Robert Sandie » Video

vid.io

Rob — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:17:00 +0000

By now it’s no secret that I have been working on vid.io with my good friend Todd. For the next few months we are working with some select customers rethinking the entire video management paradigm. Would love to tell more publicly, but going to keep our heads down till the right moment. If you wish to discuss privately, my new email is r at vid.io.

Beet.tv Interview

Rob — Mon, 16 May 2011 16:36:14 +0000

While at Streaming Media East this year had privilege of doing an interview with Andy from Beet.tv.

Bucket List Check! High Scalability Mention

Rob — Tue, 10 May 2011 18:39:15 +0000

Todd Troxell, Systems Architect and friend did a fantastic job working with High Scalability to share what’s going on underneath the covers at Viddler.

It shows the good, bad, lessons and future of the Viddler platform from a technical aspect. Some folks might frown on this as TMI… I tend to side on transparency + honesty always winning.

Would love to hear your thoughts on TMI vs. Transparency FTW.

Now on to skydiving

BillyD Rap Preview

Rob — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:49:45 +0000

Watch out Eminem.. BillyD is coming for you. As you know Billy is responsible for our video marketing and never ceases to amaze me. At our recent holiday party, Bryan (an awesome Viddler support wizard) caught some footage of Billy freestyling:

New Learn More Hotness

Rob — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:31:39 +0000

Chalk another one up to how much I <3 BillyD:

The new Learn More:

Privileged

Rob — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:29:44 +0000

For the last few years, it has been a privilege to work with folks leveraging viddler technology such as Gary Vaynerchuk.

It’s also been a privileged to work with such a great team that’s focused at delivering the best video technology.

The latest hire, Billy Disney, is first full-time hire outside that development/support workflow, and with the Viddler Spotlight series, has begun highlighting the love affair and “privelegedness” we have with our customers:

And with this amazingness, Billy humbly bakes himself as folks to be privileged to work with.

Lovin GetClicky

Rob — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:26:13 +0000

If you haven’t seen lastest blog post on Viddler, check it out. Also GetClicky’s announcement is superb as well.

Did a video for it.. the first I have done in a LONG time which is the reason why am so rusty

Viddler Promo Video

Rob — Thu, 27 May 2010 21:49:23 +0000

BillyD did an amazing job highlighting Viddler Business Services.

The focus was around Control, Customization and Branding viddler offers as a video hosting service. What do you think, did those points come across?

Viddler Launches HTML5 Embed

Rob — Thu, 13 May 2010 16:48:56 +0000

Jefferson Graham from USAToday wrote an amazing article on Viddlers HTML5 support. Make sure to signup for our HTML5 beta!

Why Golf Rocks

Rob — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:44:13 +0000

Usually I am not a big fan of being away from my computer for 5 hours, but when it results in events like this. I am.

Good and Bad of HTML5 Video

Rob — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:30:27 +0000

At Viddler, we are working on HTML5 feverishly but allow me to do a quick brain dump on personal thoughts on HTML5. It’s guaranteed that this list will change over time.

The Good:
- Lower CPU requirements
- Open standard
- Works great in mobile environments, keeps power usage low

The Bad
- No support for closed captioning
- Javascript based when you want to design the player
- Javascript is a security risk for hosted environments, like Tumblr, Facebook, WordPress.com, RSS Readers
- No Internet Explorer support (coming in IE9)
- Lack of Security on Stream. tags need open access to streams.
- Ad Serving Not Possible, initial implementations include giving out Javascript tags
- Autoplays randomly when loading pages using default tag
- No Room for Interactive Experiences – Overlays/Sharing functionality/

As of today, support HTML5, it’s great in mobile experiences, but it has a long way to go before coming the default in desktop browsers.

Authentic Sales

Rob — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:14:56 +0000

In one of my early college internships when working inside sales and cold calling, someone told me “Sales is getting as close to a lie, without ever telling one”

Having aged a few years, and having helped make many of the buying decisions for Viddler, I could never disagree more.

It’s all about authenticity.

What traits does an authentic sales person have? I came up with a list of things that I would suggest to all future salespeople that contact me and other entrepreneurs like me:

1. Listen

If you are going to read a sales card and spew off facts for 10 minutes without asking my needs, maybe that will work on people that you are cold calling, but dude. I called you. I don’t need everything I read on your site reiterated again. Take a few minutes and ask “what are you looking for?”.

2. Respond like you listened

This is a good dating rule too! But not only respond like you listened, meet me on my level. If I am not talking big-game corporate wiz, don’t talk big-game corporate wiz.

3. I don’t care

I don’t care if you got your SVP of global operations to approve a deal.

I don’t care how great your CEO is.

I don’t care if you climbed 5 levels up the chain to get authority to get a discount.

I don’t care if you are going to get the VP of product on the line to reiterate what you just said.

I don’t care if you tell me how much you love my product, especially when you don’t use it

Not only do I not care but these “big company” things but they make me kinda worried you are not the right fit for my company.

4. I do care

I do care if you say I am going to need a few days to work this out with people on your side.

I do care if you shoot me an email during downtime that you may have noticed.

I do care if you noticed another Tweet about Viddler.

I do care if you actually use the site, and have insightful feedback on it

5. Respect your competition

Having respect for competition says alot about someone and character of the company. Saying “they may be good for this, but this is how we differentiate” is an authentic answer. Just remember the competition has references to offset anything myths that may be said.

6. Don’t repeat my name

“Well Rob, this is how much I know your name, Rob. And you know what Rob, I have salesforce pulled up and am reading our entire history of our calls…. Rob” This is what I interpret if you say my name over and over again. It’s just tacky. May work with others, but not me. Sorry.

It should be noted my inspiration for this post was when choosing a Managed DNS provider to help add another layer of Viddler redundancy. We ended up going with DynDNS and sales talent, Josh Delisle.

Viddler has not hired any sales people outside of the original team. When Viddler does hire this person, my hope is that we can find people, like Josh, that know how to talk on this authentic level with customers.

Viddler Analytics [video]

Rob — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:17:41 +0000

As you may have read on the viddler blog, or watched via Andrews amazing demo video, Viddler analytics has been launched for Business Service customers.

A few Viddlers have asked me why this can’t be free for everyone, as Youtube does.

This is a good question, giving away everything for free is a very expensive business decision to pursue. We are focused on profitability and are certainly turning a little 37signal’ish.

To give you a little sniffy sniff.. check out what analytics looks like for me:

Raising $10 Investment For Viddler

Rob — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:28:49 +0000

It’s funny how fundraising is such a widely written about activity when it really has little to do with product or business itself.

This is a little video spoof on just that.

Viddler

Rob — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:18:30 +0000

Viddler is located in Bethlehem, PA and a few of us share our favorite sandwiches that are all less then $5!

Scrappy.

Brother Proposes

Rob — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:55:10 +0000

My little brother, Erik Sandie, proposed to his girlfriend last weekend.

The pressure is on!

Age Gate Feature Review

Rob — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:10:52 +0000

Viddler just released a new feature primarily requested from video game partners partners like Joystiq, Sony Playstation,
Destructoid and VideoGaming247.com. Leave comments if you have suggestions.

If your interested in learning more about howto signup for this feature, please check out our partner and/or our business service program.

Fundamentals

Rob — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:10:14 +0000

I care deeply about online video and the part that is discerning is the reliance upon one video service to provide all viewership for larger brands. Listen and let me know what you think.

David Rose CEO Investment Sail

Rob — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:10:18 +0000

Last week I went for a sail ride on the Hudson. It was my first time doing this in NYC and nothing but huge props to David Rose for putting this on!

Great Times @ Ignite Philly

Rob — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:14:29 +0000

Geoff DiMassi (godfather of Philly) did a great job helping put together the Ignite Philly event and shot some great video. I really need to get his camera as not only did he shoot amazing videos (in vidget below) but great photo’s.

Make sure to watch the Josh Kopelman’s amazing intro in the IgnitePhilly Vidget:

My First 15 Seconds

Rob — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:26:32 +0000

Mixmaster Colin was up late last night and whipped up a 15second video subsite on Viddler.

It’s super awesome and already 20+ people leaving videos.

One technical request that will be bigtime for all future stuff we do like this is upon recording, automatically setting the permalink to the 15s.viddler.com/sandieman/3e8653be URL so it links back to the 15s site as apposed to Viddler.com/explore/..

Which would you prefer?

My first 15 seconds:

No More iPhones? Think…

Rob — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:34:50 +0000

Personally, I waited 15 minutes on the second day at an AT&T store but Justine is bringing to attention just how out of stock the iPhone’s are.

To all those on the fence, don’t jump over without thinking about it.

I travel a ton and recently switched from Verizon and can say AT&T sucks compared to Verizon’s network all across the United States.

Also, battery life when you are using it to it’s fullest limitations (3g, playing games, etc) is only 3 hours.

I have never spent more time worrying about battery power.

After feeling the switch over the last few weeks in 4 different states already on east and west coast, my conclusion is…

Having an iPhone is like living the life of a party animal. You have your high’s and your hangovers. One minute your listening to music, doing GPS with google maps, then the next you have no service, and battery has died.

It’s much different then consistent average life of an ordinary blackberry citizen that goes to bed everynight before 9pm

Cherry Chapstick Lip Dub

Rob — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:37:01 +0000

Rachel is one of my favorite people to watch on viddler and she just rocked out big time with this video, Driving to Katy.

I am now watching this for a 3rd time and I will admit to that but never to singing this out loud while watching .

ViddlerHQ

Rob — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:39:04 +0000

Great day on June 26th with Team Viddler (only the pennsylvanians)!

Other “ViddlerHQ” Videos:

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Goped Olympic Superstar

Rob — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:01:22 +0000

It’s not everyday that you get to witness a sporting event that brings such emotion as Goped Olympics. iJustine has shown us what this means to all of us humble human beings.

Sporting events will now have to use this as the gold standard for PERFECTION.

Why The Lehigh Valley?

Rob — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:22:24 +0000

I caught this video footage at The Lehigh Valley Airport (ABE), while waiting for luggage. It actually did a half-way decent job of describing bethlehem, not sure about those other cities!

Why The Lehigh Valley?

Rob — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 15:21:46 +0000

I caught this video footage at The Lehigh Valley Airport (ABE), while waiting for luggage. It actually did a half-way decent job of describing bethlehem, not sure about those other cities!

Competing Ads on Technorati

Rob — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:58:52 +0000

Competing Ads on Technorati

Originally uploaded by sandieman

I have been investigating more and more about online advertising and it seems that brand conflicts happen. How much do advertisers really care about this stuff?

The Clearlake Experience

Rob — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:05:11 +0000

This was weekend recap of June 14-15, 2008 during Fathers Day. It’s rather long but get’s you a good idea of what a full weekend at clearlake is about.

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Crunk Love Workday

Rob — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:43:09 +0000

Viddler may not be known for it’s gangsterness but as of Friday, May 29th , 2008, we shall… okay, maybe not. Make sure to check out: http://makejohnnylaugh.com/

Thank you, Timeless Productions for Crunk Love