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For the first time, Daily Show clips are appearing outside of ComedyCentral.com — well, other than YouTube and other video sharing sites, of course, Yahoo is highlighting the Daily Show’s reports from Iraq all this week, and the clip here is hilarious.
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Finally, in a long-anticipated move, YouTube is debuting its solution to video ads — and no, they’re not pre-rolls. The new ads are semi-transparent overlays that cover the bottom fifth of the screen and then disappear after 10 seconds. If you click it, a video ad will play in the same player, only a slightly smaller size. At the end of the ad — or when you click the close icon — the original clip will resume playing. So far, the ads only apply to partner videos (and as of this writing, only a handful of them), and they’re selling for $20 CPMs. Take it for a test drive with the clip here (notice the yellow marker in the timeline when you play the clip). Also, the ads do not play on embedded clips — just when you play them on YouTube. Smart.
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I’m, like, picturing bazillions of teens discovering Twitter, and then the internet implodes.
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As we previewed earlier this week, Google Maps now come with copy-paste code to embed anywhere you’d like. Click “link this” on any map to get the code.
I whipped this up in 10 seconds. This is KING 5’s address in Seattle.
Adds BuzzKill in comments below: “For news sites, and even LR, wouldn’t the embed violate the Google Maps term and conditions? … ‘For business users, Google Maps is made available for your internal use only and may not be commercially redistributed, except that map data may be accessed and displayed by using the Google Maps API pursuant to the API terms and conditions.’ This doesn’t really seem like a developer API code kind of thing.”
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Shareholders approved the $8.2 billion plan to take the company private.
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In an announcement today, Adobe says it will make the H.264 video codec part of the widely used Flash player. What does this mean? The same high-quality video compression used on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD videos will now be available on the Web, with full-screen playback features. While Flash video has been good enough for 4×3 news content on the Web, you haven’t seen too much high quality 16×9 video in Flash. QuickTime had offered higher quality, and started supporting H.264 with QuickTime 7. Today’s move from Flash is a huge leap forward for HD quality video streaming, and more evidence that HD video distribution will not be unique to broadcasters. More on this announcement from NewTeeVee. If you want to get technical, check out this post.
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