All Your Videos Are Belong to Us
ALL YOUR VIDEOS ARE BELONG TO US. That was the message today when YouTube went down today. See this blog for more. Perplexing. It's a real story- see CNet.
ALL YOUR VIDEOS ARE BELONG TO US. That was the message today when YouTube went down today. See this blog for more. Perplexing. It's a real story- see CNet.
So there's a lot of debate as to whether this is a hoax or not, but you decide for yourself. It convinced me. Here, friends, is one of the most viral clips of the past month or so. Jimmy Kimmel Getting Bitten by a Snake. For higher resolution but slower performance, check out the same…
To encourage reader comments, I'm offering links to related sites from this blog — which gets as high as 300 people per day. All you have to do is comment frequently, and if your site is related I'll throw in a link on the right column. I'll also do a post covering your site if…
ZackScott, one of my favorite fearless video creators, returns for a guest blog post about winning a recent Xlntads ProQuo contest (disclaimer: Zack and I both contribute to Xlntads as members of a “creative advisor board, and he wins contests while I think about them). Zack told me yesterday, “I’m hoping people think I’m such…
My first camera was a Panasonic. I called her Panny. I'd bring her to parties and make $200 videotaping the event. I'd also throw it on my shoulder whenever I got stuck in an awkward conversation- it works even better than the "I need to fill my drink" line. Anyway, here's a Panasonic contest. You…
In this 4-minute video from CNet, Jeremy Allaire (Brightcove founder and president) discusses the future of videos on the Internet. CNET's Neha Tiwari interviewed Allaire at Supernova 2006. Scheduled television content isn't dead, according to Brightcove who is working on services for smaller firms to syndicate content. P.S. Getting that video to serve will require you…
Two interesting trends have accelerated the growth of "Citizen Created Commercials" (ads like those of FireFoxFlicks that are created not by Madisson Avenue but by folks like us). First, as brands migrate big television dollars to the web, there's simply not enough traditional paid placement opportunities (like banners nobody clicks). So marketers want something that…