Live from Viddler HQ, again
I’m live again from the Viddler HQ in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. I like keeping track of the things we accomplish when we get together not only for myself to review, but also so that you can follow along.
9:30am - Woke up around 6, left at around 7:30, arrived at Viddler HQ - hit up Starbucks for Rob to get his “fix”, and now we’re at the office.
The first order of business? Update the featured videos on the explore page for the week. These videos are hand picked by internal staff so if you see a video highlighted there, you know we all really like the video and the use of Viddler.
10:00am - Donna just got here and now it is time to go through some community strategy.
10:09am - Before we head off to the conference room, maybe any of you could leave some suggestions.
Go to Viddler.com and find a video you like and leave a suggestion.
12:37pm - Great strategy meeting. Hopefully some of the ideas we generated during it will be put into play pretty soon. Exciting things not only for Viddler but anyone that wishes to promote their video online.
Rob, Donna, and I at the Viddler HQ
1:09pm - Rob just ordered some lunch (I’m starving). I’m getting a “huge salad”.
Donna is sitting next to me on a brand new HP laptop running Vista. Donna is no slouch when it comes to computers and she’s spent about 30-minutes trying to get a printer running. I think Vista is showing its true colors for sure right now.
Maybe I can get the Viddler team, since Andrew and I are already running Mac OS X, to switch? Oh wait, Rob needs the nipple (more on this later).
Be sure to check out the new featured header I created for this post.
2:26pm - Lunch was good! I’m actually really full. Now back to writing today’s blog post!
4:09pm - Finished today’s featured videos blog entry (look for it on the blog after it is reviewed). I can’t wait to be able to create those types of posts much quicker with some of the tools I envision…. more on this later.
For now, enjoy a photo we got right before lunch. It is the serious version of the one you see in the new header promoting this post.
5:06pm - The featured video post for this week has been published. It is nice to have all of the featured videos in one location to quickly flip between them.
5:36pm - I’m on my way home. Good day.
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February 8th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Hey, did anyone on the Viddler team go to Lehigh? I’m class of ‘99.
February 8th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Viddler started in Fall of 2005 at Lehigh University’s Entrepreneurship Annex while my partner Donna DeMarco was finishing up her Masters in Computer science and I was finishing up my Computer Science & Business Degree. After developing a few prototypes we won the first ever business plan competition for a Lehigh grant. Viddler HQ is actually currently incubated on Mountain Top campus, at Jordan Hall.
Scott, you ever work with Darron Schall or Robert Hall out of Philly?
February 8th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
[...] privilege of writing this post from the Viddler headquarters in Bethlehem, PA! Rob, Donna and I are having a ball going through all of the videos that our users have uploaded - here are some of the ones that we [...]
February 8th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
I have not worked with either of those fellows. I’m something of a cyber hermit.
Very cool about Viddler starting at Lehigh. Go Engineers (or Mountain Hawks, if you must)!
February 9th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
My favorite part of the printer install was when I went to Epson’s site for “vista compatible” print drivers: “If your printer is grayed out, no vista driver is available yet.”
hmm. hope i don’t need to print for a while
Or maybe I can install bon jour….
February 9th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Donna: I pity you.
Although Bonjour will help you to detect available printers I am not sure if it will help Vista to print to it. Vista has no problem recognizing that the printer is available, its make and model-number, or any of that jazz. It simply won’t send data to the printer without having the proper drivers.
So, I guess you’ll just have to get a Mac.