==== In a Nutshell: ==== **With an UBERELECTRON you can search, browse and watch public people driven vodcasts and mediaRSS feeds in a telly style environment. No installation required but permalinks and sharing options included.** ==== What makes uberlectron.com different? ==== Content sources are - witout exception - open Vodcasts and mediaRSS-feeds. So all content you will get is provided or compiled by people like you and me, now lovingly collected, motherly indexed and impatiently waiting to get your attention. At the frontend Uberelectron tries to emulate what made oldschool TV so popular: Relaxed, spontaneous consuming of content with a quite simple decision-making foregoing and an also simple handling. No need to sign up, no need to register. The whole user interaction is broken down to the essential minimum while the range of content served is hopefully as relevant and nontrivial as possible. ==== This is absolutely f#ck´n cool. How can I add my own channel to your index? ==== Currently only via [[http://www.uberelectron.com/contact|this form]] because I do not have the time to hack a proper form for this right now. Please note that only channels in terms of our TACs will be accepted. This means but is not limited to: No Pron, no violence, no rage, no hate and... no pron, seriously. ==== This is absolutely f#ck´d up. How can I remove my own channel from your index? ==== First of all: I´ve to apologize for my enthusiasm then. It was not my intention to mix in your business. So, please be so kind to drop me a line via [[http://www.uberelectron.com/contact|this form]] and I will remove your content and lock it from any further indexing and rescanning processes as soon as possible. ==== I´ve tuned in into a "on demand" playlist yesterday and today it changed completely or in parts. WTF? ==== Uberlectron works extremely hard 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 355 days a year (one day is reserved for the new-years-eve hangover). Currently the uber-engine scans about 150 new feeds per day to test them for usefulness and re-scans and updates at least 1.000 of already indexed ones. New videos are sorted in, older, unpopular or unreachable ones are sorted out and the resulting base of state is reevaluated by relevancy to specific keywords. All this to fulfill the mission: Provide the most relevant and entertaining content possible - day by day and without to be a randomizer. This forces pumped out "on demand" playlists to be in a permanent flow of content. Some Videos stay in place, other ones are transposed to different keyword clouds or kicked from the system completely. Nobody can predict the results - neither I do (that´s why I still use this app for myself). ==== I am a channel operator but my videos are neither indexed nor broadcasted. Why is that? ==== There are multiple reasons for this: First of all da mighty UberE does not index feed-items which are not described well. Also videos which can not be squeezed through the flash video player are consequently sorted out. Last but not least it might be that your channel´s topic is simply too unspecific and as such overrun by other channels in terms of relevancy. But to break down some basic rules to avoid uberproblems: * Check if your feed provides s. * Check if your feed provides <description>s. * Check if your videos are encoded with 'H264', 'VP6F', 'VP6', 'VP6S', 'VP6E' or 'FLV' and delivered in 'MP4', 'MP4V', 'M4V', 'MOV', 'FLV','3GP' or '3G2' containers (in hierarchic order) * Check if the media URLs provided in your feed are correct and permanent. * Check if your <title>s and <description>s are fair and as such not optimized for keyword density and popularity. * Check if your <title>s and <description>s are valid to the video content and as precise as possible. * Check if your channel <description> is valid to your video content. If all of this fails and your channel content is still not delivered, please feel free to get in touch since it must be all my fault then. ==== Uberelectron streams content through its own player. Its a thief, right? ==== Uberelectron does not steal content, it deflects data. Since the system does only index and re-broadcast public and as such open vodcasts (media RSS streams) it does only promote content which is intended to be seen separately from any branded WEB page anyway. Think of it as an **online, hazzle free** video -index and -player which is some kind of opposite to //offline- download- and- install- a- software- first- then- get- the- videos- somewhere- and- download- them- also- and- hang-on- and- so- on//. That´s all. So, this service does not trick or overreach content providers but tries to make viewer´s life easier and in last consequence channel operators a bit more celebrated. Talking about branding and identity: The system tries to integrated the video source´s identity as good as possible. When ever a logo or similar branding is submitted via the input stream its also shown within the Uberelectron environment. This also includes back links and all the fluff. ==== I know the trick. You will add advertisements to the videos and then you will become devilish rich, right? ==== Negative - **Uberelectron does not and will never** garble any 3rd party content -entities or -collections (meaning indexed videos or channels which are not our own) with advertising overlays, hidden or obvious ad-links, pre- or postroll ads or in similar obtrusive ways. This a) would be extreme shady and b) we do not believe in this. This is our word we stand and fight for. ==== Where can I find the download links for all the videos? ==== We don´t believe in downloads and local hard-discs. Trillions of working-hours where spent to build up the internet holding mankind´s data and knowledge - and counting. Since you can find nearly everything you need for your daily data-consumption in there what is downloading good for? At the end it´s just waste of local disc-space - believe us! ==== What does "Uberelectron" mean? ==== To be honest: The name is a shameless ripoff. Actually //Uberelectron// - sometimes also simply called //The Thrill// - is one, if not the most popular portable funfair rides in the universe. Built by the people of Cryzon13 it is - other than the famous //Chronotor// - the only true multidimensional thrill and as such one of the most exciting experiences of our time. Its physical construction reminds of an colossal Bohr Atom Model. Each of the //electrons// is a gondola built out of a spherically formed titanium grid held in place by a circularly stretched //Flexi-Tractor-Beam (tm)// (patent pending). Once the ride begins the spheres start to spin around a symbolic atom core which technically bears the heart of the construction itself: //The Quantum-Blender-Drive (tm)// //The Quantum-Blender-Drive (tm)// is the first //relatively// controllable device of its kind. People in its activity radius are experiencing a very intensive prickling in their stomach right before they get an aching punch into the same. This usually indicates the point where the passangers are pushed into a non foreseeable alternate dimension and / or timeline which is a quite interesting and sometimes even amusing experience. Usually this circumstances inverse after 4-5 minutes depending on energetic and fateful factors. Btw: The fact that the //Flexi-Tractor-Beam// begins to push the gondolas onto an orbit around the core at the same time is just sensationalism. To make long words short: As an obvious Earthling you should hurry up to move your back to Solitia-Basavi very soon since //The Thrill// is booked out for the next 150 years and never that close to Earth for a very long time. **As you can see the //Uberelectron// is a quite cool, unique and entertaining product and so is this project.** ==== Hey, this smells also like a sort of web service mashup, right? ==== Damn, you´re right. Uberelectron is saddled onto three different web services of [[http://www.sekluger.com|mine]] working asynchronous and/or independently from each other: * **Simple Media Database**: My personal Excalibur for all my video projects. It eats URLs pointing to a media resource of any type and in return you get everything you have to know about the destination file like which kind of media it is, duration, size, resolution, matching thumbnails or CD covers, an absolute unique ID to avoid dupes and a bit more useful stuff which is hyper super secret. * **Uber Indexer 3000**: A simple RSS crawler-, indexer- and search- engine which is able to, who knows?.... yes?... you, yes, the guy with glasses... correct! It crawls and indexes RSS feeds to fill its own search engine database. Basically you can assign some import rules (maximum age of the feed or its items, maximum items to read, optional ratio of specific media enclosures, bad or preferred domain-sources, keyword density and so on), program your chron and all is done. Later on you can drop search queries to its API and get back matching feeds or feeditems. * **Feedbeat.com**: Last but nut least my beloved "Multiuser webTV Content Management System and Browser based Video Playlist Editor": Feeeeedbeat!