This years Macworld in San Francisco’s Moscone Center was a true bonanza. My experience this year can be summed up to the following activities: useless products, truly innovative products, free stuff, raffles, and more raffles.

Thousands of people from around the world come to Macworld this year. Young and the old from all facids of life come together to appreciate the Apple craze that spreads like wildfire. Mac fanatics were all over the place wearing over the top clothing that made me think they just came from Burning Man. Sometimes you can spot a celebrity or two at Macworld (Sinbad this year). Bloggers where everywhere with their pads, notebooks, and video cameras. Live streaming idiots where showcasing their favorite technology picks, and I even saw iJustine herslelf making her rounds with her infectious smile.

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Clipta Video Search staff and I attended the Fourth Annual Silicon Valley Open Doors (SVOD) event on November 20^th-21^st.  The SVOD conference assembled a diverse audience of venture capitalists and specialists representing premier venture capital funds along with early state companies and entrepreneurs.

As soon as we arrived to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, we were greeted with anxious and open arms (special thanks to Rebecca for all her help!). Whether we were participating in the exhibition, listening to powerful speakers, or enjoying the delightful buffet, Clipta Staff was thankful for all the interesting events put on by SVOD.

I was especially thrilled to  met with an array of technology experts including Guy Kawasaki (Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures), Ester Dyson (Director of 23 and Me), Daniel Rosensweig (Operating Principal, Quadrangle Group LLC; formerly COO of Yahoo!; President of CNET Networks; CEO of ZDNet, Inc), and many others.

We were excited and honored to exhibit at SVOD this year, and thank all of those who showed interest in Clipta Video Search and its products.

Check out some photos from the event:

Today I switched from watching news on TV to watching video news on Clipta Video News Search (http://news.clipta.com). Ever since my job demanded that I sit at my computer all day long, I have been looking for a website where I could find the most recent breaking news, from more than just one source. CNN was my outlet. But I soon got agitated with only getting Wolf Blizter at the Situation room, and random video news clips that I had to endlessly sort through.

Like an internet ‘TV-Guide’, Clipta news search made it more appealing, fun, and simple to find news from the leading news content providers. After messing around with the site for a day, I was hooked. It was such a relief to be able to use the timeline to search back as far as I wanted, with news updated almost immediately. I was itching to get Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC news clips from before the election, and there it was! The Clipta news videos are streamed with incredible speed and delivered in the highest of quality. I now get enjoy a much larger selection of premium news providers, not just CNN …no offense Mr. Blizter.

If you have not checked out Clipta News Search yet, beware…you’ll get hooked too.

-alan

As part of our dedication to offer our unique services and allow you to watch videos in your own language and from your own country, Clipta staff is proud to announce today’s release of the German Clipta Platform - a fully multilingual conversion of Clipta services and videos in the German language.

Available at http://de.clipta.com, users on Clipta’s German platform can now browse, search, find, and view German videos uploaded by their friends and neighbors, while enjoying the all the same innovative features, applications, and tools.

Let us know what you think of the new platform here on Clipta Blog or on our Forums.

Check it out and … Geniesst! That’s enjoy to all you non Deutsche speakers

- Clipta Staff

It’s been eight long years since the boys said “wassup” to each other. Even with the effects of a down economy and imminent change in the White House, the boys are still able to come together and stay true to what really matters.

What an awesome ending to a powerful message. I gotta say, the boys know “wwaaaasssssuuuuuppppp”!

Today I was looking for a video to help me with my golf swing. For months now, I have been having a wicked slice that keeps sending my ball to the other side of the golf course.  I even hit some dude the other day who was putting on another hole. Luckily he was a nice guy who didn’t decide to make my life miserable and sue me. It’s irritating and I can’t take it anymore. Lessons these days cost an arm and a leg. I consider myself to have a fairly good visual memory, so I thought it would be a good idea to look at a golf pros golf swing.

I started searching on clipta.com for “Tiger Woods Swing Vision”, and luckily I found a great clip that shows Tigers swing in slow motion. It’s just incredible that he can keep his body so still while taking his backswing. It then hit me, I could put this video on my ipod using clipta’s converter. This way I can visually remind myself what I need to do with my backswing while on the course. I decided to download the video from my Clipta toolbar to my desktop. I already had the Clipta converter downloaded, and decided that I should convert it to mp4 format so that I could send this video to my ipod classic. It worked out perfectly and I was able to watch the video last week when I was playing 18.

After eagerly awaiting the arrival of the new Clipta Toolbar 1.3, I am impressed.

The new Clipta toolbar has several unique features that all users can, and should, take advantage of:

• A search bar that gives you instant access to the millions of videos in Clipta’s database.
• A ‘Featured Videos’ link that opens up to a one of a kind 3D wall display of a variety of videos, including Clipta’s featured videos, Movie Trailers, US Election Videos, and more.
• A ‘Video Captured’ link that allows you to embed videos to your favorite sites, and download videos straight to your computer!

Enjoy the interactive 3D wall of video display as you find and discover your favorite videos. I have yet to visit a site that allows me to browse through the featured videos with such creative and innovative technology. Today, you get to watch up-to-date, high quality videos on the US Elections, new Movie Trailers, and the most recent featured videos through Clipta’s state-of-the-art video player.

Clipta Toolbar 1.3 also allows you to save videos, no matter what the source, to your computer. The Clipta toolbar has a “Video’s captured” button that gives you the option to playback, save, and share any video you watch. In addition, the Clipta toolbar enables you to link, embed and share viewed videos directly to over 20 of your favoirte websites (including MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Friendster and many others).

This simple and useful application is one of a kind. I can now watch my favorite videos through Clipta’s incredible video player and save it to my computer.

Check it out for yourself and download the new Clipta Toolbar 1.3 at http://video.clipta.com/clipta_toolbar.php

Let me know what you think!

Alan Masarsky

Marketing Director

As the title says the upload is up again. We apologise again for the inconvenience.

We were forced to disable the uploads due the fact we should have received some servers last Friday and as you can see we didn’t. The “encoding issues” we had Sunday we’re caused by the same thing, but then we could delete some extra files to make some more room but now the servers hard-drives are 100% full. We hope our servers weren’t kidnapped by the Talibans and will come soon.

We’re very sorry for what happened but right now there’s nothing we can do till the servers arrive…unless anyone could invent a teleporter …anyone?

Dear Clipta Users!

Clipta has grown tremendously thanks to your efforts! We will keep providing high quality service to all of you! Currently we are looking for active Clipta users to promote to Moderators. If you love videos and are actively involved with Clipta, you have a chance to become a moderator. Get respect from your fellow users and help make Clipta even better! You must speak English and be fluent in any other language. Anyone interested is free to apply. If you become a moderator, you will gain a high status on Clipta as well as some monetary benefits.

We are eager to hear from you!
Clipta Staff.