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Selling real estate with web video. Real estate agents and brokers are teaming up with video producers on WellcomeMat.com to demonstrate the most dynamic means for showcasing a property online. Whereas slideshows and photos are limited in their ability to capture the emotions of buyers and renters, web video enables viewers to get a much more comprehensive and inviting peek into a potential home. WellcomeMat.com highlights the top five new videos of the week to support the many agents, brokers and video producers helping to re-define the real estate buying and selling experience.
If this shopping channel marketing speak doesn’t turn your stomach.. then we’re just not trying hard enough.. who writes this crap anyway?
Strap Yourself In Real Tight Because Our Proprietary New Software Is Going To Catapult You Directly Into The Magical And Amazingly Profitable World Of Internet Video!!
You Are Witnessing History In the Making!!
The Time Is Now!!
If You Build It They Will Come!
The SEO Marketer’s Dream Come True!
SIMPLE! POWERFUL! PROFITABLE!
But wait! There’s more.. if you buy now..
STOP.. you’re huuurrrrting me.. +_+
The Alley Insider is asking if you have ever heard of MeeVee? This coming on the heels of a recent company statement:
Due to accelerated development of the online entertainment market, the Board of Directors at MeeVee has determined that combining with an established player will maximize the potential for the community, technology and content relationships the Company has built. Accordingly, MeeVee is engaged in multiple discussions with potential acquirers that provide the greatest long term upside and synergy. Interested parties should contact Steve Hughey (shughey@meevee.com) for more information.
Apparently, MeeVee has content deals with CBS and Viacom, and mixes a guide to offline TV with Web video. It’s been around since 2000, and its raised $24 mllion since then, but the press release says they’re down to seven full-time employees “all in product and engineering.”
Brightcove has announced support for the AdSense for video beta program, Google’s contextual advertising technology for online video. Brightcove’s support of the AdSense for video beta program hope to unlock a powerful economic proposition for the Web’s top media publishers. Serving ads based on both the content of an Internet video and the context of a web page, AdSense for video beta gives media publishers the additional ability to target tailored in-stream overlay ads from Google’s large base of advertisers. Publishers and content providers can control which videos get which ads and when the ads play in each video.
The founders and creators of TVtrip.com felt a site putting all the hotel information in one place, combined with unbiased videos of the hotel and its surroundings, would be appealing and relevant in this YouTube era.
Like many popular video websites, TVtrip.com uses Flash technology to integrate video clips of the hotels into its web pages from XML feeds. This accounts for the TVtrip Player’s speed, interactivity, functionality and usability. The player also allows for the integration of useful features like the on-screen Hotel Information, Check Rates and Reviews, which can be clicked at anytime, while hotel videos are being viewed. They may be right.
As reported on eFlux Media:
Applying the well-known saying: buy or you’ll be bought, Yahoo Inc. got back to business Tuesday after rejecting on Monday, Microsoft’s $44.6-billion takeover bid and announced it had purchased a broadband video start-up, Maven Networks Inc., for $160 million. Six-year-old Maven Networks, in Cambridge, Mass. include customers as CBS Sports, Sony BMG and TV Guide and is specialized in helping Web sites show online video and insert advertisements in those clips. This will expand Yahoo’s existing relationships with web publishers. In fact, Calif.-based Yahoo is not at its first acquisition of this kind. It is already known that Yahoo also bought firms like BlueLithium and Right Media Inc., also online advertising networks.
Whew.. that was a nice — quick — ride!
Caroline McCarthy at cNet reports that NBC’s Local Media Division has acquired LX Networks, the New York-based start-up that produces videos for the Web about high-end entertainment and culture centered around New York and Los Angeles. NBC’s New York affiliate, WNBC, has been broadcasting a limited number of LX.tv videos — namely its “OpenHouseNYC” real-estate series, and the “1st Look” restaurant and bar preview show — since last year.
LX’s slick LX.tv channel was founded in 2006 by former MTV executives Morgan Hertzan and Joseph Varet, originally known as Code.tv, and features high-quality production with professional anchors.. many of whom are MTV Networks veterans. Geared toward young professionals with a taste for luxury and a good dose of social energy, financial terms were not disclosed.
Webcastr.com has announced the winners of it’s Top 10 Videos of the Year awards. Webcastr’s viewers, along with it’s editors voted amongst over 2,500 professionally produced videos on the website to pick the best video clips of the year for 2007. Thirty finalists were chosen by the staff of the webbery with the final clips being voted Top 10:
– Heidi Loves Her Bazooms
– D*ck In A Box
– Led Zeppelin Reunion Concert in the UK
– Acting for the Greenscreen
– Bob Dylan Cadillac Commercial
– Britney Spears VMA Parody
– Don’t Taze Me, Bro
– Snoop Dogg in the UK
– The Chemical Bros. “Salmon Dance”
– Bush vs. Miss North Carolina
Plus an Honorable Mention going to:
– SUV Driving Through a Shopping Mall
According to the blurb, Webcastr features clips that come from licensed sources of professional and semi-pro content. “With so much of the user generated content out there being of questionable quality, we are happy to present these awards in recognition of the efforts of pro content creators who increasingly understand the value of the short form online video medium,” said Webcastr CEO, Tim Devine.
Gotta wonder.. what’s a “Webbery”.. something like a Shrubbery perhaps?
According to this post on the Sydney Morning Herald:
Should you buy one of Logitech’s new whiz-bang QuickCam Pro webcams? No, you should buy two. That’s not just because they’re far and away the best webcam we’ve ever used.
The reason to double-dip is that to take advantage of their superb “high quality video” mode you’ll need HQV-compatible webcams at both ends of the videochat. And only Logitech’s QuickCam Sphere AF and Pro 9000 desktop webcams, and the QuickCam Pro for notebooks, fit that bill. You’ll also need the latest Skype 3.6 for Windows (Mac owners need not apply), because HQV is purely a Logitech-Skype concoction. And a PC running an Intel Core 2 chip to handle the heavy video processing load. Plus a broadband line with at least a 384Kbps uplink speed.
HQV lets internet video calls scale up to a smooth 30 frames a second if the bandwidth is there at both ends, with a double-sized video window up to 640×480 pixels on the screen. You can immediately see far richer detail and truer colours and there’s minimal blurring during normal movement such as waving a hand.
Smells like a tech. reporter who got a couple of early xmas gifts?
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.”
