Archive for December 10th, 2006
It’s a new feature that allows you to record a clip straight on YouTube through your webcam. Just hit record and start yacking. Now, given the millions of webcams that are out there (basically a standard built-in feature on laptops these days), this is a big deal. Click a few buttons and broadcast yourself to the biggest online video network in seconds. Or, if you wish, post the clip in an embedded player on your own site. Say, why haven’t media companies done this? Oh that’s right, it’s not Entertainment or Journalism.
Plus: YouTube inks “video card” ad deal with Coke
December 10th, 2006
Both Verizon and AT&T, which are rolling out IPTV video services in a handful of markets, are gearing up to start selling local, interactive and video-on-demand advertising.
December 10th, 2006
The CW show, America’s Next Top Model, has just launched a new mobile game that lets fans select their own virtual models from the show, dress ‘em and hit the runway. Users can also send their models to their friends. CBS Interactive and Artificial Life Inc. teamed up on the project, and it costs $5.99 a download. Smokin’ screen grabs…
December 10th, 2006
The game of the year is The Elder Scrolls IV. My current fave, Gears of War took home the best shooter and best graphics awards. For the full list of winners, click below…
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Julie Roehm is out at WalMart, but her idea to create an online media buying auction is still moving forward, reports Ad Age. A group of advertisers involved in e-Media Exchange met on Thursday and agreed to forge ahead with or without WalMart’s participation. The other marketers involved in the launch are Lexus, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Home Depot, Intel and Brown-Forman. There’s no estimated date for a launch.
December 10th, 2006
Accuweather is distributing free, ad-supported video clips with both regional and city forecasts via Google Video. The city forecasts run 1-2 minutes long and cover the top 20 largest metro areas, and you can either watch them on your PC or download them to mobile devices. And given the Google-YouTube deal, the forecasts may end up on cell phones, too. All this leads Aaron, who tipped us on the story, to point out that “free video forecasts are a serious threat to companies that still expect their audience will pay $5 a month for the same thing.” (Thanks, Aaron! Have a tip? Let us know.)
December 10th, 2006
Lenslinger, a TV news photographer, blogs about Yahoo’s launch of “You Witness News,” the portal’s new citizen news video initiative. He writes:
Aesthetics don’t seem to matter much to the millions of viewers watching their neighbors re-enact the forbidden dance on YouTube. Nor will proper camera management mean a lot to the private citizens who will capture the next global calamity from every possible angle. Lastly, proper cinematography won’t be on the minds of news executives who will, if they’re smart, be way too busy shoving these myriad of images on-line, on-air and in your face.
No, the only ones who will balk at the new ‘phonajournalism’ will be self-important schlubs like me, who’ve spent the last fifteen years perfecting their grasp of the heavy lens, only to have their once captive audience discover the freedom of phoning it in themselves.
December 10th, 2006
QuickSilverScreen.com says Fox sent it a cease-and-desist letter because it was linking to (not hosting) free, illegal streams of Fox TV shows. “Whether linking to infringing materials can itself create copyright liability is still a somewhat murky question,” says EFF senior attorney Fred von Lohmann. In this case, QuickSilverScreen.com did remove the links, sort of, by posting the URL’s in copy-paste boxes with the line, “Do not copy and paste these address’s into your address bar, as that may or may not infringe Fox’s rights depending on where you live.” And over the weekend, the site announced it has been sold to a new owner “from a country where operating QuicksilverScreen is legal.”
December 10th, 2006
