June 2007


General28 Jun 2007 04:30 pm

YouTube Le Mars: Broadcast Yourself
Le Mars Daily Sentinel - YouTube allows registered users, from average joes to amateur video producers to professionals, to post video clips of basically anything for the masses to see. Le Mars also boasts a small presence on YouTube: clips of wedding receptions, garage

General25 Jun 2007 02:30 am

TheStreet.com TV Recap: Betting on the Farm
Street.Com - Confidential Web video Friday. “The agriculture bull market is really powerful, but not for the reasons people realize,” he told the show’s host, Farnoosh Torabi. There were two farm bills, one of which “would have drastically cut back the subsidies

Press Release Tips and Template
PRWeb - “Wow PRWeb. Spirited Woman is a growing woman’s community, and I find that there is no better news company on the web - and I mean this - to give us the widest exposure in the least amount of time. We have also seen a definite increase in traffic to

Lighting is everything for a photograph.
DVD Creation - web>>video summit: June 27 By ninjacrayon Jim Louderback to speak at this year’s WEB>>VIDEO SUMMIT in San Jose, CA. If you’ve ever caught an episode of DL.TV or know Louderback from his previous incarnations as part of the legendary TechTV’s Fresh Gear

What does CBS want with Last.fm?
ZDNet - According to a statement from CBS–which also recently acquired Web video series Wallstrip and has signed multiple video syndication deals –Last.fm’s founders, Felix Miller, Martin Stiksel and Richard Jones, will continue to run the site independently

Dan Farber & Larry Dignan
ZDNet Blogs - Think of an American Idol model that’s ongoing and covers Web video. The cream will rise to the top and that can only benefit YouTube. Om Malik adds : “Whichever way you look at it, this is a good development for content creators who are looking to

It’s all Paris and Tony in parody
Post-Star - SCREENSHOT Hillary and Bill Clinton appear on a Web video that spoofs the final scene of the popular HBO series ‘The Sopranos.’ The scene: a diner and a jukebox, a nostalgic song, a cut to black. The video and the announcement of Celine Dion’s ‘You

General23 Jun 2007 06:30 am

The URateLocal Team Lets College Students Earn Money When They Help
PR.com - Customers can post video reviews and videos that detail their experiences using a product or service while sellers and business owners can post video ads in which they can be creative in how they choose to position their product. Sellers can also

3 Mile Scream Post Video
antiMUSIC - (PR) 3 Mile Scream have posted their Chad Archibald (Arise and Ruin) directed video for the track “Our Blackened Sun” online at the full story link. “Shooting the video was such an amazing experience to take part in. The director was very easy going

MySpace plans new video channels
CNET News - On their channels, The New York Times and Reuters plan to post video on a variety of news and entertainment topics. National Geographic plans to draw short-form videos from its archives and from new TV shows, including episodes of Explorer , The Dog

English Soccer League Sues YouTube
WPVI - YouTube’s system of allowing users to access and post video clips has drawn copyright complaints in the past. Viacom Inc., the owner of MTV, VH1, Comedy Central and other cable networks, filed a $1 billion copyright lawsuit in March against the

XII. Abduction and Execution of Non-Iraqi Civilians
Human Rights Watch - 324] Iraq Militants Post Video of Two Sudanese Hostages, Reuters , March 9, 2005. [325] Two Sudanese Hostages to Be Released by Islamic Army in Iraq: Video, Agence France-Presse , April 6, 2005. [326] Family of Turkish Hostage

Madonna launches talent search initiative
Ireland On-Line - production company, Maverick, has teamed with Madison Road Entertainment to develop talent search Big Shot, which will launch in September. The idea of the project is to encourage wannabe actors, magicians, singers and entertainers to post video clips

Tuesday @ The Rink
CSTV.com - Coach MacMillan: We do a lot of post video work after games. We watch the video of Friday night’s game on Saturday after it’s been broken down, then on Tuesday nights we watch Saturday’s game after it’s been broken down. Then we do a Thursday pre

General22 Jun 2007 10:31 am

DRM: a pirate’s dream
AME Info - Some video is harder to convert, particularly newer formats such as Flash/.flv (though plenty of rippers are now available for this too) and advanced codecs such as H.264. The motto is: if you can play it, you can save it. Screen capture software

General16 Jun 2007 04:32 am

Asking the tough questions
Capitol Hill Blue - And Moussaoui almost got himself sentenced to death so al Qaeda could re-post video of bin Laden bragging that the only for lead pilots knew of the target, the others only that they would probably be going to heaven . After bin Laden demanded

Covering tragedies a delicate balance for journalists
Carroll County Times - We all live in a different kind of media age, one where anyone with a camera phone or wireless Internet can report or post video or pictures of any news event. Poof! Instant journalist. The students at Virginia Tech, as the shootings were going on

Text CVs are out, video resumes in
Daily News and Analysis - Under the new facility, Monster India allows jobseekers to post video resumes of up to 2 minutes duration including a presentation of the resume and snippets of works. Those in creative fields thus stand a good chance of showcasing their skills

Madonna launches talent search initiative
Ireland On-Line - production company, Maverick, has teamed with Madison Road Entertainment to develop talent search Big Shot, which will launch in September. The idea of the project is to encourage wannabe actors, magicians, singers and entertainers to post video clips

View Nannies and Au Pairs on Video Prior to Hire
PR.com - Launched this week www.digitalvideonannies.com allows Nannies and Families to post video profiles of themselves to attract their perfect match. A more informed decision can now be made thanks to this unique service. This service is particularly

Democrats claim Web advantage
The Washington Times - Grove said he advises users to post video rebuttals to videos with which they disagree. “The ethos behind all of this is the best bubbles up to the top,” he said. “We’re a platform in the same way the town hall’s a platform.” Hugh B. Price

MySpace plans new video channels
ZDNet - On their channels, The New York Times and Reuters plan to post video on a variety of news and entertainment topics. National Geographic plans to draw short-form videos from its archives and from new TV shows, including episodes of Explorer , The Dog

Covering tragedies a delicate balance for journalists
Carroll County Times - We all live in a different kind of media age, one where anyone with a camera phone or wireless Internet can report or post video or pictures of any news event. Poof! Instant journalist. The students at Virginia Tech, as the shootings were going on

Tuesday @ The Rink
CSTV.com - Coach MacMillan: We do a lot of post video work after games. We watch the video of Friday night’s game on Saturday after it’s been broken down, then on Tuesday nights we watch Saturday’s game after it’s been broken down. Then we do a Thursday pre

Walter Reed finds video games good therapy for wounded soldiers
Ars Technica - From the Washington Post : Video games are all over Walter Reed. They’re used for therapy or entertainment, or both. Alcibar doesn’t have any hand injuries, but he’s been trying to persuade some of his physical therapists to make Guitar Hero available

General12 Jun 2007 12:31 pm

Software makes YouTube and MySpace vids a cinch
Pocket-Link.co.uk - are promising that the new software will let you edit and trim your footage within minutes to transfer to the web, with fully automatic transfers to YouTube. Among others, the product supports DivX, XviD, Real, MPEG2, MPEG4, WMV, 3GP and Flash Video

General11 Jun 2007 01:30 pm

DVD XPRESS DX2
PC World - Manufacturer’s Info: The DVD Xpress DX2 supports today s most popular video formats including MPEG4 and DivX video. All of the video formats are supported by an advanced video encoding chipset inside the DVD Xpress DX2 which means that DVD Xpress DX2

Video coding history
Network World Fusion - Even though MPEG-2 is one of the most used video encoding techniques, I should remind that this was developed jointly by ITU-T and MPEG (MPEG-2 Video has dual catalogue number: ISO/IEC 13818-2 and ITU-T H.262). Further, while MPEG has focused on