There is some sort of steam punk soul that is ripped out of modern engines when you cover them with plastic covers and cast aluminum intakes. When I see a picture like this, it makes m either want to buy it as a centerpiece for the StreetFire conference room or just plain build a car around it…..love
Semi trucks have very limited visibility, so it’s highly recomendd you stay out of thei “No” Zone blind spots. This video shows graphically what can happen if you don’t respect a trucker’s blind spots.
In motion on the street, real life video. Looks far better in motion IMOHO.
Very cool how you can see the shockwave as the F14 flies overhead.
Even sillier than the original.
» Post Topic » [Video]Preview: Mercedes SLR McLaren Hamann Volcano.
Big Kudos to the whole StreetFire product and dev teams, today was a huge day and I’m really proud of all their hard work. I’m sure Chris Hartman is ready to kill me since I’ve been on him for some of these updates since last Spring, but here they are at last and they absolutely rock!
StreetFire Profiles Update!
We completely overhauled profiles, to make them customizable with a simple WYSIWYG interface. You can add backgrounds, change fonts and colors. You can move your content boxes around and choose what you want to display on your profile. With the advanced features, we added the ability to directly access your CSS file, and you can also add boxes with pure HTML if you want to get really crazy.
Most impressive to me? Finally a public mini feed system! Looks like we’re finaly caught up to best thinking of 2007 now! ;-) The cool thing is that Profiles underlies a lot of other media collections in the system (Rides, Groups, Events, Channels), and with the new modular system we should now be able to just make a custom module for each data type and rapidly release new changes!
Profile Page on StreetFire (Shinkaze)
Photos Update!
Ugh, I about went nuts when we rolled out Kudos but didn’t include photos. Perhaps given the challenges in figuring out the right thinking with Kudos perhaps it’s better we waited until it was full baked…. I don’t know, but at long last, we give all the same viral sharing features on photos that we did on video, including links, favorites and Kudos. The end goal I want to achieve here is create a way fr auto enthusiast to provide context for photos. Any search engine can provide a photo of a Porsche, but with our kudos (links and favorites) we should be able to serve a GOOD photo of a Porsche as chosen by auto enthusiasts.
Vidiac Update
So, Vidiac has been the neglected child for a whole year while the team focused on improving StreetFire. The good news here is we are going to make some improvements to Vidiac.com over the next three months to make it a better service. Today we have over a hundred car websites on the Vidiac platform (CamaroZ28.com for example), and over a thousand non automotive sites as well. Last une we rolled out a new video player for Vidiac and over the past 5 months we’ve seen our unique visitors and page views double. So there is obviously still a lot of enthusiasm there. This week we just moved Vidiac to a CDN which will vastly help video serving, next we are looking at upload work flow and customer service. Good things coming there.
