Sharing Video with Family and Friends

Youtube has become the most well-known platform to share your videos for the last few years.

However, sometimes you may have any private video that you would only like to share with our loved ones. Youtube enables you to do that, but each of your contacts need to have Youtube user ID and accept your invitation in order to be able to view your video. You can set that only friends are able to comment your video, but the video is not private and available for public viewing.

Google videos used to provide a service that enables you to upload your video to Google videos and share it only to few designated people by sending a link to their email, just like Picasa 3, the Google photo sharing platform. Unless your recipients forward it to other people, the video will only be available to them.



Yet, this service is no longer available. Google videos is currently only a Video Search Machine, where you could only search and videos taken from Youtube and other websites, but you can’t upload and share your own video anymore using Google uploader.

Currently, one of good tools to share a private video is using Gabble. Developed by HP, Gabble is an easy tool to upload your video and send its link to your designated contacts by email. Your recipients will only need to click the link and they can view your video without having to be the Gabble members. Nevertheless, if you become a Gabbler, you can participate or make your own private community to discuss the video with your network. Gabble is also a collaborative tool for business and education.

Happy Lunar New Year

The lunar new year is the most important holiday in Chinese calender. This celebration is shared among many nations in Asia, such as Korean, Vietnamese, Mongolian, Taiwanese etc.



Not only in Asian cities, but also in many cities around the globe, the Chinese community with the local government arrange a local celebration of the holiday.

Yesterday, we had a quite big Chinese new year event in Lasipalatsi, Helsinki. There were many stalls and attractions related to Chinese culture. The event was not only attracted to Chinese community, but also to Helsinki community in general. It was so crowded that you would not miss the atmosphere of a Chinese market in Asia.

We saw a lot of interesting performances, such as dragon and lion dances. Everyone was so enthusiastic to watch and document the cultural performances. They tried hard to catch the best moments with their digital cameras and videos. Some people may forget to bring their cameras or videos, so they took their camera phones from their pockets and tried to take as much as pictures and videos from that event. What a jungle of devices above your heads.

Camera phones may not give the most satisfactory image or video results, but the devices help people to catch interesting moments that may happen unexpectedly in their daily life. It is more often that people forget their digital camera or video than their mobile phone.