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Today we have put a new feature in place: video geolocalization.
Before, you could only indicate in which city or country your video was
filmed. From today on out, you can place your video directly on a map!

How does it work?

For new uploads, you won’t have to do anything you didn’t before. At
the end of the upload process, you will find yourself on the video’s
information page. We have added a map to this page to let you
associate your video with a geographical location, either by clicking
a location directly, or by using the search field.

To localize your video:

-Use the search field to find your location. Double-click the map to specify more precisely.
-or-
Navigate the map and double-click on the location of your choice.

-A pin will appear on the map, as well as a list of cities in the area. Select the appropriate city, or confirm the city you found with
the search.

-Your video is mapped! Now you need only to save your changes.

What happens to your old localizations?

Obviously, nothing is erased. The old location data remains, but will not affix your video to the map. You must go to the video you want to localize and select “edit info” to put it on the map, verify that a pin has appeared on the map (or double click on the map to add one) and click “save”.

But this isn’t all!

When you watch a video, you can now click on the geolocalized info (for example: Wichita, Kansas, United States, or longitude and latitude) beneath the player to make a map appear. This map will indicate the exact location that the video was taken, and you can zoom in and out, pan, navigate, etc.

We have also created a page which allows you to find videos by location: http://www.dailymotion.com/geoloc. You don’t have to enter a city or country, but can simply navigate within the map and zoom in to view videos in a specific area. This page is still in beta, but you can already search geotagged videos of any user by adding their username to the URL www.dailymotion.com/geoloc/[USERNAME]
ex: http://www.dailymotion.com/geoloc/gabma.

In Conclusion

In spite of all the tests we have made, a few bugs may remain in this feature. If you come across any, we invite you to share them in the comments of this post. They will all be corrected by our crack team of developers, fueled by the joe of our new monster coffee machine.

We believe this new feature offers enormous potential which will be realized over time. We hope you appreciate it as much as we do.

Hey Everybody!

Dailymotion has two bits of interesting news for all you out there in Internet land.

First off - Dailymotion is available on the iPhone! This coveted device may not be available outside of the US (yet), but that doesn’t mean we aren’t looking out for the early adopters and gadget-heads across the pond. To check it out, simply point your iPhone to iphone.dailymotion.com. There you can browse by featured videos, channel, top-rated, or most recent uploads. Click a thumbnail in any of these lists, then tap anywhere within the player and, as we say over here, voilà! - Dailymotion in your pocket. The best part is, because our videos are Quicktime-encoded, they run on Safari without needing a Flash player. To see Dailymotion in action on the iPhone, take a look at the video here. Those of you already watching Dailymotion on your iPhones: Thanks! We’re currently in the top 20 Google results when you search “iPhone”. You can read more about this new feature over at Cnet.com.

Feeling Moody? Happy? Sad? In Love? A little Crazy, even? Those of you that know and love Skype, that wonderful Nordic VOIP software that lets “the whole world talk for free”, may have noticed that the new Windows version (3.5.0.202 - released August 7) allows you to share Dailymotion videos that match your mood. These videos are selected for each region, exclusively for Skype, with new ones featured each week. If you are a MotionMaker, your Creative Content is eligible to be featured to this new audience: 220 million Skype users wordwide! Soon, anyone will be able to submit their own mood videos to a special Dailymotion group for the chance to be featured on Skype. You can download the new version of Skype here.

More to come soon. In the meantime, be sure to watch, publish, and share.

Cheers,

The Dailymotion Team

We showed you a few months ago where your videos are stored, you can now discover our office in Paris, France, riding the bike of our Product Manager who wears shirts, Régis:

We recently told you that we were testing a copyright video detection tool. It is now online and we will continue to enhance it in the month to come and to benchmark other tools that detect copyright videos. We also told you that we were working on a tool that allows you to replace the copyrighted music in the videos you create with cleared music beds we have negotiated with our music partners. Well… this is also up on our site and ready to use.

This tool is named Audio Remix. When one of your videos is detected to have a copyrighted audio track, we will ask you to use Audio Remix to replace the audio track.

Audio Remix is very easy to use. Only three steps are necessary to change the audio track of your video:

1. Choose a genre and artist
2. Select the track you would like to use
3. Click “Publish” to insert the new track into your video

This process only takes a few seconds, plus a couple of minutes to reencode the video, and is an easy way to respect your favorite artists’ copyrights.

We just signed a deal with our friends at Jamendo to give you access to over 50 songs. In the future, we will constantly add new music to the Audio Remix library to give you the largest choice possible!

Attention all Obsessive Star Wars Fans!!!

If you think you¹re the biggest Star Wars Fanboy (or Fangirl) EVER, then get ready for an unbelievable contest on Dailymotion from July 25th to August 31st! You could win a walk-on role in the upcoming movie Fanboys, starring Kristen Bell from Veronica Mars, which follows fanatical, crazy, and wild Star Wars fans on a cross-country trek to sneak into a preview of Star Wars 1: The Phantom Menace.

To enter this contest, users (US residents only) can register and upload an original video no longer than 3 minutes showing why they¹re the ultimate Star Wars fan to the Ultimate Fanboys Contest Group at http://fanboys.dailymotion.com. Be creative, be funny, be yourself!

Check out the videos on the Group page and add the ones you like most to your favorites. The 10 videos that have been added to favorites the most will move on to the next round. Then, the producers of the movie will pick the winner!

Not only will you get a walk-on role in Fanboys, you’ll be featured in the Special Features on the DVD! George Lucas has already given his official seal of approval to the movie, so you’ll be a part of Star Wars history!

OK - start uploading your video and may the Force be with you!

On July 18th, Dailymotion U.S. announced the New York City-based sketch comedy troupe The Dregs as the winner of the “Great Sketch Comedy Showdown” competition (http://www.dailymotion.com/group/63851).

The Dregs, comprised of members Sandra Bauleo, John Roberts (the one in drag), Gina Vetro, and Clay Weiner, will receive a six month development deal with comedy producer Jim Biederman. This award includes mentoring, creative input and assistance in obtaining a distribution deal. The Dreg’s winning entries can be seen at http://www.dailymotion.com/the_dregs.

Jim Biederman is Dailymotion’s first professional mentor for the MotionMaker Mentor program in the US, which identifies and rewards outstanding contributors to the Dailymotion creative community. Jim was an executive producer of hit television series “Kids in the Hall,” “The Tom Green Show,” “The Andy Dick Show,” and “Whitest Kids U’Know.”

Over the course of four weeks, two hundred sketch comedy troupes uploaded over 900 videos! Dailymotion thanks all of the troupes for participating and we plan on featuring many of the videos on our homepages both in the US and International.

We just wanted to tell you that we changed our RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/DailymotionBlog

Why did we change? Simply to know how many of you are reading us, who is reading us, and to provide you more informations about the post your reading through the RSS feed like comments count.

Upon the request of entertainment industry copyright holders, we have recently beta-launched a tool which allows us to identify copyrighted content and to prevent its publication on Dailymotion.

This solution, which has been developed by Audible Magic, allow us to detect copyrighted videos and to isolate them from other videos for which our users and media partners hold distribution rights. This tool is automatic, and as such, as soon as a video is submitted to the site, a fingerprint is created for the file and sent to a database of similar fingerprints provided by copyright holders. If the uploaded file matches a protected file within the database, the video is not published on the site. In the event that an agreement exists with the copyright holder, we will be able to propose to our users that their file be replaced online by the original version.

The launch of this tool is part of our collaborative strategy with content creators to make Dailymotion a destination where web users and creators can maximize their interaction.

We are aware that the testing of this tool may pose certain problems to our users. For example, slideshows or videos featuring lip syncing may well be blocked by the system because the music featured in the video is currently protected under copyright law. In order to work around this problem, we are currently studying a tool which would offer the possibility to replace the copyright-protected music in a user’s film with an alternate soundtrack, from a selection of titles available within the public domain or whose distribution rights have been negotiated with our partners.

Please rest assured that throughout the testing phase of this tool, we shall do our best that it respects Dailymotion’s vision to develop an independent and open site, providing a place where users of all talents can express themselves.

Update:

This tool does not yet affect videos published before its launch. Older videos will be subject to Audible Magic control once the test is finished.

You’ll notice the homepage looks a little different today. We’re excited to let you know that we have developed a Dailymotion portal accessible by the soon-to-be-released, Wi-Fi ready Archos 605 personal media player. Check out this video of the Archos in action:

It’s neither a psychology test nor a delirious geek trip

At Dailymotion, we got it into our heads to customize our 404 pages with your videos!
A special group called “404 page not found” was created for the occasion.

Participating is simple:

1. Create a funny video with your camera or your webcam - make sure it is less than 5 seconds.
2. Add it to your Dailymotion account
3. Subscribe to the group “404 page not found“.
4. Finally, add your video to the 404 group!

A video is randomly selected from the group to play each time a user winds up at the 404 page.

Your 404 video could be shown the next time someone hits a dead end!

An example : http://www.dailymotion.com/a_not_found_page

Recommendations :

• Raise your shoulders and wrinkle your eyebrows in astonishment.
• Make a video of your 404 tattoo!
• Do something more creative and unexpected with the numbers “404″.
• The sky’s the limit - show us any interpretation of “lost”, “disappeared”, “empty”, whatever!

Do you take your 404 errors laying down - or do you do something about them?