very soon videopong gets 3 years old and this time we have a present for you: we’re proud to announce to the public “vpDude” - an integrated tool to manage, tag, share, and expand your own vj library on your hard drive. more info and download here. (beta testers need to uninstall their version and reinstall it manually. sorry mates…)
a) users
we checked the rating-stats for 2011 and gave the “top uploader 2011″-award to the following users: theLABvisuals, fleisch and this. thanx mates! excellent work!
b) new features
the download-filename can be changed to your own schema (set it in your settings)
number of clips in list views is changeable
users with good share-ratio have access on a cliplog (see downloaders, …)
c) events
swiss vj camp ‘12: if you’re around basel switzerland the 25/26.may you should get in contact as we do there also a videopong-user-meeting and many other cool things.
d) internals and stuff
wow, we have already more than 9000 clips online. lets head forward for 10K!
25% more videopong! yeah, it took us very long to get started, but now here is our refreshed design. a special new feature we want to mention is the day/night switch (top-right). everything else is more or less the same, but looks nicer.
a) new features
add your twitteraccount and show your feed in your user-detail-page. add also facebook and google+ links…
random zapper in fullscreen browser rocks! better than watching tv … he he.
b) events
poolloop 2011 festival where videopong was curator, videopool and installation rocked very much. see here how the random zapper interacted with those diy micronoise pieces:
now that we have your complete attention we want to make a call to use our new channels: lowkey , poolloop .
lowkey-channel: A channel for all high contrast, black & white keyable content & remixes.
poolloop-channel: for the poolloop festival (zurich) we’re trying to build a videopool that is used in very different ways during the festival: remix-session with audio- and text-remixes, clips act as input for audio-noise-generators that can be built during a diy-solder-workshop, are used by some installations, are reviewed, rated, mixed, shared, … you can also add you’re already uploaded clips to this channel to let it remix.
anyone interested to curate a tutorials channel? get in contact
a) new features
oh lala. the last weeks we had to focus on a lot of other stuff than developing. but some nice things possibly appear pretty soon. if you have ideas about features let us know here
b) events
lpm and mapping were again amazing. we’ve met some nice people and seen also here and there some clips from videopong… great fun!
c) internals and stuff
we’re rich: if facebook worths 100billion$ for 500million user, videopong is worth at least 300′000$ with its 1′500 users. beside that, it even contains real content, not just mental diarrhea! nice dream. reality looks different. so lets donate something to videopong. in 3 years of existence only 1 (one) person donated to videopong! be the second one and get shares…
we’re looking for copyright-sheriffs. if you know a lot of all those published clips out there and want to help us, to keep videopong a clean and safe place, get in contact
on the 1.july we’re changing our ridiculousterms and conditions to some real ones, that might have a legal substance. actually it does not change anything at all, but defines more what you’re allowed to do and we’re allowed to do. please check the draft and let us know if you dont agree on something. otherwise those get active without any further notice.
lets start a series of good news. this month: we finaly managed to develop a feature, you were all waiting for: videopong opens up for channel curators! this is your chance to take control! more right after the break.
a) new features
channel-curators: we’re looking now for curators that want to run their own channel on videopong, invite artists to that channel, set up the subject, your own concept, … get in contact if you’re interested and tell us about your channel.
new clip category: stereoscopic. yes its 3d time, so mark your work, to get it found via search.
we’re at the lpm and mapping festival but not with videopong (this year) but as part of bildstörung. see you there.
c) internals and stuff
in april we checked the rating-stats for 2010 and gave the “top uploader 2010″-award to the following users: fleisch, this, amadeus. thanx mates! excellent work!
“remix manifesto”. if you dont know that movie: watch it.
As we changed some code here and there and also added some new features during the last months, we thought it was time again for a new version number. as we put new features online when they work, you can follow us on twitter to get informed about new features directly when they get available.
a) new features
improved and enhanced search: its possible to search for a specific screenformat, tv-resolutions or license
its now possible to donate via paypal and flattr. just klick at the bottom-right the “donate” link. thanx
clips dont get squeezed anymore. they keep their original aspect ratio in preview and thumbnails
your portfolio is now embedable on your own site. inside the portfolio editor the html-snippet is shown
get notified when replies to your comments are posted
videopong-onyx now preloads your last 3 watched clips at startup
support for facebooks “i like”
some top of last month ranking on front added to the alltime tops
b) events
we’ve also been to the vj-festival.de that was really great. i hope to meet also some more videopong users to exchange ideas and wishes.
c) stuff
videopong has its own office now. ok ok, its just a table. but its inside a really cool studio where also the bildstörung vjs and some friends have their workplace.
its already a while since the last news. just a short note that we’re still alive . we’ve been to 3 very exciting festivals and did also some little developments at the platform itself. more details right after the break.
On all of them we ran our portable take-away server, from which we have now a new much much more portable system, that can also act as internetstreaming server for (live)video and (live)audio. it was very nice to meet users and see the developers of onyx. it was also great to see some clips, that are published exclusively on videopong, being played live. even some from our staff .
big thanx to all that were involved in the organization of those festivals. we had a really nice time and enjoyed it very much.
b) development
On development side we were not so active, but did some important perfomance improvements and lots of small bugfixes. at least also some to mention:
lots of improvements to react faster on copyright violations and a way to keep leechers away. this means more work for our team, but we really think this is worth it. videopong is meant to be for the artists that want to share their own artwork with others.
for the year 2009 we’ve given some awards to the top users that supported videopong with their unique and wonderful content: fleisch as “gold top uploader 2009″, this and amadeus each as “silver top uploader 2009″
improved and enhanced search: its possible to search for a specific screenformat or license.
its now possible to donate via paypal and flattr. just klick at the bottom-right the “donate” link. thanx.
in the next few weeks we try to make the next step on development-side that contains swf-upload and many other enhancements and usability fixes.
c) some current stats on the community
> 4300 uploaded clips
around 1000 users from more than 65 countries
> 230′000 clip views
> 28′000 clip downloads
in april it was 2 years since the first line of code and in june it was 1 year since the first public announcement and therefore we d’like to thank the staff behind the scene, all helpers, partners, supporters and donators. and of course also you!
its a long time since we did a sum-up of new features and fixes in a new versionnumber. but some features are in production since weeks. but now it is worth for a new version as we added a whole bunch of new cool features this weekend. so lets start with the complete list, right after the break.
a) new features:
first and most important: we have now a online-browserbased vj-tool integrated. check out the tab “tools” and choose “onyx“. more infos about onyx later
now its possible to have its own playlists. when containing at least 5 clips its also possible to publish it. playlists are also usable inside onyx. check out all the fabulous playlists “fleisch” did! wow!!
in the portfoliomanager you’re able to define for each clip if it should autoplay, loop or be muted.
each clip has now a new tab showing its view-, download-, and onyx-usage-clipstatistics.
public domain license. if you want to publish your clips under public domain license you’re now able to.
we have an api for vj-tool-developer to get videopong clips also inside their vj-tool. get in contact if you’re interested.
b) lots of bugfixes and small enhancements like:
different performance issues in clipdetail
much much longer session livetime
nicer urls for most interesting pages
c) some other important stuff to mention
we had to introduce a new anti-leecher policy:
new users need to upload first at least 3 clips that are reviewed by administrators before they get visible and uploader gets a share-ratio to download stuff from videopong. this way we want to prevent leechers just creating an account, upload some stolen shit and leech everything. then an administrator needs to delete all those copyright violating clips and that account gets a bad share ratio, but the leecher just opens a new account and so on. this is not what videopong is meant to work! videopong supports vjs and videoartists that put much time and effort in their work and therefore should also get the respect and the credits.
once again we want to mention, that uploading a clip where you do not hold the copyright or dont have the permission from its owner to publish it, is not allowed and such clips are removed by staff as soon as we get knowledge of it. so please report stolen and copyright violating clips via the surveillance-cam symbol inside the clipview.
last but not least we were at the visualisation-festival in .de which was great fun and we’re looking forward to other festivals to provide to them a network-infrastructure and full videopong-functionality on site. if you’re interested please get in contact and read some infos about our portable take-away videopong server.
stay tuned for the next update that will bring again some nice enhancements, new features and fixes. but to that day, play around with online onyx as its great fun. thanx goes to the onyx developers that were such cooperative to build a cool online-vj-mixer. a fully reloaded onyx with midi, second outputscreen, 5 layers, and and and, videopong-connector will be available for mac/pc/linux soon. jeppa! and if you like onyx, let the developers know, as they did a really good job with their open source vj mixer.
does anybody like to do videotutorials? we’re looking for some help there. if you like to support us with this or also others just contact us. we’re looking forward for new ideas and support from the community.
This years Shift Festival, with Tech-Evocations and Assumptions of Paranormal Realities as its theme, presented an enchantingly varied programme at the exhibition and on stage.
The swissbased VJ Label Videokultur presented themselfes with a cargo container and our videopong portable take-away server was on place to provide the VJs a share server and a surfstation to let the visitors watch the work of the collective.
summer is over. at least here in zürich. but who cares. it gives us more time to hack and vj-giggs. its quite a long time since the last feature update but a lot has been done.
new features:
a new player that loops correct and works flawless
integration with an internet radio player (set your default station in your profile)
a clip-carousel inside clip-view for better clip browsing
a new thumbnail-rotator that works and even supports middle-mouse-button-to-open-new-tab
clip ratings now range from “really bad” to “excellent”
user ratings calculated from the ratings on clips
its now possible to report a clip as copyright violation by clicking on the surveillance cam-icon. please use it and report us clips that are stolen, as we do not want to support leechers that do not respect other artists!
inside your profile you can now subscribe to the daily email digest, that informs you about all new clips
lots of bugfixes and small enhancements like:
loop state is now safed in your profile
the list view shows all 3 thumbnails
the user-list is now sortable
besides all the hacking videopong was again at the swiss vj camp and supported the vjs on site with a networkinfrastucture to share and remix clips. results went into the vj camp channel. »more infos
and last but not least we’re now an a new server with lots of diskspace! jippi!!
Several VJs and Musician met at the videokultur vj camp from 14.-16.08.2009 in Luzern (CH) which is a platform for vjs to discuss, share, play, learn, teach, remix, produce, hack, connect, grill, chill, etc… several days and nights with a complete club infrastructure, lab, kitchen and sleeping possibilities.
The portable Take-Away Server was once again used as internal Share-Platform and Internet-Gateway. All clips created at the camp got transfered to the online videopong into the new channel ” vj camp 2009″.
If you want the Videopong portable Take-Away Server be part at your Festival, get in contact with us.
. we’ve been to 3 very exciting festivals and did also some little developments at the platform itself. more details right after the break.
inside the clipview.
