Behind the scenes (and in front of them) at 5min
Posted in Entertainment, Music, Technology on Apr 12th, 2009
If you’re a musical snob like myself, it is probably only on rare and few occasions that you allow others to pack some external punch into your playlists, let alone dictate your listening choices. After all, why risk the chance of an Air Supply song creeping on you when you’re just getting the [...]
Posted in 5min, Software, Technology on Mar 2nd, 2009
Picture this: you’re skipping merrily down the street, making the dreamlike trek from the Apple store nearest to your home, clutching your new Mac. You are in a state of utter bliss. You envision the painless setup process and the ease of transferring your data and synching your army of devices to the new member [...]
Posted in Entertainment, News, Software, Technology on Feb 16th, 2009
As a dedicated albeit newbie MacHead, I’ve decided to greet each Monday here at 5min with some goodies your Mac desperately needs. Whether you’re a fledgling Mac user or a full-on groupie with life-size cardboard cutouts of Steve Jobs under your bed, I’m hoping this will bring you use, save you time, and above all [...]
Posted in 5min, News, Technology, web on Jan 22nd, 2009
OnMedia announced today that 5min.com, the leading syndication platform for broadband instructional video, has been chosen to be a part of the 2009 OnMedia 100 List. The OnMedia 100 Award is given to private, emerging technology companies in the advertising, publishing, marketing, branding and public relations spaces. 5min was selected by the [...]
Posted in 5min, News, Technology, web on Jan 18th, 2009
After recently launching the 5min VideoSeed syndication platform, we are pleased to announce that this powerful distribution tool is now available to 5min publishers – for free.
VideoSeed provides website publishers with a direct source for tens of thousands of videos from 5min’s extensive how-to and knowledge-based content library. VideoSeed, the semantic heart of the 5min [...]
Posted in 5min, News, Sports, Technology on Dec 28th, 2008
1) The Large Hadron Collider
For some, the way to know how everything began. For others, the beginning of the end, and according to some, 2008 was supposed to be the last year of our collective existence. Planet Earth, eaten by a black hole. As far as I know, the world is still spinning on its [...]
Posted in 5min, News, Sports, Technology on Dec 2nd, 2008
We’re stoked to finally be launching our exciting new syndication tools, spearheaded by 5min’s proprietary VideoSeed technology.
5min’s semantic syndication platform for instructional video programming now reaches 100M unique users via our vast network of partner publisher sites. This platform pairs brand advertising with relevant video from 5min’s library of hundreds of thousands of new and [...]
Posted in 5min, Software, Technology on Oct 15th, 2008
When I watch videos such as Sarah Palin CHOSE Not To Be Gay, I understand why Alice Pieszecki makes podcasts. I wouldn’t go as far as she goes – outing NBA players – but I would definitely try to always speak my mind.
Because that’s why podcasts exist: to make statements, to spread the voice, to [...]
Posted in 5min, Arts, Software, Technology on Oct 5th, 2008
Long ago, in the nearly pre-historic past and as a part of my studies at a design and engineering college, I was planted down in a tiny, stuffy computer lab and forced to master Macromedia FreeHand, a geometric modeling application allowing the creation and editing of vector graphic files for print and the Web, while [...]
Posted in General, News, Technology on Mar 10th, 2008
Okay, so this week I finally broke down and purchased an iPhone.
This was a surprising turn not because I particularly dislike the iPhone, but rather because I hate – or at least hated – mobile phones in general. I just didn’t jive wall with the thought of being available 24/7, even though I have been [...]
