Farmers’ Almanac TV (who knew?!?) will offer friends and families of athletes competing in the first-ever Special Olympics USA National Games the opportunity to view daily reports on the games via the Internet. The Special Olympics USA National Games will be held from July 2 through July 7, on the Iowa State University campus in Ames, Iowa. More than 3,000 Special Olympics athletes from all 50 US states will compete in the Special Olympics USA National Games’ 12 Olympic-style sports and, in the process, will promote the achievements and abilities of persons with intellectual disabilities to all of America.
The Special Olympics USA National Games coverage is part of a journey through Iowa and other states and regions of North America, to videotape stories for the second season of the television series of the same name. Season one of Farmers’ Almanac TV is currently airing on public television stations throughout the US.
Sneaking away for a week of R&R so it’s gonna be mighty quiet around the office here while we grab some sun and surf on the Big Island. Aloha!
We need to take Ms. Bogatin’s recent Zdnet article to task. Note: it’s difficult to tell where she’s getting the numbers as the one link within that article points to another story she had posted June 17th, with quotes from NYT, which indicate YouTube’s upload traffic is 35,000 per day..?!?
“There are 173 online video plays, including 85 that host and share videos, according to Om Malik’s “The coming Web video shakeout.” Malik traces the challenges of copyright infringement, infrastructure costs and under monetization in support of his projected shakeout in the video sharing landscape. In YouTube’s case, the average user is watching the content, not generating it for while YouTube is now serving 50 million videos per day to six million unique users daily, only 50,000 videos are being uploaded per day; the ratio of uploaded videos to watched videos is less than 1%.
Only 50,000 new videos are being uploaded per day.. hmmm. Using her 1% of uploaded to watched ratio, consider then that perhaps 500 decent clips are coming online (at YouTube Alone!) every single day. As this ramps up into mass scale there will be an unbelievable amount of video content selection. Yes the space for host sites is crowded, there will be mergers and failures (Om Malik’s point is dead-on), but make no mistake the indie web video revolution is already in full motion.
So much proven potential, so many uninformed naysayers.. 
Sony BMG Music has announced it will use Brightcove to deliver broadband video in new video players deployed across its network of artist and label websites, offering on-demand access to music videos, interviews, live performances, and behind the scenes footage from its catalog of videos.
The broadband video initiative, currently named “Musicbox Video” will show content from across the entire SONY BMG library. The Musicbox Video players have been customized with specialized video content for individual label and artist sites. Fans will be able to watch high-quality, free-to-user, streaming videos on demand, and easily add players to their websites and profile pages using sharing services provided by Brightcove
Details via: PRnewswire
How do you craft a message so powerful that it takes on a life of its own, passing from person to person without any control or manipulation from the original source? Viral Video!
Via: Know More Media
According to this WSJ article: “Mr. Pulver is creating his own Internet TV show, which he is modeling on Rocketboom, a popular Internet video-blog that broadcasts a three-minute news show daily. “The same DNA that disrupted the telecom industry is well on its way to totally revolutionizing the way the TV, film, and broadcast industry is going to be.” He is considering launching a broader Internet TV subsidiary and is weighing whether to invest in several emerging Internet video companies, though he won’t name them.”
Jeff added comments on that story and here is the Video Link - thanks to BrightCove - for his Spring VON keynote address [25min run-time]
VLOGGERCON is the intersection between media-makers and technology. A space for dialog and interaction. Of creation and collaboration. A media village born on the web & making camp for one weekend in San Francisco.
In the past year, vlogging has grown into a myriad of forms with a worldwide voice. And your voice is needed at Vloggercon– after all, the media is being made by you so it’s your voice that we want to hear! Vloggercon is a two-day collection of roundtable discussions about the emergence and the future of this new medium; not a series of lec-tures. This conference is created for meeting and learning from each other, so be ready to share your thoughts!
Linksys-Cisco has announced their latest Wireless-G Pan/Tilt/Zoom Internet Web Camera with Audio the WVC200. The Internet Camera scan stream live video and audio footage through the Internet so you can watch from anywhere since the camera contains its own IP address. The camera also has a small LCD screen that displays the IP address so multiple cameras can be easily managed. In Security mode, the camera will automatically record audio and video and notify the remote user via E-mail. The WVC200 will go on sale for $299.
According to the press release the camera features:
+ 640×480 MPEG-4 Video Stream
+ IR Cut Filter for low light conditions
+ Pan/Tilt 2X digital zoom
+ CMOS Sensor with Glass Lens
+ Dual - Codec MPEG-4 or MJPEG Selectable Compression
+ Capture Video and Audio (w/built-In microphone) to an external HDD
+ Built-In Web Server for Remote Access with On-Screen Users Info
+ Supports UPnP for Easy Discovery on the Network
+ DDNS support Linksys SoloLink and Other Available Free DDNS Services
+ Supports up to 10 Simultaneous Users
+ Software to Monitor and Record up to 9 Cameras simultaneously
+ Email Alert Emails with Video Clips upon Motion Detection
+ LCD Screen on Camera Displays Full IP Address
Via: Laptop Logic
Seems someone (w/bad grammar) got their hooks into YouTube.com
Update: Then again.. maybe not. Think they were missing the daily average traffic totals with Yahoo! launching their new video site today..?!? Cute trick to generate some buzz-back
