Video sharing site Dailymotion has announced a partnership with the One Laptop Per Child Foundation to let OLPC XO computer users share videos online.
Beneath its toylike exterior, the XO is an advanced device with a rotating screen, dual laptop-tablet modes, a regular color display for photos and videos and a high-contrast black-and-white mode for daylight [...]
Moviestorm is a new free application, available for Windows or Mac, designed for creating machinima-style animated movies and distributing them on social networking sites.
Moviestorm is designed to take users through the entire movie-making process, from set-building, character creation and script-writing to titles, credits and editing in under fifteen minutes, ending up with a digital animated [...]
Back in 2006, we suggested that YouTube as you know it is dead, when Google bought the site for $1.65 billion and money came into the picture in a big way.
Since then, Google’s admitted it’s got a problem trying to make money off of YouTube, and admitted that more than 97% of the videos on [...]
Openfilm today announced the public launch of its video sharing website www.openfilm.com. The site showcases a selection of short films and animations displayed in high resolution.
If you’re creating short films, you’ll want to check the site out. In addition to offering high-quality video, the site has a revenue-sharing program.
I’ve embedded an example, the animated short [...]
Tim Street, creator of the video podcast French Maid TV, is live-streaming a French Maid TV shoot, via UStream. (Note: the embed has been updated to point to video from the streaming event. )
French Maid TV was an early breakout hit among video podcasts, each episode a 5 - 10 minute “how to” lesson, taught [...]
YouTube today announced new features that turn YouTube into a platform for Internet video development:
We now provide a complete set of (CRUD) capabilities for uploading, managing, searching, and playing back user videos and metadata from the YouTube “cloud,” managed by us. We do all of the hard work of transcoding and hosting and streaming and [...]
What does $4.5 million and the help of a superdope homeboy from the Oaktown get you these days?
Not much, if the just-out-of-beta Dancejam is any indication.
Dancejam is a YouTube clone that focuses on urban dance. The site lets you view videos of people doing various types of dance, rate the videos and upload your own. [...]
The Yahoo! Video Blog has announced a variety of updates to the Yahoo! Video site.
Here’s what’s new:
Widescreen videos: Yahoo! Video supports a 16:9 cinematastic player that’s far ahead of what most sites are offering. And the video looks great.
More content: Yahoo! Video now aggregates the whole spectrum of video found throughout Yahoo!, including music, movies, [...]
Video blog/video conversation site Seesmic is announcing tomorrow that it has raised $6 million in funding.
The investment is lead by Atomico - an investment group founded by Niklas Zennstr??m and Janus Friis. The complete list of investors is:
Michael Arrington - Founder, TechCrunch
Steve Case - Co-Founder and former CEO and Chairman, AOL
Jeff Clavier - Managing Partner, [...]
Yahoo! today introduced a new live video conferencing service, Yahoo! Live.
We haven’t seen an official announcement yet; we learned about this from ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick via Twitter.
Kirkpatrick’s take:
The service combines many of the best practices developed by early explorers of the medium, tiny startups that must be very worried tonight. Part BlogTV, part Mogulus and [...]