There’s a great deal of buzzing today about a few Internet video news items:
Amazon is debuting a streaming video store. The service, Amazon Video on Demand, will offer about 40,000 streaming videos for customers to choose from.
TiVo is adding YouTube support. TiVo’s YouTube support was announced in March, and is available to broadband-connected subscribers [...]
Make Internet TV is a very cool site that explains how to create your own video podcast or video blog.
It covers the gear you need, shooting tips, editing, licensing your content, publishing and promoting your videos.
The site targets beginners, so if you’ve been wanting to try video podcasting or vlogging, but have been daunted by [...]
Google announced today that it had reached an agreement with Viacom that will avoid a media debacle over YouTube users privacy:
As we let you know on July 4, YouTube received a court order to produce viewing history data. We are pleased to report that Viacom, MTV and other litigants have backed off their original demand [...]
Radiohead and Google have partnered on a new project that is a very cool example of using cutting-edge video technology, social media and an open source approach to promoting music.
Radiohead’s latest video, for House of Cards, was created without cameras or lights. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of [...]
Internet TV is growing at an insane rate. According to comScore, U.S. Internet users viewed more than 12 billion online videos during the month, up 45 percent versus year ago.
Nearly 142 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 85 videos per viewer in May.
Google Sites (mainly YouTube) attracted the most viewers (83.8 million), who [...]
MIcrosoft has announced XBox 360 updates that will give interface a cartoon-like appearance and a deal with Netflix that positions the XBox as an Apple TV killer.
“When people turn on their Xbox 360s this fall, they’ll get an entirely new interface and Dashboard, an entirely new Xbox through the magic of software,” said John Schappert, [...]
A Swarm Of Angels - an open source movie community - is looking for people to contribute images for their movie The Ravages:
We want to find an easy way for members to contribute to the content of the Swarm project at every stage. The easiest way we could think of for you to contribute visually [...]
In this video, Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose of Diggnation do a demo for Microsoft’s Zune digital media player.
Yeah - it’s an informercial. What makes it interesting, though, is that Microsoft is turning to video podcasters to help get the Zune some geek cred.
This wouldn’t work with all products, and this sort of product placement [...]
Apple’s nice, but limited, Apple TV is the device to beat in the Internet TV space, and the contenders keep on coming.
Kodak has introduced Theatre HD Player, a WiFi-enabled black box that connects to your HDTV, displays images and other multimedia content, and links directly to Kodak Gallery, the company’s online photo-sharing service.
This isn’t [...]
Apple has updated the software for Apple TV, without fanfare, to version 2.1.
The updates include security improvements, support for using the iPhone or iPod touch as a remote, and support for Mobile Me content.
What would really excite us would be if Apple opened up Apple TV to developers, like it has with the iPhone, or [...]