Several of our new shows in 2009 were nominated:
- Film Riot is nominated for “Best Produced”
- ROFL is nominated in the category of “Comedy”
- CO-OP is in the running for the “Gaming” category

Film Riot is also joined by some of our classic shows: Diggnation, Scam School and Tekzilla, as nominees for the very competitive category of “Best Video Podcast.” We’re honored to represent 40% of the nominees in that category!

We want to thank all of you, our loyal Revision3 audience in your support of our shows and for nominating them to be considered for these awards. We love the Podcast Awards because it’s completely audience submitted and voted on. In previous years, Diggnation and The Totally Rad Show have won, and we’d love to add some more wins in 2009.

So you know what to do! Head over to the Podcast Awards website and show your love! You can vote once a day, every day, until the voting period closes on November 30th. Winners will be announced during a live Podcast Awards Ceremony in mid-December - exact date is currently TBA. For updates along the way, you can follow @podcastawards on Twitter, or Podcast Connect, Inc. coordinator, Todd Cochrane at @geeknews.

So with our deepest gratitude, you guys rock! Your loyalty and support keeps us going. Thanks and let’s get some great Revision3 shows some wins!

Specifically of note in this most recent episode (that would be 227) is that Kevin finally ditched his beloved Mac to use a Windows 7 PC -but not just any PC, the brand new Nokia Booklet 3G.

Next up, we wanted to make sure everyone knows about the fact that we’ll be doing a live Diggnation for the 2nd time this year in New York City. We’ll be at The Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center on November 17th from 7pm until late. We’d love it if you would let us know if you can come see us by RSVPing on our Facebook event page.

Coming later this month, we’ll have brand new Diggnation branded hoodies in the Revision3 Store. We just may be throwing some out into the crowd at
the New York live show.

Finally, also in the store later this month, expect to see the first official Diggnation DVD. In it, we’ll have a compilation of best of moments from 200+ episodes of Diggnation, some deleted scenes (yes, we have actually deleted scenes), plus never before seen footage from live events and other behind the scenes footage. Oh and we pieced together every last joke sponsor of Diggnation into a whopping 25 minutes of back-to-back joke sponsors - it is quite an entertaining piece of video.

Thanks for reading and for all of your support through the years!

- David Prager

Yes Brian, There is a Santa Claus

A few weeks ago I got a message from Revision3 fan Brian Desmon, asking whether there was any chance of Revision3 shows appearing on Roku’s groundbreaking internet video box – known mostly for its integration with Netflix on Demand.

I had to skirt the issue – but no more! Finally I can tell the world! Revision3 will be on Roku! Our amazing team of web designers and developers have been slaving over the implementation for the last few months – and their amazing efforts have borne some pretty tasty fruit.

I still can’t say exactly when, beyond “very soon now”. But I can give you a sneak peek of what it’ll look like. Check out this week’s Tekzilla for a look at the upcoming Revision3 channel on Roku. And if you don’t have a Roku, what are you waiting for? It streams Baseball, Netflix movies and Amazon Unbox today, with a wide variety of other video channels coming soon.

The box itself costs $99. And unlike today’s services, we’re going to be 100% free – and in amazing high definition as well (if your internet connection is fast enough).

That’s right, now there’s even more reason to buy a Roku! So if you love our shows, and want to watch them on a big TV, pick up a Roku today. They make great holiday presents too.. (hint hint).

Check out this demo of the Revision3 channel on Roku:

Basically, it’s a way to enjoy the best of Internet Television on your computer or television. Boxee is the first “social” media center, whose free, downloadable software is changing the way we experience home entertainment. On a computer or connected to an HDTV, boxee allows you a simple way to bring all their entertainment into one place including personal movies, TV shows, music and photos, as well as streaming content from websites like Netflix, MLB.TV, Comedy Central, Pandora, Last.fm, and flickr. You can also share information about what you’re watching so friends can enjoy it too through legal sources online. It’s pretty darn cool and I’ve been using it for the majority of my Internet TV watching.

So, when the gang over at Boxee called us up and offered to create a Revision3 app for Boxee, we jumped at the opportunity! Any chance to make it easy for you, our audience, to watch Revision3 on your big screen TV (or any size, really) is definitely something we want to provide. Avner Ronan, Boxee’s CEO said, “”From Tekzilla to the Digg Reel to Co-Op, HD Nation, and Hak5 - Rev3 makes great shows that are available around the globe, on demand. They’re a great fit for Boxee, and we’re excited about the new interface we’ve created with them to encourage more people to watch Rev3 on their big screen.” Avner’s a great guy and so nice of him to say such kind words about Revision3!

If you’re looking for a new and cool way to watch Revision3, we strongly suggest you check out Boxee and install the Revision3 app. I can’t stop playing with it, it’s so cool. Just hook up your media center PC or your laptop to your TV, load up Revision3 on Boxee and then you’re on your way to hours of Revision3 fueled entertainment!

So head over to Boxee’s website, download the client and check it out for yourself.

Here’s what the Revision3 App on Boxee looks like:

Imagine browsing Revision3 with your remote control on your couch! Not bad, eh?

Huge thanks to our friends over at Boxee for putting the app together and helping us make it easier and better for you to watch Revision3 on Boxee!

Let us know what you think of the Revision3 app on Boxee!

Here at Revision3, we’re cranking it up like it was October, not August. We’ve got two huge announcements today, one that brings you great new functionality to our website, and another that brings you a wonderful new show to watch.

BRAND NEW SHOW: Let’s start with the new show! I’m proud to announce that today we’re launching AppJudgment, which will bring you reviews of mobile phone applications, including those for the iPhone, Android phones, Blackberry, Pre and even Windows Mobile.

This show is a little different for Revision3, as it sits somewhere in between our longer form shows like HD Nation and Tekzilla, and our shorter, daily Tekzilla Tip of the Day. We’ll be releasing new episodes of AppJudgment three times a week, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and each will generally run between two and four minutes. Each episode will focus on either a single application, or 2-4 apps in the same category. It’s a little like what you might see as a segment on Tekzilla, but in this case we’re releasing it as its own show.

Why not just do one a week with three segments? In part, because we think the shorter form segments more closely match how many people view videos online. Video viewing habits are changing – while many people like full shows, other simply like watching a few minutes, focused on a single topic, and then prefer to surf elsewhere – in effect rolling their own programs.

But whichever way you like, we’ve got the solution for you. If you like shorter, specific segments, watch AppJudgment every day. And if you’d rather watch longer shows, simply subscribe via iTunes, Miro, TiVo or many other services, and watch once a week. The effect, as it were, will be almost the same.

Oh, and we’ve also developed separate feeds for each platform – so if you’d rather just get the iPhone app reviews, you can select just that feed. Beware though – you won’t be able to see what you’re missing. Rumor has it that a future episode will focus on Google Voice – so controversial, it was banned from the iPhone!

Oh, and another thing makes AppJudgment a little different for us. Instead of having a single host – or two hosts – AppJudgment is delivered via an ensemble cast of Revision3 employees. A wide range of our employees have pitched in to make the show great – you’ll see Patrick Norton and Ron Richards, but you’ll also see reviews from David Prager, Stephanie Chu, Mauricio Balvanera, Annie Gaus and others from the company too. Oh, and the show is produced by Eileen Rivera, who also handles production on Scam School and The Digg Reel! Keep watching, you’ll never know who might show up to talk about their favorite – or most hated – cellphone application!

You can watch AppJudgment here, or on any of our great distribution partners!

COOL NEW WEB FEATURE: And that brings me to our next announcement, a cool new web feature that brings the segment approach you see in AppJudgment to all of our shows at Revision3. This great new web feature now lets us create segments inside of each of our shows – that you can jump to, watch over and over again, and share with your friends.

Here’s how it works – and I’ll use the latest Diggnation as an example, but soon all of our shows will be segmentized going forward. Check out the latest episode of Diggnation viewable below. As you watch it online, you’ll notice that just below the player, in the Show Notes area, are a list of segment names. These “Segments” – or chapters, if you think like a DVD – correspond to each of the stories discussed in this episode of Diggnation, along with any other hilarity that might occur outside of a news story.

Click on the segment name and you’ll jump to a description of the segment. Click on the Play button and you’ll jump to the beginning of that segment, inside of our player, where you can start watching immediately.

But that’s not all. Our video player timeline now includes little dots, which indicate the start of each segment. Hover over the markers and you’ll see a pop-up segment description (thanks to Rob Sandie, and the Viddler team, for pioneering this innovation). Click on the marker, and again you’ll jump just to the start of that segment.

Want to see the segments in the player, while you watch the video? Again, if you hover over the video as it is playing, you’ll see a row of buttons to the right. We’ve added a new one to “Share”, “Embed”, “Discuss” and “More Videos”. It’s (you probably guessed this already) called “Segments”. Click on it and you’ll see a list of all the segments, with your show video to the left.

If you love watching our shows, and don’t want anything to do with this segment stuff, don’t worry! We haven’t changed the basic viewing experience. But if you’d like to just watch that cool Blu-Ray player review, or twitter about Kevin and Alex talking about how humans actually emit light (a real segment this week), we’ve made it drop-dead simple to do so.

Oh, and this is just a start. In a few days it’ll be even easier to share these segments with your friends, and promote them on Digg and other social news services. We’re really excited about the new features, and I encourage you to play around with them, and let us know what you think in the forums.

And a big thanks to our tremendous web team, who delivered this great new functionality in such a cool, elegant and useful way!

– Jim Louderback

If you live in or near the Las Vegas area, we’d love to have you and your friends attend. This live show is free and open to the public so the more Diggnation fans representing, the better! Don’t miss your chance to see Kevin, Alex and Ashton Kutcher live, in person and talking about the stories you dugg on Digg.com! This is definitely a once in a lifetime event and one of the most exciting live Diggnations ever!

UPDATE - This event will be 18 and up

Here are all the details:

Facebook Event
let everyone know that you’re coming!

When:
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 5 PM

Where:
The Ballroom at the Palms Casino Resort
4321 W Flamingo Rd
Las Vegas, NV

Map:

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E3 - This is the mega huge video game expo in LA where all the latest and greatest from the video game world is presented and demoed. Of course Revision3 is there in spades with CO-OP and the Totally Rad Show on hand to cover the event. With both shows covering the event, we could not contain the amount of awesomeness going on, so we created a one stop spot for everything E3 at Revision3, or “RevisionE3″ as we like to call it. Just head over to revision3.com/e3 and you can tune in to the LIVE stream featuring the TRS guys AND the CO-OP team live from the show floor - June 2nd, 3rd and 4th at 7 PM Eastern / 4 PM Pacific. In addition to the live shows, CO-OP will be releasing DAILY specials from E3, and the Totally Rad Show will be releasing their E3 reactions on June 9th.

Diggnation in NYC - Last year’s live Diggnation in New York City was a sold out event and was insane. This year, we return to New York City with our friends from Digg to host Diggnation LIVE and host a Digg Meetup at a bigger venue: Webster Hall in Manhattan. If you live in the New York Metro area, you’re not going want to miss this as it’s looking to be one of the biggest live Diggnations ever!

Click here to see all the details about Diggnation LIVE in NYC.

You can RSVP for the live show here:
Revision3 NYC Meetup
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Diggnation at 30 Rock Contest
While we’re in New York we will be taping another episode of Diggnation at the home of NBC, 30 Rockefeller Center and we thought it would be cool if some of you came along! 5 lucky Diggnation fans will win the opportunity to see Diggnation taped at 30 Rock. There isn’t much time to register, as the deadline is June 1st at 5 PM Eastern. So head over to revision3.com/nycontest right now and enter!

Digital Content Newfront 2009
On June 3rd, we’re partnering with the fine folks at Digitas to live stream their very cool event, the Digital Content Newfront 2009. Hosted by Jake and Amir from Collegehumor, with appearances by Al Gore, Tom Green and many others from the world of new media, the day’s events are a topical discussion about the world of new media and advertising is changing. If you’re interested in new media and the business of new media, then don’t miss the events, which Revision3 is bringing directly to your screen. Just head over to revision3.com/newfront for all the info!

I told you the first week of June was going to be huge. You don’t wont to miss a single live stream, episode or live event! We hope you’re as excited about these events as we are and look forward to seeing all of you there!

Thanks.

So just what exactly has changed? Practically everything! Here’s a brief summary of the changes to the site with Revision3.com version 4.0 that you can expect:

Updated Design - It’s a brand new site with a brand new interface. Every section and page of the site has been redesigned and improved from the previous version. In addition, we’ve made navigation easier on the site so you can get around and find what you want. We’ve even given some love to the forums, so it’s fresh, new and ready to be used.

BIGGER & Better Video - We’ve increased the size of our video player, so now when you’re watching your favorite show, it truly is an entertaining experience. We’ve also added some cool features like the ability to pop out the player to another window or to put it in theater mode and make the video really pop.

User Preferences - We want to make the Revision3 website the site YOU want it to be, each and every one of you. To do that, we’ve begun expanding the User Preferences section to allow for customization of what you see and how you use revision3.com. Admittedly there isn’t much there right now but from what is there, you should get the general idea of what will be coming. Expect to see this area expanded on the most over the upcoming weeks, so make sure you register and log in to the site when you visit.

Enhanced Shows and Host Pages - We’ve redesigned all the show pages so that it’s easier to browse and find your favorite episodes. We’ve also worked to make sure our search functionality gives you the results your looking for. It’s also easier to find information about your favorite show host, such as the link to the their blog, Facebook Profile or whatever other social network they may be on.

Twitter! - Twitter’s everywhere these days, so why not Revision3? You may notice that we’ve worked with our friends at SquareSpace to create a Revision3 Twitter directory so it’s easy to find everyone from Revision3 on Twitter. We’ve also integrated the Twitter feeds of our hosts on their pages so you can see what they’re up to, minute by minute.

Under The Hood - For those of you interested in how things work, a lot of the changes and improvements come from behind the scenes. Previously, as many of you know, we were using WordPress for our content management needs. As we’ve grown, we’ve outgrown WordPress as a solution. Don’t get us wrong, we still love WordPress and still use it for our blog, but for running the site, we learned a lot from using it and have evolved beyond its capabilities. Now we’re running an internally produced content management system that was built on a PHP based MVC framework. And what’s even better is that we’re primed to grow from here, making it easy to add new features and functionality later on (hint hint).

As I said, we’re immensely excited for the site. Personally I love the new look and I love how bright the future looks for Revision3.com. We’re going to be building from here and creating some cool features for all Revision3 fans to come and enjoy. We hope you like the new site as much as we do, and please let us know what you think either by e-mailing us or on the forums.

I’d like to take a moment and put the spotlight on the awesome team here at Revision3 that labored for months to bring you the new Revision3.com - Stephanie Chu, Ryan LaBarre, Jeff Rizzo, Chuck Siu, Brendan White and a few others who are unfortunately no longer with us here at Revision3. All your hard work and dedication has absolutely paid off and I hope all the loyal Revision3 fans join me in applauding you.

thanks.
- Ron Richards

Recently we did a live Diggnation on stage at Stubbs in Austin during South By Southwest. Stubbs is the premiere venue in Austin and is the “place to be” during SXSW. When the owner of the venue looked out at the crowd of thousands of screaming fans who had come to see Diggnation that night, he said “I’ve never seen anything like this….this isn’t a band…this is two guys on a couch!” That’s true, but as we all know the show is much more than that. It’s authentic, hilarious, visionary, boozy, community driven and just plain fun. It’s truly a unique and watershed show and this is a moment to be acknowledged by the entertainment industry as a whole.

So, please join me in congratulating the team that makes Diggnation every week: Kevin, Alex, Prager, Hippie Glenn, Mauricio the editor and the Revision3 staff as a whole. The next two hundred episodes are going to be even better than the first!

Nominated for an award in the Online Film & Video: Technology category, Diggnation is up against some great shows like CNET TV and Boing Boing TV and others. No matter who wins, it’s great to see such great shows get recognized.

But it doesn’t stop there! Last year, Diggnation won the People’s Choice Award for best show in the Online Film & Video: Technology category and we’d love to see the Diggnation fanbase represent again and help us bring home the Webby again! So this is where you can get involved.

Head over to the Webby’s People Choice voting site, register and cast your ballot for Diggnation! Diggnation is for you, the loyal audience and we can’t do it without you - we appreciate your support!

In addition to Diggnation, Revision3 was recognized as Official Honorees in Online Film & Video: Systm for the How-To and DIY category and the Totally Rad Show for the Variety category. It’s great to see our shows get noticed and recognized as more and more people jump on the Internet TV bandwagon and watch our great shows.

Thanks!