We are quickly approaching a major milestone at Magnify:    

50,000 channels!

The growth has been amazing and the kinds of users who have built channels on Magnify.net are as wide and varied as the web itself.

To celebrate our 50,000th birthday, the user who creates the 50,000th channel will win a Magnify Pro Services Package valued at over $1000! The package includes the advertising buyout for 5000 pages a month, custom branding (watermark on video player and logo on embedded players), enhanced graphics for your channel (new buttons for the main navigation bar, a page background image, an "upload a video" graphic for your home page, and a logo for the channel guide watermark). You can see the official channel count of the Magnify home page.

So, if you have not yet build a chann...

Check out Randy Cassingham's great post about the "5 Stages of Twitter Denial"

http://www.thisistrue.com/blog-twitter_why_you_should_care.html

Magnify.net to power Live Earth community video and "2009 Green Inaugural Ball" project
 
Today Live Earth announced that it has partnered with Magnify.net to build and deploy a global video channel, including the first large-scale deployment of the Magnify.net Geo-Tagging Solution (GTS) for video uploading and sharing.  Live Earth is planning to make use of the Geo-Tagging Solution for a global event in 2009, and is launching the Magnify.net partnership today to involve the global community in the 2009 Green Inaugural Ball, to be held January 19th in Washington, DC.  Live Earth is the executive producer of The 2009 Green Inaugural Ball.

Live Earth and Magnify.net want to give everyone the opportunity to participate in the Ball, a celebration of a new era of possibility for the environment and the new green economy.  Anyone can submit a new or existing short film or video to the Live Earth Video site powered by Magnify.net (http://video.liveearth.org/) expressing ideas as to how President Barack Obama and his administration can use clean energy and green technology to change the country, save the economy, and solve the...

ScientificBlogging.com, the world's premier online science community, recently rolled out version 2.0 and will be using Magnify to power all video on their site. Members and writers on the site can create feature articles, chat, collaborate, interact, use the forums or host their own science blogs and get paid to do it…not a bad operation. Scientificblogging has long been a destination for the science community and we are really excited to see the site grow with Magnify powered video. It is always fun to read articles on the site, but now you can go watch a wide collection of videos as well. To read the full press release about the new site, click here.

I love that users are demanding and expecting a more interactive and video rich experience when they go to websites now. Companies and site admins are finding that enriching print with relevant video improves the overall experience and makes for happy site visitors (who does not want to watch a good video?) It is fun being in the middle of the trend and helping great sites like scientificblogging.com integrate video. I encourage everyone to take a minute and check out th...