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Posted on June 20, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

My 4 favorite WordPress Video Blogging Themes

Last week on my Facebook wall I was asked to suggest a good WordPress template to use for a web site television show. Below are my 4 favorite WordPress Video Blogging Themes.

1. eVid wordpress theme – http://www.elegantthemes.com – Membership $19

2. TV Elements – http://www.press75.com- 1 Site License for $75

3. WooTube – http://www.woothemes.com – 1 Site License for $70

4. Quommunication Video - http://quommunication.com/video/ – 1 Site License for $75

Also See:
6 Brilliant WordPress Themes For Video Blogs or Vlogs
Best Video WordPress Themes

What is your favorite WordPress Video blogging theme?

Posted on January 17, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

What makes a successful twitter iPhone app? A tweetie screencast video review. My 5th most asked question: What twitter app do I use on my iPhone?

If you’ve visit my F.A.Q section then yes I skipped #3 or #4 but I’ll get to those later but #3 will be how I got so many twitter followers and #4 will be who created my twitter background and the history of twitter backgrounds. Keeping with the twitter theme here my 5th most asked question is “what twitter iPhone app do I use on my iPhone.

Before tweetie was released I was using the iPhone web app Hahlo mainly because the amount of people I’m following on twitter and the other iPhone applications were hanging on loading my twitter public stream and my replies. Then a few weeks ago my good friend @Ocell told me about tweetie and I’ve been using it ever since. Tweetie is made be atebites and can be downloaded from the iTunes here [app link] Here’s a screencast demo of tweetie.

A few other notes about successful twitter iPhone apps:

Remember to keep it simple and clean – one of the reasons why twitter works is that it’s simple.

Separate the replies from the direct messages and public tweets. I love twitterrific but this is one of the biggest complaints I hear about the app.
Make the app have some PEE, that’s stands for Popularity EnhancEr. – One trend about successful iPhone apps is that it either shoots, farts or is a flashlight and tweetie does two out of the three

Monetize it. – tweetie cost $2.99 and just look at what tweetdeck a popular desktop twitter air app has just received VC funding.

What is your favorite iPhone twitter app and what desktop twitter app do you use?

Posted on December 20, 2008 - by Wayne Sutton

Poll: Help pick my video intro & why I use Vimeo

If you have seen any of my videos on WayneSutton.TV then you know they’re live shows via Ustream.TV and not pre-recorded. We’ll starting after Christmas I’ll be producing a few non live videos for the site and I’m working on a video intro, outro and intro music too. Below are two samples of the intro and I’m looking for your feedback.

The first video is a fade in single word text with a swipe animation, it’s around 14 seconds long. The second video has a fade in to stick text animation that’s 6 seconds long.

Update: The two videos below do not have any audio. thanks via @barrycunningham

Vote in the poll or leave any feedback/suggestions in the comments. If anyone wants to help with the video intro, including audio or special effects feel free to contact me.

intro 1

WayneSutton.TV video intro sample 1 from Wayne Sutton on Vimeo.

intro 2

WayneSutton.TV video intro sample 2 from Wayne Sutton on Vimeo.

The Poll
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Speaking of Vimeo if you’re a current user, you can add me as a friend here: http://vimeo.com/waynesutton. Also I just create a WayneSutton.TV video channel on Vimeo here: http://vimeo.com/waynesuttontv

A few people have asked me on twitter why do I use Vimeo over Youtube or other video hosting social networks, a few of the reason are below.

I love Vimeo’s embed player, it’s clean, simple, flush with the page
Vimeo was one of the 1st video social networks to support HD video uploads
Vimeo has HD video embedding options
Vimeo is simple, it’s easy to upload videos
Vimeo has multiple community building options: channel, groups, albums
I like Vimeo’s video options to embed custom upload thumbnail, add flickr photos, etc
Vimeo Plus http://vimeo.com/plus options are great and worth the $59.00 a year

But there are a few features I don’t like about Vimeo or I wish they had such as:

Video encoding is slow if you don’t have a plus account (I’m a plus user) & it still can be faster.
Vimeo doesn’t support video comment insertion like Viddler
You can’t link to a time spot in Vimeo like you can with Youtube
More options for image/logo overlay
The ability to support pre-roll video ads

If Vimeo would add or work on those features, they’ll be almost perfect. IMOH

Which Video social networking site do you use and why?