Posts Tagged ‘video’

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by Leena Rao on March 24, 2009

When Richard Ludlow was struggling in a linear algebra class at Yale, he scoured the internet for answers and stumbled upon a full video course available online from one of MIT’s mathematics professors, Gilbert Strang. He realized that there was an opportunity to create an [...]

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By JOE SHARKEY
Published: February 23, 2009
WILLIAM A. ALLEN III has deplaned, returned the rental car and unpacked the suitcase he always kept ready to roll at home in Raleigh, N.C.

Mr. Allen, business traveler extraordinaire, is off the road. “I don’t want to do it anymore. I’m going to be 61 in [...]

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by Serkan Toto on November 18, 2008

Why do certain videos on YouTube become mass phenomena while the vast majority of videos just get a handful of views, if any?
Riley Crane, an American post doctoral fellow currently researching at the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at ETH university in Zurich/Switzerland, says he has [...]

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By REUTERS
Published: November 12, 2008
Filed at 9:05 a.m. ET

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - YouTube will venture into webcasting later this month, in an effort to take the video sharing Web site’s popularity to a new level by showcasing the talent behind its most viewed videos.
The site, owned [...]

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November 13, 2008 - 4:07 am PDT - by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins 1 Comment

A concept in video advertising has been bubbling up amongst the professionals I’ve been listening to over the last six months, one that makes a lot of sense and is already in use by several successful [...]

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The Army’s Web site for potential enlistees, goarmy.com, will feature a series of webcasts about soldiers deployed in Iraq.
By STUART ELLIOTT
Published: November 10, 2008
FOR the last two years, the Army has presented itself to potential recruits as the way to become “Army strong.” Beginning on Tuesday, Veterans Day, the Army will [...]

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By David Chartier | Published: November 11, 2008 - 04:05PM CT

Gmail’s budding reputation as a communication hub for more than just e-mail received a major endorsement today with the addition of voice and video chat. Google launched the feature today and will roll it out to users around the world over the next [...]

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November 1, 2008 - 9:52 am PDT - by Paul Glazowski

I don’t know whether to think recent calculations for mobile video consumption (or lack thereof) via the four top wireless carriers in America are just a little bit Halloween spooky, a big point of concern, or perhaps a good omen.
It’s [...]

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by Erick Schonfeld on October 23, 2008

Critical Media CEO Sean Morgan has some advice for TV broadcasters who are still using $50,000 workstations and a team of professional video editors to upload TV clips to their Websites:
Fire your editor, and here is your username and password.
The password he wants to give them is [...]

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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 [...]