Comment Contest: How is User Generated Content Changing Business?
Interested in user generated content and the positive impact it can have on your business? Mediabistro’s UGCX is headed to New York City from October 20-21, and will be exploring how user generated content is changing the business landscape and the ways you can get involved and generate revenue.
As a media sponsor of UGCX, Mashable has two tickets to give away to the conference, each valued at $345. To enter, let us know in the comments before September 18: “How is user generated content changing business?” Answers will be judged based on creativity and winners will be contacted via email (see rules below).
How to Enter and Win
The giveaway: Comment on this post by September 18th at 12:00 pm PT with the answer to the question, “How is user generated content changing business?” Entries will be judged based on creativity and originality, and winners will be contacted via email.
Rules: Only one comment per person, please (duplicates will be disqualified). Please use a Disqus account to comment, or sign in as a guest. We’ll need to pull your email address from your comment to notify you if you’ve won, so Twitter and Facebook Connect do not work!
Prize: Two winners will each receive a ticket to UGCX in New York City. You’ll still be responsible for arranging your own hotel and travel accommodations. Tickets are not transferable.
Notification: Winners will be notified within one business day via email.
About UGCX
October 20-21, 2009, New York City: Following the success of Mediabistro’s UGCX in San Jose last February, the fall 2009 conference will uncover the best places to target and maximize content, optimize customer data, and generate revenue as the big shift in media continues to take shape. Learn the best ways to incorporate the customer into your business plan to positively affect bottom line revenue. Discover how to aggregate, analyze, and organize data to provide a better brand experience to customers and partners. And learn how businesses and individuals can harness and take advantage of the powerful voice of the customer. Register with promo code UGCMASH and save 20%!
Mashable is a media sponsor of UGCX.
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Demo: FireFox 3.5 Treats Videos Like Web Pages. Why Can’t Flash Do That?
Mike Beltzner, the director of Firefox, was in New York City today and dropped by my office to talk about Firefox 3.5, which is now officially being rolled out as a “preview” version (a very stable beta) to everyone using the current 3.5 beta. Firefox 3.5 is supposedly much faster than earlier versions, which is always a good thing. Honestly, the nanosecond speed differences between most of today’s latest browsers is becoming hard to detect. Three features of Firefox 3.5 which stand out for me are: 1) its embrace of open-source video standards, 2) its geo-location capabilities, and 3) support for downloadable fonts and other graphic tricks.
In the video above, Beltzner demos some of the new video and graphics capabilities of Firefox 3.5. Built into the browser is a video player based on the open-source video formats Ogg Vorbis and Theora. The video player supports HTML5, which means that links and other interactive elements can easily be placed inside videos. The demo page Beltzner shows in the video can be found here (but the effects only work if you are looking at it in Firefox 3.5). Being able to treat the content inside videos like Web pages opens up a whole new world of possibilities for Web video. Already, DailyMotion offers all of its videos in the Ogg Theora format. If this takes off, Flash video could be come history.
Look closely at what Beltzner is showing off in the video, because you can’t do any of that with Flash.
Update: There is a lot of great debate in the comments about whether or not you can do this stuff in Flash. Technically, you can, but the only examples I’ve seen are where the entire page is done in Flash or a proprietary overlay is being used. The videos in the demo all sit within regular Web pages and are written in HTML5. What is interesting in my mind about the Ogg Vorbis format is that it makes videos programmable. Videos today are still for the most part siloed off from the rest of the Web in their Flash players as a separate experience. It is time to break down those walls.
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