video

Lookout Hollywood! It's The 8hands Video Tour

alon — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 08:32:55 -0400

Video killed the help section star! That's why we recorded a guided video tour – so you could learn about 8hands by staring at a screen. Forget about all that reading nonsense, let's watch and learn baby!

G4TV sprinkled 8hands with love!

alon — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:03:54 -0400

G4TV is not just one of the biggest tech broadcast networks, it's also one of our favorite places to visit when we are thirsty for some geeky television time. That's why we were so happy and honored to see a feature about 8hands in Attack of the Show. Yes – our cute fuzzy little octopus is slowly gaining his celebrity status!

We won't say much more. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words and a video is worth, like, a billion pictures, so we'll just let you watch the video. Respect.

Last.fm will kill the video channel!

alon — Sun, 13 May 2007 14:15:06 -0400

It was bound to happen – our favorite music community, last.fm, has announced a huge upgrade to their network: Soon it will feature music videos and basically will try to replace that lame-old-station MTV.

The video section will be similar to the current audio section, enabling users to create their own personalized video channels according to their music taste (and in case of our 8hands mega-team we are talking about a deliciously good collection).

Last.fm intends to upload the videos with the record labels permission, and going legit seems to be as easy as whispering 8hands: Over 20,000 independent labels are already into it (YAY that!) and some of the majors, especially EMI & Warner, also jump right in (we gotta give them some credit for not being too old fashioned).

If that won't make you say "I will never watch a music video clip in YouTube ever again", maybe the next fact will: Last.fm reported that the videos quality on their site will be significantly higher than that of YouTube, and that the audio will be encoded at 128kbps compared to YouTube’s 64kbps.

That brings us to the reason that last.fm is growing, upgrading itself & gaining more & more loyal fans – they are all about the quality, and that's something that isn't so common in the social networking world.

Yes, the biggest advantage of last.fm isn't the amazing internet radio player it's got. We love last.fm because of its beautiful design, clean interface & lack of pop-ups and spam. In a way, last.fm is the apple version of the social networks (and as you know, we are working on last.fm & mac support for 8hands, so hold your breath).

Unlike MySpace's ugly custom layout, last.fm users don't need to "pimp up their profile" – you know, if it's not broken don't fix it - especially not with a bikini MySpace Backround.

We are thrilled to see that there is still some passion around for the aesthetics, and even if you won't glitter all over the place, you can still make it in this 2.0 town.

Realizing that makes us want to make 8hands as gorgeous as possible – actually, that was always our plan. But we are still at an Alpha stage, and that goes both for bugs & designs. Just know, we are planning to sweep you off your feet eventually.

Oh, by the way – so far each member of our team had his own last.fm profile, but soon we will open a profile for the entire 8hands office – so you could see exactly what we listen to.

SuperDeluxe is all about comedy videos

Goldi — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:57:36 -0500

SuperDeluxe is an entertainment broadcasting network offering original comic content from up and coming comedians, animators, actors and directors. It's also a social network, and presented by funny people. I mean really funny.

The major advantage SuperDeluxe holds is the huge amount of EXCLUSIVE clips it features, made by the funniest, known and unknown, people in comedy. No more watching a clip on YouTube and then finding it on a another video sharing site - SuperDeluxe got some fresh and original clips you won't find anywhere else on the net.

The decision to be a niche social network and to specialize strictly in comedy seems like a smart move, especially because that's what they know best. Or like they say - "We're not concerned with showing you some Norwegian kid's video blog". And let's face it - a comedy network is maybe not really a niche network, I mean â€“ who doesn't like to laugh? Almost every successful cult video was more or less about comedy.

Above all that you can add a convenient interface and a high quality of video resolution, and you got yourself a new beloved killer time site â€“ a new video sharing site with high and enjoyable quality content. And that's what really matters. Isn't it?