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Springtime – Time for Baseball
April is here. The days are getting longer. The weather is getting warmer. The grass is getting greener. With all these great things comes another great reason April is here – the start of baseball! America’s past time starts in the spring and brings with it the feeling of optimism.
Spring training baseball is all just a prelude to the real thing. Opening day in the beginning of April is an exciting time for fans of major league teams. Opening day always has great highlights and sevenload is happy to present you some of the best ones.
Check out our President throwing the first pitch!
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The president was in Washington D.C for the Nationals-Phillies game and he threw out the ceremonial first pitch. I like the fact that he showed his team loyalty by wearing a White Sox hat.
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As a Cubs fan its hard to pick this video as one of the day’s highlights since it is against my beloved team, but Jason Heyward hit a home run for the Atlanta Braves in his first major league game at bat. The crowd loves it and they have a lot to look forward to with him as he is the pre-season favorite to win rookie of the year.
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White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle made an amazing play on opening day that will be I’m sure even at the end of the year considered one of the best defensive plays of the season. This video is great because it is fun to hear all the different announcers reactions to his circus flip.
Spring has sprung. The weather is only going to get nicer from here and the new baseball season is officially under way. What a great time of year.
3 Steps to Creating a Show!
Do you produce your own video content? Then we’d love to help you promote it in our web TV channels. Having a show on sevenload allows you to reach out to the community and show us what you’re made of!
To help you create a new show, we’ve recently enhanced and streamlined our show creation process. Now you’re only 3 simple steps away from to making a show.
Please note: it’s important you provide us with complete contact information as well as provide any links to your videos so we can check them out. Why not try it out now by applying here! You and our content team will be glad you did. 
Take a Break from the Heat
Summer is in full swing, so we thought it would be a good time to focus on what this season has to offer.
Good food- preferably grilled!
Summer is all about enjoying the good weather outdoors. To get you in the mood for some good old fashioned grilling, we thought we’d show you how to make some fantastic, mouth-watering BBQ ribs. Enjoy!
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Summer Vacation
Does this time of year immediately make you think of getting away from it all? Perhaps a trip to somewhere far away or exotic? Or the beach? What about a place that offers a mix of everything? Waterfront locations, huge parks for relaxing, great shopping, fantastic dining and days that literally seem to last forever? Ever thought of going to Sweden for the summer? No? Well, maybe this video about Stockholm will make you rethink your travel plans.
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The HEAT!
Now, this of course can be relative to your location, but often times summer is directly associated with sunshine- and hot weather. Well, if things are just a little too warm for your liking, check out this video and cool off. I don’t want to give away the suprise, but it has something to do with winter weather conditions. 
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sevenload Groups
If you’re interested in chatting about videos, photos and show with other sevenloaders you can now create and/or join groups on sevenload. In the sevenload groups you can discuss various topics and even post videos in the group that are relevant to the topic.
- If you’re already logged in to your sevenload account (and have already joined groups), select “Community” in the navigation and then click on “Your Groups” – instead of clicking on your groups, you can also select “Browse Groups” to see what groups already exist.
- On this page you will see a central main page about your groups including those you created yourself and others you are a member of.
- Click on “Create New Group” and you can have your very own group on sevenload. Make sure to give your group a name as well as a description before saving!
- You can also select what sort of rights the group should have, for example who can join or view the group- you can even select what category the group should be in.
- Confirm your selections by clicking on “Create a Group” and then select a cover photo for your group.
- The last stp: invite your friends or go directly to your new group – done!
The Sailing Channel.TV Special
We’re happy to present sevenload’s newest Special: The Sailing Channel.tv!
TSCtv is dedicated to cruising sailors around the world. Their sailing video podcasts cover the gear, the people, the boats, the skills, and the places that interest cruising sailors. TSCtv was created so that its producers can combine their love for sailing with their desire to produce informative and entertaining sailing videos about cruising.
Last Chance to Win- Spooktacular Halloween
This is just a last call for your spooky, scary, sexy and sassy Halloween costume photos for the sevenload Spooktacular Halloween Contest.
You’ve still got 7 more days to upload your photos and try to win 1st prize (a new Apple iPod Nano and 2 lbs. of Halloween candy).
7Load Top 7: Architecture & Landscape Pix
So, another week is over and it’s Top7 time again already. For my third blog entry I am presenting my Top7 architecture and landscape photos from all of you talented sevenloaders out there, as well as revealing some tips on how to achieve that coveted perfect shot. Keep coming up with innovative perspectives, discovering unusual locations, experimenting with reflections, playing with light and shade and space and you too can produce visually striking images, which any top photographer would be proud of! Here are some excellent examples to get your creative juices flowing!!
1. Kölner Dom (Cologne Cathedral) by Chillerstadt
If you have ever been to Cologne, you will know that it’s not as easy as it may seem to take a good, close-up photo of the city’s imposing Cathedral. At is 144.5 metres long, 86.5 metres wide and with two towers that are 157 metres tall it is difficult to fit the right angle of this landmark into a frame, so close-up shots are not always successful. Sometimes looking at your subject from a completely different angle solves this problem, as here shown by Chillerstadt.
2. Red Bridge by worldwideklein
An great photo of an amazing structure!
3. Spieglein, Spieglein an der Straße (Mirror, mirror on the road) by Pegasus425
Mirror, mirror on the road….who has the best photo on sevenload…?! A very clever idea! Pegasus425 shows us how to take advantage of reflection (and nearby mirrors!) and even manages to ‘frame’ himself in this photo of the German countryside!
4. Strand (Beach) by Sabrina100
Top marks for Sabrina! It would have been so easy to take yet another boring beach shot of the horizon and the waves. But she has succeeded in “thinking outside of the box” and by waiting for the perfect, soft lighting, ensuring that the beach is deserted to highlight the expanse and calmness and by looking at the scene from a whole new perspective, she has created the perfect photo. Follow her example and instead of keeping the camera at eye-level, get down on the ground or look down and see things in a completely new way.
5. Bunte Tür (Colourful door) by Sofie
Experimenting with black and white and colour in the same photo adds an extra depth to your photos. This colourful door almost looks out of place on the old, dilapidated building, but it certainly makes for an interesting focal point. Symmetry also plays an important role in this picture.
6. Wow by Hummerle
Who’s to say you can’t digitally enhance your photos with some Photoshop skills? This evil cloud formation looking down on Shanghai is just one example of what you could conjure up. The possibilities are endless with a little imagination. Now there’s a challenge..!
7. Figur by Sofie
Contrast is an effective way of drawing attention to the subject in the foreground of a photo. This blurred background separates the building and the statue here, which helps to create a great, artful shot. Why not give it a go?
So, that’s all for this week sevenloaders! Next time I’ll be filtering out my Top7 most entertaining wannabe popstar videos! Until then keep sevenloading!
Get the sevenload Ringtone!
sevenload? sevenload! Several members of our ever-increasing team have been spotted at different events such as the BarCamps with their mobile phones.
For several weeks now many of them have been having fun with the sevenload ringtone. Now you as a community finally have the chance to download the tune for your own mobile phone. And it’s all free of charge!
You only need to save the MP3 file on to your computer and then transfer it on to a MP3-compatible mobile phone – via infra red, Bluetooth or with a USB cable, depending on your phone. By the way, the sevenload song is a creation by master composer Oliver Kels (German), who was also responsible for the individual sounds of Rob Vegas and Girls Breakfast and is regarded as one of the market’s experts for advertising jingles. Enjoy!
sevenload Summer Special (Party!!)
Last weekend sevenload’s entire team as well as numerous invited guests got together above the rooftops in Cologne (well not ALL rooftops, but we were really high up!). We celebrated in the hot sun at the Sky Beach Bar until the wee hours of the morning. There were so many guests, that it’d take forever to list them all… but it was a great mix of sevenload employees, sevenload Stars, our personal friends and business partners!
Rather than actually listing off everyone who was there, these photos might be able to provide better insight as to who all turned up. We hope that they’ll will serve to remind everyone who was there of what a spectacular evening it was. In addition, iFranz shot a short video about the sevenload Summer Special (party). Thanks to everyone for coming out – it was great and we’ll have to do it again!
New Widget: Are you a Fan?
You’ve already had the ability to call yourself a “Fan” of a particular sevenload Special for a couple of weeks now. And starting today, you also have the ability to show this off on your homepage or blog through a new widget- are you a Fan?
I added this new widget to this blog entry (see below) which I got from my own profile (the embed code is located in the right hand column below the map of where you’re from). The embed code can always be found under your personal widget.
Of course, this is only a fun little extra, but we had to offer it to you! All of the other Widgets can also be embedded in your blogs!
