DareJunkies, a sort of mashup between a video sharing site and a reality TV show, officially launched. The idea is that users can go to the site, write out dares in the form of ‘challenges,’ and then performers will compete to submit the best video based […] Read more »
Digg, a San Francisco-based social news site, is embracing video and podcasting, and will launch a major facelift to reflect its new expanding coverage on Monday morning. The new interface should improve discovery of the most popular and top-ranked stories, company executives say. In order to […] Read more »
As we reported last week, Philips Electronics says it has developed technology that will use digital fingerprinting to help online video sites restrict use of copyrighted content. Since then we caught up with Ronald Maandonks, CEO of Philips’ content identification division, for more details in a […] Read more »
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Just stumbled across a great thread on Digg. “fershizzle” posted a link to “THE BEST human beatbox that I have ever heard” earlier today. Within the last couple hours, Diggers have chimed in to add plugs for about 20 different videos of other human beatboxers. My […] Read more »
According to the Financial Times, Sony is readying a video-download service for its PlayStation Portable (PSP) device, which the story and an accompanying feature says is an Internet-to-PC-to-Memory Stick scheme that will compete with video downloads from Apple’s iTunes service. (Snore!) The FT story (which doesn’t […] Read more »
It may not be the perfect season to test-drive video golf lessons to your mobile phone, but last week’s news from iPlay is the kind of service that could be part of a “long tail” of non-traditional video services that won’t come from major networks or […] Read more »
Who’s Time‘s person of the year? You. Well, those of us who express ourselves online, a group that is rapidly increasing both in number and power. Time‘s Lev Grossman writes, Seriously, who actually sits down after a long day at work and says, I’m not going […] Read more »
Check out this parody of the Dove spot on the evolution of beauty. We came to it via Giovanni Rodriguez, who writes, “Prediction: the mockummercial will become a big thing next year, as more and more marketers get the inspiration to taunt their competitors via YouTube […] Read more »
Do you long for the days when Andrew and Amanda dragged their soap-opera split through the blogosphere? Wait no more — looks like round two has just begun, with two posts on Andrew Baron’s blog today – one claiming that Amanda “usurped” her current ideas from […] Read more »
That’s what Wade Roush, writing for the MIT Technology Review, argues in this piece about peer-to-peer technology. And not only should distributors get on board, but network operators may want to embrace it, too. Considering how much more efficiently it distributes large amounts of data, it’s […] Read more »
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Ah, nothing like web-enabled camera phones, alcohol and YouTube search for comedic possibilities this holiday season. There’s sports, music and dancing! The kids at National Public Radio do nothing disprove the notion that they should stick to radio in this footage of their Holiday Relay Race. […] Read more »
The long-awaited site Tape It Off The Internet (TIOTI) has opened its beta program. Originally I thought the site would be geared to help provide a one-stop-shop of links to TV show downloads on the net, which it kind of does, but the social aspect it […] Read more »
On the topic of top 10 lists, The Associated Press takes a stab at the “most significant” YouTube videos (or video categories) of 2006. One critique: it includes a few things that really took off in 2005 (Lazy Sunday and the Chinese Backstreet Boys). NewTeeVee heads […] Read more »
Wall Street seems happy with the latest report from Flash purveyor Adobe Systems, with the stock jumping a couple bucks plus change (to about $43 per share in morning trading), a 52-week high. As Microsoft struggles a bit to get its creative-software act together, Adobe announced […] Read more »
Don’t worry, nobody was snooping over your shoulder counting how many times you actually watched the Star Wars kid. In a WSJ column (free today), Carl Bialik picks apart the Viral Factory’s list of the top ten viral videos of all time. You might remember the […] Read more »
The headline catches the eye, don’t it? Google, Baidu Eye Online Video Business in China But read the linked story — a Reuters post carried by the venerable New York Times — and you wonder where the editors are in the process anymore. Saving you time: […] Read more »
In a Kitchener, Ontario basement, a team of five or six put together a show about web startup employees with puppets that wouldn’t feel out of place in the Adult Swim lineup. Offbeat and a little randy, dotBoom has an undeniable Office Space or The In […] Read more »
Since the 800-pound gorilla in the online video world is YouTube, it makes sense that it dominates the news. To make them easier to digest, we’ve cut a number of YouTube news bits down to consumable size. YouTube has signed up Southwest Airlines as a partner […] Read more »
Chan Nai-ming lost the appeal of his 3-month sentence for his role in helping to distribute copies of Daredevil, Miss Congeniality and Red Planet. Slashdot has been watching the story since the Hong Kong film industry began its crackdown on BitTorrent users, then through the arrest […] Read more »
Yahoo Music will update its player for music videos at about 4 p.m. tonight. The site is currently fluky while it is being updated. The music video player is ad-supported, and not connected to Yahoo’s existing music subscription and Internet radio offerings. The improved interface has […] Read more »
We imagine that Evel Knievel invested most of his professional time and money in doctors instead of lawyers. How else to explain his questionable lawsuit against AOL for turning up links in its search engine to the Kanye West video that Evel is also suing over? […] Read more »
One of the oldest tricks in the film book is to release your trailer well before you’ve finished the movie so that you have a compelling piece of content to close deals with investors and distributors. One of the newest tricks in the film book is […] Read more »
Philips Electronics is announcing today a planned service that will use digital fingerprinting to help online video sites restrict use of copyrighted content. The AP has a brief story here, but we will save you the jump time and give you the nut graf: Philips did […] Read more »
StumbleUpon, makers of the popular toolbar for using collaborative serendipity to find web sites, is applying its model to online video. We think “stumbling” actually works better for video, where it is hard to find new and interesting stuff. We actually surf for video — happy […] Read more »
Daily Reel has signed YouTube star Lisa Nova to create a show exclusively for their site. Look for more Hollywood talent agency interest in web personalities to grow now that networks and sites are offering contracts to digerati. Marquee, a developer of software to manage extensive […] Read more »
In exchange for more video news content, Yahoo will feature ABC’s brand more prominently on its premier web news portal, in a deal announced today. This move should bolster Yahoo’s position as the premier web news portal, while giving ABC better access to the Internet audience […] Read more »
There was so much coverage of the Gotuit SceneMaker release announcement, a tool to clip and tag online video, that I had to step back and take it all in. While at first it comes off as a cool tool, especially for the team here at […] Read more »
In less than an hour Tuesday, NBC Universal chief digital officer George Kliavkoff talked about a slew of new video-based ideas and initiatives underway at the network, all tailored to online or mobile consumption. While none of the moves on their own are particularly ground-breaking, the […] Read more »
Up in Redmond at Microsoft today, I just saw a demo of WPF/E, Microsoft’s pre-launch cross-platform web application builder, which has a lot of rich media support. Scott Guthrie, the general manager of the team creating WPF/E (which he promises will be renamed), showed it off […] Read more »
Amanda Congdon makes her debut on ABC News today, with a videoblog that harkens back strongly to her stint on Rocketboom. It also has pre-roll ads and no rewind or fast-forward. To cap things off, it’s not embeddable, and we can’t find it on YouTube yet. […] Read more »
Late-night wrapup from the Cisco tech analyst conference, which might be the last place you’d expect to hear execs from NBC and Disney talking about online video. But there Tuesday afternoon was George Kliavkoff, NBC Universal’s chief digital officer, drawing laughs from the geek crowd by […] Read more »
While I’m of the opinion that “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” was never the same after Andy Richter left, I admit that this article in the New York Times had me in stitches, due largely to Conan’s quotes. Long story short, Conan made a joke about […] Read more »
The latest JibJab project, Nuckin’ Futs, is out, summing up the events of the year as an elementary school musical. The cheerful children’s voices really bring home how much terrible crap went on in 2006! Sing with me now, “The way that things are going, Armageddon […] Read more »
Now that everyone is talking about user-generated mobile video as a result of the YouTube/Verizon deal, Photobucket is jumping on that bandwagon too. The company sent out a release today that says Photobucket users can now upload videos taken with cell phones directly to their online […] Read more »
After postponing rollout of its movie download service, Netflix has been tweaking its movie preview feature. Could Netflix be getting the download infrastructure in place using Netflix preview users as guinea pigs? After only recently adopting Flash video as the delivery medium, Hacking Netflix caught NetFlix […] Read more »
As router king Cisco moves deeper into the video world, you can be sure of one thing: John Chambers and Co. will do all they can to help network owners and content providers battle pirated material. In fact, after his keynote speech Tuesday, Chambers told us […] Read more »
YoQoo, a Chinese video sharing and social network site founded by Victor Koo of Sohu fame, has received $12 million in private equity funding from a team of American and Chinese venture capital firms. My initial reaction, based upon the screenshot below, was that YoQoo looks […] Read more »
“Venice is live (sort of)…” writes Janus Friis on his blog today. That’s The Venice Project, the eagerly anticipated new Internet TV effort from the creators of Kazaa and Skype. Apply for a beta here, or try to get an invite from one of the lucky […] Read more »
Think videoconferencing is going to be big? Cisco, the biggest networking company, sure does. Chief development officer Charlie Giancarlo followed up his boss’s declaration that video is the killer app Tuesday by declaring that Cisco’s recently announced Telepresence setup, which (according to Cisco) allows for lifelike […] Read more »
Feeling guilty about whiling away all your time watching YouTube? You’re not alone. Sixty percent of U.S. Internet users watch online video regularly, according to a report released today by eMarketer. That’s 107.7 million people, or 87 percent of U.S. broadband users (the 60 percent we […] Read more »
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