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Vidoco is the first reality content provider, which lets users turn their amateur videos into premium-content shows via our smartphone app.

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Vidoco creates living stories

Vidoco enables mobile users to create video stories based on life storylines that unravel each day with new life events.

Vidoco is more than an app; it's a way of life. It's for people who can't live without leaving a trace of themselves behind. It's the easiest way to tell your family and friends what's going on in your life.

  The time spent shooting mobile videos is minimal - a cumulative of a minute or two per day. However, the unique mechanism, which sorts the videos into different stories by subjects, as well as connects them automatically including the time and location stamps and the textual story behind each scene, creates a wholesome and vicarious experience, which gives followers an impression of "being there."

  What makes us special is the focus on the unraveling story lines. The followers tune in because of the buildup – they want to know what happens next. They also focus on a specific aspect of your life, be it family, or hobbies or your professional life.

  As opposed to other video apps, Vidoco is focused on story-based life documenting which transforms short videos into coherent and colorful stories really showing the viewer what it's like to live that person's life.

  Despite the presence of a myriad of video apps on the market, the life documenting space is still wide open. Our users go to sleep every day knowing they will get feedback from family and friends in the morning because what their followers watch is real life and it's a story. Some of them go back and watch their early videos in disbelief that this really is their life and not a reality show on TV. 

  Vidoco is a balance of being able to really capture the story and stay in the moment at the same time. The short 10-12-second video provides a memorable shot while a textual comment provides the background story (along with time and date stamp).

This format allows the user to escape the paparazzi route so many of us take, sometimes inadvertently, during various life events, which causes us to miss the real moment.

Finally, documenting will be even easier once we integrate with wearable camera and computing devices such as Google Glass. It will become second nature. And so will documenting with Vidoco.

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Cherishing opportunities - introducing one entrepreneur's story

Yahoo travel lists the following countries as world's happiest.

1. Norway 2. Denmark 3. Sweden 4. Australia 5. New Zealand 6. Canada 7. Finland 8. The Netherlands 9. Switzerland 10. Ireland

Wait a minute? Don't the top three countries have the highest suicide rates of all? Don't they have most darkness in a year?

According to the article, "happiness means having opportunity – to get an education, to be an entrepreneur."

We at Vidoco thought it would be neat to feature our CEO, a seasoned and serial entrepreneur who nourishes his own hopes and dreams of a better future for his kid, of his company's vision understood by millions, of helping people showcase their own dreams and help them realize them.

Here's Avihai's story about his birthday trip to Hermon mountain with his family:

Let us know what you think!

If you'd like your show featured on Vidoco's main blog, please contact [email protected].

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How to create video stories on Vidoco

In case you're wondering how to create awesome stories like these: 

1. Stay real

2. Life your life

3. Anything happening in your life could make a cool story, e.g. when you get a flat tire 

4. Each moment you shoot is a part of your story - so tell us what happened. And an opportunity for a joke, if you will

And that's it! Your automatic daily story is born! No editing required.

Vidoco is available on iOS and Android. Download today and show us what you got. 

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Vidoco pitched at mini Seedcamp TLV!

Take a look at the story made by Vidoco at mini Seedcamp TLV!

This story was created automatically from the videos Yael of Vidoco shot at Seedcamp. She gave each video a title which appears as a caption in the videos. The time and location stamp was added automatically by the Vidoco app. 

Vidoco was among 10 startups which presented at the mini Seedcamp event in Tel Aviv.

Vidoco documents your life on video by creating stories from your daily experiences. 

And here's a full pitch by Vidoco:

Seedcamp (www.seedcamp.com) is the most connected international seed investor in the world and is Europe's leading micro-seed investment and mentoring program. 

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www.twitter.com/VidocoApp

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NASA to use Vidoco at the International Space Station

Vidoco Ltd. today announced that the company's video processing technology had been deployed on board NASA's International Space Station as part of the agency's new mission to bring space to everyone's home and make space videos a new mainstream social phenomenon.

Not only any new space crew member will be equipped with a wearable camera to transmit videos to their mobile device for editing, everyone going into space will now have their own reality show. NASA has scored a big contract with CBS for its one of a kind reality show for broadcasting the lives of the space crew on the International Space Station. "CBS has recognized that space exploration carries the new types of social situations filled with intrigues and interrelationships that will enable us to provide solid entertainment to our viewers and raise our channel's ratings. We think the advertisers will be all over this," said Andrew Rogan, CBS Executive. 

Vidoco has developed an application, which enables anyone create a reality show about their life. The show is shot on a mobile device or a wearable camera connected to the mobile device which transmits short raw video bits to the mobile device for some minimal editing, which then merges the raw videos with the producers' and stars' commentaries.  

NASA's department overseeing Vidoco and CBS project is the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate, which "provides the Agency with leadership and management of NASA space operations related to human exploration in and beyond low Earth orbit," according to the NASA website. 

"We're very excited to have been selected by the NASA crew and picked up by CBS for their one-of-a-kind reality show," said Avihai Ozana, Vidoco's CEO. "It just shows you that those who dreamed of going into space as kids can at least now watch others go into space and follow their every move." 

"We expect to see a new interesting angle on space exploration through Vidoco," said Rob Sternwall, NASA's spokesman. "Our main regret is not having Vidoco when Lisa Nowak kidnapped [U.S. Air Force Captain] Colleen Shipman, who was romantically involved with [astronaut] William Oefelein. That would have been a hoot."  

All new NASA trainees are expected to receive mobile devices with Vidoco already preinstalled in the system. They will receive assistance from Vidoco's team on opening their accounts and starting their own reality show. They will also receive a briefing from CBS staff on types of video content that CBS viewers are most excited to see. "Space videography and other space stuff is important, of course, said Rogan. "However, we also want to see more love triangles, arguments over who washes the dishes or does the laundry, as well as the crew members' thoughts on loneliness, love and religion. After all, they are physically closest to God than those of us watching from home." 

With the latest decision that comes from NASA on April 1, 2013, Vidoco has become one of many Israeli technologies used globally to help humanity in various aspects of people's lives, from swallable camera pill to instant messenging. 

Finally, one of the newly initiated NASA astronauts, Carry Montague, has  applied to use Google Glass in space and has been approved. "Vidoco is excited work with Google Glass to provide the solution for shooting a space reality show from the device," said Ozana. "What's next for Vidoco? Space is the limit. Or is it?"

About Vidoco

Vidoco works on the mobile technology that helps users create a new kind of a reality show, which provides a candid look into their lives. Because everyone is entitled to having their own reality show, Vidoco is here to empower its users to use their mobile device and a wearable camera to create one-of-a-kind show for their family and friends, and in some cases for all of Universe. If there are other live forms out there besides the known human civilization, we want to make Vidoco available to them as well. In fact, Vidoco will do its best to provide a version of the software for any type of gallactic mobile devices. For more information, visit the company's website at www.vidoco.com.

CONTACT: For more information, contact: 

Vidoco Ltd.

Yael Tamar, [phone]

[email protected]

Copyright IL News Wire 2013 

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The Surprising Millionaires of Youtube

The Internet is a place where you can make money in dozens of ways but these fellows have managed to make money from talking and sharing their own lives and quirks. simply amazing when you think what can be accomplished with a large amount of followers and the will to put yourself out there!

http://www.sfgate.com/business/investopedia/article/6-Unlikely-Internet-Millionaires-4252942.php

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Who wants to kiss Bar Refaeli?

All you have to do is pay her a XYZ thousand dollars and shoot a commercial. Then anyone, no matter how ugly, gets to kiss Bar Refaeli. Ugly rich guys, form a line here. Bonus: it took 65 takes to get this right!

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Wondering what Augmented Reality is about?

You’ve heard about it and think you know what it is.

If you’re still wondering and want to be amazed, see this TED video:

It shows the best examples of advancement with Augmented Reality technologies.

My favorite was the first 2, which can clearly be used for advertisement :). Which did you like?

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It's A (not so) Small World Out There

Back in 1620 when the first colony ship (The Mayflower) sailed to the Americas, it took the pilgrims 66 days to sail from England to Plymouth Rock. Today in a direct flight from Washington D.C. to London takes about  7 hours and 30 min. Our planet has been made much smaller thanks to our technological advancements we can now talk to each other from different ends of the Earth using the Internet, Radio waves etc. But through our advances in technology we have also opened up a door to a new world: the personal world. From sites like Facebook to tumblr and applications like Vidoco we now have the ability to do something unprecedented  to share our lives completely and entirely with our chosen audience, be they friends and family or complete strangers. In effect it allows us to give ourselves to others, to say this is what I think this is who I am, and to be judged by others (for good or bad). We have opened up a new world, if you will one, who is only as finite as we allow it to be. There are 7 billion stories out there. Share yours!

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Staying Smart With Vlogs

Sometimes it helps to brush on your physics, and thanks to MinutePhysics, a Youtube Vlog which offers simple explanations and images to explain the ways our universe works it's now easier than ever.

Enjoy! 

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Israeli elections results - Exactly down the middle!

So the elections to the Israeli Knesset are behind us, for now.

Israeli is a parliamentary democracy, which means its electoral system is different from that of the US.

We have loads of parties, which receive a number of seats in the Knesset in accordance with the percentage of votes in the election. Parties and their leaders frequently play musical chairs here too, joining forces and forming new parties, in order to increase chances of receiving extra seats.

The results of the elections are as follows:

Likud, lead by Bibi Netanyahu, which was recently joined by Israel Beitenu (Israel Our Home), lead by Avigdor Lieberman, creating Likud Beitenu (23% of the votes)

Yesh Atid (There's Future), lead by Yair Lapid (14% of the votes)

Avoda (Labor), lead by Shelly Yechimovich (11% of the votes)

Shas (the largest religious party), lead by Eli Yishai (9% of the votes)

Habayit HaYehudi (Jewish Home), lead by Naftali Bennett (9% of the votes)

Yahadut HaTorah (United Torah Judaism), lead by Yaakov Litzman (5% of the votes)

HaTnua (The Movement), lead by Tzipi Livni (5% of the votes)

Meretz, lead by Zahava Gal-On (5% of the votes)

United Arab List, lead by Ahmad Tibi (4% of the votes)

and Hadash, an acronym for the Democratic Vision for Peace and equality, lead by Mohammed Barakeh (3% of the votes)

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The obvious losers are The Greens, a pro-Marijuana Green Leaf party and, which is particularly disappointing, a new pro-transparency and anti-corruption party, Eretz Hadasha. Oh well, we'll hope to see them in the Knesset in 4 years!

Interesting facts about the elections are:

- So far, the election results are split exactly down the middle! Right-wing parties received 60 seats and left-wing parties received 60 seats.

- Now the Likud, the leading party, needs to form a coalition of at least 50% of the government. If it fails to do so, Israel will have another election!

- Yair Lapid is the obvious star of the elections; he will most likely receive an important position, such as a Foreign Minister

- Israeli elections are dominated by leaders who come from journalism background (Yair Lapid, Shelly Yechimovich). Here, charisma and celebrity status of the leaders plays an important role in their party's success

- Tzipi Livni who lead Kadima created by Ariel Sharon, who's been in a medical coma since the time Israel withdrew from Gaza, and started in Likud, has lost much of her appeal with the public. In the last election, she failed to form a coalition of the government majority.

- Likud and Israel Beitenu seem to have achieved economy of scope by joining forces and seem to have received less votes than they would if they ran separately.

What do you make of the results.

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The Lost Race: Another social media tool that helps you win customers?

So a little while after Pinterest entered the market, a million blogs and articles on how to use it sprung up like mushrooms after a rainfall. Now you must spend days learning best ways to use it, hire an expert, post daily and follow people to ensure the highest ROI on your Pinterest efforts. 

Before you did the same with Twitter and before that with Facebook. Before Facebook, you hired an SEO consultant. Before that, you hired a telemarketer. And before that, if you are now ancient, perhaps you had someone send faxes to your customers and considered that innovative. 

Have we become more productive in reaching customers over the years? Or has the battlefield for consumers become more ruthless and now we must spend the whole day producing meaningless chatter in order to stay on top of the game. Who does this benefit if at all? 

Every day millions of post go into the blogosphere and social media sphere to never be looked at or remembered. Does it help invent the next penicillin? Or even a new video camera to push somewhere deep inside the body cavity? 

My theory is as follows:

Years ago we spend long and unproductive hours producing things with old technologies. Now we got so much more productive and we automate our processes and save so much more time!! Let's say we are now doing the same productive tasks we did before and save 4 hours each day. Do we produce more stuff or go home to enjoy the newfound freedom in those 4 hours? No. What we do instead is invent all types of hurdles for our competitors so that we, as the expert, can stay on top.

If you don't learn the ways of social media, the experts warn you, if you don't have a Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Youtube and blah blah presence, you will definitely fail. And so we spend the additional 4 hours a day and more on doing things we absolutely hate just to stay where we are or sometimes go backwards because we lose focus. 

I say, drop this nonsense social media race and polluting the Internet with nonsense and non-innovative content. Create something new. Build an innovative product. This should be and will soon again become a way to win customers. 

Discuss. 

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Video storytelling made powerful through Vidoco

I would like to share pieces of a great blog that I just came across by Adam Westbrook about video storytelling.

Storytelling is an ancient art, a craft, that survives human generations because it is without doubt the best way to help people comprehend the world around them.

True! In fact, from that bedtime story your dad told you as a kid to the stories you told your friends around the campfire and the stories you told your boyfriend in college, we are programmed to tell stories.

Video today is used because it can be, and not because it should be. There is too much video coverage of conferences, long interviews with boring people, and attempts to use video to cover council politics.

Video is good at some things: emotion, action, movement, detail, processes. It is terrible at other things: numbers, meetings, politics, court cases, and anything that doesn’t happen on camera.

The solution? Use video for its strengths – and keep the camera in your bag for the rest. 

This also hits the spot. Everyone shoots videos today because it’s so easy with your mobile device. 72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute (Source: Youtube). Do you get that? This means that most of that video content will end up not being watched.

Vidoco documents your life on video by creating stories from your daily experiences. Moments captured with a wearable computing device (e.g. Google Glass) or the Vidoco mobile app are stitched into stories and shared on the user’s Vidoco channel and social media. While other video apps and platforms focus on a single video, e.g. capture, filter and share, Vidoco combines the videos you shoot to create a unique experience and a special connection between the viewer and the subject of the story.

We help users produce better videos jam-packed with action from their own lives, which are both memorable and fun to watch.

It’s a well worn (although difficult to back up) belief that online attention spans are short and therefore video should be equally short too. Whether this is true or not, video should always be as short as it could possibly be. As Orwell said, ‘never use a long word when a short one will do.’

We strive for shortness! Our stories are three minutes by default, and can be a maximum of five minutes. We want to engage and move the users and not bore them.

Sequences – put simply – are a series of shots, showing a single action, creating the illusion of continuous movement. They are the hallmark of cinema, television news and now online video. What’s the difference between amateurs and professionals? Pros shoot sequences.

While movies and news pieces contain sequences to show time continuation, Vidoco has its own feature to do that. We put time and location stamp on the videos the user shoots so that the viewer can grasp the continuity of the story throughout the day. 

Vidoco has created an original format for guided and intuitive storytelling by any user. The user does not need to invest time into storytelling besides capturing a moment and telling us what they felt at that moment in the background text. Vidoco stories create themselves as life unfolds. With life for a storyboard, Vidoco's stories are powerful and real. They help the viewer connect with the subject of the video on a deeper level, to see what they see and to feel what they feel at that moment. To stand in their shoes and to live their story.