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From: Peter
To: Sinch
Date: Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:00 AM

Hi, just want to tell that there’s bug on the main page’s free download section - both video links point to the same clip. Greets! :)

Thanks, Peter. At least someone is paying attention. I know a lot of you probably downloaded the Tabula Rasa video a long time ago so you have no reason to click on that link, but c’mon! The new site has been up for a couple months now and no one caught that yet? What is the world coming to?

If anyone would like to apologize for not catching that broken link they can do so over on the contact page. We’ll be answering emails here on the blog, so if you’re gonna take the time to contact us, make it good. I’ll also be going through some old email and the metric fuckton of messages we’ve gotten through Myspace over the past few years, so if you’re still wondering about that email you sent us 5 years ago, there’s still hope!

Funniest thing I’ve seen on YouTube in a long time (maybe ever):

Steve Vai Shreds

Slash Shreds

Eddie Van Halen Shreds

Remember… wow, it must have been a couple years ago at this point… remember when we “launched” the “beta” version of something called “Sinch TV?” It’s OK, I’ll give you a minute to think. It was sort of a non-event but it was semi-significant if only for the fact that we finally got most of our videos online in one place (YouTube) and in an easy to watch format. Other than that, there wasn’t much to look at.

Last night, without any sort of planning ahead, I just decided to launch a new Sinch TV. I’m not exactly sure how I pulled it together… I think the allergy medicine must have had something to do with it. But by about 1:30am we had a new site.

We’re still in the process of adding all the stuff we had on YouTube and we’ll hopefully have some brand new stuff as well. Bear with us while we get everything worked out. It’s been like 2 years at this point so I’m sure you can wait another week or two.

The new site is built on two services/applications that we would recommend to anyone:

• Wordpress: an open source blogging platform

• Viddler: a video sharing site.

This site (Sinch.net) is actually built on Wordpress, so it’s probably nothing new to anyone who pays attention to that sort of thing. And we’ve actually had a few of our videos on Viddler for a while now, but never really made it a point to let anyone know.

Why the move from YouTube? Well, to be honest, the fact that I found a Wordpress theme specifically made to work with Viddler videos had a lot to do with it. But it’s also (I think) a superior site to YouTube in a couple of ways, mostly centered around the commenting features. Also we can upload much larger videos than YouTube allows.

If you’re looking for something more immediately noticeable, you can add comments to specific points in a video. You can’t do that on YouTube. So, now if you want to comment on Mike’s ball shaking technique, you have that ability. This also means that you can comment on our videos without leaving our site, even though they are just embedded videos coming from Viddler. To comment on a YouTube video you have to click through to their site and use their controls.

And the second cool feature we like is the ability to record video comments without leaving our site. If you have a web cam, you can just click “Record or Choose Video” underneath the comment form and record your own video responses to our videos. You can do something similar on YouTube, but again you’d have to leave our site to do it.

Note: Apparently there’s a bug in the theme I used that prevents the videos from showing up on some pages in Safari. Until we get it worked out, you can try another browser or check out our videos directly on Viddler

Happy Easter to all of you who care about that sort of thing. To celebrate here is the greatest video ever made:

A few months ago I posted a video of a cryptic trailer that was playing in theaters before Transformers. It’s a new super-secret project by JJ Abrams, the guy who created LOST. It’s still hard to tell exactly what’s going on but this new trailer sheds a little more light on what you can expect when the movie hits theaters in January.

As you would expect with something from the creator of LOST, there’s a ton of speculation as to what this movie is actually about. It’s most likely very inaccurate, but still kind of interesting to read.

I’m not sure where Hoogie-Boogie Land is or what you’re likely to find there, but apparently these guys can take you there. It’s quite an experience.

YouTube Video: Complete - Hoogie-Boogie Land

Jack Black is kind of hit or miss with me. Sometimes I think he’s really good (School of Rock) and other times he can be kind of annoying (mostly everything else). But his new movie (or at least this new movie that he’s in), Be Kind, Rewind, looks really good. It’s directed by Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), which probably has a lot to do with it, but I think Jack Black as actually a really good fit for this part. I probably would have seen this movie based on the concept alone, without even seeing the trailer:

A man becomes accidentally magnetized and erases all the tapes in the video store where his best friend works. To save the store, the duo re-enact and re-film every movie that its single loyal customer, an elderly woman, rents.

In case that isn’t enough for you, here’s the trailer:

This is almost certainly fake and probably part of some viral marketing campaign for Halo 3 or some other big budget project… but it’s totally the kind of UFO video I’ve been wanting to see my whole life. If this was real it would be the coolest thing ever filmed.

Here’s some footage from the upcoming Guitar Hero III featuring the song “Through The Fire and Flames” by Dragonforce. This is insane.

Behind the scenes video of the new Sprint TV spot, “Dreams”

You know, the one with all the people drawing stuff in the air with different colored lights? Every time I see it I can’t imagine how it all came together. This video shows some of what they did to make it work: