations. There is some confusing talk about youTube live being available on Google+ hangouts but thsi always turns out to be about taking the existing youTube live streams and relaying them into a Hangout, rather than using the Hangout to generate a new livestream that can be relayed out into youTube live, and saved as youTube videos in a channel, which the direction I’m probably looking for. Google+ Hangout So we planned to try out the ‘Hangout’ feature within Google+, this Sunday afternoon just gone at 3.00pm, and the result has been incorporated into this Andy Roberts podcast episode #47. Google+ Hanging out If you wanted to take part in future Google+ events with me, or just listen in as it happens, then you would need to activate a Google+ Profile if you don’t already have one, and add me to a circle. Again, if you need a Google+ invitation you can get one here Sunday Afternoons, 3.00pm Oh yes, and the other thing that’s changed is that we’ve moved to Sunday afternoons for the regular weekly spot, at 3.00pm UK time, which is currently GMT+1 with daylight saving. That’s 10pm in Beijing. The Sunday afternoon 3.00pm time slot will continue throughout the month of August.
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Mondura Dam Work is Done Shifting Sands Hesitation Blues (trad?) Home – Roy Harper (Part Song) Mozambique – Bob Dylan The Same Old Rock – Roy Harper (Part Song) Narrow Boats
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August 9 2011, 1:13pm | Comments »
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MEP calls for Nuclear Free Europe
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Paul Murphy, Socialist Party MEP for Dublin speaks at a plenary session of the European Parliament in favour of a nuclear-free future for Europe in light of the catastrophe in Fukushima and calls for the nationalisation of the energy industry and real investment in renewable energy technologies.
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Justin.tv boss: ‘We want to replace the camera app on the phone’
Justin.tv CEO Michael Seibel has grand ambitions for the company’s iPhone video clip app Socialcam
This article titled “Justin.tv boss: ‘We want to replace the camera app on the phone’” was written by Stuart Dredge, for guardian.co.uk on Friday 1st April 2011 14.32 UTC US startup Justin.tv started life as one man livestreaming his daily life to the world, before evolving into a platform for anyone to broadcast video over the internet from their webcams – and more recently from their phones. However, the company’s future may lie more with its new Socialcam iPhone app, which focuses on helping people upload short video clips and share them across social networks. Launched at the start of March, the free app sailed past 200,000 downloads in a couple of weeks, with claims that it does for video what apps like Instagram and Picplz do for photos. Justin.tv CEO Michael Seibel certainly has grand ambitions for Socialcam, as he explained to Apps Blog in an interview. “We want to replace the camera app on the phone,” he says. “That’s our goal: to be used by almost everyone who’s got a smartphone to store all of their media, and distribute that media wherever they like.” Which is what anyone would say when pitching their social video startup, although Seibel’s talk of replacing the camera app – not to mention his deliberate use of the word ‘media’ – makes it clear that Socialcam’s current focus on video will expand in the future, most likely to photos first. Socialcam was born in response to feedback from the Justin.tv livestreaming iPhone app, which was downloaded more than four million times in the first six months after its release in March 2010. “We realised that more than 90% of views of those videos were not people watching live, but after the fact,” says Seibel. “What’s more, the videos themselves were not broadcast as live videos: they were taken as video clips. So we wondered why people were using our live video app to take video clips – wasn’t this a solved problem? And it turned out that it wasn’t.” Seibel has a point. Smartphones like iPhone and Android handsets are good at uploading people’s video clips to YouTube, but not so good at helping these videos to be shared on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Facebook’s iPhone app does allow users to upload video clips directly, but the feature is somewhat hidden beneath the ‘photo’ button, while Twitter’s is still photos only. “The whole process was broken, so we’re trying to solve the problem of sharing videos from the phone,” says Seibel. Three months’ development led to the launch of Socialcam, during which time photo-sharing app Instagram made its own burst to prominence, with two million downloads. “Their success showed us there is a massive amount of room in this space to take on the big boys,” says Seibel. “They’re not scared of Facebook, and nor should they be. They’re doing a really good job in their niche.” However, Seibel resists the label of ‘an Instagram for videos’ that has been applied to Socialcam in some early press coverage. “We think of ourselves as much more like a Facebook Photos for video”. Hence the ability to tag friends in Socialcam videos. Justin.tv has strong views about what its new app is and is not for. Seibel says it’s focused on the personal – videos of people’s friends, family and nights out – rather than a tool for people to broadcast to the world, as the livestreaming apps were intended to be. “We don’t see this as YouTube,” he says. “This isn’t people producing videos for general consumption. We don’t even put a view-count on the videos. What we’re really about is that there is a moment happening now with a small circle of friends, and all the people in that video would love to watch it later.” How to make money from this? Like many apps of this kind, Socialcam is currently going for reach – the maximum number of users – rather than monetisation. That said, Seibel says that in-app payments for additional features may play a role in the app’s future, along with subscription-based pricing, and possibly charging for storage as Socialcam users build up a collection of videos. Justin.tv is also looking at the new range of tablets, led by Apple’s iPad 2, which come with front and rear cameras as standard. “For me, iPad 2 and tablets in general are really exciting from a front-facing camera perspective, making those short video clips where you’re talking about where you are or what you’re interested in, and your face fills up the entire screen,” he says, while declining to give any specific details about a Socialcam app for iPad. Meanwhile, Socialcam is already having a big effect on Justin.tv’s approach as a company. “We are no longer iterating and improving on our live video app,” says Seibel. “We are putting all our resources into solving this more basic problem. Live is much more of a niche case than video clips.” Which is when he comes back to the idea of becoming the default camera app for smartphone users. “YouTube could never control the ingestion point: they always had to use your phone or digital camera or Flip video or webcam,” he says. “But on smartphones, we suddenly get to leapfrog all those other devices and control the ingestion point, with the potential to reach many more people than Sony or Flip or Panasonic with their dedicated video creation devices. Smartphones should completely disrupt that market, except on the extreme high end.” The big challenge for an app like Socialcam will be the competition in trying to become that default camera app: competition from Facebook in particular, but also from handset makers, OS platform owners and other startups with VC money to fling at the social photos ‘n’ videos area.
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Podcast #37 – Soundcloud
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Andy Roberts Podcast Episode #37 was put together from tracks which are hosted on my Andy Roberts Soundcloud account, and one extra song ( Work is Done) recorded live for you on Wednesday morning. The live show had to be canceled this week due to an unfortunate throat incident on the Tuesday evening. Here’s the download and play link etc:
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Clean Living Blues – by Linda Hartley and Andy Roberts Hold On Below - Andy Roberts as featured on The Lost Folk Tapes Work is Done – Andy Roberts Never was to be – Daryl P Hall Andy Roberts Highway Blues – Roy Harper
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SXSW 2011: Can Facebook photos be used commercially?
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Facebook is asked whether businesses and advertisers could make use of the equivalent to one Flickr‘s worth of photos being uploaded each month. SXSW report
This article titled “SXSW 2011: Can Facebook photos be used commercially?” was written by Jemima Kiss, for guardian.co.uk on Saturday 12th March 2011 16.41 UTC Much of the focus of this discussion was inevitably focused on Facebook’s photos product manager, Sam Odio, who disappointingly played the “not my remit’ card when asked the most interested and pertinent questions about Facebook’s use of users’ photos, including facial recognition and how images might be co-opted by advertisers. • Facebook sees “a Flickr’s worth of photos uploaded every month”, said Odio. But it’s worth considering the different values of those two services: Flickr includes some high-quality, well edited photography, while Facebook focuses on storytelling over quality. It doesn’t matter, said Odio, if that first photo of your newborn nephew is blurry: it’s the social context behind the photo. • Odio fielded a question by one delegate about how businesses and advertisers might start appropriating photos for commercial use. “We’re not in the business of selling ads through people’s photos and we want to prevent businesses having free rein over users,” he said. “But businesses are users,” pushed the delegate. Odio said Facebook would want the people in the photos to be telling the story – which means advertising would be there but more subtly, and directed by users. • As for ownership of photos, Odio said that comes down to the need to build the API in such a way that it can access your friends’ photos. If each of those users retained ownership, that would become very complicated. “There are worries we are going to use photos in advertising but it doesn’t really benefit us that much given how sensitive the subject is.” • Yan-David Erlick, a serial entrepreneur who founded Mophot.to, predicted that social photos will become even more integrated with our lives through different sorts of tagging. “Timelines between items will mean that over time, these entities are not viewed as individual pieces of media but will have contextual attributes tying them to other pieces.” • Odio explained how after struggling to keep his startup photo site Divvyshot going in 2009, ploughing in all his own savings, he got a random email one Sunday night. It was from Blake Ross, who later turned out to be co-creator of Firefox, at an address at Facebook. “He said ‘Sam – your site looks interesting. You should come here.’ I was living with six developers at the time and they were all looking over my shoulder to figure out if the email was fake or not.” It was, and Facebook acquired Divvyshot in April 2010. • Feature requests aren’t always the best way to develop a product. Odio said nobody asked for Instagram, which just raised $7m in funding, but now it is taking off. Facebook’s engineers also have a monthly hackathon where they can work on whatever they like; that doesn’t determine product direction but features such as drag-and-drop organisation have come out of that. • On facial recognition, all Odio would say is that Facebook “hasn’t been able to move quickly on it given how sensitive it is”, which does seem to imply it would have liked to do plenty if it could have got away with it. • Odio said a startup should make the product extremely simple; he had got distracted when trying to add too many features and functions. “Focus on one thing and do it extremely well. In early days the product needs to be explained to users in 10 seconds or less.” • One delegate said he was concerned that Facebook is becoming such an important repository for his life, and that photos are the most easily accessible part of that archive compared to status updates or messages. Erlich described the web being used as an external memory for us all, from photos to phone numbers; this ties in with Clay Shirky’s idea of cognitive surplus – if machines can take over the mechanical parts of our brain function, what can we do with the space and energy that frees up?
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March 14 2011, 6:33am | Comments »
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Fukushima nuclear power plant second nuclear reactor explosion – Video
A second nuclear reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi plant has exploded, and another nuclear core has lost it’s cooling system. A third explosion may follow Friday’s historic earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan.
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