February 6th, 2009 at 01:16 by Ron Richards in Website
We started off 2009 with an update to the user interface of our flash player, which everyone appears to really like. But let’s be honest, that was just a much improved cosmetic change. When we rolled it out, we said that we’d have more functionality and changes to the flash player into 2009, and today we’re very excited to share with you the next step in upgrading of the Revision3 Flash player.
Today’s update to the flash player introduces two new buttons on the user interface, “Share” and “Embed”. We’ve made it much easier for you to now take your favorite Revision3 shows and share them with your friends, either by email, posting on your site, or submitting to the social network of your choice. Now all you have to do is click “Share” and you’ll see the flash player transform into a panel with options to provide you the URL to share, or one click post to Twitter, Digg, Facebook and many others.
But we didn’t stop there. Oh no, there’s more. We’re also rolling out the ability for you, the viewer, to choose the clip of your choice to share with your friends. Once you click “Share” or “Embed”, you’ll notice a timeline above the video, and markers that show the time in the video. All you need to do is click on the starting marker and drag to the point of the video you’d like your clip to start at, and then do the same for the end marker. The URL, embed codes and links to other sites automatically update, making sharing your favorite moment easier than ever! So now, when you want to show your buddy that moment when Jimmy Fallon busted on Alex in Diggnation, or show your Dad a cool product review on Tekzilla, you can just pick your clip, and share away! We’re super excited for this bit of functionality and we hope it’s something you, the audience, can find easy to use and enjoy.
Here is the latest episode of Tekzilla if you would like to play with the new functionality:
Like I said, this is the next step in our rollout of enhanced functionality for our flash player, which hopefully will make your viewing experience on Revision3 as awesome as you want it to be. Stay tuned for more updates and changes in the coming months. We’ve got some super cool stuff still in development that we can’t wait to share with you! And as always, let us know what you think. Leave a comment below or talk about it in our forums.
thanks.
Tags: blog, Diggnation, diggreel, hak5, ifanboy, pixelperfect, scamschool, systm, tekzilla, trs, XLR8Rtv
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January 26th, 2009 at 11:21 by Ron Richards in Shows
There’s nothing cooler than watching Revision3 shows on your TV. There are a lot of easy ways to do so (AppleTV, DiVX Connected Box etc.) but we know how many of you are avid gamers and have an XBox360 or a PlayStation3, so wouldn’t it be cool if you could use those devices to watch shows like Diggnation, Tekzilla or the Totally Rad Show on? Well now you can.
We’ve partnered with the fine people at GridNetworks to enable you to utilize your XBox360, PlayStation3 or any media device (that is UPnP enabled) to stream Diggnation, Tekzilla and the Totally Rad Show from your networked computer to your TV! It’s really easy, all you have to do is click over to the Revision3 on Gridcast TV page with all the information, install some software and then you’ll be all set!
We’re trying out this service to see if it’s something we want to use for all our shows, so please let us know what you think of it!
thanks.
Tags: blog, Diggnation, tekzilla, trs
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January 19th, 2009 at 05:25 by Ron Richards in Shows
It’s a new year, we’ve got a new President in the US starting work tomorrow, so we figured it was a good time to make some changes to our programming schedule. If you’re an avid watcher of some of our shows, you’re probably aware of these changes as we’ve been mentioning them and slowly rolling them out in January, but this week marks the last change to our programming schedule for the time being.
The affected shows that are moving release times are:
- Diggnation - releasing on Wednesday at 6 PM Eastern
- Tekzilla - releasing on Thursdays at 6 PM Eastern
You can see the full Revision3 programming schedule on the Schedule page of Revision3.com
Hope everyone enjoys these new release times!
thanks.
Tags: blog, Diggnation, tekzilla
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January 6th, 2009 at 11:03 by Ron Richards in Website
Happy New Year everyone! When we last spoke, I mentioned we had some great things planned for 2009 for Revision3.com and today we’re happy to present to your the first of many. It’s been wildly requested by our audience and insanely useful now that we have it in place: Search functionality for Revision3.com!
We’ve got some cutting edge technology in place that allows us to index both our site’s content as well as the content within the show’s episodes! So if you’re looking for that review of Crysis on The Totally Rad Show? Just type in “Crysis” in the search box on the top of the page, and boom! You get every mention of “Crysis” on our shows. You can filter by shows to find your exact result, and when you pick the episode you want. We’ve also indexed all of our forum content, so if you’re looking for something specific from a flame war a few months ago, now you can find it!
This is the first step of a greater build out of our search functionality, and as 2009 progresses, we’re going to be rolling out even more great functionality around this search engine, which will enhance the ability to find exactly the information you’re looking for within seconds! So check out our new search functionality today and let us know what you think!
thanks.
Tags: blog, Diggnation, hak5, ifanboy, pixelperfect, systm, tekzilla, thediggreel, trs
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December 15th, 2008 at 03:33 by Jim Louderback in Shows
The team at Tekzilla changed the outro music a few weeks ago to something more reminiscent of a 90s sitcom. It’s catchy, fun, and apparently caught the ear of at least one fan. If you like Tekzilla, you have to listen to this – it’s a wonderful piano rendition of the Tekzilla outro music. Well done!
Tags: blog, tekzilla
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