Once upon a time a group of Belgian newspaper publishers decided that they didn’t like how Google was indexing their news stories and publishing headlines and short snippets on Google News and Google.be. While many newspaper publishers realized that Google was actually directing traffic to their web sites, Copiepresse, the organization representing the group of Belgian publishers took Google to…
Google has released Picasa version 2.7 for Linux, which promises many of the same improvements of the PC version, including (drum roll, please) uploading and downloading from Picasa Web Albums.
Further improvements include:
And much more. So…
» Read the rest of this entry ...At the MIX conference this afternoon, Perkins Miller of NBC demoed the Silverlight powered video platform for NBCOlympics.com. Duncan Riley liveblogging for TechCrunch called it “kickass,” and it deservedly got the largest ovation of the day.
The player interface designed by Schematic will offer users the ability to view multiple cameras and multiple events simultaneously, as well as enhanced picture-in-picture, and interactive features for…
» Read the rest of this entry ...YouTube which announced plans to increase video quality at NewTeeVee Live in November has begun offering higher quality encoding for certain clips.
While this is clearly still in the testing stages and there hasn’t been an official announcement, the folks over at VideoHelp.com have figured out that adding &fmt=6 or &fmt=18 to the end of a video link returns a H.264 encoded clip…
» Read the rest of this entry ...FastCompany.TV launched today under Robert Scoble. Far from being a only video companion to of the magazine, the content is geared toward what Robert Scoble is interested in, and as a result we are granted access to people and technology traditional media would never get.
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In addition to first look interviews with people like Curtis Wong…
» Read the rest of this entry ...I’ve been a fan of Viddler’s platform for a while, mainly for its simplicity and high quality encoding. I turned to Viddler for my personal online video player needs when Brightcove abandoned their personal services.
On Feb 26th, Viddler introduced the first official release of their platform’s wordpress plug in, enabling WP users to embed Viddler-hosted video directly from the Wordpress dashboard.…
» Read the rest of this entry ...Online video startup Fliqz has been on our radar for a while. Founded in 2005, the company provides a customized flash player solution for approximately 2000 clients and recently added 3.2 million to an initial $2.5 million of second round funding from Mohr Davidow Ventures.
Despite a solid partner list and good technology very little has been written about them, so today…
» Read the rest of this entry ...Kicking the week off with Daisy Whitney’s New Media Minute. This week she explains the three-video deal between online comedy duo Rhett and Link and TVGuide Network, and the move by social networking company KickApps to strike deals with content delivery networks to offer its video player for free to their customers.
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