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 »
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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 »
A number of torrent trackers in Russia have recently been shut down by the local constabulary, in effect reducing file sharing bandwidth use by 80%. In Russia, traffic shapes you! [TorrentFreak] Two Eastern European emissaries are bending Bill Gates’ ear: Mikhail Gorbachev wants him to intervene […] Read more »
DJ Rossstar has managed to infiltrate almost every medium available to an enterprising indie media maven. Starting with a punk rock radio show on idobi broadcast from his apartment where he asks his guests questions submitted from fans via instant message. He’s since expanded his reach […] Read more »
We’ve been riffing pretty hard on a theme over the last couple days, trying to make sense of how someone can lay claim a viral hit and deal with the ensuing onslaught. But a viral hit does not a career make, much as I love the […] Read more »
If there’s a downside to unexpectedly exploding onto the viral video scene, it’s that you’re probably not ready to handle your fame. Unless you’re a marketing firm, an ad agency, or an experienced auteur, you’re likely to find yourself scrambling to field phone calls, answer e-mails, […] Read more »
Amazon’s Unbox video-on-demand service will make the leap out of the PC box and into the TV box via a partnership with TiVo, the two companies said in an emailed press release. Subscribers to both Unbox and TiVo will be able to rent and purchase movies […] Read more »
Popular social network Facebook is adding video uploads in very limited fashion, asking users to submit their own clips on topics like “who am I?” “heartbreak,” and “life during wartime” to be compiled into a television show. The company is formally announcing the project tomorrow, but […] Read more »
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HandHeld Entertainment, a small consumer electronics firm that is buying up web content sites, has acquired video and photo upload site Putfile for $7.1 million in cash and stock, the company announced today. We hadn’t heard too much about Putfile, but were able to speak with […] Read more »
Katie at GigaOM has the scoop that Metacafe CEO Arik Czerniak is stepping down. He will be replaced by Erick Hachenburg, previously of Electronic Arts. Czerniak is remaining with Metacafe “focusing on products and strategy,” but not as chief exec, and said the change “is great […] Read more »
All right Macheads, we got some seriously good news for you. Starting today at 8 PM GMT, which is about 12 noon in Silicon Valley, Joost is going to open its website to 100 NewTeeVee readers who have an Intel powered Mac and let them have […] Read more »
MySpace, which is far more dominant in the United States than in other countries, is launching a pretty cool U.K. contest for a collaboratively made film, bankrolling it with £1 million ($1.97 million) in collaboration with Film4 and Vertigo Films. This is much more extensive than […] Read more »
Blogumentary, a film about the emergence of blogging that was finished over a year ago but not distributed widely, was posted to Google Video late last week by its producer and director, Chuck Olsen of Minnesota Stories. Why did it take so long to get online? […] 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 »
It’s an unfortunate reality of mainstream media that television talk show hosts who have access to big name politicians often disappoint by asking softball questions. And so the other week, when Wolf Blitzer queried Dick Cheney about his lesbian daughter, the news establishment was less surprised […] Read more »
Move Networks, which has developed some interesting streaming video technology over the last two-and-a-half years, is finally starting to talk about itself. The company helps TV networks get their shows online using its techniques for high-quality in-browser streaming. We had previously written about Move when word […] Read more »
According to a well-orchestrated rollout in the mainstream media, retailing giant Wal-Mart is set to enter the video download business Tuesday, with films and TV shows that can be downloaded and played on Windows PCs and some Windows Mobile devices. A wide range of titles including […] Read more »
Remember Bridezilla? We wrote up this viral video last week, focusing on the fact that multiple parties were claiming responsibility for a hit clip depicting a bride hacking off her hair an hour before her wedding. Since then, we’ve been updating the post, but each day […] Read more »
One revenue model that bridges the gap between the gift economy and the, um, economy economy has been used for decades by American public television stations — the pledge drive. It’s also worked successfully online in some cases, Jason Kottke’s being the best known. Now the […] Read more »
So what do you get when you bring a macrobrewer’s mentality to the microcontent world? How about tired sketch comedy cliches, prehistoric treatment of women and more product placement than one can reasonably stomach. In a desperate attempt to be edgy and authentic on one hand […] Read more »
Last week NewTeeVee writer Jackson embedded himself in the wilds of SoCal to study a flock of NewTeeVee personalities in their natural habitat. He turned in a five-part Lunching in Los Angeles essay series. Here’s the whole set: Monday at Tengu Buzznet at Langer’s Almost There, […] Read more »
“Copyright infringement is still a theft. A crime. A felony. Plain and simple.” – Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone, Aug. 22, 2006 Given Sumner Redstone’s recent opinion on unauthorized Internet video-sharing, Friday’s call from Viacom for YouTube to take down 100,000 video clips was probably inevitable. What […] Read more »
Mary Matthews over at Video Pancakes emailed to let us know that her show 39 Second Single will be featured in an upcoming segment on NBC’s Weekend Today Show which, in her words, “is about how women are using video blogging to make changes in their […] Read more »
Before the next week hits all of us full-force, we wanted to make sure to note a trio of interesting online video reports that came out last week. Will online video help or harm traditional TV? It’s a matter of whose numbers you use. Below the […] Read more »
Yes, yes, there was lots of user-generated content and a split second of Kevin Rose, but what stuck out to me? The CBS promo for Criminal Minds: “There’s a video of this murder posted on the Internet?” It’s one thing to be all the rage in […] Read more »
There was a point Thursday evening where in my head I could almost get a clear vision of what it all meant and where it was all going in terms of motion pictures. I woke up confident that I’d get a couple of interviews in, and […] Read more »
YouTube, silly! And if you have any doubts, then check out the latest stats from Compete.com, who sent us a list of top twenty video sites, which we hope to track for you every month. According to Compete data for the month of December 2006, YouTube […] Read more »
Brightcove, having just closed $59.5 million worth of funding, is widening its focus from commercial and professional video to chase the consumer side of the space. This week, the company launched Brightcove Personal, allowing users to set up channels to post their own video. But in […] Read more »
Mark Cuban’s post expressing his reservations about the BitTorrent protocol was bound to draw some responses from the passionate peer-to-peer community. Our guest contributor Janko thinks he might have one good point, at least. TorrentFreak wrote a measured response. And this week, BitTorrent creator and CEO […] Read more »
While the world clears space on its TiVos to record whatever part of his body Prince chooses to reveal during his Superbowl halftime show, the innerwebs is busy capitalizing on the hype in the hopes of drawing eyeballs away from the big screen. For instance, Blendtec […] Read more »
Viacom said Friday it was demanding Google pull more than 100,000 clips from YouTube. The company claimed an outside consultant found the set of videos had been streamed more than 1.2 billion times. Viacom had been in months of negotiations with YouTube, and it seems the […] Read more »
Another day, another harried schedule of lunching around town. My first stop was Papa Cristos for gyros with Sean Bury and Chris Cantwell of Invisible Engine Films. Then I took the metro across town to Hollywood for a coffee with Cory Tyler of Can We Do […] Read more »
Update (Monday, 12 p.m. PST): Here’s a pretty good summary of the genesis of the video from the Globe and Mail. Turns out the haircare company AND the group of women came up with the stunt. And they’re going to try to milk it for all […] Read more »
In an article by Mark Sullivan on Light Reading it’s been revealed that the long-awaited BitTorrent content network will be released this month. Originally planned for a launch by the end of the year, the holdup was negotiations with content partners. Despite BT detractors like Mark […] Read more »
We’ll have to do a little departure from my five-part “Lunching in LA” series today because my lunch date fell through yesterday. But I do have some interesting stories from my evening mingling the last two nights. Tuesday night it was drinks at The Standard Downtown […] Read more »
GigaOM staff writer Katie F. called from DEMO to say NewTeeVee should get in touch with one of the presenters, Magnify.net. It’s video. It has a community angle and a niche play and a widget strategy. It’s just on the verge of closing some funding. So […] Read more »
Well, it appears YouTube’s posturing toward paying its creators is coming a little too late for some of the site’s stars, who are already making the leap to television. Yesterday FOX announced YouTube star LisaNova is joining its MADtv cast (we first heard about this on […] Read more »
A number of major studios want to settle on a digital watermarking standard, according to Laurie Sullivan’s recent article in Red Herring. Digital rights management schemes are by no means ironclad, but by putting unique digital signatures in their movies, studios would in theory enable file […] Read more »
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