David Prager seemed strangely calm when a strange man walked into his house and slept on his bed. Prager decided not to call the police, but decided instead to take a video and Twitter about the whole situation. While this situation was pretty entertaining for the Twitter and UStream community, I think that calling the police would have been the best thing to do. Regardless, below is some of the footage and some of the tweets that Prager sent out:
- ok – I think the drama is over – intruder is out – door is locked – think I finally need some sleepabout 8 hours ago from Tweetie
- if u haven’t been watching my ustream -the dude passed out in my bathroom and I just dragged him outabout 8 hours ago from Tweetie
- going inabout 8 hours ago from Tweetie
- http://www.ustream.tv/chann…about 8 hours ago from web
- ok – still haven’t done anything – he is still in there – gonna setup a ustream now I think – standbyabout 8 hours ago from Tweetie
- haven’t gone in yet ….. debating calling cops but just feel it’s not needed for some reason (and probably contrary to all logic)about 9 hours ago from Tweetie
- ok – have weapon if I need it – but don’t plan on any confrontation with it – about to go inabout 9 hours ago from Tweetie
- glad that GF wasn’t hereabout 9 hours ago from Tweetie
- ok – about to make move – putting shoes on firstabout 9 hours ago from Tweetie
- I’m now thinking maybe he’s passed out in my bathroom — I guess that’s better than violent — but I have no idea. time to freak out??about 9 hours ago from Tweetie
- but … I could be wrong about the harmless assumptionabout 9 hours ago from Tweetie
- hmmm — should I call the cops like you guys have recommended? find a blunt object before opening the door? my gut tells me he’s harmlessabout 9 hours ago from Tweetie
- there is no TP in my bathroom – wonder if that is complicating things for him – was gonna wait for him to come out and kick him outabout 9 hours ago from Tweetie
- maybe I should mention I live in a relatively rustic studio apartment in SFabout 9 hours ago from Tweetie
- I’m thinking the hobo part cause I can smell BO – and I really am wondering why I haven’t freaked the F outabout 9 hours ago from Tweetie
- ok – he’s still in the bathroom and Im now thinking a combo of hobo and drunk and sleepwalking dude – he seems late 20s – hmmm what next ?about 9 hours ago from Tweetie
- and I can’t believe I’m tweeting about it while he is still in there — in wonder of he is sleep walking – or if maybe I should freak outabout 9 hours ago from Tweetie
- ok, maybe I should lock my door – I swear a random dude just walked into my bathroom and I can’t believe I haven’t freaked outabout 9 hours ago from Tweetie
Area5, the team behind CO-OP web show showed up to Revision3 for a meeting to get their show off the ground. This show is basically about a gang of friends that sit around and play video games. Video game reviews are made in a comedic form. Matt, Ryan, Cesar, Rob, and JayFresh have kept this show independent and now have found a permanent home with Revision3.
Above is the intro episode. It is pretty entertaining, especially if you’re a gamer. Language is NSFW and NSFK (not-safe-for-kids).
Amit Chowdhry | October 27, 2008 | 389 views | Comments Categorized under Revision3
Revision3 has also been hit by tough economic times. They will be removing a couple of shows and laying off a few folks. Revision3 will also be ending distribution agreements with Epic Fu and Wine Library TV with Gary Vaynerchuck. Andrew Baron, founder of Rocketboom broke the news on Twitter.
The shows that have been cancelled includes Pixel Perfect, PopSiren, and Internet Superstar. Epic Fu and Wine Library will still be available independently, but just no longer on Revision3. Epic Fu will remain on Revision3 until mid-December. Wine Library will no longer be hosted starting today.
Revision3 isn’t at a total loss of programming. They have added 7 new programs last month on Revision3Beta.com. The seven shows are: 1.) Bottles, Blends, and Brews, 2.) HackCollege, 3.) The Minx Mandate, 4.) The Slice, 5.) That’s Awesome.TV, 6.) WSYK.TV, and 7.) Your Weekly Music Lesson With Walt
Fans commenting on the Revision3 blog post announcing the news are not happy. One commenter stated that cancelling PixelPerfect was ridiculous because they moved the show to their own studio and “ruined the show with the weird zoom-ins and poor screen capture.”
Revision3 and Go Daddy have partnered on a contest that will bring a live episode of Diggnation to the winner’s living room. Everytime Go Daddy users type in the word “diggcouch” when buying a domain name or other service as the code, they are entered for a random drawing. This drawing is happening between now and October 22.
“Diggnation started on a couch in a living room and is still going strong thanks to viewers like you. To this day, almost every Diggnation is still shot on a couch in a living room and now we want to make that YOUR living room and YOUR couch!” states the Revision3 contest page. “Enter now for your chance to win a Diggnation taping in your living room. For one lucky winner, Kevin and Alex will come to your house and shoot an episode of Diggnation from your living room.”
Diggnation is a vidoe podcast that is hosted by Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. The podcast covers top stories that make it to the homepage of Digg.com.
Yesterday Revision3 went offline and Veronica Belmont, former CNET producer and current Tekzilla program host reported “Holy DDOS attacks, Batman! Rev3 is under fire!” on Twitter. After investigating the reason behind the outage, Jim Louderback (CEO of Revision3) stated that Revision3’s servers were hit with a Denial of Service attack. See the picture below of the Revision3 server.
A denial of service attack is when a server sends tons of requests and packets at one time to another server thus causing the receiving server to give up.
Revision3 uses torrent files to distribute their content. Torrents allows multiple users to share bandwidth for download or streaming content. And in this case, the one server that was hit with the DoS attack was Revision3’s BitTorrent server. The DoS attack assailant was intentionally aiming to take down Revision3’s BitTorrent server.
When tracing the IP address of the assailant that attacked Revision3 servers, Louderback found out that it belonged to MediaDefender. MediaDefender’s service is to:
“Stop the spread of illegally traded copyrighted material over the internet and peer-to-peer networks.”
However Revision3 trades legal content. Revision3 may have been wrongfully accused of setting up BitTorrent servers for illegal purposes. Sony, Universal, the RIAA, and the MPAA have used MediaDefender in the past to prevent illegal files from being traded.
“[Ben] Grodsky [VP of operations at MediaDefender] admits that his computers sent those SYN packets to Revision3, but claims that their servers were each only trying to contact us every three hours. Our own logs show upwards of 8,000 packets a second,” stated Louderback.
Revision3 streams popular web video programs such as The GigaOM Show and Digg Nation.
Information Source & Picture Credit:
[1] Revision3 Blog: Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3 by Jim Louderback
Change is good. I like the new look of Revision3. The new site has been under development for about 5 months. Each program has their own page subtitle. There is a rotating module that highlights featured programming. The company also worked with BitGravity to improve video performance and increase the size of their standard video player.Â
Revision3 also added forums to give more visibility to their user community. The forums are also intended to engage in discussions revolving around Revision3’s programs. Users can add avatars. The new logo stands out more than the old one also.
Lastly, new episodes of Diggnation were only available to paid members. But since the new design launched, the most Diggnation episode will be accessible to all users as soon as its uploaded. Revision3 recently added the Digg Reel to the list of video programs. Not a bad new year’s start for Kevin Rose & team.Â
Amit Chowdhry | January 17, 2008 | 581 views | Comments Categorized under Digg, Revision3
Revision3 has recently unleashed a new show within their network of programming called Digg Reel. Digg Reel unveils what some of the top video picks popular enough to make it to the homepage within Digg.com. The TV show launched around 9PM Pacific Time and at the same time, Kevin Rose was hosting a party for his instant messaging and file-sharing software called Pownce.
Digg Reel is hosted by Jessica Corbin and the popular videos are showed within the show’s episode, thus allowing Digg users not having to surf over to the site to watch it themselves. First the video is shown, Corbin says a few catch-lines, and then displays comments from a few Digg users.
I watched the first episode and some of the videos that were featured included a bunny opening an envelope, Guns and Roses’ Sweet Child of Mine-Indian version, and Jon Stewart reacting to Hillary Clinton’s crying (or lack thereof).
VH1 and Atom Films’ came up with a similar program a couple years, but their program wasn’t backed by a strong community. I do not think that their show is aired on TV anymore. MTV bought Atom Films in August 2006.
Revision3 Corporation is a network of tech-related web program shows. Some of the most notable shows on the site include Diggnation and The GigaOm Show. The company was started by Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, and David Pranger. These three had prior experience working at TechTV/4.
The reason why I like Revision3[1] is because the company produces the show, Diggnation. When a story hits the homepage of Digg and gets tons of hits and attention, the odds of the event being talked about on Diggnation increases. And then either the founder, Kevin Rose or producer, Alex Albrecht gives credit to the user who submitted that particular story. This gives Digg.com more of a human essence.
Although I do not watch the show much myself, I did watch the episode[2] after the HD DVD key fiasco to see the response from Rose and Albrecht. I would say that this episode is the one that captured my interest.
Sometime between last night and this morning, TechCrunch reported[3] that Revision3 gained $8 million in investment by Greylock partners. “Online video site Revision3 has raised an $8 million second round of financing, according to a source close to the deal, bringing the total capital raised to $9 million. Our understanding is that Greylock led the round,” wrote Michael Arrington, TechCrunch founder.
Marc Andreessen, the cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation (which was sold to AOL for $4.2 billion in 1999), is also an investor in Revision3. Having Andreessen as an investor is a classic example of Web 1.0 reaching out to 2.0.
With the new round of funding, I’m assuming that Diggnation will expand their network of online video programs.  Kevin Rose is a posterboy of web success. Both of his ventures, Digg and Revision3 is kicking ass with no barriers in the way.
[1] Revision3.com
[2] Diggnation: Episode 100
[3] TechCrunch: Revision3 Raises $8 million From Greylock
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