Dabble Featured In USA Today

Dabble was written up in USA Today!

Silicon Valley starts to party like it’s 1999

The eight employees of digital media start-up Dabble work out of a cheap office, decorated mainly with sticky notes, not far from San Francisco.
They work long hours for below-market rates. Their boss, CEO Mary Hodder, is a 39-year-old Internet expert who has never started or run a company before.
Dabble has received funding from angel investors. But it must fight dozens of other start-ups for attention. And when they finally get off work, the Dabble team grapples with heavy traffic, crowded restaurants and outrageous housing prices.
But it’s all OK, because Hodder and her crew are convinced that their company offers a compelling online service that will be a huge success – and will make their stock options pay off.
Sound a lot like 1999? Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area, the world’s technology hub, is starting to buzz again for the first time since the dot-com bust. The Valley’s infamous start-up community is coming back, thanks to Dabble and its contemporaries. New powerhouses such as Google, eBay and Yahoo are driving growth and hiring workers. Stalwarts such as Hewlett-Packard and Oracle are reporting stronger sales and posting higher stock prices.

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Re-Analyze 911 with RU Sirius — Live!

WHAT: 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Debate
WHO: The RU Sirius Show
WHERE: Off-Market Theater, 965 Mission Street (at 5th), San Francisco
WHEN: Sunday, September 10, 2PM
COST: FREE

http://laughingsquid.com/2006/09/05/ru-sirius-show-live/

Over the last year, RU Sirius and Jeff Diehl have been hosting the amazing RU Sirius Show, a weekly podcast that launched in June 2005 as part of The MondoGlobo Network. It

Dabble Called A “Cool 2.0 Website” In the SF Chronicle

The SF Chronicle did a roundup of cool web 2.0 sites, and we made it!
It’s by Dan Fost and Ellen Lee.

Dabble
Web address: www.dabble.com
Where they are: Berkeley
What they do: A TV Guide for Internet video, the site lets users tag and rate clips found throughout the Web. Viewers form communities based on their interests, helping sort the Web’s top videos on such topics as baking a dessert and Japanese animation.
The skinny: Even before the company’s premiere, Dabble Chief Executive Officer Mary Hodder was quoted in Newsweek and featured in a series of technology conferences. Now it must prove that it can easily help users find the gems without wading through all the junk on the Internet.
The competition: Though it counts YouTube and other online video sites as its partners, it also competes with them for attention in this crowded and popular space.

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Using Audio Recorder with your Mac laptop – A little tutorial for newbies

I’ve been able to do an amazing amount of recording recently just singing, speaking and playing instruments into my mac laptop with the use of a great little program called Audio Recorder.
I was writing up a little tutorial for a friend of mine about how to use it on my laptop, and it’s about the fourth time I’ve written one up, so I thought I’d upload it here.
Note that I actually use .wav files when I do takes to import into protools, since it’s higher quality. These directions are for one of Wide Hive’s artists, so he can make a radio plug, so I’ve told him to select “MP3” as the format. There are a number of formats you can select in Audio Recorder’s “preferences” folder.
You can just speak into your laptop – there’s a built in microphone already there. Just speak into your left speaker – that’s where it is. (I didn’t even know it was there until sometime last year. Guess t’s always been there.)
1. Download the “Audio Recorder” program here:

It’s free, and should be easy to install. Just download it and double click on it to be taken through the install.
2. Once it’s installed. Double click on it to launch, and it will open up a window with a record, pause, and stop button.
3. Create a folder where you want to save your files. Next, go to “preferences” under the “Audio Recorder” menu, and select the folder you just created as the output folder.
4. Next, select “mp3” as your output format.
5. The rest is easy – Just hit record to start recording.
You can see the levels move in red along with your voice to see it’s working.
You can hit the pause button in between takes, and then when you’re done, hit “stop” and it will ask you to name the file before it saves it for you in the folder you’ve created.

Dabble Gets Mentioned In Businessweek Article


By for Abram Sauer for Brandchannel for Businessweek. (Yeah, I don’t the relationship between brandchannel and business week either.)

YouTube’s own challengers are advancing at a rapid rate. AOL is re-engineering its video site to mirror YouTube’s success, and CNN is launching CNN Exchange, which will house user-contributed video features. Then there are sites like Eefoof.com, Panjea.com, Revver and Blip.TV, which share up to 50 percent of ad page revenue with the creator of the videos. Others like Dabble.com (currently in beta) sort through all video hosting sites (like YouTube and its competition) for search content, while specialty video sites like Pornotube concentrate on one point of interest.

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