Exploring Stuff That Makes Life Great
Continuing with the Open Web Awards, now is your time to vote on the best of the web! The top 3 in each category will go on to the final round on December 17. Winners will be announced at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on January 10, 2008.
Click here to view all of the polls.
If you’ve been trying to access StuffWeLike.com for the past several hours, the site has been offline. Yesterday I submitted Ted Stokes’ interview with Valve’s Marketing Director Doug Lambardi to the popular Digg.com website. Seeing that the article was getting a few diggs in a couple of hours, I was content and went to bed.When I woke up the next morning around 9am Garbled Zombie and I were talking about how the post reached around 38 diggs, the highest digg count for any of our previously submitted articles. Out of no where the article reached 50 diggs and within minutes hit 100!
We were both ecstatic, but then StuffWeLike shut down. Yes we hit our CPU Quota. The traffic didn’t stop pouring in. I frantically decided to upgrade our servers. A little over 7 hours and almost 2000 diggs later the website came back online.
Yes, StuffWeLike got the crap kicked out of it also known as the ‘Digg Effect’, but we’re back with a vengeance!
Now that you know the story, also know that we’re trying our best to stay online and will continue to update the blog.
Thanks for your patience.
Get ready for advertisements to start appearing in StuffWeLike.com’s media player The Pipeline. However this does not mean we’re going to flood the player with ads! We hate “annoying” ads and understand that YOU hate them as well. We’re working with advertisers to create ads possible that don’t hinder your ability to use and enjoy videos on The Pipeline.
An affiliate program is also in the works so that you can make money off of these advertisements as well. Imagine being a blogger and embedding The Pipeline on your blog. All content will be automatically updated by StuffWeLike and you make a percent of the money that we make from the advertisements. It’s literally as simple as that.
Bottom line is don’t worry when you start seeing advertisements in the player. Support our sponsors and we’ll continue to support you by releasing great content via our blog and The Pipeline.
If you’d like to advertise in The Pipeline then email David Rodriguez davidrodriguez[AT]stuffwelike[DOT]com.
If we are in Another Internet Bubble, StuffWeLike is doomed then. A lot of companies are going to be bought out or go bankrupt within the next couple of years, but in my humble opinion the internet is growing as a more stable and viable platform.
The real reason why I made this post was to just show off my damn cool shirt as well as show you the video below entitled Here Comes Another Bubble.
Thanks to everyone that participated in the Open Web Awards! We had a great turn-out. The polls will open very soon, in which you’ll be able to vote on the best nominees.
So sit tight and prepare to vote!
We’ve seen a lot of media companies try to allow user generated content that both engaged and entertained its audience for hours on end. Now NBC’s Saturday morning kids’ block qubo
What makes Zimmer Twins different is the huge amount of options children have when creating their own videos. It’s not a mere choose a couple of clips and see how they work together. It’s choose a clip, change the background, change the character, add some text, and ultimately create a story.
The user interface to create your videos is very easy to use. Within minutes you’ll be able to create, edit, and publish a video.
qubo actually looks at all the user-generated videos and will air the best of these on TV!
