What Ever Happened to CurrentTV

ByNalts May 26, 2006

Remember the Al Gore channel, CurrentTV? It's still got a website, but I sure haven't heard much about it lately. Also check out Google Current…

Will Advertisers Shift from TV to Web?

ByNalts July 11, 2006December 20, 2009

Advertisers will likely start investing more of their media budgets online when they see the results of a new Nielsen study. Nielsen Media Research, the firm that calculates national television ratings, will investigate how many people actually watch TV commercials (source: Today’s Wall Street Journal). In November, Nielsen will begin for the first time to…

Want to Get Rich? Develop a Tool that Allows Video Submitters to Hit All Major Sites at Once.

ByNalts July 31, 2006

Calling all tech-savvy entrepreneurs. There’s an unmet need among us online-video nerds. We spend hour submitting to multiple sites, and it’s quite time consuming and tedious. When there were dozens of search engines, website owners had the same problem. A few free/paid tools emerged that promised they could submit your URL to a variety of…

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YouTube Goes High Definition: The “Secret” Hack Know As &fmt=18

ByNalts March 16, 2008December 20, 2009

The thing that put YouTube on the map was easy file sharing — quick uploads and fast Flash-based streaming. Lately YouTube is experimenting with high definition, which is a slight improvement from the typical squished Flash format. Here are the key things you need to know: It’s in testing, and it’s not perfect. The audio…

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Grouper vs. Online Video Sites

ByNalts May 6, 2006

This is a really funny spoofon the competition for online video sites. Grouper is interesting, but I'm surprised they still haven't fixed their embedded video player so that it doesn't default load. If I insert, for example, this video as HTML on Blogger, then the video plays when you arrive on the blog… whether you…

New Way for Amateur Videos to Cross Chasm Between “Lean Forward” and “Lean Back”

ByNalts September 13, 2006December 20, 2009

How many technomarketing cliches can I work into one headline? The majority of consumer generated video is consumed while we “lean forward” (computer). Now there’s a new way to reach those “leaning back” (television). BlipTV and Akimbo (a set-top box maker) have partnerered so Akimbo users can access the best user-generated videos. Although BlipTV isn’t…

Even My Boss Knew About This Video

ByNalts December 5, 2007December 20, 2009

It’s not often my boss mentions YouTube, and I usually try to avoid eye contact when he does. But at today’s staff meeting he mentioned that a friend from a former employer had a YouTube video called “Here Comes Another Bubble” by The Richter Scales. It’s a wonderful satire on the absurdity of web 2.0…

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