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Re: Why I Got Lost in LeWeb3 Videos

Stephanie — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:00:49 -0000

Joaquin: this was last year's edition -- were you there? And if you note, this is about the videos, not the conference.

Re: Why I Got Lost in LeWeb3 Videos

joaquin — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:47:19 -0000

What a picture! Aside from that no need to smash that much Leweb3.

Re: Why I Got Lost in LeWeb3 Videos

Stephanie — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:52:12 -0000

Hi Rodrigo, thanks for stopping by! Glad to know what the skin disease was due to (that's one thing blogs are good for, you get answers to your questions one day, even if it's a year later!) and that it's fixed. I hope this post didn't reflect negatively on your work this year (that's what we get for having a conference called LeWeb3 two years in a row, I guess) -- I honestly haven't looked at the videos yet, and I'm sure you've evolved in a year, anyway.

Re: Why I Got Lost in LeWeb3 Videos

Rodrigo A. SEPULVEDA — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:17:16 -0000

Hi to all. My name is Rodrigo Sepulveda, co-founder & CEO of vpod.tv.

Of couse, these comments relate to last year's (12 months ago) LeWeb3 conference where we launched in pre-alpha our full-screen interface. Indeed not everything was perfect, and we are about to launch a completely rewritten version of it (both in code and usability). You should like it better, and be better to use.

Nevertheless, the whole point of this interface is to recreate linear TV on the web, and not to mimick again all the features you usually find on video-sharing sites.

Just a couple of points :
- indeed, the PAUSE button is not self explanatory, but works like any other video playing system (Quicktime, VLC...) : just click on the video, or press the space bar to pause / play.

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<li>the skin disease was due not to high compression but to a faulty implementation of the on2 codec (fir high quality Flash 8/9) on the flash plugin for Mac (it works just fine with the same file on a PC). We had reported this bug many times to both Adobe and on2. It seems they've worked it out at last.</li>
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Merry Xmas !

Re: Why I Got Lost in LeWeb3 Videos

Stephanie — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 03:22:05 -0000

Hey Loïc :-)

I hope you noticed this was about last year's conf, and not this one. I do agree with you that I have an eye for what is "not working", and as I mentioned a few days ago I'm aware that everybody is going to be "en train de m'attendre au contour" with my event ;-)

You know, actually, I don't think it's easy to get everything right. I think it's difficult. But it doesn't prevent me from criticizing things (sometimes harshly, I'll admit) when they don't go the way they should.

And yes, I will pay attention to details. I love details. Thanks for your comment!

Re: Why I Got Lost in LeWeb3 Videos

Loic — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:55:59 -0000

to defend vpod a little, they do everything for free as a partnership.

to defend LeWeb3 a bit, remember we provide all the videos for free to everybody, this year they were live and also online in about two weeks, which very very very few conferences do.

having said that, I agree with you on the perfectible interface. What always strikes me though, is your capacity of criticizing everything. Now that you launch your own conference, you will see how difficult it is to have everything right and read the criticism after it happened !

however, I always welcome all criticism to progress in the future. Happy XMas and good luck with your conference, pay attention to the details or some bloggers may criticize you :)

Re: Why I Got Lost in LeWeb3 Videos

Scott Rafer — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:04:41 -0000

I'm feeling better now thank you.

Re: Why I Got Lost in LeWeb3 Videos

Sarah — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:47:47 -0000

Hi there!
I think what you said about the New Media influencing the Old Media - but not replacing them - was pretty brilliant. I am Swiss - from Zurich - and currently researching for my master thesis in political science at Zurich University about blogs and politics. I was a little proud that there was a cool Swiss person in Paris (I found out about you looking at the program). I might contact you sometime to ask you about your opinion on political blogs.
Comme j'ai la chance de posséder un abonnement géneral des CFF je pourrais facilement venir à Lausanne.
All the best for your work!
Sarah

Re: Why I Got Lost in LeWeb3 Videos

J. — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:04:42 -0000

agree 100%!!!

Re: Why I Got Lost in LeWeb3 Videos

Frank Taillandier — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:49:04 -0000

I experienced myself the same troubles before I managed to find that damn permalink : poor UI, zero ergonomy, but the curved buttons are so web 3.0 :) What a bad implementation for such a nice service. Concerning the skin disease, I thought you were burned at first sight. Glad to read, you're fine.