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by martino on April 11, 2007
Quietly, azureus launched it beta of a hi-def, Web video service called Vuze at the beginning of 2007. Like the heavily hyped upcoming TV/PC service Joost , Vuze depends on a P2P framework to deliver...
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by martino on April 10, 2007
I continue to be amazed that search leaders Google and Yahoo have mediocre video search capability. Small companies are attracting attention. You may find some of these links worthwhile. The...
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by martino on April 09, 2007
I was reading an interesting angle about broadband TV written by Wayne Friedman. Namely, ever since networks started offering Internet viewings of their shows, they also came up with research that...
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by martino on April 07, 2007
A controversial report from online video tracker Vidmeter found that of the top 6,725 videos between December 9, 2006 and March 22, 2007 only 621, or 9.23%, were removed because they were found to...
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If you want a preview of what the upcoming election cycle might look like, check out the YouTube video below. It pretends to be from the Obama campaign but that has been denied. Some think the YouTube...
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by martino on March 08, 2007
WARNING: Opinionated Editorial Ahead Throughout our net-centric world, the conventional wisdom is that a line can be drawn; one that separates those 'who get it' from those who don't. When...
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Traci Patterson, CED News/Web Editor, reports that Fox, Fox Interactive Media and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. have given their broadcast affiliates the green light to offer some of Fox's top...
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by martino on March 06, 2007
If AT&T fixes whatever problems it is having with its U-verse IPTV service in California, it just got a little easier for them to roll it out everywhere. That is because the California Public...
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by martino on March 05, 2007
They were mildly amusing for 30-seconds, but a whole show? ABC is desperate. And I don't mean Desperate Housewives - although that is contributing to the problem. Their ratings are way down on...
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by martino on March 05, 2007
Alas, YouTube lost all access to Viacom video content. But it has rapidly moved to make a deal with another marquee name: he United Kingdom's British Broadcasting Corp. Before congratulating the...
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by martino on February 26, 2007
Last month, Google said it intended to syndicate video clips. This would allow companies to spread their clips across the Internet to other sites while monetizing them with ad support by Google. Back...
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by martino on February 18, 2007
"We're not here to trash television," Wenda Harris Millard said at Yahoo's first upfront, er, infront. But, she noted, 17% of a consumer's time is spent online, and only 6% of...
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by martino on February 16, 2007
I certainly hope that concerts combined with broadband video streaming onto computer monitors does not contribute to global warming. Because if it does, then former Vice President Al Gore might want...
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A new way to define niche audiences in a time challenged world Om Malik at Business 2.0 writes about Mark Hall, a former executive with RealNetworks, and his decision "to address the growing need...
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by martino on February 11, 2007
Perhaps you've seen a video circulating widely on the web last week which purports to show a geeky-looking Mark Erickson explaining the complicated instructions for accessing GoogleTV. After he...
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by martino on February 03, 2007
A regular on YouTube.com has generated enough interest to land a gig on Fox's MADtv. Lisa Donovan, known as "Lisa nova" on YouTube, will make her first appearance on the late Saturday...
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by martino on February 01, 2007
Many pundits on the net spout off that broadband TV will crush traditional television. I believe this is a flawed view because the real dynamic is all about the quality of the show and building an...
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by martino on February 01, 2007
Upload video, make money Occasionally I am asked how an amateur can earn money on the Internet with broadband video. Naturally, the most important ingredient is to have good content. But it is also...
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AOL's advertising-supported broadband VOD service, In2TV has launched two new channels: the Looney Tunes Channel, featuring classic animated shorts and the Rock n' Flix Channel, which...
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by martino on January 31, 2007
I might be schizophrenic ... wait, no I'm not! Last weekend, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley said that the company was going to share ad revenue with content contributors. This would make them more...
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