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What was Hot at CES? What are the new gizmos, gadgets and Internet products that you will be craving this year? Read Mark Shapiro's report - CES 2009 Report What's hot in technology
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>Looking for the Perfect Internet Video Camcorder? Check out the new Flip MinoHD Camcorder - not only is it tiny, but you can customize it with your own photos and images
-- The Flip MinoHD captures great looking video and pretty good audio and it fits in your pocket. About the size of a cell phone, the new MinoHD makes it easy to capture, share and upload video clips to User Generated video sites. Kids love it
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Adobe Premiere Elements 7 Review - Summary and Overview of New Features
Are you looking for a good, affordable video editing software package that will run on your Windows computer and will not require a lot of research or checking of the manual? Do you want a nice selection of effects, filters and audio controls all wrapped in a smart and easy to use interface? Then you ought to check out the newest version of Adobe Premiere Elements. Version 7 adds a bunch of new features - none truly revolutionary but definitely nice. Read the Review
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WebAround wins our award for the Best Simple Idea of CES - It is a webcam background screen that attaches to your office chair and allows you to make one person videos without any annoying background distractions. Plus as the screens are a single color, this enables your video codec to run just a bit more efficiently. The green or blue version also lets you to do basic chroma key image effects. Prices start at $30 and for a small additional fee, you can get your company logo added as well. This is a brilliant idea for video bloggers and business video producers. More Best of CES
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Do You Want to become a YouTube Star?
You have about 2 minutes to get the attention of your online video viewers. Read this Now - You Got to Hit ’Em Over the Head and Get Out
Also read - The Importance of Telling a Story for Great Online Video Success - StoryTelling by Michael W. Dean
From YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts By Alan Lastufka and Michael W. Dean. If you want to be successful on YouTube you got to read this new book. Read - Importance of StoryTelling and You Got to Hit ’Em Over the Head and Get Out
DO YOU WANT TO BE FAMOUS?
How to Create Your Own Reality TV Show
Do you have a great concept for a reality-based TV show, but aren’t sure about the next steps? How do you get your show made without getting screwed over? In his new book, Reality Check (Focal Press, $19.95, October 08), successful talk-show host, Michael Essany, takes you from idea…to reality! Check out this article where he explains how he started out and his path to Reality TV Stardom. It is packed full of practical, step-by-step advice on the art and business of producing reality TV. The book features insights from Mark Burnett, Dick Clark, as well as other top producers in the industry. READ THE PRESS RELEASE
Are you in the market for a new camcorder, but you aren't sure what format to choose from, or which features will be important to you? This primer is for the person looking to either upgrade or purchase a new video camera. We hope it will prepare you with the technical jargon and make your final choice much easier. Read the Article
YouTube Project: Report - In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, YouTube presented Project: Report, a journalism contest (made possible by Sony VAIO & Intel) intended for non-professional, aspiring journalists to tell stories that might not otherwise be told.
Check out the finalists - they were assigned to produce a piece that empowers an underrepresented community to tell its own story to the world.
What were the TOP TEN viral and Internet videos of 2008? Check out this list of the top 2008 viral videos from Truveo. These are broken down by Top Viral Videos, Top Music Videos and Top Live Video Moments. We don't know if these were really the best but they were among the most popular! Posted Dec 31, 2009
Time Magazine's Top 10 Viral Videos of 2008 - this is a good selection but some are a bit eclectic...
comScore List of the Top Online Video Sites - Which web sites are getting the most eyeballs? Which site is playing and distributing the largest number of online and internet videos?
What were the top ten viral video ads in 2008? Check out this list from The Feed Company
Top 10 Viral Video Ads of 2008
Tired of boring statistics about the business of Internet Video? Why not make a MUSIC VIDEO about Internet Video - what Internet videos are the most popular, who watches Internet Video and Why, etc. ? Check out this video from break.com which gives a fun look at the 2008 statistics for online video. DID YOU KNOW
YouTube Project: Report - In partnership with the Pulitzer Center, YouTube presented Project: Report, a journalism contest (made possible by Sony VAIO & Intel) intended for non-professional, aspiring journalists to tell stories that might not otherwise be told.
Check out the finalists - they were assigned to produce a piece that empowers an underrepresented community to tell its own story to the world.
Apple recently refreshed their entire MacBook product line – which includes the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air – with new designs and higher horsepower hardware.
The aluminum unibody design, used on the majority of the new Macs, is cut from a brick of solid aluminum. This results in a stronger, more durable notebook, while at the same time reducing the computer's weight. You really have to handle one of these machines to appreciate the leap that Apple has made with manufacturing; they simply feel more solid than any other notebook that I've handled. Read the Article
Do you have a bunch of old VHS tapes sitting around and want to save them? Here is a fast and easy way to convert VHS tapes to DVD
Dobrow's Online-Video Commandments Media Reviews for Media People: Thou Shalt Not Fake It
Ad Age's fearless media reviewer issues five acid-etched-in-concrete commandments for all future online-video efforts, especially those underwritten by superlatively unfunny marketers, which can be summed up with the adage, "To Thine Own Self Be True."
This is really good. YouTube Video SEO Tips from SES Chicago
Panelists on the Video Search Engine Optimization session for Search Engine Strategies Chicago conference and Expo – Gregory Markel, Greg Jarboe, and Steve Espinosa – shared their expert insights on YouTube’s algorithms, popularity, conversion, and tracking strategies – all towards optimizing your video campaign in the most popular video sharing site today.
Guide to Time Code for Shooting on Location Video - Time-code is the reference point on the tape or hard disk that follows right through the whole production process. Lots of people rely on it and if it goes wrong, becomes nonsequential, or jumps, then it affects viewing, off-line editing, graphics, sound dubs, and on-line editing and causes an awful lot of bad language from video editors. more
Parry Gripp, the Weird Al Yankovic of YouTube
Could Parry Gripp be the best thing that ever happened to YouTube? The man behind Buffy the Vampire Slayer's theme song is turning Internet-video disaster into visual punk rock.
Everything that makes YouTube a time-wasting creative desert is just fodder for Gripp's brilliant mind. Take "Young Girl Talking About Herself," which remixes clips of well, exactly that, paired with lyrics of a frenetic energy that reminds me of They Might Be Giants or Weird Al Yankovic.
Do you need to capture images from your computer screen or from the Internet? Want to easily create and edit screenshots? Check out the new and improved Grabit 9.1 from TechSmith
Do you have a bunch of old VHS tapes sitting around and want to save them? Here is a fast and easy way to convert VHS tapes to DVD
One Minute Media Launches Self-Help Video Platform by Gavin O'Malley,
Competing for a share of the informational video market, upstart One Minute Media has launched its own platform for one-minute, brand-integrated videos, "Know it in a Minute." A self-described "general knowledge" resource, the site provides short tutorials on everything from massaging a baby to the difference between cold and flu, and gardening with allergies. Read the entire article
Apple recently refreshed their entire MacBook product line – which includes the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air – with new designs and higher horsepower hardware.
The aluminum unibody design, used on the majority of the new Macs, is cut from a brick of solid aluminum. This results in a stronger, more durable notebook, while at the same time reducing the computer's weight. You really have to handle one of these machines to appreciate the leap that Apple has made with manufacturing; they simply feel more solid than any other notebook that I've handled. Read the Article
The New Sony HDR-FX1000 HD Camcorder Delivers Cinematic Film-Look for Amateur Videographers
This is a great MSNBC article about how to use YouTube and how to make good looking YouTube videos. How to be a YouTube star on your next vacation
By Christopher Elliott Their path to social media celebrity didn’t involve uploading an overproduced music video, clips of dancing comedians or laughing ...
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RECENT INTERNET VIDEO NEWS & PRESS RELEASESCreating a Web Site: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition
Sebastopol, CA—Think you need an army of skilled programmers to build a website? Think again. With nothing more than an ordinary PC, some raw ambition, and Matthew MacDonald's Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, $29.99), you’ll learn how to create and maintain a professional-looking and visitor-friendly site. This thoroughly revised, new edition gives you all the tools, techniques, and expert advice you need. Read the Press Release
Tokyo, Jan 8, 2009 - (JCN Newswire) - JVC expanded its ProHD camcorder line-up by introducing the industry's first professional solid state camcorder to store files in the native Quicktime format for Apple's Final Cut Pro onto reliable and inexpensive SDHC media cards.
The compact hand-held GY-HM100 3-CCD camcorder is introduced in January 2009. The camcorder records 35Mbps high definition video and uncompressed audio directly to inexpensive SDHC media cards in the native Quicktime format used by Apple Final Cut Pro. read the press release
At the 2009 CES event, ActiveVideo Networks and online media company blip.tv announced a deal that will enable blip.tv content to be featured in the Web-infused television environment created by the ActiveVideo™ Distribution Network. ActiveVideo intelligently streams traditional programming and Web-based content to digital set-top boxes and Web-connected CE devices. ActiveVideo combines the personalized, socially-connected experience that viewers have come to expect from the Web with the quality, immediacy and remote-control navigation of television. read the press release
At the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, Sling Media, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS), introduced SlingGuide, a new web-based way to easily find, watch and record your favorite television programming from anywhere. SlingGuide allows consumers to browse, search and record programs on their DVR from any PC, Macintosh or compatible mobile phone. In addition, if the DVR is SlingLoaded(TM) or has a Slingbox(TM) connected to it, consumers can also watch live or recorded programs off their DVR through a web-based version of the SlingPlayer software that is integrated into SlingGuide. Read the Press Release
Yahoo! Brings the Cinematic Internet to Life and Revolutionizes Internet-Connected Television
LAS VEGAS, Jan 07, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Yahoo!'s (NASDAQ:YHOO) Connected TV group today unveiled the next generation of technology and services for Internet-connected televisions. The company has forged partnerships with top CE manufacturers to launch a widget-based user experience for TV that brings the best of the Web to a broad range of living room devices. Read the Press Release
Web 2.0 awakens new camcorder segment
Portable, pocket camcorders make big headway
The consumer camcorder market remains one of the most complex and dynamic CE categories to date despite witnessing fairly modest unit growth in recent years. Now, the emergence of a new breed of low-cost, back-to-basics pocket video camera is connecting with a fresh base of consumers, opening the market to a host of non-traditional camcorder brands. Read the release
LAS VEGAS, (LVCC, South Hall, S218), Jan. 6. 2009 -D-Link, the end-to-end computer network solutions provider for consumers and businesses, today introduced an 802.11n Wi-Fi network camera that enables remote monitoring of live streaming video from a web browser. Offering plug and play connectivity, the new D-Link 11n network camera features easy installation and setup, mobile 3G and Web monitoring, 16x digital zoom, sharp resolution, and multiple profiles. It connects to the home or small business network using 802.11n Wi-Fi with WPS support*, or via standard network cable. D-Link is also offering a wired-only version (DCS-1100) which connects to the network when a Wi-Fi connection is not required. read the press release
DivX Announces Release of Next-Generation, H.264 Based DivX® 7 Software
New Release Enables High-Quality, HD Video Experience on PC and Devices
San Diego, CA– January 6, 2009 - DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX), a digital media company, today announced that the latest version of the Company’s flagship video software package, Version 7 of DivX® for Windows, is available for download on the company’s newly redesigned website at www.divx.com.
The new release of the popular video software is based on the cutting-edge H.264 video compression standard, which allows for high-performance, high-quality digital video at up to 1080p HD resolution. The software is available in two versions, the free DivX for Windows download which supports DivX video playback, and the DivX Pro for Windows download which enables DivX video creation. Read the press release
blip.tv and ActiveVideo Networks Sign Deal to Bring Original Online Shows Directly to Television
SAN JOSE, CA and NEW YORK, NY (January 6, 2009) -- Today ActiveVideo Networks™ and online media company blip.tv announced a deal that will enable blip.tv content to be featured in the Web-infused television environment created by the ActiveVideo™ Distribution Network.
ActiveVideo intelligently streams traditional programming and Web-based content to digital set-top boxes and Web-connected CE devices. ActiveVideo combines the personalized, socially-connected experience that viewers have come to expect from the Web with the quality, immediacy and remote-control navigation of television.
D-LINK SHOWCASES INNOVATIVE, EASY-TO-USE NETWORKING SOLUTIONS AT CES 2009
LAS VEGAS, ROOM S218, SOUTH HALL, LVCC, Jan. 6, 2009 - D-Link will be highlighting the latest trends in digital home networking and solutions at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) here this week. Read the Press Release
Aflexi launches the next-generation collaborative CDN ecosystem and platform.
Aflexi tears down the Content Delivery Network barrier and enables any webhost or content provider to be a CDN player
Aflexi (www.aflexi.net) launched their new service and content delivery management solution that enables web hosts and content distributors to provide high performance, scalable and secure content distribution at extremely competitive pricing. read the press release
Minoru 3D Webcam launches at CES Las Vegas - The award winning webcam that brings 3D video to the consumer is now available for purchase worldwide. Read the press release
