Revision3 Blog: Diggnation tag

This truly is an epic announcement. I’m overjoyed to say that the amazingly entertaining, cool and ground-breaking show Epic Fu is now a part of the Revision3 lineup.

You can read all about it in our Revision3 Epic Fu press release. But let me just add a few more comments.

First, if you’ve never seen Epic Fu, you are in for a BIG treat. The show is wonderfully produced, full of great information about the web and modern culture, and so fast paced, even the Taz the hyperactive Tasmanian Devil would love it.

Second, host Zadi Diaz is a legitimate force on the internet. She’s developed an amazingly strong and loyal fan base, and via their innovative social network, Epic Fu has created an awesome on-line community, called MIX that extends the experience of the show out in virtually every direction. I’m excited to both bring Revision3’s core audience into that community, and to learn from them as we extend and enhance the communities around our other shows.

Finally, producer Steve and Zadi are some of the nicest people I’ve ever had the privilege to work with. Someone said to me recently that the truly talented are the most humble and real, and that obnoxiously over the top egotists are comparatively lacking in the talent department. If that’s true, Steve and Zadi are prime examples. They are genuine, real, talented and wonderful to work with. I encourage you to watch, download and subscribe. I know you’ll quickly become a passionate Epic Fu fan… just like me!

Attention New Yorkers! Do you like the Internet? Do you like Diggnation? Then on June 4th, you’ve GOT to be at the live Diggnation show in New York City. It’s Internet Week in New York City (one of our fave cities) and we figured, how better to participate than to bring Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht to New York to finally tape an episode in front of a New York audience!?

But we didn’t stop there, as if Kevin and Alex wasn’t enough, Brian Brushwood, host of the smash hit Scam School will be there to shock and amaze, and make fools of a couple of people with his dazzling array of bar tricks. See if you can stand toe to toe with the king of the scam. Plus, DJ Bears and Bears Repeating will be performing as well for all you music fans.

This event will also be serving as the Digg Meet-up. Digg CEO Jay Adelson will be in attendance along with founder Kevin Rose and a few others from the Digg crew and community.

Here are the details:
When:
Wednesday, June 4 - 6:00 p.m. EST

Where:
Studio B
259 Banker Street
Between Meserole Ave. & Calyer St.
Brooklyn, New York

Google Map:

Let us know you’re coming: Meetup

Directions from Manhattan:
BY SUBWAY: Take the Brooklyn-bound L train to Bedford Avenue (1st stop into Brooklyn); Exit subway near the intersection of N 7th St and Bedford Ave; head North on Bedford Ave past N 8th St; Turn left onto N 12th St; Turn right onto Berry St; Turn right onto Nassau Ave; Turn left onto Banker St; Total travel: 30 mins;

BY CAR: FROM WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE: Take Williamsburg Bridge (inside lanes) to BQE (BROOKLYN QUEENS EXPY/I-278 E) (0.5 mi); Take the Humboldt St. exit (Exit 33) toward McGuinness Blvd (0.1 mi); Turn LEFT onto HUMBOLDT ST.; Stay STRAIGHT to go onto MCGUINNESS BLVD S. (0.6 mi); Turn LEFT onto MESEROLE AVE. (0.3 mi); Turn RIGHT onto BANKER ST. (0.0 mi); End at 259 Banker St Brooklyn, NY 11222-2601; Estimated Time: 14 minutes/Estimated Distance: 4.57 miles;

BY CAR: FROM MIDTOWN TUNNEL: Take Midtown Tunnel to I-495 E (Portions toll) (1.5 mi); Take the BORDEN AVE./ PULASKI BR. exit.; Turn RIGHT onto BORDEN AVE. (0.1 mi); Turn RIGHT onto VERNON BLVD.; Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto JACKSON AVE/ NY-25A E. (0.2 mi); Turn RIGHT onto 11TH ST/ PULASKI BRIDGE. Continue to follow PULASKI BRIDGE. (0.6 mi); PULASKI BRIDGE becomes MCGUINNESS BLVD. (0.4 mi); Turn RIGHT onto MESEROLE AVE. (0.3 mi); Turn RIGHT onto BANKER ST.; End at 259 Banker St Brooklyn, NY 11222-2601; Estimated Time: 13 minutes/Estimated Distance: 4.84 miles

Official Flyer:

New York City is not only the biggest (and one of the best) cities in the world, it’s also the home to one of the most active gathering of of Diggnation fans. Members of the NYC Diggnation Meetup have been getting together to watch Diggnation for almost 3 years now! Friends, drinks and Diggnation…I can’t really think of a better way to spend a night in New York City.

If you’re in the NYC area, their next event is coming up this Wednesday, May 7th at 7 PM and it looks to be a big one as our friend Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV will in attendance. Plus we’ve given them some free stuff from Revision3 HQ to give away. So you definitely don’t want to miss this.

They’ll be gathering at:
Lunasa Bar
126 1st avenue
New York, NY 10009
212-228-8580

More info and to RSVP

And if you live in the NYC metro area, stay tuned for some exciting official Revision3 event info, coming soon here at Revision3.com!

This has been a long time coming, but our gifts to our founding Diggnation members are here. A few months ago, we updated our release policy to allow all Revision3 viewers to enjoy the same video releases for free at the same time, retiring our advanced access to Diggnation for members. We wanted to say “thank you” to those who had paid annual memberships in our early days - your support hasn’t gone unnoticed!

To give you a preview of your gifts, the Revision3 staff has taken the time (after work, of course) to model the limited edition 2008 Diggnation shirts. Those of you who registered with us as paid members in the past will receive these in the mail except yours will be extra cool because they’ll be signed by Kevin Rose! We think the shirts came out awesome, and hope you do, too.

When you get your shirts, maybe you can take a picture of yourself and post ‘em in the forums. Enjoy the photos!

View the full set here on Flickr.

Hey Everyone!

It’s been announced on Diggnation, but we would like to more formally announce it here on the Revision3 Blog.

With big thanks to our friends at GameVee, on Wednesday April 30th, Revision3 is putting on free live performances of both Internet Superstar and Diggnation. This will be the first Diggnation shot before an audience in its hometown of San Francisco in almost 2 years! Internet Superstar will feature two exciting and sexy guest stars that you will not want to miss (and meet, *cough*nudge nudge, wink wink*cough*).

The location is Mighty at 119 Utah Street in San Francisco. Doors open at 6pm (21+ and over) Internet Superstar starts and 7pm and Diggnation starts at 8pm. The shows will be preceded and followed with a live DJ and lots of partying.

Hope you’ll come out to catch Martin Sargent and the Gator along with Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht next Wednesday, April 30th!

Hey everyone! We are partnering with Videoclix.tv to bring you a clickable version of this week’s episode of Diggnation. You can literally click on everything within the video for fun facts, info on the show, and more. What kind of beer are the guys drinking this week? Click the bottle to find out. Where can you get Kevin’s couch? Click it. Why does Alex use a PC? Well, actually, we don’t know the answer to that. Try it out, click here to watch, let us know what you think!

The Webby awards have been around for a long time, not as long as the Internet, but long enough. In fact, this year is the 12th year for the celebrated Internet awards. You can imagine how excited we were to hear that not only were we nominated/honored once, but three times!

Diggnation was nominated in the Online Film & Video > Technology category and the Totally Rad Show was nominated in the Online Film & Video > Variety category. In addition to that, Tekzilla was an honoree in the Online Film & Video > Technology category.

Of course what fun would be these awards be if you couldn’t get involved? Luckily you can!. Just head over to the Webby’s People Voice site and you can let your voice be heard. Voting is so much fun, don’t stop just at voting, but be sure to tell your friends to go vote!

We’re honored to be nominated and we’d be even more honored if you would take the time to vote for us. Best of luck to all the other nominees and we look forward to seeing who wins!

thanks.

Big news! A live taping of Internet Superstar will serve as the keynote presentation at this year’s Ad:Tech conference at the Moscone Center on April 17, at 4:45pm, here in San Francisco.

And best of all, you’re invited to get in for free! On the show, Gator and I will interview Internet Superstars Kevin Rose from Diggnation, Kent Nichols from Ask a Ninja, Jeff McPherson from TikiBarTV, and Gary Vaynerchuck from Wine Library TV. Plus, opening remarks from Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback.

And again, for you it’s Free! But you need to register by April 14th at www.ad-tech.com/sf

When they ask how you heard about it, select OTHER and type in Revision3.

So come on out for what promises to be a great time, and maybe even an after hours event at a local bar. Really hope to see you there…

-Martin Sargent

April 8, 2008 - San Francisco

Opening Day for the spring 2008 Dodgeball season got underway with a dramatic matchup between crosstown rivals, Revision3 and Digg. The seasoned veterans from Digg squared off with the scrappy upstart rookies of Revision3 in a dramatic contest of throwing and dodging balls. Team Revision3 featured stars from across the network and were clad in black and green with a vague sense of the rules.

Squaring off in a best of 9 contest, Digg broke away with an early lead up 2-0 thanks to the dominance of “Double Baller” Kurt W., but that just appeared to be the learning curve that Revision3 needed who quickly tied it back up at 2-2. The dramatic back and forth continued and when the dust settled, Digg was up 4-2 and the game was on the line for the team of video upstarts from Revision3. Slowly but surely Revision3 fought back bringing the game to a tie score, 4-4.

With the final match underway, the game on the line, even Edwin the ref commented on the drama of this match. Digg seemed to have the advantage, but very quickly the tide turned thanks to the on the court wizardry of Brad Murphy and Glenn McElhose delivered victory for the Revision3 team.

Revision3 Coach David Prager stated in a press conference after the game, “Digg came to play dirty, but little did they realize that we can play dirtier.” In a post game interview, Digg’s Kevin Rose said, “I founded both companies…I’m going to join the Revision3 team now…”.

The entire event was streamed live via Qik and can be viewed below:

30 Minutes of Gameplay:

The dramatic final match, with victory to Revision3 at the 3:15 mark:

Some comments from the viewing audience on Qik included:
belthesar: Rev3’s clearly taking performance enhancing steroids.
maddie!: i…i…dont know who to root for! rev3 & digg are both so awesome!
motionblur: kevin should fire the digg staff and hire better players

Check out all the comments here and here

UPDATE - The time of the show will be 6 PM Amsterdam Time, which is NOON Eastern Time - not 2 PM Eastern as previously stated

Hey Everyone,

We’ve got a pretty cool announcement to make on a first for us here at Revision3. Thanks to our new friends at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam and media partner Techcrunch, we’ll be putting up a live video stream of Diggnation episode 144, as its taped.

We’ve been promoting for a few weeks now that Diggnation will be shot before a live audience at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam on Thursday, April 3rd at 6pm local time (2pm Noon Eastern). Now you’ll be able to see it 100% live! Or, well, maybe there will be a few seconds lag time

To see the show, all you have to do is visit Revision3.com at 6pm Amsterdam time (2 PM Noon Eastern). The show will be live on revision3.com/watch, replacing our normal episode feed and we’ve added a countdown to the live feed so you can count the minutes until the action starts. For all of you gamers out there, you can also find the live stream on the homepage of one of our biggest supporters, GameVee.com.

Hope you’ll join us for Diggnation live from Amsterdam!

David Prager