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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. 
iApplicate
Currently, there are over 35 thousand iPhone applications available, and totals will continue to grow over the next few years. Wouldn’t you like to know which apps fit a specific need, which apps to avoid, and which ones just flat out rock? This is where iApplicate comes in, a web-based program (and now new show on sevenload!) that reviews and evaluates iPhone app functionality.
The show is intended to inform users, helping them decide which apps are the perfect apps to buy. iApplicate is produced by Oktane Micro Media, a new media company driven by
developing affinity media strategies, video marketing campaigns and engaging digital properties that quench the insatiable thirst of a media-hungy marketplace
We think they rock.
Here’s a little peak at what the guys at Oktane have come up with for the Dane Cook Global application:
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39 Second Single!
Meet Liza. She’s 39 and single. She’s the 39 Second Single. From Internet dating to singles mixers to fix ups and mix ups, Liza Persky dates so you don’t have to. After years of disasterous dating stories, Liza has taken her tales online to share a real laugh at the single life in New York City.
Liza dates so you don’t have to… sounds great right? It is. Liza’s misadventures are a blast to follow and simultaneously keep the viewers wondering: Could this one finally be “the one”?
This new sevenload Special is about the life of a 39 year old single New Yorker, who bravely takes on the NYC dating scene and sheds some light onto the what being 39 and single means to one woman.
This English Blog…
This is just a general announcement that I, Jessica aka “Greenbean”, will be taking over (for the most part) here on the English Blog! But don’t worry, for those of you who have been following the German Blog, it can still be found here.
Now, to give you all a little background on me: I’m an American from Albuquerque, NM and am in charge of Country Management and translations for the English site. I work on the site’s texts personally and am also responsible for sevenload Specials for the English site. I am super excited to finally be releasing this Blog (it’s been a long time in the making) and am really looking forward to getting even more involved in the sevenload Community. I’m hoping to give you all continued help, tips and advice all about sevenload, and also write about some new, fun and interesting topics!
As far as Specials are concerned on the site- we’re really starting to expand internationally and are of course, looking for new Specials and Special ideas. If anyone is interested in a Special on sevenload, please contact us here.
Looking forward to seeing how this Blog develops! 
Jessica Ludewig
Country Management USA & UK
PS: I will be joined soon by another English native speaker, Paula, sometime in the very near future! So check back!
Tip: Tagging Photos and Videos
Tonight, I’m going to give the sevenload Community something to read. A lot of users have been asking about how to properly tag photos and videos lately. Tags are the search terms and keywords with which you can “collaboratively index” your photos and videos in the sevenload Community. The search function on sevenload can only be optimally used by other users when well selected and relevant tags are used.
Your photos and videos can only be found on sevenload when they are linked with tags. Tags may be added to photos/videos even while they are uploading. In addition to serving a search function, tags also help describe the photo/video in a way that doesn’t always show up in the title. But it’s actually such tagged “moments” in a video for example, that make it catch a user’s attention. *Something important to note here: this is why it is so important to properly and relevantly make tags for the actual contents. Irrelevant or biased keywords such as “sexy”, “women” or “funny” are not reletive to a photo of a white beach and though it might make the user happy to have some many views of their pics it is actually tag misuse and is misleading to the other users searching for particular contents.
Whoever misuses tags (and let alone doesn’t tag at all) makes their photos and videos difficult to find for their friends and other users. Your content viewers could quickly lose interest in viewing your photos/videos when they discover that the actual contents of your works are not as they were described. A beautiful landscape photo can be something truly moving, but when such as photo is tagged with “funny“, well it just doesn’t fit. In fact, in some cases, our Support Team will delete such misused tags for you- and sometimes, in more extreme circumstances, they might write you a warning about misusing tags.
However, correctly tagging is the best way to share your photos/videos with other users and for the whole world to be able to find them. Because of this, sevenload has made it possible for any user to add tags to a photo/video- however, the photo/video’s user has the ability to delete any other users tags at any time. sevenload’s large Community is all about togetherness and we are always happy to see new results pop up in search results- sometimes tagged by the user themselves and sometimes by their fellow user.
P.S.: You can find further information about tags on Wikipedia (here too).
Better Creative Commons Support
We already incorporated Creative Commons onto sevenload in January. A lot of feedback came back to us from the Community about how we could better implement it and explain it to users- and our development team came up with a way to do searches under the parameters of certain CC licenses.
In addition, we’re planning on adding a feature that will let you add a CC License at the onset of uploading photos and videos. This hopefully will make it easier for you to share/protect your works on sevenload!
If you haven’t heard about Creative Commons yet, this will be your chance to find out more about it!
Something’s going on at sevenload!
His comics have already been evidence of unbelievable ingenuity, but this time, Johannes aka Beetlebum has outdone even himself on hisToonblog (in German). Who is able to pick themselves out of this sevenload group?
Quelle und Copyright: Johannes Kretzschmar
Almost naturally there is also a pretty cool film of Johannes while he’s designing. keep it coming Johannes!
sevenload on wii (Why wii love Wii)
Our team has recently been discussing how we could possibly put the enormous number of videos on sevenload onto a TV screen using relatively simple means. It was almost jokingly that we came across the idea of using the practical advantages the new Nintendo Wii (TM) offers. Because we know a lot of people decided to purchase the new console for Christmas, we figured that it could be a great means for us to put to use. In order for us to satisfy this new emerging market, sevenload has become the world’s first provider to create their own video portal:http://wii.sevenload.com
From the new portal we are able to select and present our Community’s Top Videos. So now, sevenload just might turn up in your own home on the TV, to be used for hours of fun and entertainment for friends and family alike. And though most of our features will be available on Wii, not all of them are yet. This is because it is just a first Alpha version, and some of our better known features had to be cut down. One example of this is that it is not yet possible to sign-in and rate or comment on particular videos. But don’t let that discourage you from trying it out! Whoever isn’t already hooked up with a Wii can still take a look at our customized portal by clicking on this link- http://wii.sevenload.com!
sevenload goes international
Just in time before celebrating Christmas, we’ve integrated the English version of our photo- and video-community sevenload.com. We are thinking of the international market by launching our new site: “The access to content and community-members from various countries is an important step on this way”, said our founder and managing director Ibrahim Evsan. In particular the ability to show new content of foreign countries on our platform is very attractive to create the most multifaced and diversified content for all of our users.
“According to our expansion strategy the British and US American markets have an outstanding account”, said Axel Schmiegelow who is the responsible managing director for internationalization. “The competition is intense and we want to prove that a German site is capable of becoming a market leader “.
During the first phase of this international launch, sevenload gives you the chance to switch between two languages – English and of course, German. As a second step, other language packs such as Italian, Spanish, Turkish and French will be released in the coming weeks, which we’re really excited about! Be prepared for some amazing changes and some truly international flavor.
We wish you a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thank you for the endless support!
Your sevenload-Team
sevenload ist Website des Jahres 2006
Vor einigen Wochen teilten wir bereits hier im Blog mit, dass eure Bild- und Videoplattform sevenload.de zur Wahl der Website des Jahres 2006 nominiert wurde. Jetzt haben sich Deutschlands Internet-Nutzer für die besten Web-Angebote entschieden und sevenload als beliebteste Website des Jahres 2006 in der Kategorie „Video-Share“ gewählt. In diesem Jahr wurden 336 Websites aus über 20 Verbraucherkategorien nominiert. Zwischen dem 9. Oktober und dem 1. Dezember wurden von 275.000 Wählern über 350.000 Stimmen abgegeben. Wir möchten uns vor allem bei unseren sevenloadern bedanken, denn als die sevenload-Community habt ihr zu dieser Auszeichnung beigetragen!
