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I HAVE TO SAY... that I'm personally quite enthused about the new browse page that was just rolled out with several other updates to the SciVee website. I really like how it separates the content into sections that allow you to see the number of media available on specific subject areas.

Something else that tickles my fancy is the customized feed tool. For those of us that like using RSS feeds, this sure is handy for automatically feeding content as it happens to get posted from SciVee into your own blog or website.

If you have many videos that you would like to upload at once to SciVee, I recommend using the bulk upload option.

There are two parts to bulk uploading to SciVee: (1) providing a link to the video files where SciVee can access them and (2) providing the associated meta data for each video you would like to upload.

After you get your video files encoded in a web ready format and make them available and linkable at an ftp location, you can use one of the excel sheets attached below to associate each video file with its appropriate meta data. Details about the required entries for each column are located at the top of the excel sheet. Notice that the first column must contain the file name and extension. (You may want to use a consistent naming scheme like name-date.mp4 to keep the files more easily trace...

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I recently attended ScienceOnline09, and gave a joint panel discussion/presentation with Moshe from Jove. SciVee's portion of the presentation slides are attached to this post below.

It was great to get feedback and ask the audience questions about the use of video in science communication. One of the questions we discussed was: How many of you would consider uploading video to a site like Jove or SciVee? and why or why not? Attendees that said they would said that they would use both Jove and SciVee for different reasons depending on their goal. If they wanted to publish a paper with video they would go to Jove and if they wanted to upload posters and slides or something previously published they would go to SciVee. Attendees that said they would not use either service either gave reason that it’s too difficult to convince their PIs who are too conservative or they feel...

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Add yourself to the listing for to offer your Science Video Production Service to scientists and researchers in your area in the linked listing at: http://scivee.tv/service

Over the next few days SciVee will be in the Exhibt Hall booth 545 at the FASEB Experimental Biology Conference in San Diego (see http://www.eb2008.org/). Drop by and say hello. We are also trying something new during the meeting - Postercasts. If you would like to talk about your poster on camera and later have the poster and video syncronized and made available on the SciVee Website to further disseminate your work, drop by the booth. We will reward you with a cool ScivVee teeshirt.

Interested in viewing SciVee videos on your iPhone while on the go? Also interested in integrating your SciVee videos with behind-the-scenes database information viewable on a smart cellphone? Good news -- the technology is now available, at least in the Mac-plus-iPhone world.

Just a few minutes ago (10am-noon Thursday 06-Mar-2008 California time) Apple announced the release of the iPhone software development kit and provided a demonstration of some sample iPhone programs developed with this SDK, including some medical software --

http://www.news.com/8301-13579_3-9886460-37.html

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Macintosh aficionados will be happy to hear that iPhone software can be developed using the standard Xcode IDE, plus a new virtual-iPhone test environment that emulates an iPhone on the software developer's Macintosh. The new SDK/API includes support for touchpad gestures like finger-flicking, plus support for...

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Hi there,

I like this web site.

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Welcome to the SciVee blog. I am one of the founders of SciVee and hope very much you are enjoying the site. There is a small group of us at SciVee and goal is simple - to excite as many people as we can to what science has to offer. Namely, an explanation for the things that surround us - from the tinniest inner most workings of our own bodies, to the distant reaches of the universe. Traditionally, such excitement (if there was any) came mainly from school text books. I suspect that the tipping point (had to get that phrase in somewhere) that made many of us become scientists was not from those books, but from the enthusiasm of science teachers and those laboratory sessions that allowed us to explore first hand the principles that govern our existence. It was the opportunity to ask the question “why or how….” and then be able to explain it through an experiment. A favorite example of mine came when I asked my daughter’s third grade class how do we know there is atmospheric pre...

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