What Ever Happened to CurrentTV
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…
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…
Since there's no model that has high traffic (YouTube) AND pay-for-content (Revver), this has been my strategy for making money through online video. Use it as your own risk. Create good stuff. I'm hit or miss, and still experimenting. Since I'm not interested in making sexy videos, I focus on humor. Sometimes topical, sometimes corny,…
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…
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…
Episode 11 of “Viral on Veoh” features Host Sunny Gault in Philadelphia. I missed seeing her live, but she include moments of my recent “Mall Pranks” (aka Mall-licious) at the end of the segment. Thanks, Sunny. The show’s pacing has picked up dramatically. This episode moves at the speed of light.
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…
Next New Networks is debuting an online-video show about online video. Googleburn, which appears each Wednesday is: “the sting in your eyes when you’ve been ogling online videos all night and it’s 6 AM on Monday and oh dear lord you can’t see anything because the Internet blasted you with whiteout,” says host Nick Douglas…