New Website
Bridges Technology Gaps, Raises
Eyebrows
“When
I first discovered the superior
functionalities of 1dawg.com, I
thought - "Why the hell didn't the
established companies think of this!
This is so intuitive!" These guys
are so far out ahead of Youtube in
thinking about the future, it's
ridiculous. And inspiring. Young
guys shouldn't be this smart - it's
embarrassing for the rest of us.
Plus they have really hot interns.”
-
Adam Gilad, Programming Guru
National Lampoon
*(Bloomington, Illinois)* - A new
website now enables users to move
any video from their computers to
their portable media devices. The
site,
www.1Dawg.com, provides users
with technology that converts their
videos to nearly a dozen different
formats. With the click of a button,
users can download to their computer
whichever format of the video they
need.
The
site, described repeatedly as
“impressive” by users, solves a
technology-wide problem in the
growing industry that combines media
and internet. “Each portable media
device, like an iPod or PSP, accepts
a very limited number of file
extensions, if even more than just
one,” explains Adam Fichman,
business director for 1Dawg.com.
“What our company does is provide
the means for a video in an
incompatible format to be available
for whatever media device the user
wants to transfer it to.”
Not
only does the site turn user videos
into compatible formats, but it also
allows users to send videos straight
to their Verizon cell phones with
minimal effort. “We must request
that users register their Verizon
phone numbers once before this
feature will work, to prevent cell
phone spamming,” admonishes Fichman.
“But after a one-time phone number
registration, users can receive a
video on their cell phone within
seconds after pressing the ‘Send to
Phone!’ button below each video.”
Fichman, Marketing Director Austin
Hurst, and Creative Director Zach
Hurst came up with the idea nearly
two years ago when Fichman’s fiancée
received a video iPod for Christmas.
“How do I put videos on it?” she
asked them, and they proceeded to
show her. In the process, they
discovered that iPods only accept
mpeg4 video formats a format that
is not widely prevalent. On further
investigation, the three learned
that no software for conversion
between video formats existed, and
an idea was born.
“It’s
great. I wouldn’t change a thing,
and my kids love to use it,” says
avid user Kevin Sweeney
The
owners explain that as portable
media technology continues to become
more mainstream, their company will
become increasingly important. “With
this technology, we’re taking media
distribution to the next level,”
says Austin. Only a few months in
existence, 1Dawg.com is raising
technology eyebrows across the
country, and gratifying consumers
who have been waiting for this
technology since they first stumbled
upon the problem that 1Dawg.com
successfully seeks to fix.
