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The Prodigy “Run With The Wolves” Video Competition!

Wednesday 11 November 2009

The Prodigy invite you to create a music video for their song “Run With The Wolves”.

You could win 3,000 GBP (approx. $5,000)! Here’s what you need to do:

1. Download the ‘Run With The Wolves’ track from this address: www.cookingvinyl.com/dailymotioncompetition

2. Make your own creative music video for the song.

3. Upload your video to Dailymotion and add the video to this group:

http://dailymotion.com/group/runwiththewolves

And that’s it! Official Terms & Conditions can be found here:

http://www.dailymotion.com/group/terms/runwiththewolves

The contest winner will be chosen by The Prodigy.

Deadline is January 31st, and the winner will be announced on February 11th.

New Look, New Tools…New Upload Page

Friday 31 July 2009

After some weeks of testing, a new upload page is now online!

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The new process does on one page what used to be done on two, so now you can upload your video and edit it in the same page, at the same time. To put a video on the site, select the file, click “Upload”, and then add, change, and save the video metadata while the video is being sent. The progress bar will indicate when the upload is complete. Once the file is on the platform, it will just take few minutes to encode the video before you can watch, share, or embed it.

In addition to this interface improvement, we have totally revamped the advanced video edit page - check out the screenshot below.

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Another feature we’ve cooked up is the option to set a “Next Video”, which will be proposed in a small overlay at the top of the player a few seconds before the end of the video. All you have to do is define the Dailymotion URL of the video you want to be shown. Other changes include the ability to send your video to several groups simultaneously, and a dramatic increase to the filesize limit - from 150 MB to a maximum of 4 GB per video - for all users.

We hope you enjoy these changes. Please email any comments to feedback@dailymotion.com to let us know what you think!

Nichelle Nichols Joins the Cast of Hayden Black’s The Cabonauts on Dailymotion

Thursday 9 July 2009

Los Angeles, Calif. — Nichelle Nichols, known for her role as Lieutenant Uhura in Star Trek, has joined the cast of Hayden Black’s musical comedy Sci-Fi series “The Cabonauts.” The new web-only series is launching in an exclusive partnership with Dailymotion,  the world’s second largest web video entertainment site.   Erin Gray, who starred in “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century”, and her firm Heroes for Hire are overseeing casting.  Interviews with Ms. Nichols on her role in The Cabonauts can be seen here: Nichelle Nichols interview #1

A music comedy Sci-Fi series set in a space cab, “The Cabonauts” will follow characters as they take various passengers to their intergalactic destinations.

Created by Evil Global Corp. and written by its principal Hayden Black, creator and star of the award-winning web comedy series “Goodnight Burbank” and “Abigail’s Teen Diary,” the series’ first season  will be filmed in HD and have their first run exclusively on Dailymotion.

“When I read the beautifully written, comical, futuristic script for ‘The Cabonauts,’ I thought that whoever wrote it was crazy and I couldn’t wait to be a part of it,” commented Ms. Nichols. “I love the sheer nonsense of it – we’re in a seemingly normal situation then suddenly break out in crazy song. It’s such fun and so smart, with elements in it that you have not seen before on screen, and I think it can’t miss.”

“We see The Cabonauts as a  breakthrough in Web comedy and we are absolutely thrilled to see Nichelle Nichols not only agree, but join the cast,” said Joy Marcus, General Manager of Dailymotion US. “Nichelle’s fans will now join our strong base of of comedy, music and sci-fi lovers-to make  The Cabonauts a huge success.”

“Getting Nichelle on board is the thrill of a lifetime. She’s a gorgeously talented, brilliantly gifted actress who elevates the show to a whole new level,” said Hayden Black, creator of “The Cabonauts.” We think her fans from her Star Trek days and beyond will love her character in The Cabonauts.”

Last Thursday’s Incident

Monday 6 July 2009

As you might know, last Thursday at the end of the morning, our data center suffered a power outage. This outage caused the complete inavailability of our site for a few minutes, followed by serious disruptions over several hours that rendered the service almost, if not completely, unusable. This service interruption is historic for Dailymotion, which hasn’t experienced an interruption of this scale since its launch in 2005. This is why we think we owe you an explanation…but be warned, it’s rather technical.

We’ll start by explaining how the power is treated in a data center such as ours. Electricity is brought in by two separate EDF (Electricité de France) circuits, then passed through some transformers. In case of an outage, batteries keep things running while onsite generators start up (the site has a bit more than 24 hours of fuel in reserve). As it exits the transformers, the current is “cleaned” then stored in a battery back-up system. This back-up, separated into two groups of 3, furnish two independent electrical supplies. According to our hoster, Equinix, human error caused the cutoff of all 6 back-ups at once, triggering a total blackout for a good minute - the time it takes for the back-ups to restart.

And there you have the cause.

Due to this (violent) cutoff, our network equipment and our servers sustained some damage. The core of the network normalized in about 12 minutes, but only superficially. In reality, certain machines came back online with a mix of different configurations, more or less out-of-date. The cause of this mix remains rather blurry for the moment.

One of the consequences of this configuration mix-up was a breakdown in multicast routing between our different frontal web servers, which kept them from synchronizing to correctly share workloads. Imagine it as if the traffic lights of a busy intersection changed color at random, and not as part of a bigger system.

Meanwhile, the databases needed a certain amount of time to verify their integrity. The storage servers, likewise, took a good hour to confirm that the video files had not been damaged. To top it off, a number of circuit breakers couldn’t support the simultaneous restart of all the servers, and crashed. Thus we had to wait for the help of Equinix, which was working hard elsewhere, to get them back up.

And there you have the result.

Here’s a timeline:
· 11:16am - Power outage.
· 11:17am - Power restored, service unavailable.
· 11:30am - The network core goes back up, some videos are available in external players.
· 12:15pm - Part of the platform becomes available, but the site is in read-only mode and difficult to access.
· 12:45pm - The final circuit breakers are switched back on, the last machines restart.
· 1:00pm - The greater part of the platform is available, but the site remains read-only and difficult to access. A few non-critical machines fail to restart. Traffic begins to ramp back up.
· 1:30pm - The storage servers are available again.
· 2:30pm - The database become available in write mode.
· 3:00pm - The communication between our frontal servers is reestablished, the site is fully accessible in read and write mode. A few services remain perturbed (webcam upload, search, encoding).
· 6:00pm - All services fully operational again.

To conclude, we would like to offer our apologies for any inconvenience caused. We assure you that we will do everything we can, in the near future, to improve the quality of service and the availability of the site.

Who turned out the lights?

Thursday 2 July 2009

This morning an electrical outage at a major data center outside of Paris took Dailymotion and a number of large French websites out of commission. We apologize for the inconvenience, and are working to get back online as fast as possible.

Thanks for understanding. We’ll see you again soon!

Welcome Firefox 3.5!

Wednesday 1 July 2009

The latest version of Firefox has just been released with native support of the new HTML video tag. A few weeks ago, Dailymotion launched an experimental web site to test and promote open video formats and this new tag while Firefox 3.5 was still in beta.

Today, we once again are assisting Mozilla in the launch of Firefox 3.5, by serving their “Thank You” video on What’s New page, which users will see this after installation of the browser’s latest iteration.

Thanks to a recommendation from the Mozilla technical team, we are now serving the Ogg videos with new HTTP headers in order to facilitate the display of the video in the browser. We now have all the infrastructure necessary to encode, serve and display more than 410,000 videos encoded in Ogg with the <video> tag. At the recent Open Video Conference in New York, many attendees from various organizations met with us to help us continue to improve the new service for our users.

And finally, a worldwide advertising campaign just started yesterday on Dailymotion in support of Firefox 3.5. We hope that it will encourage you to download a more modern, effective and secure browser for surfing web sites like Dailymotion.

Watch Video…without Flash

Wednesday 27 May 2009

As Steve Jobs once said: “We are going to make history today.”

Dailymotion is excited to launch a new R&D platform dedicated to open video formats and web standards: openvideo.dailymotion.com. You don’t need the Adobe Flash plugin to watch videos on this platform - the only requirement is the latest version of Firefox, 3.5 beta, available here. Lire le reste de cet article »

Player Page Relook

Friday 20 March 2009

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After some weeks of testing, the new player page is now online. Among the most important changes, you’ll find: an enlarged player for better high-quality and HD viewing; automatic player resizing according to video format (4:3 or 16:9); and a lightly reorganized interface. Also notice the “Playlists with this Video” tab in the sidebar. You made it quite clear that it was a feature you appreciated, so we have added it back, just below the related videos.

We hope you like it. Feel free to email feedback@dailymotion.com with any comments.

Dailymotion and One Laptop per Child Launch Search for the Best Video for Giving Campaign

Thursday 20 November 2008

Winning entry to be aired during the December holiday season


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Dailymotion and One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization dedicated to improving education in the developing world, announce a holiday contest to support OLPC’s Give One, Get One campaign.

The contest, which runs from November 17, 2008 to December 15, 2008, calls for Dailymotion users to upload original commercials for the Give One, Get One campaign. One winning commercial will be selected from among the submissions. Along with bringing greater attention to this important campaign, the winning commercial will be aired on a major network or cable TV channel during the period of December 15th to December 31st.

To Enter:
Join the Give One Get One group on Dailymotion and add your video to the group:
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Get inspired by the concept of connecting children around the world.
Need a prompt? How about the G1G1 tagline:
Give a laptop, Get a laptop, Change the world

You can be as creative as you want! But remember, the commercial should be kid friendly. In fact, kids are encouraged to participate, along with the guidance and support of a parent or legal guardian.

Contest begins November 17, 2008 and closes December 15, 2008. Only US residents are eligible for prize consideration.

One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a non-profit organization established to bring the benefits of technology to the developing world today. To learn more about OLPC, visit laptop.org. Dailymotion and OLPC recently partnered to launch a child-safe Web video portal for users of the OLPC’s XO laptop. The site, olpc.dailymotion.com, uses free and open video formats. Combined with the built-in video camera and software, this makes it easy for children using the XO laptop to find and share videos.

The contest, which runs from November 17, 2008 to December 15, 2008, will select one winning commercial to promote OLPC’s annual Give One Get One (G1G1) campaign. The G1G1 program starts November 17, 2008, will be on-going through 2009. For $399, people can give one XO Laptop to a child in a developing nation and get one laptop themselves, which makes the perfect holiday gift for a child in their family or community. To make your donation, visit XO on Amazon.com.

FAQ Review

Thursday 13 November 2008

Each day, many of you contact us for more info and advice on the various site features, and for help resolving any problems you may encounter.

Today we have made a full update of our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) section. It reflects more precisely the questions you regularly ask, and offers more complete and exhaustive answers. It now includes a search engine as well, so that you can more easily find the info you are looking for.

Our feedback form has also been reviewed, to better help you find the solutions you are looking for.