I’m off to SXSW tomorrow, to have fun, to do a little speaking and to take some videos. I’ve decided to do a wee video series, asking people what their favourite marketing campaign is at the moment. I’ve been using qik on the N95, which I won’t be able to use in the US, so […]
Meeting as online comments part 2
College Humor follow-up their first smash hit with the retirement party and the lolcatz.
The best games console
I spend time in Chris Pirillo’s chatroom and one of the endless topics of coversation is which game console is better – PS3 or XBox360. It always seems to be a 2 sided debate between those, with Wii only entering rarely. I’m just thankful that Apple do not make a console. However, I think this […]
New uStream Interface
The new uStream interface was launched yesterday and has a few new toys. It allows you to ‘clap’ the presenter, with a rating meeting – the more people who click the higher your rating. But most interesting to me is the instant poll – the stream owner can create instant polls and get a response […]
Veoh TV
Last week I got a sneak preview of Veoh’s new service, veoh.tv, but got asked not to blog about it. The news has now broken and there’s a few detailed write ups around. Erick Schonfeld has a great overview, VeohTV is an application that you download to your PC. It lets you watch any video, […]
Localisation
On June 12, Flickr introduced localisation – that is local language and country versions – of their site in 7 different flavours. These were French, Germany, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and Traditional Chinese. In what appears to be a consequence to this extension, they also ran up against local laws (or interpretation of laws) that […]
Video connections
I spent a fair bit of last night (when I wasn’t travelling back to work because I’d left my keys there) watching live video streams. The first was from Chris Pirillo; tuning into Chris I found him talking to Kosso, whom I mentioned in an earlier post. Sharing the broadcast with Chris was Eric Rice […]
The spread of the machine is us/ing us
If you read tech blogs regularly, you’ll have seen this video: A sublime introduction to how the web is changing. Sue Thomas, a wonderful woman I bumped into a Blogher, has a post about her experience at the Web2.0 conference, where she met up with Mike Wesch who explained how it spread: Wesch explained that […]
Kosso on Ustream
We’ve had justin.tv and now the Podtech guys Robert Scoble and Jeremiah Owyang are walking around Web2.0 with their live streaming on Ustream, which is a great way to see the some of the conference without having to do the travel. And Ustream is open for all to stream their life to the web. Kosso, […]
Urban Planning in Second Life
I love the concept that a Paris residents association is asking members to propose a new design for the redesign of a central part of the city. The association is urging locals to come up with their own ideas for the area’s gardens and post them in the online world of Second Life, where people […]
Vidmeter Report on Copyrighted videos
Vidmeter, a company I have written about before have produced an excellent analysis of videos removed by copyright owners from YouTube. The report can be found on their News page. In just over 3 months, they tracked the top viewed videos on the site, totaling 6,725 videos. Of these, they found that on 621 videos […]
Justin.tv – Voyeurism to the extreme
Justin.tv is the latest attempt to show a life on camera. Whereas before the webcams were tied to the PC, tied to the line but digital and mobile prices have dropped enough to make this a viable option. 24 hours a day, Justin wears a camera on his hat and streams his life to the […]
YouTube Video Awards
The voting is over and the winners have been announced. Over the last few weeks, you could vote on YouTube for their best videos of 2006. I’d only seen 3 of them before, so a good intro into some new content. Meanwhile, over on Revver, VH1 are running a nice little campaign that results in […]
NBC and News Corp announce deal
Read the press release. The content companies are joining up with AOL, MSN, MySpace And Yahoo! to provide premuim video content – does this mean DRMd and subscription? “This is a game changer for Internet video,” said Peter Chernin, President and Chief Operating Officer of News Corporation. “We’ll have access to just about the entire […]
Tony Blair on Comic Relief
I’ve just seen this, one of the clips from Friday’s Comic Relief show. I just can’t quite imagine George Bush doing this. Watch..and donate!
Video Popularity – Views or Links
Update: I’ve updated this post with further comments from Bri at Holt Labs For a while now, I’ve been using a couple of video tracking sites for work-related reasons, both to see what is popular and to track some of our own videos. The two systems use different tracking methods, one is on views and […]
SXSW – LonelyGirl15 discussion
David Hudson Editor, GreenCine Miles Beckett Producer, Lonelygirl15 Mesh Flinders Producer, Lonelygirl15 Greg Goodfried Producer, Lonelygirl15 Miles: a short format, about 5 videos a week. a popular serial drama. Greg: there’s the top level show; then there is the interactive element, teaching the characters as real people. you can send private messages and we answer […]
BBC on YouTube
You can find clips from BBC shows on YouTube, fans putting them up to share the love. And now the BBC has done a deal with Google/YouTube to create three new channels dedicated to the corporation’s output. BBC – showing added value programming, ie the behind the scenes stuff that goes on the websites. This […]
Viral Video Chart Widget
Getting bored at work. Looking for a few minutes of entertainment. If your poison is videos you can now get charts delivered directly your website using this handy little widget from the Viral Video Chart and you can share the list with all your friends. It’s currently running in the sidebar of this blog as […]
Valentine Blues
If you hate the day, love the day but failed to have a good time, or just like random violence and things going bang, take a look at this wonderful My Black Valentine, (tip from YesButNoButYes). Choose your object of hate, click and watch as a bullet smashes through it, destroying the whole thing. Can […]