Courtesy of Project Working Stiff, here is an interesting quote from Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire (who sold his Allaire Corp. to Macromedia in 2001 for $360 million). "We think that casual broadband consumers will want to consume a lot of content daily in 2-7 minute bursts of high-quality, streamed viewing. But once they develop either…
A Google ad caught my attention for WimpyMedia. Interesting site that displays various media through a collection of relatively low-cost tools. It's interesting to demo the variety of ways they can stream media. I'm guessing your hosting provider would have server requirements that enable these, but it's interesting to see how modular audio/video content can…
First let me thank you folks who responded to the last post. It's giving me a much better idea of what readers want. That said, I need to get something off my chest. Banners suck. One of our web developers learned at a usability conference that eyeball studies reveal that our eyes spend about .09 of…
You are a silent bunch of readers. I get three times as many visitors to this site as I do to Revverberation. But you're a silent bunch- almost no comments here on WillVideoForFood. If WordPress didn't give me stats, I'd be checking to make sure I plugged in my Internet connection and wasn't blogging to…
This Transformer video is pretty funny. It slows down in the middle, but comes to an interesting (albiet violent) ending. I discovered it via TechDigest.TV (who does a nice YouTube roundup). I recognize these guys and their CD-covered wall, so I went back to the site in their YouTube profile. It's Smosh.com- and here's another…
The Crackberry video I did early this week didn't take off at first, but now a few blogs (Micropersuasion and some Blackberry blogs) have started to point to it. Meanwhile, here's a recent story of a Chicago hotel that helps you shake Crackberry addiction by locking away your Blackberry!
Last night, Stephen King (of the Institute for the Future) was graceful enough to give me some video soundbytes about the future of online video. As you might expect, these get weirder each clip. 1) Stephen speaks about the eventual merger of online video devices (20 seconds) 2) How far out can the Institute predict?…
Stephen King (not THAT Stephen King, but the one from the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto) spoke yesterday at my day job. He discussed the difference between legacy television viewing ("leaning back") and online video viewing ("leaning forward"). Obviously our attention span is different for each task- 30 minutes to hours for "leaning…
TiVo is diversifying by adding web video from such providers as the NBA, New York Times, CNet and iVillage. Interestingly, the deal is TiVo's way to provide more value not more revenue. The content providers (at least iVillage) will maintain 100$ of the ad revenue generated by short ads associated with the content. TiVo, which…
I was getting demoralized lately as I've been making my way through loads of crappy online video advertisements. The kind that feel like you're listening to a timeshare pitch because you want the resort discount. Suddenly, I received an e-mail from Jim Meskimen that showcases his new ad series for VW. You may not recognize…