Just in time for Halloween (and our upcoming trip to MangaNEXT), the new Vidgle website has come. This new template will be setting a standard for future media platforms for Jenthony in the upcoming years. It will be hitting WRAJRadio.com in January.
The new template does not use many CSS codes, you can tell by the loading time and the look of it. Lately, users have been having issues with their computers slowing down for just loading a simple page with so many CSS settings. We do have CSS issues with the WordPress portal, Coppermine portal, and the phpbb portal, which all runs and interacts with each other on Vidgle.com.
So be sure to check out the new Vidgle website today. Will be having a link soon on the site to submit feedbacks, or you can simply talk about it in the messageboards. So logon to www.vidgle.com and try it out!
Vidgle will be getting another template change this upcoming week. However, the template being designed will be permanent. The new template, snapshot below, will also be the new template for WRAJ Internet Radio in January. Vidgle will be serving as the test site for the template before hitting WRAJ since it has higher traffic.
The current WRAJ Internet Radio website was designed five years ago and now it feels like “its getting old” by the minute. The WRAJ site was known for its website design and content in the internet radio community. Some even said to me that the site is the best internet radio station website they’ve seen. The current template is planning to be retired on January 13. It took nearly 3 months to come up and design the template. The one launching on Vidgle next week (and for WRAJ in January) had about two years of planning. As I mentioned posts back, we kept creating templates and then throw them out to come out with a perfect one. The one created and becoming permanent next week took about 3 months to design and layout, and we are hoping that we have picked the right one.
Just like the 2003 template for WRAJ, we are hoping that this template would last for about 3 years or more. It is expected to become template for NewMusic101 and other new media platforms to come that is part of Jenthony.
Yes it is. After an agreement yesterday,Vidgle is now streaming videos through Veoh’s website. Vidgle is also planning to be added as one of the many channels on its new VeohTV software in the upcoming weeks. Veoh is one of the many sites and softwares you could watch Vidgle on. Vidgle also works with iTunes (with iPods, AppleTV, and iPhone), Miro, Blubrry, and many other sites and software. Vidgle also has a webapp for the iPhone and iPod Touch which can be found when you visit the site when using the device.
Vidgle’s Veoh Page is here, add us as friend if you are already a registered user on the site.
At WRAJ Internet Radio, ideas are being tossed around all over the place of our new template. The template that I showed you a few months ago, below, is no longer going to be the running candidate of the new design of wrajradio.com. The new template that’s in the works is going to be used for other Jenthony Media websites, such as Vidgle and the new NewMusic101 website that is planning to launch mid-2009.
WRAJ Internet Radio has never had a template change in over four years; however the template coding began nearly six years ago and wasn’t used till late 2003. The first template used on WRAJ Internet Radio, below, was designed for a small internet radio station. But what happened in that year made us realize that we were getting many users onto the site. So in August 2003, we have decided of what will be the current design of wrajradio.com.
And it was that template that was created in fall 2003 that made WRAJ Internet Radio more popular. And that template is the current template we used today. At several radio conferences I’ve attended in the past, I got into disscussions with other internet radio station operators about the website, not the station. Someone even said to me, “if you are in internet radio, you gotta know WRAJ.” The site’s homepage in 2005 is below.
I wouldn’t say WRAJ got popular by the website, but the website is well known in the internet radio community. Some, even listeners, would consider WRAJ to have the best internet radio station website. The website has elements of a traditional broadcast website, with DJ biographies, show pages, and a music guide. Although after hacking attempts in the previous music guide code, a new music guide portal is planning to launch by the end of the year.
WRAJ Internet Radio’s template was displayed on several other internet radio station websites, such as Beatles-A-Rama!!!, below. However, it was not a complete success to those stations to have a modified template.
So the question is what we have in store for the new website. Well, what we will have is a fixed region (meaning the page will not stretch across the entire screen), and a horizontal navigation bar with pull down menus.
We are currently working on a November deadline so that the template will go up in mid-January. It’s amazing that we are working on another template five years after we designed our current template. I guess we are not used of changes around here. I think I should of put the beginning of the yellow rainbow line somewhere it makes sense instead of in the middle of no where.
A voice that you might have heard on televison and film trailers thousands of times is silent today. Don LaFontaine, known for his catch phrase “In a world…,” died Monday. He has been on hundreds of commercials and thousands of movie trailers in his 33 year career of voice over.
LaFontaine died Monday from complications of treatment from ongoing illness, LaFontaine’s agent announced.
Jenthony Media, which owns WRAJ Internet Radio and Vidgle, was arranging to have LaFontaine voice series of promos for its podcast network, which includes Vidgle and the WRAJ Internet Radio podcast which is launching this month, and the new WRAJ Internet Radio website, which is expected to launch a year from now. A replacement has not yet been announced.
LaFontaine is survived by his wife and three daughters.
When it comes to online media, it seems like large media organizations are buying small online media organizations like crazy. MySpace belongs to News Corp. (the same company that owns Fox Broadcast), Last.FM with CBS, iVillage belongs to NBC, Go.com belongs to Disney/ABC, YouTube belongs to Google. In the past 10 months, WRAJ Internet Radio and Vidgle has been in a middle of offers by 5 major media corporations which the list is being disclosed. The highest offer now is $10 million and was rejected by the company, a decision I have made. Thats right, I, a 20 year old college student, have rejected $10 million offer to buy my website. The earliest offer was $2.5 million back in December 2007 and was rejected.
I would like to say I want to keep the radio website and our new properties in the upcoming years, including Vidgle, owned by my company, not a large corporation. Though we might get a lot of support from the larger corporations and abroad if we do take an offer, I just feel that I should continue of what I’m doing because I am having fun with it, and so is my friends. Because of WRAJ Internet Radio, we were able to form a company out of it, forming Jenthony Enterprises, Inc., to this day, we are the only internet radio station that was able to form a company within the first 3 years of operation.
Now let me get back to work with WRAJ Internet Radio, Vidgle, and our newly to be released NewMusic101.com online radio station (maybe I shouldn’t have said it to early).
Hey everyone who goes to Five Towns (or anywhere else),
Did you ever want to start a podcast on a large scale? Well now here is your chance to begin podcasting on my podcast mediums which has an audience of 1,000 users. As you might already know, we have already launched our video podcast network, Vidgle. Vidgle has already over 1,000 viewers monthly and over 500 podcast subscribers, either through a podcast fetcher software, Google Videos, Miro Guide, and the iTunes store. Our most famous show is “Con Goer,” a show which we report from a sci-fi, comic, and/or anime convention. Such conventions include New York Comic Con, I-CON, and Otakon.
And launching in September is our new podcast medium, an audio podcast which will be run and operated by WRAJ Internet Radio called the WRAJ Internet Radio podcast. Not only your show will be on a podcast feed, but it will be aired Sunday mornings on WRAJ Internet Radio. Shows premiering in September include a tech talk show, “Con Goer,” and a few others.
With your show, you will be able have press access to some events if it covers under your show, including conventions, local events, sports events, concerts, etc.
Your podcast must be “clean” and family friendly. And if you want to have a audio podcast, you can simply produce the show with any program you wish to do and finalize it as an MP3 file. And if you are willing to do a video podcast, you must use a video camera, not a webcam. You can use any video editing program you want and must be in 854×468 in widescreen or 640×468 letterbox in allowed formats (m4v, dv, mp4, mpg) when sending it to us for approval per episode. If you have any questions about formatting your show, feel free to ask.
If you are interested to begin podcasting with us in the fall, feel free to contact via email or Facebook.
If you have a iPhone or an iPod Touch, I have some great news for you. On Wednesday, we launched our first web app for the iPhone and iPod Touch that works with Vidgle’s video database. Though there is no name for it, we simply call it “Vidgle on iPhone” as the code name. We only support and tested the new web app on the newest software version of iPod Touch and iPhone. Since we support multiple video formats for each video since our launch, we were able to create this web app in just 5 hours of coding. Now you don’t need a computer to watch Vidgle or sync to our podcast feed when you’re on the go.
This comes as we prepare to make new shows and bring in new episodes in the fall.
We tried to get this to work with Blackberrys, but they don’t support the H.264 encoding that we use when we finalize our videos in 3GP. Until then we won’t support videos for Blackberry.
“The internet is going mobile and portable very fast,” I always say, which is why we are beginning to launch many mobile sites like this in the upcoming year. Since WRAJ Internet Radio has joined the Nokia radio directory so users can listen to the station on their Nokia phone, we’ve had over 500 tune-ins directly from the directory since we joined publicly in January.
So if you want to try Vidgle out on your iPhone or iPod Touch, launch up Safari, and head over to vidgle.com. Then you will notice a message on the top of the page saying and telling you to “Touch here to use Vidgle on iPhone” (that means to touch that message). Now you are on the iPhone version of Vidgle’s video directory. If you want to bookmark it or add it to your home screen, do so at this time. If not, browse around a video just like you would do on the site, once when you run into a video, simply tap on the watch button and enjoy.
And if you don’t have an iPhone or iPod Touch and you would like to try it out, why not go to your nearest Apple store!
Please Note: Streaming video will increase your data usage. Please check your wireless provider’s data plans for details and pricing if using an iPhone.
Wow, I did a lot of things last weekend. I first went to Baltimore for a conference, which is mainly about expanding my company Jenthony, which owns and operates WRAJ Internet Radio and Vidgle. After entering a new chapter earlier this year with podcasting, now it will be entering a new chapter later this year. It will be the launch of SavePointDesigns, which we will be designing and selling t-shirts online and at conventions we plan to attend. I hope to talk more about this exciting new chapter in a few weeks.
It was Jen’s birthday on Sunday. Jon, Chris, Jeff, Merideth, Fred, Mike, and Sarah was over to celebrate, and so was the rest of the family! Above is a picture of a cake Sarah made, it is suppose to be the Final Smash Ball from Super Smash Bros. Brawl (and yes, it can be the spinning pinwheel of death).
To see pictures from Jen’s birthday party, click here.
The release of vidgle.com is coming close. Today, there was a small meeting with members interested to be part of the website. It wasn’t a big turn out, but it was a great start to begin the site. Vidgle.com is not opened yet and the budget for the site is currently getting approved by parent Jenthony Enterprises, Inc. We currently have several shows that will begin production on the first week of February and the site will be open by the the second week in February.
From newscasts to reality shows, from talking about technology to sports, we are planning to have a huge variety of shows for anyone to watch and enjoy. We welcome any new ideas for future shows at anytime, we’ve already gotten so many ideas, that the lists of programming ideas just keep on growing!
Here are some of the current shows we are currently planning:
Behind the Mic: a sitcom show about a radio station written by Anthony and Niki Cruz.
AZ Tech Talk: a technology talk show hosted by Anthony and Sarah
Con-Goer: a on-scene report from a convention.
Sports Roundtable: Hosted by Randy Sobel, a weekly discussion show about sports
Cruzn’ Hollywood: a weekly newscast about entertainment news hosted by Niki Cruz/
Danny Karron’s Comedy Block: comedy standup by Danny Karron.
The Five Towns College Report: a biweekly newscast about whats happening at Five Towns College in Dix Hills, New York.
Comic-Tonic: a comic-book discussion show hosted by Sketkh and Geoff
The Forum: A roundtable discussion about hot topics going on in the news.
Talkin’ Theater: Behind the scenes of your favorite shows on theater, hosted by Christopher Cavallo.
MIA: A reality stunt show that should not be tried at home!
A voice that you might have heard on televison and film trailers thousands of times is silent today. Don LaFontaine, known for his catch phrase “In a world…,” 
