Boston .TV - Slick Flash Video
Here’s a standard for wannbe streaming portals to look at up to!
Hat-tip to Steve Garfield’s Off on a Tangent
Archive for March, 2007
Creative Commons Video Tagged
Manify.net has been doing some great work helping folks to get into the web video streaming game. We came across this post about how they even include Creative Commons tagging for their uploads.
Chances are, you’ve noticed the CC - and maybe even know what it means. But for most casual users of the Uploader, the deftault share and share alike license is just fine. But if you haven’t dug deeper - you should. Magnify.net provides a whole array of license options (courtesy of the folks at Creative Commons) that allows you to define with great specificity the rights you are willing to share, and the rights you want to retain.
Gotta love the opening line of their company page
The Magnify team is a growing band of media makers, code wranglers, and web evangelists who are committed to making video a team sport.
Hats off to Steve, Simon and crew!
Prison System Condemned in Concealed Report
California’s prison system has been condemned in a 400 page report that to this day has been basically concealed from the public. The Full Disclosure Network presents this ten minute video presentation featuring Joe Gunn, Executive Director of Corrections Independent Review Panel told FDN host Leslie Dutton the prison system was in “chaos, a disaster and total disarray”. This is the second in a series of FDN video news covering the ongoing crisis in California’s jail and prison system.
1984 Hillary Web Video Maker Unmasked
With over 18months left to go.. no doubt things are gonna get ‘nasty’
The creator of a widely circulated Web video portraying Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton as an Orwellian Big Brother was identified Wednesday as an employee of an Internet consulting firm that works for one of her opponents, Sen. Barack Obama.
Phillip de Vellis, a strategist with the Washington-based consulting firm Blue State Digital, which hosts the Obama campaign Web site, acknowledged he was the creator of the ad shortly after his role was disclosed by HuffingtonPost.com, a liberal-leaning news and opinion Web site.
“I did it. And I’m proud of it,” de Vellis said in a response posted on the Huffington site Wednesday night.
Via: Chicago Tribune
Winners of Network 2 Video Contest
Surfed over to the Pulver site to see if there was any video up from the VON show and noticed this little ‘gem’ above claimed 1st prize - and a cool 25k - for their Network 2 Contest.. who knew?!? In all fairness it was better than the only clip we could easily find there so far from the spring 2007 event.. Yikes.
Update: Heh.. Jim’s got a nice VON 2007 wrap-up video posted Here.
Onion News Network Web Video
We’ve been loyal fans for years, and wondered when they’d make the leap.. finally seems the Onion News Network of internet video will be coming online soon.. Ya!
Via: Steve Garfield
VLIP Launches Vlogging for Dummies
Vlip lets users post webcam video commentary to the Vlip site along with a thread of video replies. It’s taken the post and reply vlogging from YouTube and placed it front and center with a few enhancements. Vlips, like YouTube videos can be embedded in sites, but also let users make and view replies to the thread. In a good move, Vlip makes it ridiculously easy to reply to a Vlip even if you’re not a member and even connect live to Vlippers that are also SightSpeed members. On the main site the Vlips can be searched by rating, date, and views.
Full details via: TechCrunch
Video search : Blinkx Blinkx
The NYT ran an article back in late Feb. that we missed about Blinx search service. While they certainly have a nifty flash Wall o’ Video, the idea of looking for cool streams in certainly not new.. btw: what happened to Singing Fish..?!?
The World Wide Web is awash in digital video, but too often we can’t find the videos we want or browse for what we might like. That’s a loss, because if we could search for Internet videos, they might become the content of a global television station, just as the Web’s hypertext, once it was organized and tamed by search, became the stuff of a universal library. What we need, says Suranga Chandratillake, a co-founder of Blinkx, a start-up in San Francisco, is a remote control for the Web’s videos, a kind of electronic TV Guide.
Via: Fred Destin
Prom Queen TV - Oh.My.God.
Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner has launched a new video production studio, Vuguru, which has announced it’s first project, titled Prom Queen, will debut online April 2nd. Described as “a blend of love, gossip, and betrayal” the 80 episode series, each at only 90-secs, will also appear on ellegirl and youtube. According to this article on Reuters it will be available on Veoh Networks (however the demo. didn’t load for us just now) which is co-financed by Eisner’s investment company Tornante Co. The drop quote - in 1.0 PR speak - from that article; “The entire concept here is content is king,” Eisner said in a phone interview. “What will drive traffic is interest in the subject matter.” Sadly for them.. it just may be true.
