An Introduction to StatusNet Video
Today we put a nice Introduction to StatusNet video on the main page of StatusNet. We are always striving to better explain why StatusNet is great for you, your projects and your business, from indy to enterprise. We had the help of StatusHero Robert Martinez (known as @mray) whom created the video and Pete Ippel (@hypermodern) whom made the voiceover. And, because we believe in web standards and working working towards them as with OStatus, we are putting this video out using the html5 video tag. We hope in the future that more browsers will support open web video. If you can't play the video please try downloading the source files, or if you believe the video should play in your browser, please file a report in our issue tracker.
(Screenshot only; you can watch the video on the front page!)
Let us know what you think of the video! It is Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licensed and we hope that more people will create videos to explain StatusNet, how they are using the software and service. If you do, we have created a wiki page for sharing source files and your creations: http://status.net/wiki/Video And, if you create a video that is great, I'll personally send you a nice new StatusNet t-shirt, some stickers and we'll let the world know how you are great!
UPDATE: Music track used by permission of the artist, Mike Else/Professor Kliq (http://www.professorkliq.com).
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Comments
selling the concept more immediately to tweeters
FWIW if re-ordering what's in the video, I'd begin with what's at the 0:25 mark.
Make it immediately understandable that:
* StatusNet can do more than Twitter
* StatusNet can do your tweets for you
— I'd call this 'cross-posting', maybe 'automatic cross-posting'
* it's not an 'either-or' thing; you can use both StatusNet and Twitter.
My underlying thought: with the words "Twitter" and "tweet" so much in public consciousness, you need something to really grab that audience. Maybe describe StatusNet as (amongst other things) an "app for working with Twitter — and more".
Hmmm
Well, its a nice video, but I still have absolutely no idea what status.net IS, or what it does. Besides something to do with microblogging...
Further more, I cant find a specific explanation anywhere on the site.
I'll keep looking ;)
J
Thanks
This video is great!
Great expectations
I found these by searching a backlink from a site, I thought it had found something great here, I've seen the video - but I did not fully understand how it could work for me.
At least I'll learn before until I signed up.
Great
Let me know if I can help explain better. I'll get the sources up as well so we can allow for fanedits :)
Could be better
I thought it was a good first attempt, however you need to show how status.net is much more dynamic in comparison to other status-driven social websites, such as twitter, facebook, etc.
Cool
Thanks SJ, its a good first attempt, but we'd like to make more and also encourage more people to help as well. Cheers!
Mind numbingly boring,
Mind numbingly boring, boarding on miserable. Much better off with no video / slide show on the front page than that.
Thanks for the film review, Mr. Ebert
The response on this video so far has been overwhelmingly positive, so we're going to keep it.
But don't feel like you have to watch it again if you don't want to.
"Let us know what you think
"Let us know what you think of the video!"
You know, you could have just given me a genuine thank you for my genuine opinion. After all, it was requested. I did take the time to give it. I think that deserves more than a sarcastic comment. Not all reviews and comments have to be glowing, or do you not know that?
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