Archive for the 'Vlogging' Category
The new RealPlayer, due at the end of June, will seek to regain popularity as the best and most useful media player on the Internet. It’s great news for Real, and great news for consumers. Real have said they believe their software is operating within the law, but video providers may not agree.
[No kidding.. ya think? — eds]
RealNetworks are billing it as “the first media player to make it one-click simple to download online videos from thousands of Web sites”, allowing you to save most types of video that haven’t been marked as copyright or non-downloadable to your computer, and then burn them to CD as a with the free Real Player and by sharing the video links with friends as is more commonly done.
It’s too early to know if action will be taken, but chances are that the legal implications are under discussion by multiple parties in multiple companies as we speak, and if it’s planned, we’ll all know soon enough.
via: IT Wire
The Pixelodeon event will feature keynote addresses from speakers bridging the divide between traditional media and new media, and those dealing with issues such as copyright and file sharing. Two dozen curators, including notable new media content creators Amanda Congdon of ABC News, Veronica Belmont of C|Net, and Bre Pettis of Make Magazine, selected videos from the Internet to illustrate themes for one-hour theater screenings starting at 12PM until 6PM each day.
“The current media landscape is changing so fast that these up-and-coming creators have a chance to help define its new foundations,” said Ryanne Hodson, co-founder of Pixelodeon, as she announced speakers, curators, and a line-up of over 300 videos for Pixelodeon’s first annual Web video screening festival to be held at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, California on June 9-10.
L.A. We Love It.. 
via: Social Computing Magazine
A new lightweight camcorder designed for easy video uploads is coming from RCA, the Small Wonder weighs about 5 ounces and operates without tapes, discs, cumbersome batteries or complicated instructions.
The camcorder has a built-in Memory Manager video sharing application that lets users save, compress, edit, e-mail and upload video files, or select any paused frame and save it as a .JPG or .BMP image.
To promote the new camcorder, RCA is sponsoring a Wonder Woofs contest for dog owners. Bark for your dinner!
via: Killer App.
Microsoft has outlined its vision for the web at its Mix 07 event in Las Vegas. In his keynote speech, the corporation’s chief software architect Ray Ozzie summarised his vision for the future of the Microsoft-powered internet. He gave further details on Microsoft Silverlight, the corporation’s answer to the well-established Flash tech for web video delivery.
Ozzie said it will “change the game” for web video before introducing Silverlight Streaming. This free service will store and stream video clips into Web pages.. astounding!
via: Tech UK
The WebVideo Summit will feature 80 speakers with “breaking news, new companies, hot products, video screenings and special events, the conference will force video professionals to re-think the way they approach Web video projects, as well as re-invent themselves to adapt in this rapidly-changing medium. Addressing opportunities and challenges by featuring insights and real-world success stories from 15 award-winning video creators, attendees will gain an insider’s access to strategies and techniques that they will be able to apply to their craft immediately. The end result will be that all attendees go home ready to address today’s challenges with new ideas. The event is shaping up to be the premier event focused on the creation and delivery of video on the Net.”
We wonder what Jeremy thinks about their choice of words..
“To clarify.. we acquired Marratech’s software, not the company.”
According to this article on Mercury News: “As a company, we thrive on casual interactions and spontaneous collaboration,” Douglas Merrill, Google’s vice president of engineering, wrote in the blog post. “So we’re excited about acquiring Marratech’s video conferencing software, which will enable from-the-desktop participation for Googlers in videoconference meetings wherever there’s an Internet connection.” Marratech is owned by Swedish mutual funds, employees, and founders. Google said Marratech’s research and development team will remain in Sweden.
Smart money bets they’ll bolt this into YouTube 
Ooooh.. this could lead to all kinds of interesting trouble:
Darejunkies.com is a social networking video community, where you can express your inner-most desires, fears, and boundaries by shooting and posting videos of yourself, and your friends. Pick a challenge from the Challenge List. Challenge yourself or somebody else. Shoot it. Post it. Then over the next month, members will vote on it. The 10 most popular challenge videos will split a $10,000 cash prize each 30-Days!
Via: Online Video Contests.
Dabble.com announced it has indexed more than 10 million videos since launching just eight months ago. Dabble has struck data partnerships video hosts of all sizes, providing access to the Web’s available inventory of rich media resources. Dabble’s index collects and keeps a record of where videos are located, descriptions about the video, its creators, what the video is about and its popularity. Users collect and arrange media into play lists which they can organize and share according to specific interests.
“Dabble’s index of over 10 million videos (now growing at 2.5 million NEW videos a month) means users only have to visit one destination to search for video and other rich media. Dabble doesn’t directly host any media; the search engine keeps track of the bookmarks, or links, to wherever the media is stored on the web along with all the rest of the essential details about the media. Dabble users add to this details and notes, correct mistakes and share what’s valuable to them about the media.”
We posted about the companies custom playlists back in July 2006.
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.
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.
