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It Takes Two to Tango

May 5th, 2011 by Tim in Team Journal

We launched www.filmnet.com in November 2009 and watched it flourish into a great film sharing and viewing community. We hope visitors and members alike have been enjoying the site and we wish to thank you for your continued support!

Today we have some very cool news for all FilmNet users!

We are launching a new site Alternion.com which will provide you with additional opportunities both in content distribution and in social networking.

It started over a year ago when we were thinking about expanding the FilmNet concept to a wider audience. At FilmNet we aggregate independent films, reviews, professional listings, and other content for filmmakers and film lovers. Meanwhile, the social web is becoming more fragmented every day with the numbers of user accounts, friends, followers, updates, photos, videos, blogs, email and instant messages increasing exponentially. That gave us the inspiration to develop a more global “aggregator”.

After an intense year of development, we’re proud to present Alternion.com, your personal content aggregation and communication center. It enables you to combine and manage all your social accounts, including your updates, photos and videos from Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and other networks. You can also view your friend updates, photos, and videos from other networks, combine and send all of your email and direct messages, create a consolidated social address book, post to other services, and much more. You can find more details in the Alternion blog, as well as in the About and Help sections there.

Don’t worry, Alternion is not going to replace FilmNet. It’s a separate project and you can start enjoying it today!

Alternion is currently in private beta mode, open only to select few users, while we are making sure that everything works fine. The rest of the world is not allowed to see the site quite yet. However, if you’ve had a FilmNet account since before April 30th, 2011 (in other words, longer than a week ago from the date of this post) you have been granted the access to Alternion!

You can login to Alternion with your FilmNet username or email, and your FilmNet password (if you forgot the latter, you can set up a new one via the ‘Forgot password’ link on Alternion). For your convenience, your FilmNet profile data have been automatically exported to Alternion, including photos, videos, and even subscribers and subscriptions. Your privacy settings have been kept intact. If you wish, you can delete your Alternion account at any time at http://www.alternion.com/settings/account/.

There are plenty of ways how you can enjoy and leverage our new site. If you are a filmmaker or a film school/festival, you can consolidate your videos, photos and updates from different networks on Alternion, giving your fans a universal place to follow all your latest uploads and news. If you are a film lover, you can combine and follow updates and videos from your friends and subscriptions elsewhere. And if you are an avid social networker, you can consolidate and manage all of your social accounts and emails from one place.

You cannot upload videos or photos on Alternion just yet, but don’t worry, we are finalizing these features, and they will be available soon.

And we’re just getting started! We encourage you to login to Alternion and follow the Alternion blog for future updates about this project. We are hoping it will become one more home for you!

Of course, please also feel free to contact us at FilmNet via our ‘Feedback’ form at the bottom of each page or via info@filmnet.com should you have any questions, comments or ideas. We are always listening and will be happy to assist you.

Welcome to FilmNet!

October 22nd, 2009 by Tim in Team Journal

All of us at FilmNet had the same dream over the past 5 months: to build a home for filmmakers and movie buffs, musicians and their fans, and all the lovers of quality video content. It has been an amazing journey, and we are now very excited about opening the site to the public and continuing this journey together with you.

There are many video sharing and social networking sites. So why did we decide to build a new one? What’s different about FilmNet?

We have designed FilmNet as an open social community based around video content. We want our users to be able to discover tons of high quality films and music videos by some of the best content creators from around the world, to share them, and discuss with friends on their profiles and through live chats. We also want to help bring together people who share the same tastes – through real-time updates, advanced search options, and many other social networking features.

We believe independent filmmakers and musicians deserve a high quality platform to get their work seen and heard by the masses. On FilmNet you can upload films with no limitation in size or duration, create several shows under one profile and syndicate those entire shows in the embeddable player. We support HD streaming both on our site and in the embedded player, and we’ll be helping filmmakers and production companies distribute their work on other platforms.

We aim to facilitate the production of independent movies by having the most comprehensive and integrated database of independent films and shows, filmmakers, actors, musicians, film festivals, film schools, and other industry professionals and related organizations. We’ll be helping filmmakers find crew members, actors and distributors, as well as to get their movies made with some unique project management and collaboration tools.

And we also want our platform to be equally attractive to both semi-professional independent filmmakers and fully commercial content providers. Our advanced browsing and search options allow users to find exactly what they are looking for, and our versatile high definition player enables premium content to look its best. The Reviews section is built in the same way, combining reviews of both FilmNet content and the latest theatrical and DVD releases from many professional and independent critics.

We hope this is a good start. We have many more exciting things planned in the coming weeks, and we encourage you to tell us what you like and dislike. Upload your best films and music videos, and spread the word about FilmNet to all your friends!

Here’s a short animation from Joaquin Baldwin that perfectly represents how we feel right now