“… Attending a Facebook Developer Garage is an opportunity for a deep dive into Facebook Platform: it is a forum to share ideas with local developers, look for partners on your latest project, see and participate in Facebook App demonstrations, seek technical support, or just network and socialize with other developers interested in the Facebook Platform … ” (See Facebook Wiki for more info.)

Besides developers and companies sharing their experiences about Facebook apps, Javier Olivan Director of International Marketing at Facebook will also join. After the event, we will go for tapas.

If you know of developers or companies who could be interested in attending and/or presenting, please invite them. To attend, you must sign up to the event on Facebook (see link below).

If you want to present, please send me a message through Facebook.

When: Friday 30.5.2008 - from 4 pm to 8 pm
Where: Sclipo Office, Barcelona
Sign up for the event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=18993571292

1. You will get noticed by the right people. You are all looking for financing and references. By participating, your company will be re-viewed by a first class jury including Martín Varsavsky, Loic Le Meur, Daniel Waterhouse, Tom Raftery, Ouriel Ohayon, Nicole Simon, Bernardo Hernández, Luca Conti and Yaron Orenstein.

2. It is free PR: The competition will drive attention, traffic and new members to your site.

3. It is a motivation booster: Motivation is your most valuable resource (more than cash!). This competition will put you and your team on fire. You will be applauded, voted and celebrated. All doubts will go away! This adrenaline is essential to help you overcome the challenges you are facing.

What’s new this year is that start-ups can submit videos showcasing their product. We are excited that Sclipo was selected to host these videos. It is not mandatory, though we dearly recommend submitting a video. Imaging being a judge who has to struggle her way through thousands of lines of text describing hundreds of start-ups … a video makes it so much easier to understand and value your product. So, take the time and create a video! It’s worth it!

Thanks to the organizers for making the event happen: Alianzo and La Caixa Emprendedor XXI. Partners of this year’s event are Microsoft, Sun and Techcrunch.

Register here for the 2008 Start-Up 2.0 Competition. Registrations will be admitted till May 10, 2008.

To submit a video at Sclipo, go to the Start-Up 2.0 Challenge at Sclipo and follow the instructions.

Good luck!!

Quoted from Red Herrings Press release:

“This year’s impressive list of submissions from companies demonstrates Europe’s growing role as a major center of innovation in the global technology sector,” said Red Herring Editor-in-Chief Joel Dreyfuss. “The exceptional accomplishments of European technology startups and entrepreneurs are a testament to the rapid advancements being made in building the European innovation ecosystem.”

Red Herring’s lists of top private companies are an important part of the publication’s tradition of identifying new and innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs. Companies like Google, eBay, and Skype were spotted in their early days by Red Herring editors, and touted as leaders that would change the way we live and work.

Red Herring’s editorial staff rigorously evaluated several hundred private companies through a careful analysis of financial data and subjective criteria, including quality of management, execution of strategy, and dedication to research and development.

Red Herring will honor the Red Herring 100 Europe Finalist companies at its Red Herring Europe 2008 event. Scheduled for April 14-16, at the Westin Dragonara Resort, this intimate, three-day event is themed “The Pursuit of Disruption” and will explore how European firms are leading the charge in many technology sectors, gaining the competitive advantage, and driving entrepreneurial success in ways that create business opportunities for challengers and incumbents alike.

About Red Herring
Red Herring is a global media company which unites the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. More information about Red Herring is available on the Internet at www.redherring.com.

We are very excited to announce our partnership with TubeMogul, the premier distribution and analytics service for online video.

With this partnership, posting educational videos – how-to, tutorials or lectures - to Sclipo will be as easy as checking a box for the almost 16,000 content creators that currently use TubeMogul to distribute and track their video-tutorials online. TubeMogul’s analytics package tracking video viewership will also be integrated. Sclipo is the only site dedicated to educational videos on TubeMogul.

“We love Sclipo’s quality content and their global focus,” reports Brett Wilson, TubeMogul co-founder and CEO. “Our syndication and analytics tools will propel them forward and further cement us as the ultimate service for content creators.”

Check out TubeMogul … a very cool and needed service. Enjoy!

Here is the official Press Release.

And yes! It is New Years … so below are some New Features for you. We hope these help you improve your learning experience. If not, please tell us what features you’d like. We will work our butts off to fulfill your wishes during 2008.

All the best for 2008 from your Sclipo Team!!

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Here our New Features for you:

Google thumb: When searching videos via Google, thumbnails of your videos at Sclipo will show on the Google search result page, which means more people will find your videos at Sclipo through Google.

Enhanced player: To ease learning from a video, we added a slow motion and step-by-step functionality to our player.

RSS: Keen on a specific area? Or, do you like a specific member Academy? Just subscribe!

Invite Students, Friends, …: Do you want to teach your students through Sclipo? Now you can automatically invite students, colleagues and friends by importing their email addresses from your Gmail / Hotmail / Yahoo email address book.

With Webcam Record, we are adding a second tool (the first was SclipoLive) that allows our members to create content in addition to publishing it.

Here is how Webcam Record makes sharing your skills so much easier:
1. No digital camera needed! You do not need an (expensive) digital video camera to film your skills. Any computer webcam will do (by the way, a decent webcam costs only around $20-30, a really top webcam costs around $100).
2. No lengthy file transfer needed! You do not need to transfer the video file from your camera to your computer.
3. No export or compression needed! You do not need to compress or export your video file with a video editing software. Webcam Record does all that work for you.

Yes, a webcam is probably no good to film your mountain bike tutorials, but there are many skills you can nicely capture, like for example cooking, language or any music / singing lessons. Our Webcam Record allows you to pause the recording, so you can easily create different chapters.

Here a video tutorial showing how Webcam Record works.

To use Webcam Record, just go to Upload. After describing your video, select Webcam Record to create and upload it.

For a review of Webcam Record, check out Kristen Nicole´s post on Mashable: Sclipo’s “Webcam Record” for Easy Video Addition.

Oh, have I mentioned that Sclipo is the first social learning network to offer such a feature? We hope you like it!

Questions or feedback? Just email edwin-at-sclipo.com.

Martin will take home our Grand Prize, a fantastic Cintiq 21UX, which we are sure will help Martin do even better Illustrations and videos. You can enjoy more of Martin’s work in his Sclipo Academy and his blog Martinity.com.

Also congratulations to the other 6 runners-up winners, who won one of Wacom’s newest products, a wonderful Bamboo Pen Tablet!
Comic strip
Quick Z3 Doodle
How to create Fonts
Intuos configuration
Animation
Digital painting tutorial

We are delighted about the active and enthusiastic participation: 42 participants, 82 videos and hundreds of thousands of visitors! Also, the response and feedback from our viewers have exceeded our expectations. Thanks a lot to all who participated!

Finally, thanks to Wacom, the Sponsor of this Challenge. It was great to work with the Wacom team. Thanks for trusting Sclipo with running this challenge (we know there are quite a few video communities out there …)!

SclipoLive is a powerful new app that offers our members two distinct advantages:
1. To teach personalized classes live (how-to videos are, in the end, not customizable one-fits-all micro-lessons).
2. To make good money (teachers may charge for a live class, whereas users would hardly pay to watch a video, except for tips here and there). Teachers can use their videos as self-advertising! What better way to convince somebody that you are great teacher then showing her how good you teach in a short video?

Sclipo takes a small commission from the seller of a class. For classes taught for free, Sclipo charges nothing.

Here’s how SclipoLive works. Besides a large webcam window where you see the teacher / learner and a small window to see yourself, SclipoLive allows to chat and to take private notes. These are deep-tagged into the video stream, which is recorded. This means, classes (which remain private) can be reviewed, and by clicking on a note or chat text, you jump forward to the point where the chat / note was made.

Pretty cool, isn’t it? Don’t you wish you could have video-recorded all your classes, and that all your notes where deep-tagged, so you can easily find exactly that part of the lecture where the prof explained …

Here was what others say about SclipoLive: Genbeta, Mashable, Techcrunch.

We hope you like SclipoLive. Questions? Or interested in a demo? Please email Edwin [edwin-at-sclipo.com].

Academies benefit our users, because, hey, its more meaningful and exciting to have YOUR Academy than just being a Master. Our members can now build their own “teaching institution” and even create their own “brand”.

All people and institutions can set up their Academy at Sclipo. From here they can share their knowledge by uploading their videos and by teaching live with SclipoLive - our pioneer webcam system (SclipoLive is currently in private Beta). Each Academy has its unique profile page and URL, where students will find all videos published by the Academy, communicate with its teacher(s) and meet its students.

Here some of our favorite Academies.
> Learn all about PCs, Windows and more from Virtualtweak.
> Boost your English language skills with ColorfulEnglish.
> Immerse yourself in Tai Chi with Weihong.
> Delight your friends with Spanish homemade cooking from Carme.

Die Sprache der Sclipo Benutzeroberfläche passt sich automatisch an die Browsersprache an. Benutzer können die Sprache auch im Dashboard unter “Mein Profil” einstellen.

Wir freuen uns schon sehr auf die interessanten Skills-Videos unserer neuen deutschen Mitglieder.