It’s already a new year and I hope it’ll bring some more weird and wonderful innovations. There’s been loads of peculiar and quirky news in online video, game and web TV sphere over the last few weeks.
- Mozilla’s New CEO Talks DataPortability and the Future of Firefox. Sean Ammirati posted a 20 minute podcast interview and transcript with new Mozilla CEO John Lilly tonight. John Lilly asserts that Firefox is the killer browser that is used even by his grandmother.
- Lifestreaming: a ReadWriteWeb Primer. RWW offers some lifestreaming apps (Tumblr, Onaswarm, Lifestrea.ms, etc.) at your consideration.
- Virtual Worlds Poised to Become Valuable Work Tools. According to Forrester’s research regarding Virtual Worlds, “within five years, the 3-D Internet will be as important for work as the Web is today”.
- DailyMotion Offering New Video Advertising Methods. First off, Toaster Ads gives advertisers the the ability to inject an animated flash mini-commercial overlay into Dailymotion’s library of professional videos. Second point is Home Theater ads, a hotlinked skin for the player. And the last one is the ‘companion logo’ ad that creates 3D logo that appears in the left corner for 10 seconds.
- VideoEgg Partners With imeem, Metacafe, Buzznet.
- Netflix To Lift Limits For Online Viewing.
- New Data Confirms Growing Influence of Internet on Politics, But Not Quite Yet the Deciding Factor.
- Thanks Striking Writers, Online Video Going Up, Up, Up, Up. According to new figures from Nielsen Online some online video sites have doubled their audience since the strike began.
- ExerciseTV Pumps Up Online Fitness. ExerciseTV has partnered with thePlatform to grow and expand the video offerings on its fitness destination site.
- Panasonic VIERA HDTV’s Enable IPTV and YouTube Features.
- Google Expands Lead in Online Video Market Share. Americans viewed nearly 9.5 billion online videos in November, with Google Sites once again ranking as the top U.S. video property with 3 billion videos viewed (31.3 percent share of all videos viewed), 2.9 billion of which occurred at YouTube.com (30.6 percent).
- Simultaneous Media Use Making TV Interactive. Online media is being consumed parallel to television and is often turning television into a richer interactive experience. Nearly 70% of users consume other media while watching TV.
- Rumor Mill: Revver All Revved Out. Live Universe is interested in stepping in and saving them from their impending demise. This rumor first appeared late last week on Contentinople. Live Universe runs the lesser known LiveVideo.com, and was founded by MySpace founder Brad Greenspan.
- NBC Universal One Of Many Broadband Video Companies At CES 2008 - Missing From iTunes.
- Apple & 20th Century Fox Deal Allows iTunes Users To Rent Films By The Studio.
- Apple TV Now Compatible With iTunes Movie Rentals | New Competitor For Netflix?
- Bloomberg News Launches CEO Show as New Video Strategy Emerges. Bloomberg News has launched CEO Spotlight, a new Web video series of CEO interviews produced in Bloomberg bureaus around the globe.
- Vodpod: Free Widget Makes Commercial and Personal Web Sites Video-Rich….Big Political Blog Talking Points Memo Has Video Via Vodpod
- “Google is Like a Gigantic Parasite,” Technology Review’s Jason Pontin. He says that Google and Yahoo! “create nothing” and says that’s bad in the longterm for media businesses - and for the portals themselves.
- Writers Guild may block the Grammy Awards.
- So…who still has TV deals and who doesn’t? The Futon Critic has the scoop on which people still have deals at the networks, along with updates on which contracts have been canceled.
- Jericho shoots two endings (just in case). Producer Carol Barbee tells Sci-Fi Wire that this second season, which is seven episodes long, is actually a contained story with a definite ending. However, since they don’t know yet if CBS will give the show a third season, they’ve actually filmed two endings.
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