When it comes to producing online video content, it’s important to look to television for ideas and inspiration — there is a baby in that bathwater, and in most states, throwing it out would constitute child abuse. Whether it’s a pretty baby or an ugly … Read More »
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Apple will soon be introducing Flash video playback to the iPhone, according to The Business of Online Video and Gear Live. Details, such as a release date, are scarce, but the move would open up the iPhone to sites that don’t offer … Read More »
How super was Super Tuesday for sites covering the primaries with live video? CNN.com had a banner day, and served 2.7 million video streams and 600,000 live video streams according to Silicon Alley Insider. Hopefully that kind of viewership makes taking … Read More »
If your Super Bowl hangover has worn off but you’re finding yourself jonesing for more men in colorful outfits pushing an inflated leather ball up and down a field, NewTeeVee has you covered. I do love sports that to Americans seem exotic and obscure while … Read More »
There will be plenty of video online for you political junkies tomorrow, Super Tuesday, from YouTube to the national networks, and The UpTake to Chris Crocker. OK, maybe Chris Crocker won’t be weighing in, but how funny would a teary plea to all the Hillary … Read More »
There’s one sure way to get paid producing online videos — advertising. Jason Calacanis, in explaining “Mahalo Daily,” has promised that “In the future every company will have a video show, not just a blog.” While to some that might sound like … Read More »
Both the New York Times and Associated Press are reporting that the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) have reached tentative agreement on Internet distribution (or “electronic sell-through”) terms, based on information from unidentified sources. Since online … Read More »
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MTV’s announcement this week that it will be giving young people across the country Nokia N95s and using Flixwagon to stream live video reports from caucuses and polling stations during next Tuesday’s multi-state primary shows that there’s still plenty forward-thinking going on at … Read More »
Web 2.0 darling Twitter has long struggled with stability, a problem which came to a head when millions of users were faced with an error screen that lasted late into the morning today as the startup moved its system off Joyent’s hardware starting at 10 … Read More »
If Steve Jobs’ promise of a new direct-download rental service prompted you to buy an Apple TV, you may be wondering why, after plugging it in, there aren’t any rentals available yet. That’s because the Apple TV firmware update has yet to be released, … Read More »
The man behind broadcast staple America’s Funniest Videos (AFV), Vind Di Bona, is partnering with DAVE Networks to bring your hilarious home movies to the public with Reality.tv, which debuted yesterday at the National Association of Television Program Executives. Built around a web-to-TV … Read More »
As Congress resumes the debate on wiretapping legislation, People for the American Way and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have put together Stop the Spying, a site aimed at drawing attention to legislation that would grant immunity to the telecoms for … Read More »
Someday NewTeeVee is going on an all-expenses-paid trip to Sundance, mark my words. Until then, we’ll have to watch the action from the sidelines Read More »
Anyone who’s ever appeared on the news or a talk show can tell you that you can’t necessarily trust you will be treated fairly in editing — especially if you ramble, contradict the host or call a show’s sponsor or advertisers into controversy. Until recently, … Read More »
With the announcement from NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker that the network will be canceling the hoary tradition of pilot season — that annual rite of passage in which the network produces dozens of initial episodes of possible shows to market test and show to advertisers … Read More »
In addition to receiving a generous new round of venture capital, Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com (and the backend provider for NewTeeVee and the rest of the GigaOM network), has announced a storage upgrade for users. Combined with the beta video player, … Read More »
Hoping to bridge the gap between the independent filmmakers and a paying audience, From Here to Awesome is a new online “film festival” where indie filmmakers can post an online video pitch, drum up support from fans and win a chance at being selected for … Read More »
The latest channel from Next New Networks, Goggleburn, will feature online video from around the web along with a weekly show hosted by Nick Douglas (who’s promising debut last year, Look Shiny, never quite got off the ground). With a slightly warped … Read More »
Ever since NASA faked the moon landing, motion pictures have played a leading role in bolstering the believability of hoaxes, practical jokes and, most recently, alternate reality games (ARGs). Thanks to the success of I Love Bees and the interactivity spawned by the … Read More »
Last night I was glued to live broadcast news coverage of the New Hampshire state primary. I scanned the bottom-third ticker, chatted with friends about the latest returns as they came in, watched live interviews with Democratic party organizers and Ron Paul supporters, and chuckled … Read More »
Michel Gondry stopped by the Union Square Apple Store in San Francisco on Monday to answer questions from SF360‘s Susan Gerhard, part of a promotional event put on by indieWire for the upcoming film Be Kind Rewind. Film geeks lined up … Read More »
Charles Trippy has broken a record, and by an incredibly wide margin. Raising the Four-Eyed Monster bar some 750 percent, he’s posted a video running more than nine hours long to his YouTube account. Yes, it’s an unapologetic stunt and … Read More »
Best summary of the news coming out of Las Vegas so far goes to Shake Well Before Use‘ Ariel Waldman: “CES effectively splooged all over my Google Reader.” In an effort to reduce the number of tabs open before Firefox crashes on me … Read More »
John Holden’s signature schtick on TotalVOM is to use the video response tool on YouTube to provide semi-nude, often musical commentary on unintentionally funny YouTube videos. His absurdist deconstructions poke fun, but are well within the spirit of the video response form. And last … Read More »
Sling Media, with CES drawing near, has unveiled a new Slingbox PRO-HD device for “placeshifting” video in full 1080i with Dolby 5.1 surround sound and new SlingPlayer Mobile software that will allow Blackberry Pearl owners to watch video from their current Sling device.
Steal This Film II, from producer/director J.J. King, is a sober, thought-provoking piece on technology and intellectual property that frames the current debate over copyright in historical and political terms. Not only can you download it for free in HD (over BitTorrent, natch), … Read More »
Forbes-minted #1 Web Celeb and YouTube partner Mario “Perez Hilton” Lavandeira had his account suspended last night due to terms of use violations, according to the popular celebrity gossip blogger. The violation centered around a video clip depicting Liza Minnelli in … Read More »
The Simpsons playfully reinterpreted the seminal web video Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years in this Sunday’s episode. Here’s Homer Simpson, reimagined for the last 39 years: And here’s the original from photographer Noah Kalina (a YouTube favorite, with … Read More »
If you haven’t happened across the work of Kirby Ferguson online, you need to stay in more. His viral smash Do You Take It? (audio likely NSFW) has racked up millions upon millions of views. He’s produced a number of Sex Advice … Read More »
Revenue models for online content have hurt artists and writers, argues Jaron Lanier in an op-ed for the New York Times entitled “Pay Me for My Content.” Lanier, an interdisciplinary scholar-in-residence at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of California at … Read More »
Watching the big-money players take the stage at NewTeeVee Live yesterday, I was a little sad I wasn’t there, networking up a storm. I had to settle for watching the event on Mogulus (which, despite a few technical difficulties and some “live TV” … Read More »
Miro, nee Democracy Player, released its version 1.0 Tuesday, officially leaving beta behind. The open source video subscription, download and viewing client from the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF) hopes to be not just more open, but more popular than other online video … Read More »
Thankfully there wasn’t a cruel wind blowing off the Hudson River near Chelsea Piers, the Manhattan soundstage where striking Writers Guild of America East members had formed a picket on Wednesday. I arrived to survey the scene just as organizers were putting away their signs, … Read More »
We Need Girlfriends, a scripted, episodic web sitcom that has garnered a significant following on YouTube, has managed to score an honest-to-goodness development deal with CBS. Darren Star, best known as the man behind Sex and the City, will serve as executive producer … Read More »
Before I moved to New York to finish school, I made a point of keeping in touch with contacts of mine who were based there. Among them were people I’d met through SXSW Interactive, people running startups and creating content for various online destinations. … Read More »
When Brett Morgen, who directed the Academy Award-nominated feature documentary On The Ropes while still a graduate student at NYU, dropped by the school on Tuesday to hold court at a lunch hosted by Mary Schmidt-Campbell, dean of the Tisch School for the Arts, … Read More »
The latest revelation in the cat-and-mouse game between the MPAA and online file sharers sounds like something from a Hollywood spy thriller: Feeling spurned by a partner, a black marketeer tries to parlay his insider information into a career with the authorities, but once the deal … Read More »
In advance of the Writers Guild of America strike authorization vote that passed Friday, I dropped by the office of WGA member Ezra Sacks, a veteran screenwriter on such films as FM and Wildcats who currently teaches screenwriting to students at New York … Read More »
Members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) have voted to authorize a strike. 90.3% of the record 5,507 ballots counted gave permission to guild leaders to call for a work stoppage if demands, such as coverage for online scribes and new media residuals, aren’t … Read More »
If the negotiations between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) were a game of chicken, then the AMPTP just hit the brakes by taking the “Residual Payment Point” proposal off the table — which would have … Read More »
Film schools, and more importantly film students, have definitely begun to embrace online video. Thanks to a combination of small, eager departments like the one at San Francisco State; the tradition of spec work; and sharing sites willingly confronting the reality of having … Read More »
The democratization of media isn’t just for the poor, dahling. The “new socialite” set, taking a (clothed) cue from Paris Hilton, have embraced online video. Tired of being a niche interest amongst New Yorkers, some are breaking from the exclusive confines of aSmallWorld.net and … Read More »
Although the novelty of “life-casting” has worn off to some degree and the mainstream media hype surrounding it has abated, that hasn’t stopped more and more people from cracking open a laptop and sharing their previously private moments with the world, live and unedited. But … Read More »
It has recently become clear that YouTube doesn’t draw the line at live-action, human nipples — stop-motion animated nipples on anthropomorphic robots are officially verboten as well. Shortly after Wired wrote about Michael Sullivan’s Sex Life of Robots, a film the artist likens to … Read More »
Erm, Santa Monica, actually. Popular destination for the weird and wonderful on the web BoingBoing has enlisted the services of production company DECA (which we profiled last week) to produce the new BoingBoing web show. Federated Media, which already brokered ads … Read More »
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