UNESCO New Delhi will introduce an innovative web video encyclopedia site of India. Announcing the agreement, Minja Yang, Director of the UNESCO New Delhi Office, explained that one of the key mandates is to safeguard and promote the wealth of the world’s cultural diversity. “India is a vast country with an extraordinarily ancient and diverse cultural heritage. The unique objective behind this project is to develop an atlas of India that covers not just its geographical features but its cultural ones too.”
There’s a whole lingo among the top tier of Internet video pirates and a Topsite is an important cog in the Piracy Pyramid, a place where often only hackers who know each other from way back congregate to chat and download. Last week, the Norwegian publication IT Avisen published a rare interview with an administrator of a so-called Topsite, and if the studios were worried before, they will no doubt be even more worried should they read the article, starting with the defiant tone of the unnamed pirate’s comments. “Nobody sees anybody,” the mid-twenties student of computer programming explains of the level of anonymity used in his circles. “The IRC OPs knows who the others are, but normally we don’t know who they are in real life. We only use nick names.”
Vice magazine has built a small media empire out of a raw, ironic sensibility, risqué photographs and a willingness to deal in taboo subjects. On VBS.tv, the video Web site the company runs, viewers can find short videos about independent music, extreme sports and, of course, some nudity. What’s even more surprising is the company that finances most of these projects: Viacom. Late last year, the Viacom-owned MTV Networks Music and Logo Group made a deal to start VBS, with financing from MTV and content from Vice, which also sells ads.
Mark Sullivan from PC World blogging from the NewTeeVee Live Television Reinvented event today in San Francisco, a gathering of practically everybody in the business of pushing video on the Internet.
This morning’s first session lined up some key players from Turner Broadcasting, BigFantastic, MTV, as well as YouTube crossover star Lisa Donavan (Lisa Nova) to talk about the blurring of the lines between traditional TV and Internet Video.
BigFantastic’s Douglas Cheney says his company’s breakthrough moment was when TV mega-player Michael Eisner took a meeting with them after seeing their videos online. Eisner decided to go into business with the company, and was executive producer of their second video effort, “Prom Queen.” During its 12-week run, Prom Queen got more than 15 million views and was nominated for an Emmy for Best Outstanding Broadband Drama.
Sam has 7 friends video podcast ‘coming soon’ Here
Hunter Weeks and his friend Josh Caldwell quit their cushy 9 to 5 job so that they could follow their dream, which was to get a sense of America and today’s American Dream. The way Hunter and Josh planned to accomplishing their dream was to travel across the U.S. (from Seattle to Boston), but instead of walking, driving, or flying, they decided to do this journey on a Segway.
Hunter and Josh did this journey with very little money and because of this they struggled. But this didn’t stop them from them reaching their dream, they kept at it and figured things out on a shoe string budget. They turned their weaknesses into strengths by leveraging the media, which allowed them to get press in outlets such Wired, LA Times, Washington Post, The Pheonix, CNet, Boston Globe, and the Denver Post. Instead of complaining and making excuses these two individuals accomplished their dream while becoming somewhat famous.
