Alive - yet again

Hey everyone,

we're just reactivating the Alive feed parser so all the good stuff at Assembly can be seen here once more!

Hope you enjoy the party so far!

Alive 2.1 going to be great

We've started working on a good upgrade for Alive from last year and the new system will have a better algorithm for bringing interesting stuff to you.

Stay tun^H^H^H alive and see you at Assembly Summer 2008!

Stay Alive !

The party is slowly coming to an end, but you can stay Alive!

We're going to move the Alive software to some servers outside of the arena in the next hours, so please bear with a few smaller outages while we're doing that. We try to keep it down to the minimum and in the optimal case you won't notice.

The AssemblyTV videos are coming in and we're really excited that this year the demo videos are available quite soon.

When you get back home (and got your share of sleep) remember to put your videos, images and blogs that haven't found their way to Alive yet, into the system and let other people see what Assembly was like for you.

Enjoy the rest of the party and have a save way home!

The Assembly WebCrew

Alive 2.1.9

You may have noticed that our tag clouds weren't quite useful. We've updated Alive to include a better algorithm that seems to work out well in our tests. Hopefully the production site will benefit from this as well.

Enjoy!

Fixed video problems

Some of you might have seen that our embedded videos were upside down and that some downloads had multiplexing problems (making audio and video go out of sync).

LiveCrew fixed those encoding problems by now and we also have better Flash versions of the videos of this year, not only 30 seconds previews. Maybe we can get this for the 2006 videos as well, but that's not sure yet.

Enjoy the excellent footage provided by LiveCrew!

PS: See the "2007 compos" tag, the oldskool demos are already in!

Flickr problems

If it takes a long time until your images are imported, currently we found two sources of errors for this:

• You have a new account and flickr doesn't expose it via it's API yet. This will just take time and go away by itself once flickr reviews your account.
  
• You gave us the wrong account name. We need your flickr screen name.

Alive 2.1.8

For Alive 2.1.8 we acquired a new content source: AssemblyTV's video-on-demand files. You can watch them, alike the youtube videos, directly from Alive.

We have both videos from last year and this year available. This year's videos will appear slowly after they were aired and converted into various formats.

All the videos are available in various formats for download and watch on your computer, available formats include H264 and xvid. Bitrates range from 200kbit/s to 7Mbit/s.

In other news:

• Diagnosing problems with your YouTube or flickr accounts: go to your profile editing page and see whether we found a problem. If your images don't turn up, a hint might be found there.
• Videos now also display their playing length.
  

Enjoy!

PS: Yes, the import wasn't running in the last hours because I forgot to re-enable it after upgrading. Mea maxima culpa.