on the other hand when you go to Seth's blog or his e-child Squidoo – nothing pops up. There is a difference between pushing some welcome messages or explaining what people can find on your site and trying to increase some sort of conversions. You're safe playing audio/video in places where they are expected, like YouTube, or when you click on a menu tab/link that says "Welcome Video from Alvin" or something along those lines…

For those that try to implement this, I would strongly recommend to watch their bounce rates. If it increases – then you know what to do. If doesn't increase and you page views go up – then you're in luck.

Auto playback on web sites has been a "no-no" item from usability standpoint for quite awhile. I think it's much better to make this option obvious to the user, but let them to decide if their want to watch or hear it at this particular moment.

And there are legitimate reasons why people might not appreciate you making noise from their speakers without their consent. I just pulled my own stats for a month based on visitors from Arizona state (thats where I reside) so the time is correct. Out of 20,000 our local online visitors 54% visited out website between 9am and 5pm, which are usual business hours. 24% of the visitors came in between 9pm and 7am – that's a usual personal privacy time when kids and family members can be asleep. This adds up to 78% of the visitors.

Now, ask yourself – why would you take a 78% chance to make your online visitors uncomfortable or even worse? Just imagine you didn't have an option to answer your phone and whoever called you just could simply talk AT YOU at any time.

But every time a create a new video…the embedded player gets updated with the latest video (playing first). So they are actually always changing and you can look back at all the other videos I've created. The downside for sending tweets there is that because the player is updated with each new video I create….my "welcome video" for new twits gets pushed back. The only way to get around that is to create one page for that one specific video you are sending twits to.

So I just send new Twits to the original video on Viddler….and the video does the rest of the work. I also use BudURLS to track how many plays I get from sending these tweets with the video links.

There are certainly numerous ways to get creative and custom with your video. I think the best part is that we are all just trying to figure out what works best with the solutions we have in place already and what we fill comfortable using! Hey…at least we're trying, right!

In any case, video is too fun and I am hooked on it. Recently, I have been trying to get Qik.com figured out to stream live video to my blog directly from my Blackberry, but the feed keeps cutting out after 10 or 11 seconds?

cheers, August

nik_nik has the fault.

She is the new Rockstar Diva.

There are a new Queen

And a new kingdom: They call it Queeniknikland.

God save our Queen.

VVVVV

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1. Your vids are great and are a lot along the same lines I'm thinking

2. When I hit the tweet button, the message was about 17 char too long

your energy and "moves". She lives and breathes music as you do. She is also

gorgeous and very bright, if I must say! I love you!

Your friend,

David in Akron Ohio