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Just imagine.. pacing like a caged lion, this time-lapse security footage of a man trapped in a lift for 41 hours — almost a decade ago — has become the latest internet hit. according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Almost 300,000 people have viewed the ordeal of Nicholas White, a production manager for Business Week who was trapped in the New York elevator in October 1999.
The video was posted online to accompany an article in the April 21 edition of The New Yorker magazine. White sued the building managers and the lift maintenance company and won an undisclosed settlement, the article said.
Wonder what other treats from the time-machine will start flooding online?
The Mogulus web video platform gives producers everything they need to launch their own LIVE 24/7 television station. The free, ad-supported service, launched in November 2007, has already helped more than 50,000 producers launch their own Internet television stations, streaming more than 100 million unique viewer minutes every month.
Whether you want to turn existing video on-demand content into a 24/7 linear TV station on the Internet or produce live multi-camera events with broadcast graphics – the Mogulus Studio provides the complete solution in an easy to use collaborative web browser based application. The Mogulus solution is touted to be integrated at the core of the service providing a turnkey scalable content delivery network for Flash technology based, linear, on-demand, and live broadcasting.
Sign me up.. looks waaaay sweet!
SchoolTube provides students and educators a safe, world class, and free media sharing website that is nationally endorsed by premier education associations. All student created materials on SchoolTube must be approved by registered teachers, follow local school guidelines, and adhere to our high standards. SchoolTube’s partnership with The Student Television Network leverages a nationwide network of broadcast journalism teachers and students who share their expertise with each other in an effort to create quality student videos of all types. Through this innovative private/public partnership, SchoolTube provides up-to-date information to SchoolTube members at the click of a mouse.
Google says.. “damn.. we can’t exactly order then to cease & desist”
Youku.com announced that data released by the China Internet Society underpins its leadership position in the Chinese online video destination. According to the DCCI report released in March, over the past six months Youku has increased market reach measured in terms of Internet users visiting the site as a proportion of all Internet users (34.8 percent, as of January, 2008), and registered an increase in the time viewers spent on its site — now averaging over 3 hours per month — and surpassing top competitors while also narrowing the gap with established Internet portals. Over one third of all Chinese Internet users, now totaling approximately 210 million, visited Youku.com in January 2008.
Via: XPRN
Today, Vonage founder Jeff Pulver throws his hat into the ring with PrimeTimeRewind.tv. Like the others, PrimeTimeRewind.tv attempts to put a consistent skin on what is fast becoming a disjointed experience. Pulver’s contribution to this user-interface challenge is to turn the TV Guide into an interactive video cube. When you go to PrimeTimeRewind.tv, you are presented with a cube filled with video thumbnails on each face. Spin the cube horizontally and each face shows the Web video offerings of a different TV network (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, TNT and USA). Rotate it vertically and each face shows a different category (action, comedy, reality, drama). Click on any one thumbnail and you are taken to another page in which the full player opens up.
More details via: Tech Crunch
How would you like to be handed this IT project: create a website that will present 2,200 hours of live, interactive video, plus integrated broadcast coverage. The site will have huge spikes of traffic, and operate under worldwide scrutiny, so it has to be designed for performance. It has to be done in the next 150 days; no schedule extensions are possible. And it must deliver a brilliant user experience.
It’s the job in front of developers for the NBC Summer Olympics website, which also will offer expert commentary and sports biographies and permit users to share links to favorite event videos.
More via: CIO: Computer World
During the 78th Intl. Motor Show in Geneva, Peugeot unveiled it’s new video streaming website based on the white-label solutions offered by Kewego. In addition to the French version, Peugeot Web TV is also available in English, Spanish, and German. Beyond advertising films, visitors will find automotive tests, crash tests, as well as updated information on the group. By launching Peugeot Web TV, the brand seeks to take advantage of audio-visual technology to better communicate with Internet users and highlight its know-how and products.
The left nav. scrolling Flash interface is pretty slick!
The Queen (Yes.. of England) is set to post her annual Christmas message on YouTube competing with clips of skateboarders and somersaulting dogs (Egad!) according to the Times Online. The broadcast, her 50th since the message was first televised, will help to launch a royal channel on the video sharing website. Fans will be able to view rare archive footage as well as clips of royal tours overseas and users will be able to rank the videos by giving them a star rating. The channel went live just after midnight last night and is a royal first. By tapping into the YouTube community, the Queen’s advisers hope she will be able to broaden her appeal.
As the Beatles said: .. she’s a pretty nice girl.. 
Today marks an important milestone in Web video. Hulu, which is quickly becoming a favorite online video destination, has started to add HD videos to its site. The most recent release of Adobe Flash Player added support for streaming HD, using H.264 encoding. Hulu’s HD Gallery is a little bit limited off the jump, only offering nine HD movie trailers, but there’s little doubt they will be adding HD versions of other content in the future.
Via: cNet
