I don’t want to ride the wave like others crying out load and saying this is the worst day in my life, but it is sad, it is sad because Stage6 in my opinion was the only REAL logical future pathway towards high quality videos online, REAL high quality, I know there are other web services now that do provide this service, but again in my opinion it is not with the same ease like Stage6 because stage6 uses a format we all knew for a long time which is DivX.
Now they are claiming that they tried to convert it to a private company or to sell it but those plans couldn’t be implemented:
So why are we shutting the service down? Well, the short answer is that the continued operation of Stage6 is a very expensive enterprise that requires an enormous amount of attention and resources that we are not in a position to continue to provide. There are a lot of other details involved, but at the end of the day it’s really as simple as that.
Now, why didn’t we think of that before we decided to create Stage6 in the first place, you may ask? That’s a good question. When we first created Stage6, there was a clear need for a service that would offer a true high quality video experience online because other video destinations on the Internet simply weren’t providing that to users. A gap existed, and Stage6 arrived to fill it.
In simple words, the costs are just too much to handle, especially when other services are there providing high quality video streaming. I guess the people who got screwed the most are those sites which were built totally depending on Stage6 videos embedded on their pages, those are going to face big problems and they will need to switch to other services. The funny/sad/crazy thing is that Stage6 is giving only 3 day notice to access the videos on the site!!
Most people are moving now towards Google Video and Veoh, I think Youtube have already announced that they are going to launch a new service for high quality videos, I guess people might jump to that also. But again the kind of ease and quality that Stage6 has I still cant see it anywhere else, who knows maybe a new service might come up and cleverly fill this gap which will be created by the shutdown of Stage6.
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February 26th, 2008
I think by now everybody knows how much I just love watching this show, I wish it is a daily show such as “Alqahira Alyaum” and “Al3ashera Masa2an”. Hamdi Qandeel is just genius, he makes it seem so simple, he says what each one in this Arab world wants to say, its like he collects the thoughts of all the people in the Arab world and put them in an hour episode.
Before having this blog I used to have an active channel on youtube, having hundreds of videos from “AlQahira Alayaum”, “Al3ashera Masa2an”, “Qalam Rasas” and other shows, I used to get a lot of requests from Arabs who live abroad from all nationalities to upload some parts of the show. I used to upload as much as I can but it was time consuming, anyway I will try to upload the FULL episode of “Qalam Rasas” weekly on Google Video.
In this week’s episode the most strange thing is the interview Hamdi Qandeel had over the satellite from Amman with “Hayat Elhowaik” and from Cairo with “Hussain Ahmad Amin” from the American University. It was about the new rules the Arab governments trying to start to lower the freedom level in the private Arabic channels, especially the political shows, the discussion showed the real meaning of those new rules when we see one of the makers of those rules not having any manners in the way he is discussing the matter. As usually a very interesting episode by Hamdi Qandeel. Enjoy!
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February 20th, 2008
I know this is months old video, but believe me still not a lot of people saw it, although am not an American and although am not a fan of Hillary Clinton, but this video shocked me big time. This is even just a 14 minutes trailer, the full documentary is one hour long and can be purchased online.
I know that some feel that Hillary is creepy and that she is cold, regardless of her fake tear dropping performance lately, and that she just doesn’t look like a good person, but after seeing this video all your doubts are confirmed. This is not your usual propaganda videos, this is real, and you will see that it is real when you see this video.
Here is PART ONE:
Here is PART TWO:
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January 12th, 2008
Upload your videos to the major 9 video sharing networks automatically, you can also track those videos and get all different kind of statistics such as views stats and share stats and others more. You can also send those stats to multiple emails.
And if you upload your video to VidMetrix using their uploader you will be able to track where your video gets embedded, what kind of traffic it gets on those embedded sites, and for how long was your video played.
The 9 video sharing networks you can automatically upload your videos to are: AOL Uncut, Daily Motion, Google Video, Metacafe, Myspace, Revver, Veoh, YouTube, Yahoo Video
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December 5th, 2007
This guy keeps amazing me every day, he amzingly hijacked the format of the (Brown & Black Forum) to ask himself a question. Really clever and he ended up actually asking a pretty good question.
Have a look at the following video:
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December 4th, 2007
There is a huge number of video sharing websites on the internet, that is no new news, but what if you want to share a video with a family member or a friend and you don’t want all the world to see it.
Here comes “SeeToo”, a new service that allows you to stream videos directly from your PC to your friend. All what you have to do is download a client and then give a link to your relative or friend and when they go to the page you will be able to stream videos live from your PC and chat. The video will not be saved on “SeeToo” server. Which means if you give the link to your friend and you are not connected he wont be able to see anything. Simply put, its live broadcasting your videos privately to whoever you want.
“SeeToo” is still in Private Beta and they might start Public Beta by the end of the year.
[Via AppScout]
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November 22nd, 2007
Nobody is talking about it, I never heard about anything like this until now. I am talking about the “Storm Worm”. We all know worms, Sasser is a famous example, but these worms we know are simple and easily noticeable, simply because they were fastly spread.
Apparently this worm appeared in January and is spreading steadily since then, this worm affects machines that run windows, which means around 90% of the machines used in the world. It first appeared hidden in email attachments with the subject “230 dead as storm batters Europe”. The infected machines became part of a BotNet, no one knows how big is this BotNet but professionals estimate that it might be between a million and 50 million computers worldwide by now.
Yes, it is pretty scary, because until now this person or organization is not using this BotNet heavily or for anything big, which means they are waiting for the right time, maybe the right price who knows?!
To get the full picture and read dull details , please read this article written by John Naughton in “The Observer”.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,2195730,00.html
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October 22nd, 2007
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