Last night’s Clipta Video Search Meetup was a great success thanks to all the guests and panelists who made it out!
Despite the terrible traffic conditions due to the Bay Bridge closing, Club Mighty was filled with a community of entrepreneurs, video enthusiasts and industry leaders – including CEO of Sports Business Simulations and Bay Area Vlogger, Zenophon Abraham, and Cuil’s VP of Biz Dev. Seval Oz Ozveren. While our President, Serge Doubinski, and I demonstrated Clipta’s services, the crowd enjoyed free drinks, and shortly after listened to guest speakers Justin Kan (justin.tv), Tobias Peggs (OneRiot), Jamie Davidson (YouTube Search), and our very own Lenny Doubinski, share their insights about the future online video.
We finished the night with a Clipta Raffle, where 5 lucky winners went home with either an iPod Nano, iTouch, iFlip Ultra, or gift basket from Blue Angle Vodka (congrats!!).
We were excited not only to have an engaged audience at Club Mighty, but we hit over 3,300 views from people tuned in last night @ http://justin.tv/CliptaMeetup!
Julie Blaustein took some excellent photos of the event – see the full photo album here. The photos will also be available on our Facebook Page. Here are a few samples of her pics:
Yesterday, Barack Hussein Obama was inaguarated as the 44th president of the United State of America. Millions around the world were glued to their tv sets or their monitors. I spent my time on Clipta News so that I could see clip highlights rather than watching all the boring stuff in between.
Everyone is interested in the every day life of the Obama’s. They are of course the most famous people on the planet. Even the Obama’s trying to find a dog has become an important topic for Americans. Its pretty ridiculous if you ask me. I can care less what kind of dog he gets. Nevertheless, people are overly concerned with what dog the Obama’s should get, and just recently a headline story has caught my attention. A little boy in Pennsylvania is offering his puppy to the Obamas. He even wrote a letter attached with a picture of the dog, and it is now in the hands of a senator that is promising to deliver it to the Obama’s. Pure garbage news that should not even see the light of day unless they actually decided to accept the dog from the boy. Even then it should still be as important as a guy in Texas deciding to name his diner after ex-president Bush. If you want your 15 minutes of fame just call up your local TV station and let them know your are offering stuff to the Obama’s.
Watch as President Barack Obama takes his history oath as the 44th President of the United States. Clipta Video News will stream breaking news from CNN, ABC, FOX and MSNBC of the inauguration and the ceremonies that follow at http://news.clipta.com.
Today marks the commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr., the chief spokesman of the nonviolent civil rights movement, which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law. Soon after his assassination in 1968, many campaigned for a federal holiday in King’s honor. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan sign the holiday into law, and it was first observed in 1986.
Check out this video to learn more about Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King’s ‘dream’ behind the civil rights movement.
Yesterday’s US Airways plane crash on the Hudson River in New York City is truly a miracle. Pilot Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III of Daniville, CA, safely landed flight 1549. Sully’s experience and training paid off more than he thought it would ever pay off. He is now considered a national hero for landing the plan safely in the water and saving 155 lives.
From what I heard on various news providers on Clipta News, is that a bunch of ducks flew into the path of the plane and jammed both engines at once. This is considered to be a very rare occurrence. Usually, only one engine gets damaged and the other engine still allows the plane to fly and land safely on a runway. Statistically, 1 out of 10,000 planes have accidents with flying birds getting sucked into the engines of a plane (ouch!!).
In today’s rough world with bad news constantly being regurgitated by the media, it’s refreshing to actually hear some good news. A heroic act is always news worthy. I wish more people would try to do good things to become famous, rather than the crazies out there killing people to get their name in the paper.
I am sure that some producer in Hollywood will take advantage of this incident and try to monetize on it. “Miracle on the Hudson” will probably be the best fitting title for the movie. If it ever does become a movie, I probably won’t watch it. What’s the point, I already know how it ends.
The whole Clipta Staff wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
2009 will be an exciting year for Clipta. We will be improving as well as launching an array of new products that will surely make Clipta.com the must go-to destination for video search.
I was moving into my new apartment in South Beach district of San Francisco this weekend. The amenities in my building are far better than the last place I lived, which had no amenities. One of the amenities at my new place is the 24 hour Concierge service.
I just moved and already the concierge service has been very useful. I had to use a luggage cart to haul in a bunch of stuff so I went over to the concierge desk to ask for it.
The concierge was in the middle of watching a new video on CNN.com as I walked around his desk to get the cart. It was now my duty to let him know about Clipta News. I told him that not only can you watch CNN videos on Clipta News, but he can also watch other top new sources on Clipta News without having to venture to other sites. He was happy to take a look and I showed him not only can he see multiple news sources on an easy to use platform, but also the capabilities to go back into time to see what news was broadcasted the day and time he was interested in.
I then left him be to check it out while I continued my moving process. By the way, moving sucks! I must hold some sort of record for moving to so many different apartments within the same city in the last 5 years (7 apartments).
After I was done using the luggage cart, I brought it back to the concierge and the guy was still on Clipta News. He said that he was convinced and willing to convert to using Clipta News from now on. The best part about it is that it is only going to get better with the future release of many more news providers, and the implementation of news categories.
I was watching Clipta News today and watched a video about a lawsuit filed by Joe Satriani vs. Coldplay. Joe is claiming that part of his song, “If I could fly”, which was written back in 2004, was plagiarized by Coldplay. Their latest hit from their new album “Viva La vida” has a verse that is almost identical to that of Satriani’s song. I searched both music videos on Clipta video search and realized that Satriani is not making it up. I am a huge Coldplay fan, but it sounds too similar for it to be a coincidence. Take a look and tell me what you think.
I do not know if anyone is aware of this, but Clipta Video Search Headquarters is located on the same property as Craigslist headquarters in the Inner Sunset district of San Francisco. You would never think that two technology companies are located at this property. The building is an old three story Victorian painted in a bland grey color and located in an area sprawled with restaurants and small boutique shops.
The Craigslist staff is a good group of people and very polite. Sometimes even Craig himself walks around the property, and on occasion plays with the my dog Shera that comes to work with me from time to time. However, I only had one problem when we first moved in. I had to keep the gate open for deliveries, because a gate buzzer was not installed at the time. The staff would keep closing the gate after I would ask everyone to keep it open for delivery purposes. Every time I would open the gate again, a craigslist staff member would close it. I got very frustrated and decided that I need to go up to their office and speak to someone about it. I started explaining my dilemma to the office manager when a huge intimidating man got out of his chair and walked up to me. It was Jim Buckmaster, the CEO of Craigslist. He looked at me as if he was going to rip my head off for giving craigslist trouble with the gate. I have never been so intimidated by anyone in my life. I’m 6’ 2” and it felt like I was looking at Andre the Giant. We went outside to talk and he explained to me that in the past they had crazy people come up to their offices to harass the staff and it became a safety issue. That was a good enough reason for me, and since then have always closed the gate behind me.
I will mention a funny experience I had at our office due to sharing space with Craigslist. One day someone buzzes our office from the gate, and I couldn’t make out what they wanted so I decided to walk to the gate to see who it was. A Craigslist staff members was already at the gate trying to understand a lady with very poor English with her hands on her head looking like she had antennas growing out. I realized that she was of Russian descent and figured I would help as an interpreter. She was so relieved that I could understand her, and she started explaining to me that she saw a TV for sale on craigslist and she wanted to buy it. I couldn’t hold it in and started cracking up in front of her. I later felt bad about it, but it was too hilarious. She actually thought craigslist was selling the TV.
While we do understand everybody wants to get their money as fast as possible and we do the best we can to achieve that, please try to understand as as well. The number of people requesting money has went very high, compared to not too long ago. I don’t think that anyone can say they were not payed, but please don’t mail after 2-3 days saying you didn’t get your money yet, wait at least a week and then you can “spam” us regarding that issue :).
We did some modification to the money request form, so we hope it will go faster now. Time will tell, but at the same time with adding more and more language versions there will be more and more people. So we ask just for a bit of patience… that’s all
