Developer Edgar de León has introduced a new video blogging plugin for WordPress, WebTV.
WebTV is designed to let you attach a video to a post and upload it to most popular video distribution sites, including YouTube, Vimeo and Blip.tv. After your video is uploaded and processed, WebTV get and inserts the embed code from the [...]
Steve Ellington’s Technologic Overkill claims to be the first music video shot on an iPhone 3GS.
The song by XFYA accompanies a video about the plight of a little blue robot and his attempt to be relevant in an increasingly technological world.
It’s not destined to be a classic - but it’s an impressive reminder that cell [...]
This video, via Gideon Shalwick (Become a Blogger) offers a fairly in-depth look at 7 ways to optimize your YouTube videos.
7 Killer Tips For Optimizing Your YouTube Videos
Create outstanding content
Optimize your YouTube Channel
Use keywords cleverly and in the right places
Add URL’s in the right places
Link to your videos from where ever you can
Provide plenty [...]
CBS News has chosen video site Ustream as its streaming video provider, Ustream founder Brad Hunstable said today:
“[W]e are announcing the CBSNews.com channel on Ustream, which features breaking news coverage several times everyday– presidential press conferences, Congressional hearings, and online-only content and on-air programs such as the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. We’re excited [...]
Do you watch a lot of Internet video?
If so, you may be an “Extreme Techie”.
According to the Nielsen Company, “Extreme Techies” stream significantly more online video content, watching about twice as much Internet video as average. These uber geeks watch up to 91 minutes (1.5 hours) per week, compared to the mean of 44 [...]
Worldwide shipments of devices that support Internet video consumption will nearly quintuple by 2013, according to electronics industry analysts iSuppli, spurred by an increase in consumers’ broadband Internet access.
Four years hence, an estimated 376.5 million “entertainment-oriented consumer electronics platforms” with Internet video-watching capabilities will ship, up from 80.5 million such devices shipped in 2008. These [...]
According to a new Nielson report, people’s attention is moving to Internet video and social networking, and online advertising is following.
Highlights of the report:
The number of American users frequenting online video destinations has climbed 339% since 2003
Time spent on video [...]
This documentary, Virtual Journalism: Inside the Virtual Newsroom of the American University in Cairo, explores the use of virtual worlds for journalism.
The documentary is part of a project between Dancing Ink Productions and the American University in Cairo exploring how virtual worlds can be used to augment journalistic goals globally, cut costs and enhance the interview [...]
Today, a report from Credit Suisse speculated that Google’s YouTube video sharing site could be on track to lose approximately $470 million in 2009.
Google bought YouTube in late 2006 for what was, at the time, a staggering $1.76 billion, mostly in stock. YouTube snags the lion’s share (41%) of U.S. online video watching, according to [...]
ZillionTV has announced a new “personalized television” Internet television service.
Through agreements with Hollywood studios and TV networks, ZillionTV plans to offer an extensive array of entertainment content; targeted and addressable advertising; and, television commerce, letting you make purchases through your television.
The ZillionTV Service, currently in its Beta phase, will offer instant, subscription-free access to entertainment [...]