..this just in! Podcamp AZ 2008 dates have been announced! Mark your iCals (or gcals, those are the only cals I’ll allow) for November 1st and 2nd, 2008.
If you weren’t at last years Podamp AZ, you definitely missed a great time. I can assure you that this years will be even better.
How do I know? Well, someone mentioned something about pony rides and a petting zoo. Actually, I think they just made that up to see if I would believe it.. Regardless, it will rock.
So let’s see how I can describe QIK better than the large text you’re greeted with on their main page:
Hmm… streaming live video from your phone to the web — That pretty much sums it up perfectly. In addition, they will also syndicate your video out to seesmic, mogulus, justin.tv, youtube, mobuzz and post notices out on twitter, pownce and blogger.
Not a bad deal!
Here’s an example video that was streamed on a Nokia N95 and archived on QIK. Also, no pigeons were hurt in the making of this film. They continue to come back for more:
If you want to recieve a twitter update when I’m streaming live, feel free to follow @ijustineqik!
The most amazing web standards SEO rap I’ve ever heard. I mean, I know this is a hot topic in the hip-hop world. Even twitter got a little shout out!
“if it’s built right you’ll be the pick of the litter
everyone will want to follow you like twitter
competition will get bitter and you’ll shine like glitter”
Thanks to Alex at (mt) for the heads up on this amazing video.
LYRICS
Your site design is the first thing people see
it should be reflective of you and the industry
easy to look at with a nice navigation
when you can’t find what you want it causes frustration
a clear Call to action to increase the temptation
use appealing graphics they create motivation
if you have animation
use with moderation
cause search engines can’t index the information
display the logos of all your associations
highlight your contact info that’s an obligation
create a clean design you can use some decoration
but to try to prevent any client hesitation
every page that they click should provide and explanation
should be easy to understand like having a conversation
when you design the style go ahead and use your imagination
but make sure you use correct color combinations
do some investigation, look at other organizations
but don’t duplicate or you might face a litigation
design done, congratulations but it’s time to start construction
follow these instructions when you move into production
your photoshop functions then slice that design
do your layout with divs make sure that it’s aligned
please don’t use tables even though they work fine
when it come to indexing they give searches a hard time
make it easy for the spiders to crawl what you provide
remove font type, font color and font size
no background colors, keep your coding real neat
tag your look and feel on a separate style sheet
better results with xml and css
now you making progress, a lil closer to success
describe your doctype so the browser can relate
make sure you do it great or it won’t validate
check in all browsers, I do it directly
gotta make sure that it renders correctly
some use IE, some others use Flock
some use AOL, I use Firefox
title everything including links and images
don’t use italics, use emphasis
don’t use bold, please use strong
if you use bold that’s old and wrong
when you use CSS, you page will load quicker
client satisfied like they eating on a snicker
they stuck on your page like you made it with a sticker
and then they convert now that’s the real kicker
make you a lil richer, your site a lil slicker
design and code right man I hope you get the picture
what I’m telling you is true man it should be a scripture
if it’s built right you’ll be the pick of the litter
everyone will want to follow you like twitter
competition will get bitter and you’ll shine like glitter
if you trying to grow your company will get bigger
design and code right man can you get with it
While at dinner one night during the week of interactive, we were all having a nice discussion on favorite treats. Almost everyone had a typical answer with some sort of mainstream candy.. but when the question was tossed over to Kevin, the crowd was quite displeased with his treat!
Gary Vaynerchuk can be heard quite prominently in the background yelling hilarious comments.
Worst of all, Kevin left early and missed his favorite treat for dessert.
A few months ago while I was in LA, Brooke and I went and visited the 1 Second Film office. It was a lot of fun, and the biggest surprise of all was to find out there was a fellow juggler there (director: Nirvan Mullick)! Before we even talked about their project, we ran outside and juggled!
What is the 1 second film?
The film is 1 second of animation consisting of 24 paintings that were created last year at an event. The credits will include everyone who participated in addition to a documentary of the story behind the project.
Where is all this money going?.
All profits raised by the finished film will be donated to the Global Fund for Women.
I want to be a producer?!
Feel free to sign up on their site! This is my producer profile and it’s only $1 to join and become one too. Woo!
Here’s a video that they shot while we were there:
It’s always amazing to see people with a crazy idea who turn around and make it a reality. I wish this project much success!
HOW TO PLAY
• Take a picture of yourself throwing either “rock”, “paper” or “scissors”.
• You must be in your team uniform (do your best).
• Upload your photo to Flickr and tag it like this:
rsb:move=yourmove rsb:team=yourteam rsb:player=yourtwittername
(for example rsb:move=rock rsb:team=blueteam rsb:player=ijustine)
You may have noticed that my blog was broken for awhile. I think each day it breaks a little more. If it wasn’t for Brent, I would not be typing this right now. I think he’s saved my blog-life (and real life) more times than anyone I know.
At SXSW he saved me from a fight. Some guy threw his drink on me and pulled out a knife. Brent was all like “no no no no!” and stepped in to save the day. Actually, there wasn’t a knife or a fight.. but there was a drink thrown.
Speaking of iBam, looks like Clintus just got one while sporting an iBam shirt. Priceless. …well, almost priceless.. if you don’t include the cost of a new Macbook.
Happy Easter everyone! Yesterday, I sat around making some web 2.0 eggs. I wrote down suggestions as the chat room tossed out various websites. There are so many more that I wanted to make and didn’t get a chance to do. Why? Well, this took about 9+ hours to do and my hand quit working around hour 5.
Let’s just say I didn’t have much planned for my Saturday night. Thanks to everyone who stuck around and participated live! It was a lot of fun. Also, thanks to everyone who’s been re-blogging and posting this video.
I’ll link the sites in order too.. Just, not right now. I must go play wii.
