Category: Watch

Splashcast HotSpot

No this isn’t a new T-Mobile technology, it’s Splashcast silly! Splashcast is a company with its eyes set on building an interactive widget based multimedia service. It has been a while since they’ve released a new feature, but today is literally marks a new slate for Splashcast.

Not only did they introduce a new feature, they’ve completely redesigned their intuitive console. The console is where users create Channels, Shows, and upload their items. The new console layout makes Splashcast even easier to use. It is by far one of the most simple control schemes for any media service out there!

Splashcast’s new feature, HotSpots allows users to add a box within their media that can pop up an image or SWF file. On top of that the file can be linked to a third-party URL.

Video producers will be able to provide a new way for users to interact with their video. Additionally, advertisers will definitely get a kick out of the possibility for mega-product placement. In this world were no one has a definite answer to making BIG BUCKS in the online video realm, it’ll be very interesting to see how this affects Splashcast.

Currently Splashcast does not have an advertiser network of any kind for its video producers. So will it have to be up to video producers to find the advertisers and try to get them to place ads in their videos? How would that model exactly benefit Splashcast?

I’m still messing around with this HotSpot technology. Currently pictures from Facebook are not being recognized. Hopefully Splashcast will be able to fix this bug soon!

StuffWeLike uses Splashcast for its social network widgets: Facebook and MySpace. Click here for our previous coverage of Splashcast. You can see HotSpot in action below:

Tony Stark in Incredible Hulk scene

Our dear friend Tony has been getting around a lot these days. I guess anyone can afford that when you’re a multi-billionaire. Tony Stark aka Iron Man is in The Incredible Hulk. Yes if this is a spoiler to you, then you obviously haven’t seen the film. Well I haven’t seen the film, but I heard about it with the net-vines.

Of course StuffWeLike went scowering across the webs for any related video to bring to you loyal readers and of course we succeeded.

Unlike our previous Samuel L. Jackson video in Iron Man, hopefully this Tony Stark video won’t have to be taken offline. It seems as if this video is an official trailer. If it ain’t it’ll probably have to be taken down. So watch it while you can.

If this isn’t an incentive to go watch The Incredible Hulk, I don’t know what is.

Death Race remake trailer online

The original Death Race 2000 was a comedy. Granted it was dark and very sick with drivers including Sly Stallone racing from A to B performing hit and run’s to gain points. The remake is set in a prison and has almost the same with drivers going around a track in the prison for a television audience. The big bit missing is how you don’t gain points from running over innocents in the way of the race. Perhaps it was considered too dark for a modern popcorn flick but having Jason Statham in this movie is a huge bonus. Plus you have Lovejoy also in it.
Continue reading “Death Race remake trailer online”

MYST DS Giveaway Contest

Yes you read correctly we’re giving away MYST for the Nintendo DS! Many thanks to Empire Interactive for supplying us with 4 retail copies of the game. You have until June 25, 2008 to enter! Watch the video below for all the rules.

If you don’t feel like going onto the YouTube video to write a comment, you can post one in this post.

Youtube Uploads 1024 megabytes!!!

Youtube has increased the maximum upload capacity for videos from 100 megabytes to 1024 megabytes! This increase will allow for some major high resolution videos to be viewed on the mega-video site. Additionally video producers can upload multiple videos at once using an extra downloadable software pack.

Videos still have the 10 minute cap.

In other related news Youtube launched a new feature called Youtube Annotations.

[Update]

I’ve uploaded a 800 megabyte file onto YouTube:

Looks like crap. Click on the video and read its description for more information. I guess higher resolution videos won’t come from higher storage upload.