Posts under ‘Resources - Media Sharing’

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October 20, 2008 - 11:48 am PDT - by Doriano “Paisano” Carta 1 Comment

Launching today at CES i-Stage, YouBundle allows you to create collections or “bundles” of multimedia content and websites all related to a central theme or topic that you select.
You could compare YouBundle to sites such as [...]

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by Erick Schonfeld on October 21, 2008

If high-school education is failing in the U.S., maybe Web video can help. Founded last April, Brightstorm is a Web video site that brings bright, talented teachers together with students who need some extra help. Backed by Korea’s KTB Ventures, which invested the entire $6 million [...]

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October 21, 2008 - 3:00 am PDT - by Doriano “Paisano” Carta 1 Comment

BrightStorm has launched a new online learning network for teenagers with video-based courses lead by experienced instructors. The concept is rather clever as they use the tools that teens use everyday such as online videos to [...]

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October 14, 2008 - 12:12 pm PDT - by Paul Glazowski6 Comments

Want to tell millions of people which lever you intend to pull on November 4th during the U.S. presidential election? YouTube has launched a channel calledVideo Your Vote intended to “shed light on voting in America and show democracy in action through the eyes of [...]

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October 15, 2008 - 6:24 am PDT - by Stan Schroeder9 Comments

Sometimes I forget how big the Internet is, and then something reminds me just how flabbergastingly, enormously huge the damn thing is. This time it’sFacebook, whose software engineer Doug Beaver announced that it nowhosts a total of 10 billion photos. And it’s not even [...]

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October 13, 2008 - 11:26 pm PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins

Today marks the announcement and release of Brightcove’s Platform 3, the latest release of their online video distribution service. They’ve rebuilt the service completely and comes with the promise to “empower website producers to be successful in the era of pervasive video.”
They do look like [...]

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by Mike Rosen-Molina, September 25, 2008
Tagged: contests, journalism, videocameras, videos, youtube

Whenever news breaks, the first people on the ground, before reporters arrive, are ordinary folks with cameras. Citizen journalists have played an important role in getting us the first glimpses of developing news, from the London transit bombings to the Southeast Asian tsunami [...]

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by Erick Schonfeld on October 7, 2008

It wasn’t so long ago that we wondered if YouTube would ever start to flex its marketing muscles. Now it is trying to squeeze more money out of the ads on its homepage and just today it introduced the YouTubevertorial. Starting with music and videogame partners, YouTube will begin inserting click-to-buy links below [...]

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October 3, 2008 - 4:43 pm PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins 

 A new report was issued today by eMarketer that showed a distinct pattern of growth in video advertising spending over the next five years, with percentage increases year over year between 5% and 12%. In dollars, they predict that video ad spending, which [...]

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October 4, 2008 - 2:47 pm PDT - by Paul Glazowski 

You’ve likely heard often enough about YouTube channels established by news media organizations to distribute material to Web users in a place many are expected to frequent. But do you take those sources up on their offers? Do you subscribe? Do you follow?
This week, [...]