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The quality of public education in California right now is a pretty depressing topic, and as discussion of yet more cuts builds, it’s no wonder that local parents are turning to humor. It is however impressive that they’re enlisting movie stars as well — not … Read More »

As we’ve seen our coverage of live streamed events and shows expand, a question that’s been coming up for me more and more is that of what the optimal time might be to start a broadcast. After all, if you’re not beholden to start times and … Read More »

 
 

The 2010 Streamy Craft Awards moved almost too fast, but were relatively incident-free and allowed those behind the scenes of major web series a chance at the spotlight. Read More »

When I start watching a new web series, I do my best to be in an open-minded, accepting place, one that leaves me free to evaluate a show’s pros and cons without bias. There is the occasional instance, though, where I’ll click play only after … Read More »

Are you a golf fan who’s sick of Tiger Woods giving press conferences and just wants to watch some golf already? Well, your patience is about to be rewarded, as the 2010 Masters Tournament this Thursday at noon– Oh, no, you have … Read More »

It’s not hard to imagine the pitch on Date A Human.com (the dot com in the title is really unnecessary, if you ask me, and thus in protest I shall not be using it any further in this review): “Bridget Jones dates aliens!” And that’s … Read More »

So Ryan Lawler plum wore himself out this morning by discussing what video sites, including NBC, ABC and Netflix, may not be iPad compatible when the device hits stores this Saturday. Which leaves me to come tell you that Apple has now posted … Read More »

Ah, April Fool’s Day. Other sites are covering the pranks pulled by the tech community extensively today — I like the fact that Techcrunch is grading them — but I’m going to take this opportunity to do what I do best: Read way too … Read More »

We may finally have an answer to the gajillion dollar question (rounding up for inflation) that’s revolved around Hulu since the first rumors began last year: The ad-supported online video site may test plans for a subscription service with an in-development iPad application, as … Read More »

Spike Jonze’s I’m Here, a short film debuting online after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, is surprisingly unbeholden to its sponsor Absolut, as none of the glamourous trappings you’d expect from a vodka partnership permeate this 30 minute robot romance. Read More »

If there’s a meme that’s been repeated even twice online, there’s a solid chance that Ben Huh, CEO of the I Can Haz Cheezburger media empire, has tried to build a brand around it. And a few weeks ago, Huh and his team began … Read More »

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Everything was picture-perfect when I visited the If I Can Dream house at the beginning of the month, just before five young people moved in to follow their dreams on a 24/7 live feed. Which is why I decided to wait to see what … Read More »

Dailymotion announced today the launch of a new player for its video content, which Read More »

Because I was lame as a teenager, I didn’t watch a lot of MTV. (Or is it the other way around: Was I lame as a teenager because I didn’t watch a lot of MTV? A deeper question for a deeper time.) Anyways, the … Read More »

Behold, a new YouTube star rises. There’s nothing terribly new about seeing a teenage girl use YouTube to discuss the world of beauty and fashion. But Blair Fowler, a sixteen-year-old girl whose name seems directly drawn from the pages of Sweet Valley … Read More »

Current’s Infomania hit upon a winning combination last night: What if Oprah Winfrey (who’s the narrator of the Discovery Channel’s maybe-sorta-ripoff-of-the-BBC’s-Earth series Life) took that same nature documentary approach to another nonfiction series that delved into a strange and previously unexplored culture: MTV’s  Jersey Shore. … Read More »

Shows about people trying to break into Hollywood, as I’ve said many times before, is one of the web video industry’s most tired genres. Fortunately, the BET-distributed web series Buppies isn’t about trying to break into Hollywood — it’s about living in it, … Read More »

Things are getting serious for lacrosse fans, with the National Lacrosse League heading into its final month of the 2010 season. This weekend will be especially action-packed, with the Washington Stealth facing off against the Colorado Mammoth and the Minnesota Swarm taking on the Calgary … Read More »

H.264, Ogg Theora, MP4, Xvid, MKV, FLV: The world of online video can be pretty confusing. Not only are there tons of different formats and acronyms, but various devices and services actually have vastly different requirements. A video you downloaded via BitTorrent … Read More »

Bystanders recording rescue efforts with their cell-phone cameras are oftentimes interfering with the work of ambulance staff. However, Stockholm-based live streaming startup Bambuser believes that mobile video capturing actually has its place in emergency response, as long as it’s … Read More »

One of this week’s unexpected viral stars wasn’t a cat or a girl in a bikini, but rather environmentalist Annie Leonard, whose rant about bottled water, released in conjunction with World Water Day, has racked up over 150,000 views on YouTube in one week. Read More »

The host of Freezerburns, Gregory Ng, has no culinary skills — he’s a creative director for a Raleigh, N.C., marketing agency and a father of three. But that hasn’t stopped the packaged meat enthusiast from creating the web’s most prominent video series focusing on the … Read More »

Mega email mailing list Thrillist began the first steps towards moving into the online video world today, soft-launching a series of short videos that will eventually document local venues in all 15 Thrillist markets. Los Angeles and Chicago are the first Thrillist cities to get video … Read More »

Nails-tough lady assassin Natalie is going global, as the Streamy-winning series Pink today announced a distribution deal with Fireworks International for international distribution. Pink is not the first series to make a deal of this type over the last few months: Fireworks acquired Canadian steampunk … Read More »

Paula Deen fans take note — the domestic goddess with an EQAL-run umbrella site wants to give you a taste of the limelight. Partnering with co-sponsor Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Deen’s site is running an online audition in search of on-camera cooks with … Read More »

Any fan of Joss Whedon’s now-departed Dollhouse knows that the freakiest thing about the show wasn’t its dystopian neuropunk brain experiments, but the talent of its at-the-time-unknown supporting cast, who were challenged to create completely different characters on a weekly basis, but made it look … Read More »

Many of the people I know working in the print world took an awful lot of comfort this week in this video hosted by Britain’s Penguin Books, which takes a palindromic look at the typical teenager and how they engage with media. (Though I gotta … Read More »

The site Tongal, a platform that helps brands crowdsource content under the framework of contests, launched a promotion this week with the upcoming Rouge Pictures film MacGruber. To promote the film, which originated as a Saturday Night Live sketch series and is due … Read More »

The 2010 Masters Tournament, which kicks off with broadcasts from CBS and ESPN beginning on April 7, will be made available in 3-D, a first for the tournament and for the 3-D TV industry in general. The event will be aired live in 3-D by … Read More »

Pink is one of those series that, frankly, I should have reviewed a long time ago. The adventure/drama focuses on Natalie Cross (Natalie Raitano), who kills people for a living — and is very good at it. But Natalie is haunted by her … Read More »

UPDATED: So we were on the front page of YouTube on Saturday! That was pretty fun, though a bit surprising to the ten web series creators we featured, whose inboxes that morning were quickly flooded with subscription notifications and comments. But what does being featured … Read More »

Updated: Turns out, March Madness isn’t the only major sporting event starting this weekend: Cricket fans all over the world have been feverishly awaiting today’s start of the Indian Premiere League Cricket Season. In fact, the first game is … Read More »

March Madness, baby! If you didn’t already have a good reason to drive down to Costco and pick up a huge new TV, this is it. Of course, that shiny new flatscreen won’t help you much for those games airing during office … Read More »

Jamie Wilkinson, aka Jamie Dubs, is the go-to guy if you want to learn anything about Internet memes. He’s the brain behind Know Your Meme, and until recently used to be Rocketboom’s Internet Research Scientist, complete with lab coat and white … Read More »

Don’t you just love it when new Google services spark all kinds of creativity? YouTube announced yesterday that it started to automatically add captions to all of its videos, and blogs like Filmfail are already busy finding good examples of … Read More »

The first round of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament kicks off in about two weeks — and as usual, CBS Sports will have broadcast and online coverage of all the games. For those that were disappointed by the lack of live video available … Read More »

YouTube briefly blocked the audio track of a presentation given by Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig yesterday, informing users that the clip contained audio material not authorized by a rights holder.  The video in question was a talk about Fair Use … Read More »

Jesse Schell, founder of Schell Games and former creative director of the Disney’s Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio, at the DICE 2010 conference gave a presentation about the future of games. He could very well be talking about the future of technology itself. Watch the video. Read More »

Whether it’s a clip of “Tajik Jimmy” putting Bollywood soundtracks to shame, catching a friend’s wedding eight time zones away or working “side by side” with coworkers in another country, it’s all video. And it’s changing the way we communicate with one another. Video technology has … Read More »

In six weeks, we will be hosting our third annual NewTeeVee Live conference, and I am thrilled to announce that Netflix CEO Reed Hastings will be speaking. Reed, who was one of the keynote speakers at last year’s event, is going to join me in … Read More »

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