Google New Media Party

David All at TechRepublican wraps up the players at Google's New Media May Day party. (When David All names you as a "key player," you know you've made it.)

Thanks David!

3rd party video on secure webpages

David All describes the value of video in the donation process well in this post, however he's misleading readers on a key point:

* You can not use a third-party flash video provider (like YouTube or Blip.TV) on secure websites which is why we are hosting this video, and only this video, on our servers. (from "DonationTubes: How and Why TechRepublican.com")

Fortunately, with Brightcove you can in fact easily embed your Brightcove video into secure pages. Simply update the relevant links in the embed object to "https://..." and you are off to the races. Here's a good example of this in action: Senator Mitch McConnell's campaign website.