Following Viacom’s public rebuke of YouTube, other big media players have joined in the slap-fest, in methods either very public (like this tirade from NBC’s Jeff Zucker) or in an aside, like a subtle dig delivered by Disney exec Preston Padden at a small telecom conference […] Read more »
In a very special online puppet video event, Dot Boom is presenting part one of a three-part series in “Papervision.” Art mirrors life as a an author races to the deadline on a project, and has to make some tough choices. Will Dot Boom’s Clark finish […] Read more »
Either this is a joke with a long delayed ending, or it’s serious: Al Franken announces his bid for the Minnesota Senate with a video on YouTube. We watched, and there is no punch line. Not even a snark! Just some salient points and thoughtful talk. […] Read more »
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Niall Kennedy looks in to the details of the Nokia announcement that Katie touched on in her roundup of news from 3GSM on GigaOM. While Nokia is touting its integration with YouTube, I’m more interested in the new phones’ support for MediaRSS and H.264 generally — […] Read more »
Tim Street is the man behind the web’s sexiest ‘how to’ show, French Maid TV (No offense, Make’s Bre Pettis). Similar to an infomercial, the maids take a break from dusting to explain in cooing detail how to accomplish a task — such as “How to […] Read more »
Through the GigaOM tip line, we see a sign of what’s to come at YouTube (crossposted). Google is having quite a bit of trouble on the business side figuring out how to monetize YouTube and make it legit. Now it appears to be following up on […] Read more »
Microsoft’s homegrown video-sharing effort, Soapbox, came out of private beta and into public beta yesterday, meaning everyone can go use it. Soapbox is not terribly distinctive, but it helps round out MSN’s set of blogging and other personal expression tools. We had reviewed the private beta […] Read more »
What would be a crazy story by any account — a skydiver can’t open his parachute from a 12,000-foot high jump, crashes into the ground at 80 miles per hour, and survives — becomes all the more gripping with video. In December, professional skydiver Michael Holmes […] Read more »
Nothing says love like a delivery of groceries. Or at least, that’s what I’m telling myself this year as I await the arrival of the truck from Safeway. I just hope I don’t melt the frozen items with my lonely tears. In the meantime, I’ve been […] Read more »
Hundreds of would-be filmmakers post their videos online every day, hoping to catch the eye of a television exec and make it to the big-time. J. Crowley and Neil Punsalan have been there and done that, and now they’re out to prove it’s a sham. Having […] Read more »
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Upstart video search project ClipRoller just posted a first draft of a pretty nifty customizable video homepage. Imagine Netvibes, but with all the widgets dedicated to the latest videos from any search query. Warning: this is a very raw project, but we’re interested enough in the […] Read more »
Fox is cracking down on leaked 24 episodes, and has gotten YouTube’s support. In January, we covered the episodes’ appearance on torrent trackers prior to the start of the season. The shows also showed up on YouTube, and 20th Century Fox Television went to court to […] Read more »
A paid web service that allows you to watch television online, Virtual Digital Cable (VDC) is complaining to the FCC that cable companies like Time Warner are unfairly refusing to allow them to purchase the rights for popular cable channels. Right now, VDC’s lineup of content […] Read more »
If it wasn’t over already, it’s now even over-er for AACS encryption, now that the keys to decrypt any and all HD DVD and Blu-Ray discs has been discovered and made public. [Engadget] Haven’t been able to catch up on all the movies nominated for Oscars […] Read more »
It’s not quite an Amanda-moves-to-ABC story, but it’s still kind of cool when a seat-of-the-pants vlogger gets a bigger stage. Such is the case for Peter Zottolo, an employee of video-messaging provider SightSpeed (aka SightSpeed guy), whose sometimes zany online antics (see video below!) have earned […] Read more »
The beginning of the week, as usual, is full of news. Here are some online video-related items we didn’t want to let slide by. MySpace started a pilot program of video filtering technology. MySpace, like just about everyone, is under legal pressure from Universal Music Group, […] Read more »
San Francisco-based StumbleUpon is releasing tonight a customized version of its StumbleVideo for the Nintendo Wii. Like efforts from SofaTube and Veoh, the idea is to bring web video to the living room. StumbleVideo is a tool for serendipitous video browsing that learns from your likes […] Read more »
Eric over at backward five gives the new Lycos video playlist tool, “MIX,” a big “meh.” I do like having a bookmarklet to tag videos across sites for assembly into a sequence, if only as a personal tool. But there are plenty of options for that, […] Read more »
Despite the fact that I eagerly await weekly installments of “The Office” on iTunes, I’ve never sampled from Apple’s growing movie collection. Today that is going to change. OK, it just changed right now, after I wrote that sentence, because Apple added Lionsgate movies, and L.A. […] Read more »
Magnify.net, the self-serve white-label web video service we covered earlier this month, has closed a $1.2 million round of funding. The round was co-led by New York Angels and NextStage Capital, and included Chris Anderson of TED Conference (not Wired) fame. We had mentioned the impending […] Read more »
This week I’ll be taking a look at some issues facing online video creators that I’ve rarely heard mentioned, much less discussed, when it comes to producing video for the web. Today I’ll discuss permits, because if you’re filming in public spaces, you may need at […] Read more »
Within the next two weeks, Blip.tv will be giving users the ability to insert their own custom, clickable advertising graphics and clips to their videos. The same features have already been deployed for Blip’s network ads, but this will enable show creators to place ads that […] Read more »
BOULDER, Colo. — Even though a huge amount of daily Internet traffic is bits of evidence showing people trying to avoid it, Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology is the juice behind Disney’s breakout online moves, a company exec said here Sunday. Preston Padden, executive vice president […] Read more »
Bolt, one of the larger independent online video sites, is selling itself to GoFish to escape its copyright battle with Universal Music Group. We had been tracking this story as it developed, but the New York Times now reports the deal has gone through. GoFish is […] Read more »
Paul detangles reports that a Google exec supposedly said Internet infrastructure won’t scale to deliver web TV, over on GigaOM. Given Google’s out-front stance on topics like network neutrality and its $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube — two things that would seem at odds with such […] Read more »
Hipster uber-brand Vice has infected another medium with their signature off-color take on news and culture with VBS.TV, instantly making bud.tv a loser in the race to win the favor of web-savvy, educated 18- to 35-year-olds looking for edgy content. For starters, thanks to their use […] Read more »
Television listings site MeeVee this week added interactive listings for web video, including links to video sharing site clips alongside streamed episodes on network sites. The “Network Video” and “Community Video” tabs under My Guide show the results of searches you set up by adding interests […] Read more »
Best known as the first editor of Valleywag, though maybe better known for getting demoted, Nick Douglas has, until recently, been posting ‘DiggBait‘ on Valleywag and at the Huffington Post’s Eat the Press from his usual seat at at San Francisco’s Cafe du Soleil. Lately he’s […] Read more »
YouTube sent the mobile industry in a tizzy last year by indicating it would move onto at cell phones this year. First it was a deal with Verizon Wireless in the U.S., and today European carrier Vodafone announced a similar deal to offer YouTube content first […] Read more »
What do you get when a scandal breaks in America’s digital mecca? You get tons of web video, including local news clips, citizen journalist footage and partisan shots. In fact, if you’d been following YouTube for the latest news about San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, you’d […] Read more »
Earlier this week we rounded up somewhat conflicting studies about online video’s effect on television, asking “where’s the beef?” Well, before the week is out, we already have some more data to play with, addressing kids’ TV habits. If you’re ready for a new topic, check […] Read more »
So there was this guy who mounted a big campaign to propose to his girlfriend on national television during the Super Bowl. He actually got pretty close to his goal, with CBS apparently calling him multiple times throughout the game to say his ad might air. […] Read more »
Want to create your own talk show? How about receive localized supplements about what’s playing on your TiVo? These projects and more were demoed at the Digital Content Lab of the American Film Institute‘s semi-annual production wrap event in Los Angeles yesterday, showcasing new experiments in […] Read more »
Israeli startup AniBOOM has raised $4.5 million for its emerging online animation community, which it hopes to turn into a distributed animation studio. The company has a number of interesting projects in the works, including a just-concluded contest that attracted 2,000 animators from 72 countries and […] Read more »
The look-who’s-a-vlogger file got some real mainstream credibility Thursday, when star tech columnist Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal outed himself as a DIY video star. Granted, since Walt has the resources of the WSJ behind him he’s not getting his fingers dirty dabbling with […] Read more »
Earlier this week we sat down with Evan Krauss, the CEO of San Francisco-based Cuts, who seemed remarkably calm considering his upcoming release schedule. The online video editing service his team makes is supposed to go into private beta Friday, and public beta a week from […] Read more »
Looking ahead to the future, I think that one of the problems that will be solved is how to ‘program’ web video content. Not in the technical sense, but in the traditional television sense. I still think that one of the things that OldTeeVee is good […] Read more »
Google filed today a regulatory form registering beneficiaries from its purchase of YouTube to sell stock. In doing so, it revealed approximately how much people with a significant stake in YouTube stand to make from sales of their shares. YouTube founders Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed […] Read more »
Journalist and educator Sandeep Junnarkar and photographer Srinivas Kuruganti have put together a project, Lives in Focus, which explores the difficulties faced by families when a member has been incarcerated. Junnarkar teaches at the City University of New York, which has a long tradition of advocacy […] Read more »
Dear readers, Our little baby news site, NewTeeVee, turned two months old this week. We’d like to take this occasion to hit you up for a little bit of feedback. We’re having a blast doing what we’re doing, but it’s a work in progress and we […] Read more »
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