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Blog posts tagged with 'Internet Video'

Friday, November 06

Streaming Delivery

By Brad

In what may be a first, a Minnesota mother-to-be is planning to broadcast the birth of her child live on the Internet.

Friday, June 19

Watch a Video to Learn More

By Brad

Get ready for a new flood of online video content. Via Read Write Web:

Wikipedia, the free web-based encyclopedia used worldwide, will be adding video to their online repository in a matter of months. When the new system launches, you’ll find a new button labeled “Add Media” on Wikipedia articles. Upon clicking this, you’ll be prompted to search through three online repositories for relevant videos which can be added to the article. You can even select particular portions of the video instead of embedding the entire clip.

Monday, March 16

TV’s Ain’t Dead Yet

By Brad

Though Internet video is certainly growing in popularity, it’s not close to toppling traditional TV. The Wall Street Journal reports from a recent panel discussion at the South by Southwest Festival, where comedians and technology executives opined on the state of web vs. tube:

The panel — which highlighted the role comedy plays in driving Web hits — quickly expanded to assess the success and influence of online-only content in general.

B.J. Novak, a producer of “The Office” who also plays temp worker Ryan Howard, said NBC’s hit show spends reasonably big bucks investing in shorter online-only “webisodes”, in part to experiment with what works and what doesn’t online. “Everyone is still trying to figure them out,” he said, adding that he thinks the term “webisode” will disappear in the future as people watch more TV content online and vice versa.

But until that behavior changes more dramatically, original Web content won’t draw the same dollars as TV. “There’s not the same amount of respect for the advertising community and the audience” online, said Keith Richman, chief executive of video site Break Media.

 

Wednesday, January 28

One Source to Rule Them All

By Brad

As Internet video becomes more and more popular, navigating the various online formats is getting more complicated. Now, as the New York Times “Bits” blog reports, a push is being made toward standardization:

The Mozilla Foundation is trying to open one of the last proprietary parts of the Web: Video standards. The group behind the Firefox browser announced that it is giving a $100,000 grant, by way of the Wikimedia Foundation, to help develop an open-source standard for Internet video.

$100,000 isn’t exactly a large chunk of change, but now that we can watch streaming video on our TVs, computers, phones, and handheld gaming devices, standardization seems like a logical step.

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