One approach to web video is to create player applications that worked outside of your browser to either stream or download video content for viewing. One of the most-publicized of these is Joost (though it is not looking like it’s going to live up to expectations), which uses streaming to deliver video.
Another application, the open-source [...]
AOL has announced that it is going to launch a whole bunch of new “niche” sites in the coming year. This is definitely a big trend right now but Mashable says:
“That’s quite an expectation for a company even of AOL’s size, and it appears to be a furthered effort of monetizing web content with the [...]
Nine Inch Nails is following in the footsteps of a growing number of bands that have left the traditional world of labels and is self-distributing their own work.
In addition, they are offering fans the chance to download their basic album in for free, without any DRM. As PaidContent points out, though, that’s just the beginning:
” [...]
Wow, this is my second post today about Livecasting. Mashable has a look at extreme sports site GO211 and their live-streaming embeddable player that is currently showing live coverage of a snowboarding event in Nippon.
Although the player is nothing to write home about in terms of resolution it is watchable and, considering the fact that [...]
So, news all over about NBC pulling quarterlife after one episode and bumping it to Bravo.
You can read a number of takes on the demise here, here, here and here.
It seems to me that only Mashable is cutting to the chase:
“While online videocasters that aspire to mainstream stardom may take the news as a bit [...]
It seems like only a few months ago that the webs were all chattering about this fantastic new service called Joost. Check out some of the coverage from, um, back in the day, here and here.
I’ll admit, I was never sold on the whole thing since it just boiled down to an interface and that [...]
Yahoo has relaunched their video site, Yahoo Video, with a combination of UGC and “exclusive” content that looks to be repurposed film and tv stuff.
Not sure what Yahoo hopes to achieve by this, um, move. It feels like YouTube has this world well in hand and unless Yahoo is planning to offer some sort of [...]
I think I mentioned podcasting in an earlier post. I believe podcasting will be key to the development and survival of webisodics. Instead of telling you why, I draw your attention to the thoughts of AskANinja, one of the early web-video success stories (as found on Mashable)
“Note to producers, please, please, please, only use these [...]
Came across posts on Mashable and NewTeeVee about OverLayTV. As Mashable describes it:
“Overlay.TV enables you to place various text, graphics and animations over a video…but it also adds some interesting features in the mix. One of them is shopping; for example, you can mark an item on a video and create an online shop out [...]
There are lots of sites out there that offer the chance to post your video and receive some portion of ad-revenue in return. How well these sites have done is still hard to judge but a number of the players in this world are worth looking at.
Over on Beet.tv there is an interview with Dina [...]
