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So who is posting the most videos to YouTube? The video guy down the street? Little Johnny up in his room? Video porn kings? Nope - its CBS - CBS Clips Top YouTube Charts, Boost Ratings

Also - You Tube vs. Boob Tube at Wired Magazine

YouTube Waves Goodbye To 'Daily Show' Clips

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Mobile TV and video over the Net. There is a battle raging over what technology will win out for the future of Mobile TV. Check out this article from Parks Associates and Basestation e-Newsletter regarding who is doing what in Europe. If you are making video for the web you need to read this article and guide to the various warring standards and technologies. Its gonna be bloody. Mobile TV in Europe: Who Needs a Standard?

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Adopt a Booty Today - VIDEO CONTEST - Please help us with this very serious campaign to get booties treated nicely. They're the most maligned creatures on Earth. You've been asked to adopt babies, soldiers, communities, highways, rivers, streams, cats, dogs (including pit bulls) and virtual pets. Some of you kind souls responded generously by adopting these people, creatures, things or natural wonders. Booties are natural wonders too more

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Mobile TV and video over the Net. There is a battle raging over what technology will win out for the future of Mobile TV. Check out this article from Parks Associates and Basestation e-Newsletter regarding who is doing what in Europe. If you are making video for the web you need to read this article and guide to the various warring standards and technologies. Its gonna be bloody. Mobile TV in Europe: Who Needs a Standard?

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Orgasms for Peace? Calif. couple calls for orgasm for peace AP - Two peace activists have planned a massive anti-war demonstration for the first day of winter. Watch the video and learn how you can help bring peace, or a piece, to the world.

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Filmaka.com is a new contest site where filmmakers get to submit their short films for viewing, voting, and selection. The winner of the contest receives a feature film deal with the some of the world's best known independent producers at Filmaka.com. more

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High Definition Video is Here - All about High Def from Authoring to Playback -for video pros and video enthusiasts. What do you need to create and playback great looking HD video on your computer and on your TV?

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Do you want to watch your home cable TV from a net connection anywhere in the world? Following the lead of Slingbox, Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), announced that its consumer division, Pinnacle Systems, Inc., is expanding its popular Pinnacle PCTV™ product family with the addition of Pinnacle PCTV To Go. This new product gives customers the ability to enjoy their home entertainment systems from any location in the home or around the world. Easy wireless setup, integrated Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) support and comprehensive digital video recorder (DVR) capabilities make Pinnacle PCTV To Go a must-have for anyone interested in watching high quality TV shows, sporting events, movies or news on a PC, anytime, anywhere. more

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Do you need a music soundtrack to add emotional depth to your video productions? Even if you're a musician who can compose, play, and record your own scores, that's still a lot of work. The answer for many producers is an automated soundtrack tool. Check out the latest from SonicPro and from Sony. All about SmartSound Sonicfire Pro 4 and Sony Media Software Cinescore Both of these soundtrack creation tools now allow you to drill deeper into customizing the score by actually adjusting the mix and mood of the soundtrack elements, providing a whole new level of control over the emotional feel of the piece in sync with the visuals. more

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YouTube to show game clips of NHL games Video-sharing site YouTube will show clips of NHL games, its first agreement with a professional sports league. The agreement reached Wednesday will allow users to see video highlights of this season's NHL regular-season games, within 24 hours of the original broadcast. The service will become available this month.

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Guys - do you get Menstrual Cramps - http://menwithcramps.com/ - This might be the best spoof site ever. This is incredible. Fake commercials documentaries, testimonials, call for action. Amazing. Send this to your male friends who need something extra to whine about - share this with female associates who are complain about their periods. Its extremely well conceived and implemented.

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Here is the first of the series of videos . Men With Cramps. The Bowels Of History - Part I (2006) - The true meaning of mankind's oldest cave paintings tell about the trials and tribulations of early Man.
1 min 43 sec . You can watch all seven episodes at iFilm

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Looking for a great way to edit and clean up your digital images without having to pay big bucks for a software product? Check out GIMP. It runs on Windows, Macs, Linux - if you are an open source fan, you got to check this out.

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. more

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This looks like fun. Doritos is partnering with Yahoo to give you the change to win prices and big bucks by creating your own commercial that will be played during the Super Bowl. That might be a nice way to promote your career, eh? Here's the deal. Think of an idea for a DORITOS commercial. Maybe it's a story about the first time you tried DORITOS or what life is like for the spices on the surface of the chip. Anything. Make the video you'd be excited to see if you were watching TV. Make it yours. Shoot it. Submit it. If the judges place it in the top five best videos, you'll win $10,000 dollars and a trip to Miami for a private Super Bowl XLI viewing party. Then, if America votes it their favorite, your video will be aired as a real DORITOS commercial on Super Bowl XLI.
Get started.

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If you are film maker or videomaker looking for a great source of info about film festivals all over the world - you got to check out Withoutabox. It was founded in January, 2000 to serve as a network for independent filmmakers and their films - to directly access film festivals, film buyers, and film audiences throughout the world and to manage those relationships and transactions from a central console.

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Yahoo to launch Web site devoted to food - With online competition for eyeballs intensifying, Web portal Yahoo Inc. is launching a new site devoted to food that will feature videos and other content from celebrity chefs such as Rachael Ray and Martha Stewart.

Most of the content will come from partners, including Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Wolfgang Puck, Everyday with Rachael Ray, Food & Wine, Epicurious, Cook's Illustrated and Reader's Digest.There will also be original content, including an online video show called "Cheap and Easy" and contributions on regional cuisine from 13 columnists from around the country. A database of thousands of recipes will be available through a partnership with allrecipes.com. The idea for the site came from the 1.5 million food-related searches on the site each day, most of which come around 4 p.m., Brown said.

Yahoo Food aims to hold people's attention after they have found a recipe by offering cooking demonstration videos and lavish photography and layout that Brown refers to as "food pornography."

http://food.yahoo.com

Sharing videos on the Web is hot! It's been just a year since video sharing really exploded, and already many take it for granted. But perhaps you're getting confused by the increasing number of video sharing sites and can't figure out what's best. Well, don't worry. The folks at Movavi.com have done the hard work for you - and you'll be surprised to learn that the most popular sites aren't necessarily the best choices for sharing. more

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This Halloween, take a visit to Drake Mountain - http://www.drakemountain.com. It is a video blog that documents a fictional expedition to a haunted mountain in Vermont. All 10 episodes along with a blooper reel are now online, just in time for Halloween. We really like how they integrated the YouTube feed into their own site so that they didn't have to worry about hosting the video or bandwidth costs. Smart.

Drake Mountain had an incredibly intense production schedule. Auditions were held on September 26 and the production was casted on October 1. The first day of shooting was October 7. By October 21, the movie was shot and by October 27, the final episode was edited and uploaded to the web.

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Companies have broad aims for TV on the Web - Eyebrows went up when Google Inc. recently agreed to spend $1.65 billion for YouTube, the most popular Web site for free video clips. But that figure could be blown away one day if some emerging companies achieve their much broader visions for the future of online TV. These companies are building flexible online networks that can host content, serve up ads and dish out interactive features. While "viral" video-sharing sites like YouTube focus on individual clips — many pirated — these new Internet TV platforms are designed to host full-fledged channels that content creators can control.

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Students produce movies with cell phones The cameras capture the young man walking down the stairs, reciting a monologue about the three things people should know about him: His favorite movie is "Gone with the Wind," he loves roller coasters and he hates when people don't take him seriously. The shot is complicated and takes several attempts to perfect. But there's no big camera equipment, no expert sound system and no reels of film to capture the moment. Instead, everyone involved, from the three cameramen and the sound guy to the extras, is producing the miniature movie with — and for — cell phones.

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Virus writers target web videos at BBC - The growing popularity of online video has caught the attention of malicious hackers and hi-tech criminals. Security firms are reporting more and more instances of booby-trapped Windows codecs - file compressors - required to play some video formats. Some of the codecs let users play types of net-based video, but also have spyware and adware wrapped inside. Others, say experts, are outright fakes that just want to infect victims with data-stealing programs.

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Check out this new offer from AOL and Brightcove. AOL and Brightcove launched a new distribution service that can enable video publishers to sell high-quality video downloads through the AOL Video portal (http://video.aol.com) and receive up to 70% of the revenue generated from their sales. The new service promises to expand the distribution options for video publishers and the choices for consumers. more

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Comcast has just launching FearNet, an on-demand horror channel. FearNet, a co-venture with Sony and Lionsgate, will debut as a video-on-demand channel free to Comcast digital customers, a website (FearNet.com) and a mobile offering (FearNet Mobile), the first of several multi-platform networks Comcast plans to launch. Visitors to FearNet.com can purchase horror-themed movies for rent or to own, all for immediate viewing on a PC. more

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Check out, "I Wanna Be Famous", a great short animated music video by Jessica Delfino. Directed by Nick Fox-Gieg, www.itslikespiders.com). Also read her article about her struggle to get her video made and posted at YouTube. Very interesting.

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Believe it or not, NBC.com is hot. In addition to online versions of many of the network's top shows, you can also access a few Internet only productions. Check out "Its Your Show" where amateur film and video makers get to produce and upload their own comedy skits and try to win big bucks - $1000 every week with a $100,000 grand prize. This is the future of the net. Quality video with a big bucks content provider behind it.

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With the new 24-inch iMac, Apple combines the home theater experience with professional-level digital production capabilities; it comes loaded with powerful video, audio and imaging software and its wide screen 24" LCD monitor makes it perfect for use as the central hub of a digital lifestyle. more

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Are you a pro or serious consumer who wants to do some heavy duty soundtrack development, audio editing and clean-up but the learning track for a pro product like Adobe Audition is just a bit too steep? Then check out Adobe System's Adobe® Soundbooth™ software, a new innovative and intuitive audio software product for creating and editing audio and fixing common audio flaws using visually-oriented tools. Unveiled to customers for the first time this week at the MAX 2006 Adobe user conference in Las Vegas, creative professionals now have the opportunity to test this new beta download and submit feedback to the Adobe Labs at http://labs.adobe.com/soundbooth. Adobe Soundbooth is available for both Intel-based Macintosh and Windows systems. more