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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Internet Video Articles, Trends and News -


Internet Video Articles- Trends, Reviews and News

The Quik Pod Pro - This seems like an obvious invention but it is quite brilliant. A long telescoping pole with a camera screw on the end. Dooh. Why didn't I think of that? It lets you elevate your digital camera or small camcorder high above the crowd to get shots of the band at a concert. It lets you carry the camera down low to get dramatic shots from ground or shoe level. read the review

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If you are into music, video and mash-ups, you ought to check out this new site and technology. Eyespot's browser based solution fosters creativity and discovery while empowering consumers to play with copyrighted media without having to download clunky software or learn new skills. The drag and drop editing application allows anyone to upload, remix, and create new video from the community's vast pool of popular and legally-accessible content ranging from movie, television, and music clips or from user generated content. http://www.eyespot.com .

more info about eyespot

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Are you a film maker looking for a good site to host your videos? A site without the trash and noise of Yahoo Video or YouTube? Check out Crushed Planet.

Award-winning filmmakers (“Taxicab Confessions”) Joe and Harry Gantz announced the creation of their new internet network, CrushedPlanet.com, designed to provide the most intimate, innovative and provocative content on the web, while it protects the rights of artists and gives them the majority of funds from the distribution of their work. CrushedPlanet is an international online community for people 18 years and over, featuring inventive and intelligent content from artists around the world. This is a curated site with fourteen interconnected channels, each with its own unique identity, and all featuring content with a strong point of view. more

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Best Internet Videos of the Week

Best Video Web Sites of the Week

Music Videos

CAMCORDER Buyers Guide and What Accessories do You Really Need?

Special Deals and Rebates on Consumer and Prosumer Camcorders

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Do you travel a lot? Do you miss not being to see local news or watch local sports when you are on the road? Well, there is a solution. The MY-IPTV & CAM Anywhere from Honest technology is designed to let you access local cable television programs remotely from anywhere in the world you can get a good broadband connection. This is pretty cool. In addition, using the associated My-IPCAM application, you can also remotely access and monitor a security video camera in your home or business more

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Joost goes live with advertisers - Joost, the online video site developed by the makers of Skype and Kazaa, went live last week with 31 advertisers and programming from Viacom, CBS and others. Joost has been in beta for months, which meant existing users could invite a limited number of people to join. Now that the site is out of beta, existing users have unlimited invites. Joost claims to have 100 employees across Europe and the U.S., and says it's working with 20 media and brand advertising companies to develop marketing campaigns for its clients. Some of its advertisers include IBM, GM, L'Oreal, Warner Bros., Nokia and Vodafone. For more on Joost: - - see this article from IT Pro

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If you want to make money making Internet Video - you got to read this article at LightReading. In addition to analyzing the market and opportunities, they have a great up to date chart showing where the best opportunities are for converting your video chops into cold hard cash.

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Want to put your videos on your iPOD or Apple iPhone? Roxio Crunches video for Apple TV, iPod, iPhone Macworld.com - Roxio introduced Crunch, a new $39.99 application designed especially for users of the Apple TV, video iPod or the forthcoming iPhone who want to convert video optimized for those devices but don’t want to burn that content to disc.

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The 2007 MTV Movie Awards is all about the fans this year as MTV rolls out its first-ever user generated category, “BEST MOVIE SPOOF” where you can submit your original movie shorts parodying films from the past year. (http://mtvmovieawards.yahoo.com). And making its return this year is the mtvU Best Filmmaker on Campus award, offering the winner national exposure at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards and a $25,000 development deal with MTV Films. more

Watch this video of Sarah Silverman announcing the nominees in the Best Kiss category. http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?vid=146325 Who woulda known she would swing that way.....

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YouTube to pay content providers - YouTube has launched a program that will pay content providers on the site. The company will reward contributors of popular YouTube channels on the same playing field as large media partners such as the big studios.

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Pure Digital Technologies Flip Video, a new line of digital video capture devices designed to revolutionize how everyday consumers shoot and share video. These remarkably simple and affordable camcorders feature a major advance in video sharing technology combined with an ultra-portable design and easy-to-use capture functionality. Developed with Internet video sharing software integrated directly into the device, Flip Video is the first camcorder to seamlessly upload directly to YouTube, and other online video sharing sites. READ THE REVIEW

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 by Philip Andrews and Focal Press is a wonderful introduction to how to use Adobe Photoshop Elements to fix and manipulate digital images and to create images and graphics for your video productions, DVDs and web sites. No matter your initial level of expertise or graphics competence, you will find this manual to be an excellent guide to how to use the Photoshop Elements program - the easy to use version of the industry standard Adobe Photoshop application. more

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Pinnacle offers a range of excellent consumer and prosumer video editing solutions for both PCs and Macs. Checkout this review of their latest Studio home video editing software plus the new Studio MovieBox Plus which combines software with video capture hardware. This is especially useful if you are editing analog video from old VHS or 8mm videotapes.

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ADS DVD xPress - Capture & Burn DVD Movies from Analog Video - Are you trying to create video from your old VHS and analog tapes? It's not so easy. You need a way to easily get your video into your computer. You need what is know as a digitizer - a box that converts your analog video and audio into a digital signal that can be manipulated and edited.

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The Webby Awards announced the winners of the Best Online Films and Videos - The winners of the inaugural Webby Film and Video Awards, the first major awards to honor original film and video premiering on the Internet, were announced today with victors ranging from Hollywood heavy hitters like NBC's "The Office Webisodes" to Eepybird.com's pop phenomenon "The Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments." more

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Have you seen the Silver Light? The new Microsoft SilverLight?

Microsoft throws down the gauntlet to challenge Adobe, Google, YouTube and a bunch of others for the future of streaming video and media on the net. Read This

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USB Flash Reviews - Although they are very common nowadays and they all seem to offer pretty much the same functionality, USB flash drives can actually differ in a number of ways. In this USB flash drive roundup at HotHardware.com, they take a close look at the features and performance of a 4GB OCZ Rally2, a 16GB OCZ Mega-Kart, a 1GB Kingston DataTraveler ReadyFlash, and an 8GB Corsair Voyager GT. Head on over to the site and check them out. You may be surprised by what you see…

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Attention Gootubers - The ads are coming, the ads are coming. According to this article in Red Herring, not only will you be seeing Google ads on the pages surrounding your YouTube Videos but they will be rolling out pre and post roll ads as well.

This is definitely going to take a lot of the appeal out of watching YouTube videos where many of us just like being to quickly taste the video before deciding to watch the whole thing. What's your opinion?

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Do YOU Need a small and easy to use video and audio recorder and player? Archos has introduced their new latest Generation 4 line of hard disk-based media players that provide a large-screen experience, video capture, and wireless connectivity more

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