It’s a summer time. The summer season is at its height, and it’s getting harder and harder to concentrate on work and studies. What wonder? All manner of people opt for sea trips, ecotourism, and surfing, rock climbing or just lying on the beach in the sun and while away the time.

Nobody wants to strain every nerve, work hard, stretch the imagination and one’s eyes. Relax! It’s the only reason why the summer time was invented at our consideration, folk! It’s like long-lasting weekends.

Despite the high season, still we are proud to bring you some more weird and wonderful news. There’ve been loads of peculiar and quirky rumors and facts in online video and web TV sphere over the last few weeks. So, what events are in the movement and popular?

• According to daily updatable data on iPhone at TechCrunch, we came to a conclusion that this device has occupied a steady position in the market niche of mobile and web 2.0 worlds. So, for example, iPhone App Store Has Launched (Updated) tells us that there’re lots of app pages available now. Some of them are free, therefore those iPhone users who have 2.0 software, find it interesting to browse and find something useful.

• You know Dailymotion well? By the way, Dailymotion remains largets independent web video site in the world, reports tvover.net. More than 37 mln unique visitors is an impressive figure. With 11 localized sites and 20 local language versions, Dailymotion streams over 860 million videos each month.

• I believe Brightcove isn’t in want of additional advertising. Insidedigitalmedia.com interviewed Adam Berrey, the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Strategy at Brightcove. The discussion was devoted to introduced a new version of the web video delivery service, considered to be more search-friendly and capable of adjusting the screen images for fluctuating bandwidth.

• If you want to know the story of well-known video site full of funny and biting user-generated content, YouTube, Chad Hurley will tell you!

• A research on user-generated content shows that User-generated video will account for 42% of streams this year, but only 4 percent of online video revenue, according to an upcoming study from The Diffusion Group.

• According to webtvwire.com, P2P File Sharing Software Users to be Banned in Europe. Not long ago France government banned TV advertising.

• Lightspeed venture partners adds Four flavors of ad targeting: Geographic, Demographic, Contextual, Behavioral.

• Wow, I happened upon “What are the Benefits of Adding Video to your Blog?”. And you know what I found? Users themselves ask this question. Now wonder, there’re many probloggers who use videos as a graphic example making their bloggs. Don’t know what to say? Express your ideas via videos.

• Contextual Video Advertising: I Am Finally Choosing Which Products To Promote On My Own Videos With The Amazon Your Video Widgets. Amazon has just launched a new monetization tool called Your Video Widgets, which makes it easy for anyone, with an Amazon Associate account, to create a cool-looking embeddable video player in which to integrate a selected video you want alongside specific Amazon products, you choose, overlaid on the clip at your preferred points.

• The post Good Summary of Potential Video Game Monetization Methods by Jay Baage tells us about David Perry, Chief Creative Officer of Acclaim Games, who has identified 29 possible ways to monetize video games. And a tag line is that game industry has to diversify its revenue stream in the face of competition, piracy and the economy.

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We are proud to bring you some more weird and wonderful news. There’ve been loads of peculiar and quirky rumors and facts in online video and web TV sphere over the last few weeks. So, what events are in the movement and popular?

Presidential elections are gaining in strength. That is an interesting point that the majority of voters enters into conversation (with neighbors, colleagues, family members, passersby, etc.) concerning forthcoming elections just in peak hours.

Ardent casual folks’ speeches and mixed feelings about these elections urge representatives of the “fourth power” on predictions and surveys. Mass media sources want to be the first in the news to report more or less credible prognosis.

An article “Can Google Trends Predict The Election?” by Erick Schonfeld (TechCrunch.com), demonstrates how Google Trends are able to keep an eye on what is going on in the USA. Interesting enough, according to figures, Google can predict the elections better then traditional tracking polls. Unfortunately, the data is true for today, not for the autumn’s outcome.

By the way, “YouTube launches reporter channel, in time for presidential race” (by Eric Eldon), YouTube is launching a new “Reporter” channel, featuring a variety of news related videos submitted by anyone, from amateurs to professionals. The channel is intended to active non-professional “reporters” (students, city-dwellers, etc.) where professional journalists enable to use the “Reporter” page as an additional source.

The most important point, however, is that all of us are allowed to use and create news. Nobody can tell the truth from the lie. Everybody used to trust casual eyewitnesses as well as official viewpoints from the big media.

I’m concordant with the statement “Social Media Still Facing Stigma In Business”. The author emphasizes how social media can help your business to grow and an essential importance to join social media as well. So, old-fashioned employers fear and don’t understand a chance new media offers them to improve their business.

Occasionally news editors make sizeable mistakes being in a hurry. On the one side, in such ways online (and paper) sources of information are deeply eager to make a big stir breaking the rules. On the other side, hardware can also glitch.

Let’s say what curious and hilarious news do strike you? Elections are around the corner. Presidential candidates deserve a place of primary importance to be covered in mass media these days.

As it often happens in such matters, even professional journalists come down to earth and make mistakes. Typical examples are ‘Obama-Osama’ slips. According to Michael Erard, author of ‘Um: Slips, Stumbles and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean’, ‘Obama-Osama’ is “a classical phonological malapropism”.

As it quoted in “The Science Behind ‘Obama/Osama’ Slips”, “ninety-six percent of the time,” he explains, “the word you intend to say and the word that actually comes out of your mouth start with the same sound, have the same number of syllables and have the same stress pattern.”

Even Microsoft Word underlines ‘Obama’. What does it intend to tell me this way? On the balance, I’d like you to able to think for yourself and don’t take everything for granted.

Technorati Tags: online video, web TV, mass media, fourth power, obama, osama, youtube, reporter, elections, television, free videos, vod

We are proud to bring you some more weird and wonderful news. There’ve been loads of peculiar and quirky rumors and facts in online video and web TV sphere over the last few weeks.

The most disturbing events, I guess, are about China and the Olympic games. European countries together with the rest of the world will never come to a positive agreement for side pieces. It’s a pity.

Out of sight, presidential election and the electorate’s preferences have also become surprising for me. The USA people are in a mess at the moment. On the one hand, this patriarchal community can’t vote for a woman. On the other hand, Afro-Americans have also been out of favor for a long time. Funny thing is that Americans are in a dilemma.

It would be nice to vote for a future president online. At least be happy to have an opportunity to suggest your opinion, because in a number of countries it’s a rarity. GetMyVote presents a service due to which everyone has given a place to upload video, audio and text files that are directed at the candidates. The site offers users ways to interact with the commentaries by leaving comments, rating commentaries, tagging commentaries, and recommending commentaries.

By the way, one of the first online video services started uploading candidates’ speeches, YouTube, is now seeing 10 hours of video uploaded every minute. Owing to this user-generated content web-site Google made some more extra money. Sure thing, to be more competitive and spectacular on the web, Google decided to improve video quality on YouTube.

According to webtvwire.com, YouTube video integrated in to Google maps allowing companies to advertise on the web. First of all, it was done for businesses in the USA. This feature, which at first glance may not seem very important, could help many small companies to build their business using the power of the Web.

Talking about better and the best video quality, I can’t turn a deaf ear to pixel aspect ratio basics, explained on dvguru.com. Sitting at home and watching movies on a widescreen, willy-nilly one starts comparing video on TV and on computers, and camcorders. Learning the differences between formats will give you a better understanding of exactly how video is displayed.

And again scientists and statisticians bring us figures and facts about ourselves and our habits to watch videos. Do they really anxious of that or they have nothing to do? At the same time, it’s interesting to know in February Americans watched 10 billion online videos.  And every year we spend more and more time watching videos (an average of 16 minutes and 12 seconds for the week ending April 12, 2008 as compared to 15 minutes and 14 seconds during the same week last year).

There are many talks about user-generated content all around the web. And it’s no by accident. Experts and analysts couldn’t have expressed the one opinion on user-generated content and its pros and cons. According to emarketer.com, the number of user-generated content creators will rise from 77 million in 2007 to 108 million in 2012.

Record and upload your own video, share it with the rest of the world, cause you’re not alone.

Technorati Tags: online videos, web TV, news, media, digital media, television, internet, user-generated content, IPTV, video on demand, YouTube, google, videos

This year spring happened to be warm and sunny. I beg your pardon! Fool’s Day also brought some surprises. I believe it’ll bring some more weird and wonderful news. There’ve been loads of peculiar and quirky rumors and facts in online video and web TV sphere over the last few weeks.

Sure thing, the People’s Republic of China brought bad news on the threshold of the summer Olympic Games in Beijing. Media services look concerned. Like-minded people, who are going to visit these games, will wear a badge with the word “Freedom”

As of developing countries like Afghanistan, Reporters Without Borders is shocked by a campaign being waged by the ministry of information and culture, the lower house of parliament and the Council of Ulemas against privately-owned TV stations, especially Tolo TV, for broadcasting footage of men and women dancing together.

What should we advice them in this case? Let it takes its course with a glance that Muslim countries live on their own. They haven’t come of age.

But let’s get back to the subject. What do you think of amateur video blogs and their close cooperation with professional bloggers and journalists on the web?

Journalists of traditional media have been actively discussing the future of paper newspapers and magazines. Surely, most of them predict that online content will prevail over other sources of information. The strength of the Internet as a source for news increases daily.

Moreover, in a number of countries professional journalists and reporters began to teach others how to change into probloggers, who are able to talk about cutting edge WEB trends, content, news, standards, blogging, techologies. For example, if you want be a freelance writeк or blogger, you should satisfy these requirements:

• Be enthusiastic and have a sense of humor!
• Be creative, critical and articulate in your English mother tongue.
• Have strong research/analysis skills.
• Your location is flexible.
• Generate 1 to 3 quality posts a day.
• Become a producer. Use a digital or video camera, record stuff and upload it on YouTube, Google, Revver, etc.
• Watch other videos on video-sharing web-sites like YouTube, download video and podcasts via a video iPod, mobile phone, etc.

Mark Glaser shares his ideas on media shift and change in media usage. It goes without saying, that there is a vivid move away from traditional media and toward online media. Web TV and online video sites with user-generated content whether intentionally or not do news. (via)

TV is a root of all evil. Nobody has to refuse its existence and influence on people’s minds. On the other side, web television is of a greater importance both for viewership and media bloggers as a source of information and entertainment.

Frank-Washkuch says that online magazines increase videos and readership. Many online publications - most of which are traditionally text-based - are increasingly employing video to escalate readership. Many general news Web sites, such as CNN.com, have sections exclusively dedicated to video footage, and politics Web site TalkingPointsMemo.com uses a video section to supplement its news coverage.

According to the new State of the News Media 2008, the main TV network news programs averaged 23.1 million viewers a night, a drop of 5%, or 1.2 million viewers compared with data from 2006. Over the past 25 years, the audience has fallen around 1 million per year.

Our habits and attitude toward online space is rapidly changing. There are new rules of media, according to which the audience knows more than the journalists. We see in what way amateurs cooperate with probloggers. Without dialogue there won’t be success on the web. Owners of amateur video blogs shouldn’t compete, but team up with probloggers. (via)

Technorati Tags: video blogs, vblogs, media, bloggers, news, journalists, magazines, web, video, internet, TV, IPTV, posts, video sharing, user-generated content, ipod, mobile

Spring is right around the corner. Winter throws itself upon the mercy of next season. I hope it’ll bring some more weird and wonderful news. There’ve been loads of peculiar and quirky rumors and facts in online video, game and web TV sphere over the last few weeks.

So, what events are in the movement and popular? C’mon guys, you won’t feel sorry.

Traackr organizes media from all over the Web, writes Josh Lowensohn. According to the post, Traackr dives an opportunity to keep an eye on what’s going on with media on the web. I disagree the tool reminds of Google Analytics, but it offers a wide range of services. Now you are allowed to start tracking your performance on YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, Revver, Dailymotion, Vox and Lastfm. Your videos, photos, text, songs will be automatically added to your library, even the ones you publish later. At the same time Traackr makes it possible to raise video-sharing sites to a much higher level. Additional ads?

CBS Introduces Classic Shows To Web Audience. Who’s not online, he’s a looser?! You know that NBC launched Hulu recently, and now we see that CBS also offered the online service of classical TV shows, for like, Melrose Place, Hawaii Five-O, MacGyver, Star Trek and The Twilight Zone.
Demographics of the top three game networks on Facebook. There’re the top three game networks on Facebook: SGN (attracts mainly audience), Zynga and Blake Commagere’s Monsters. So, what sex dominates in virtual worlds?

FixMyMovie Relaunches, Autopost to YouTube. According to Sean Varah (CEO, MotionDSP), FixMyMovie is planning to extend the source to social networking sites (like Facebook, Blogger) through apps and widgets. That way, as you suggest, users will be able to send videos to FixMyMovie “from” those sites, have them enhanced, and then pushed back. We want FixMyMovie to be an open service, and not hold anyone’s video hostage.

MySpace Founder Launches LiveVideo.com. Myspace Founder Brad Greenspan launched life-streaming social platform LiveTV. User-generated content is catered exactly for video devotees to upload videos (up to 200 MB) all days and nights long. According to Brad Greenspan (chairman of LiveUniverse), the technology, unique content and usability place LiveVideo.com at the forefront of this digital revolution.

Once upon a time there lived DivX Stage6, but the service departed from life. San Diego DivX, the owner of the popular video site, deprived 17.4 million happy monthly visitors of a pleasure.  and
Check out 5 Free Screencasting Apps for Creating Video Tutorials.
Tvover reports that Daily NBA Video Highlights Now Available on Break.com  and HBO Launches Online Video YouTube Channel.

An interesting interview concerning video statistics Internet Video Metrics: When A View Is A View? What Counts As An Online Video View?
Emarketer (out of the mouths of babes and sucklings) confirms an old truth by their post The Long tail of Video Distribution.

Right! Blu-ray won this battle and has become a winner who’s going to be the number one in this niche. Digital Media Week in Review: Sony’s Blu-ray Wins “Format War,” But Who Will Win the Real Battle? DMW on the Move!

Look through this video related article AskMrVideo Review: How To Profit With Web Video - Business Tips & FAQs At Your Fingertips.

YouTube to Add Live Video in 2008. I suppose comments are superfluous!

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