Posts Tagged "web video"

  • Susan Boyle Meets the (Social) Media

    Just minutes after West Lothian phenom Susan Boyle walked onto the stage of Britian’s Got Talent last Saturday night, even snarky Simon Cowell’s heart was melting under the brilliance of her song. So too everyone fortunate to be watching the show live across the UK.
    Back in the day (i.e. around the turn of the millennium) [...]

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  • My TV, My PC

    For years I’ve been my own best Guinea pig for testing new tools, technologies, techniques… anything I could use to tell a story or that might impact my customers and audience. And because of my first career asĀ  producer and director, web video has held special interest that way.
    Years ago when a defense industry client [...]

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  • It’s Friday and time for an art attack. Whichever art you practice the act of making art means doing things because they feel right. Not from an intellectual construct, but a flow from idea to expression to idea to expression until you know the thing is done. At least that’s what came to mind when [...]

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  • Since I started using Hulu and more recently learned about the open-source video aggregation software Miro and the video sharing plugin Kaltura, it seemed to me that Tivo’s days were numbered. Evidently I’m not the only one.
    In her Halloween post on the Wired Blog Network, Meghan Keane observes “the future of the company which defined [...]

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  • Joost-o-Matic

    What a difference a year makes in the life of a technology start-up.
    Not that long ago I was singing the praises of Joost, a peer-to-peer video streaming technology that promised a huge boost in quality and performance. Actually, Joost did pretty well delivering on the promise. But what happens if you throw a party and… [...]

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  • The inspiration for my post Burning Down the TV came from Jen Simmons presentation at Wordcamp New York last Sunday. The other speakers that day included Matt Mullenweg, co-developer of Wordpress and a partner in Automatic, bloggers Aaron Brazell and Shay David, Jeremy Clarke on running a blog network, and Jen on Wordpress and video.
    If [...]

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  • Burning Down the TV

    David Byrne sang about burning down the house and now it’s time for burning down the TV thanks to Miro, the open source video player.
    Think TIVO for web, but without buying any hardware or software (sorry AppleTV). Think millions of programs packaged as pre-programmed channels, or search the web and make a channel with the [...]

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  • Stephen King’s Media Mashup

    CBS’ Simon & Shuster dipped its toe into the world of online video over the summer with the launch of its own digital production studio to produce digital HD video interview series and other features around its authors.
    Nothing remarkable on the surface. However their first video series features not only Stephen King discussing his new [...]

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