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Rocketboom Explains Numa Numa

Rocketboom explains the background behind the Internet meme Numa Numa. Gary Brolsma generated millions of a view and generated thousands of imitations. Gary's most recent appearance is with the Geico gecko. Rocketboom says there are over 6,000 people with their own versions of Numa Numa on YouTube.

Posted on April 4, 2009
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AP Names Hulu Website of the Year

AP has dubbed Hulu the Website of the Year for 2008. The website lets users watch full-length video content including the latest tv shows and movies. An AP article says the blogosphere was initially skeptical of the project.

"This is period of great experimentation in regard to media, in regard to online video," said Hulu chief executive officer Jason Kilar in a recent interview. "You've seen a lot, you're probably going to see even more in terms of various business models, various interface designs. I personally love to operate in moments of time like that."

Hulu officially launched March 12, a result of the unlikely collaboration between News Corp. and NBC Universal. Normally, such corporate fusion in new mediums doesn't pan out.

The blogosphere was, to say the least, doubtful. Before its name was announced, bloggers derided the project as "Clown Co."

Hulu is a great website and its very useful. It's usefulness depends on its ability to continue to be able to get new video content for its viewers to watch.

Posted on December 20, 2008
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Online Video Views Soaring

Data from Comscore says video views soared over 66% in February over the year before. Comscore also says TV networks are starting to fight back with sights like Hulu.com. This is also what the writer's strike was all about. Video is rapidly moving online and everybody wants a piece of the pie.

Posted on April 18, 2008
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DailyMotion Goes HD

A video sharing website called DailyMotion has added high definition (HD) videos. The have also set up a page here that lets you view and share HD videos.

For more than a year-and-a-half we have offered High-Quality video encoding, but with the rise of HD digital video cameras we have seen more and more Creative Content submitted in High Definition. This is why, from today on out, all HD video uploaded by MotionMakers will be automatically re-encoded in 720p High Definition for playback on the site.

Anyone can watch videos in HD. To get the most out of Dailymotion’s HD, we recommend opening HD videos in full-screen mode or, even better, viewing the site on an HD-compatible screen. If your monitor is not big enough to enjoy HD, you can always connect your computer to your TV.

ReadWriteWeb reports that another video sharing website called Vimeo added video sharing last October. YouTube still doesn't offer HD but it is probably only a matter of time before they do. (via Techmeme)

Posted on February 18, 2008
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Internet Spurs Dance Fads

The Internet is helping dance fads to take off according to this WSJ video. In the past it was parties and dance tv shows like American Bandstand that helped dance fads take off. The article also mentions the Soulja Boy Tell'em - Crank That hit. The WSJ is certainly correct about this trend. If you don't believe them then just look at the 27 million views and counting that the Soulja Boy instructional dance video has received. The article says this is a trend and savvy bands will be trying to be a part of it with clever choreography.

Posted on February 12, 2008
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OoVoo Now Lets Users Record Video Chats

ooVoo has released a new version of its ooVoo video chat software. This software allows users to record video chats. These video chats can then be posted on video-sharing sites like MetaCafe or YouTube. ooVoo allows video conferencing with as many as six people. You can also add virtual features like a virtual moustache.

Posted on February 8, 2008
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Nine Billion Videos Watched Online in September

Internet Retailer cites a ComScore report that found people viewed 9 billion videos online in September. 3/4 of all Internet users in the U.S. watched at least one video online during the month of September.

Nearly 75% of U.S. Internet users watched a video online in September, averaging three hours of video per person during the month, according to comScore Video Metrix. Google Sites, which includes YouTube.com, topped the September rankings with both the most unique video viewers and most videos viewed.

Americans viewed more than 9 billion videos online, with Google Sites ranking as the top U.S. video property with 2.6 billion videos viewed (28.3% share of videos), 2.5 billion of which occurred at YouTube.com (27.6%). Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 387 million videos viewed (4.2%), of which 360 million were watched at MySpace.com, which Fox owns. Yahoo Sites ranked third with 381 million videos viewed (4.1%), followed by Viacom Digital with 304 million (3.3%).

The average length of the videos watch was justed was 2.7 minutes so these are not much longer than the average television commercial break.

Posted on December 4, 2007
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Striking Writers Use Web to Spread Message

The striking WGA writers have been making clever use of new media to spread the message about how they are not being paid for content streamed online. Fortune reports that the writers have launched blogs, placed videos on YouTube and set up social network profiles.

Writers also began using social networking sites, including MySpace and Facebook, to communicate among themselves. The irony of using a site like MySpace, which is owned by media conglomerate News Corp. (Charts, Fortune 500), a company being struck by writers, does not go unnoticed.

"It can't be fun for Rupert Murdoch for me to be doing this in his back yard right now," said Kristen Stavola, a screenwriter behind the MySpace site "Hollywood Interrupted."

One of the most popular efforts has been the video "The Office is Closed," which was shot on the picket lines by Peter Rader.

The video features the show's writer-producer Greg Daniels and cast members belittling a TV network claim that reuse of episodes on the Web is merely "promotional."

That video, posted on YouTube, has been viewed more than 520,000 times.

"We realized we had the opportunity to take the Internet and use it against the companies which are trying to dominate the Internet," Rader said.

Rader said the videos, blogs, social networking pages and other efforts constitute a "virtual picket line" where writers can communicate their position without having it filtered through the media, much of which is owned by the companies that also control TV networks and film studios.

One of the most popular blogs established by the writers on strike is called United Hollywood. You can see many other blog, video and website resources on this webpage on writerswrite.com.

Posted on November 27, 2007
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Live Maps to Incorporate Birds Eye Into 3D Maps

Live Side reports that Live Maps 3D is going to be incorporating Birds Eye view photograph technology. The technology gives you the feeling that you are viewing the buildings and roads from above (like a bird) and then zooming in for a closer view. You can get a better idea in the video below.

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The new feature for Live Maps had been announced at the Searchification convention.

At Searchification a couple of weeks back, the new features coming in Live Search Maps were shown for the first time to some press and bloggers in anticipation of the release. The bits are finally aligned and in the hands of our ops team for deployment this week. I'll have full coverage here as soon as the release is publicly accessible, so check back in a few days for that. for a peek at what's coming, I'll tell you about my favorite new feature - Birds Eye navigation in 3D. Why it's my favorite is hard to say; it might be because it appeals equally to both sides of my brain. on one hand it is a great bit of engineering excellence and on the other it is a work of interactive art that's just plain fun to use. For background, its important to understand the challenges of visualizing our Birds eye imagery in a seamless mosaic the way we are all used to looking at satellite imagery that looks straight down at earth. Since all of the images are shot from the same point of view, it's relatively easy to stitch them together in a convincing tapestry. There's still challenges like doing good color balancing across images and rectifying so that buildings in tall cities don't appear to butt heads, but these are pretty well understood problems. Birds eye images are a different story. because of the way they are captured, there is no easy way to stitch them at their edges without introducing nasty distortions. The result is that Birds eye imagery is viewed as discrete 'scenes' instead of 1 giant tapestry. when you navigate to the edge of the current scene, the most appropriate next scene is dynamically determined, then displayed. Since Birds eye imagery is captured from 4 angles, we have North, South, East and west views of each point on earth adding another dimension of complexity to navigation.

Live Search Maps is a service from Microsoft. The 3D feature allows you to view buildings from above just like in the video. You can zoom in or out just like in the video.

Posted on October 16, 2007
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Internet News Highlights 7-15-07

Here are some Internet and web surfing news highlights from around the Web.

Live Earth sets record with 10 million video streams.
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey caught making comments on Yahoo stock forum about a competitor.
Nearly half of U.S. residents have broadband but the rate of adoption is slowing.
There are some positive iPhone reviews. The web surfing aspect of the iPhone has been better received than the phone part.
Web humor: So this is how the mouse moves the arrow on your PC?
FTC says net neutrality is not needed. FTC statement.
Xerox has created a search engine called FactSpotter that searches through documents and returns relevant answers .
Read/WriteWeb has some details about Spock, vertical search engine for people currently in private beta.
Study finds major differences between MySpace and Facebook users .
Friendster comeback? Friendster see 40% pageview boost in May .
Funny video: I can be your Facebook Stalker.
Mahalo, new human-powered search engine, now paying guides to create search results.
Ebay takes on Criaglist with its new classified service called Kijiji.
Google Video is now a video search engine.
Sometimes SatNav navigation should be ignored.
Jason Calacanis' new human-powered search engine called Mahalo has launched.
About.com lists ten things you didn't know you could do with RSS.
Google has launched a street level viewing feature. See it here.
Interesting story about Kevin Ham who built a $300 million empire out of buying/selling domain names.
A gadget news microblog has launched.
MySpace acquires a widget photo, video creating tool called Flektor.
A good recap of Google's Searchology Day.
Traffic to newspapers from search engines is increasing.
Not having a web presence or web profile could hurt job seekers.
Google's personalized homepage service becomes iGoogle.
AOL gets a blogish redesign.
The six stages of email.
Yahoo CEO Terry Semel resigns. Taking his place will be Jerry Yang
Microsoft introduces Surface computing.
A peer-to-peer network for vehicles that could pinpoint trouble spots is a possibility.
Slate article about "How Netvibes helped me cram the whole Internet onto a single screen."
ChaCha startup search engine provides web search combined with human guides.
Ask.com is launching a new search algorithm that is based on Teoma and Direct Hit.
Chinese and English multilingual search engine called Juxit has launched.
Comcast cuts off "bandwidth hogs."
Google launches MyMaps which has personalization features.
Zoominfo claims to have profiles on 35 million people and over 3.8 million companies.

Posted on July 15, 2007
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ZonTube Mashes Amazon and YouTube

ZonTube is a handy website that mashes results from Amazon.com's music store with videos on YouTube.com. Search for an artist and then select an album from that artist and ZonTube will show you a list of songs from the album. Each song that has YouTube videos available will have a link next to it that shows you the videos from YouTube. Some of the videos on youTube are made by fans and some of them are the official videos for the song. Lifehacker explains how you would find music videos for the songs from Norah Jones' latest album.

Say you're looking for the new Norah Jones album and would like to see if there's a music video out yet for any of the songs. You can use ZonTube to instantly find out if Norah indeed has released any music vids for every song on her album, and watch them right there within ZonTube. ZonTube is organized into categories from Alternative Rock to Soundtracks (with sub-categories for each); you can also click on the frequently updated New Releases to find out what's up and coming.

Some of the more popular artists have more videos on YouTube. For example, Britney Spears' Oops!... I Did It Again album has YouTube videos for pratically every song on the album. You can see the ZonTube page for this album here.

Posted on January 23, 2007
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Writers Write, Inc. Launches VideoNacho.com

Writers Write, Inc., the parent company of SurfersSurf.com, announces the launch of VideoNacho.com. VideoNacho.com features the Web's hottest short videos and film clips. Video Nacho's editors find the best videos on the Web so you don't have to: music, comedy, pets antics, social commentary: it just has to be entertaining. Enjoy a delicious short new video snack every afternoon. Calorie-free, it's sure to give you a lift!

VideoNacho.com is the twentieth blog to join the Writers Write Lifestyle Network. It follows the launch in May, 2006 of WatchersWatch.com, a blog covering what's hot in movies and television.

Posted on October 18, 2006
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Microsoft Licenses Blinkx.tv Video Search

TechWeb reports that Microsoft has licensed Blinkx.tv's video-search engine for use on its Live.com search engine.

Blinkx.tv on Monday said it has licensed its video-search engine to Microsoft Corp. for use in some MSN Web properties and Live.com sites. Financial details were not disclosed.

San Francisco-based Blinkx.tv uses voice recognition software to search online audio and video. The privately held San Francisco company was founded in early 2004.

The Microsoft agreement was a straight licensing deal, and did not include any sharing of ad revenue, a spokeswoman said.

Blinkx claims its technology for searching multimedia files delivers more accurate results than major Web portals, such as Yahoo Inc., MSN and Google Inc.

Blinkx.tv's website says it has 6 million hours of video that web surfers can search through. The homepage displays 25 active videos at one time. You can click on a particular video to enlarge it.

Posted on October 10, 2006
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PureVideo To Offer Video Search

Gavilan's WeBlog reports that a new video search tool has launched called PureVideo. The video search tool is currently in beta mode.

New meta search engine for online video content, PureVideo.com (Pure Video Search) has launched in beta as a one stop location for the searching of online video across the major Internet video providers. PureVideo.com aggregates crawled data from YouTube, MySpace Video, Comedy Central, Fox Sports, ESPN, CNN, DailyMotion.com and GoFish among others.

The video search site is not fully functional yet. The homepage of PureVideo contains lists of top videos from several popular video sharing websites. PureVideo Networks Inc. also owns and operates StupidVideos.com and GrindTV.com.

Posted on October 9, 2006
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Light Reading Names Blip.tv Top Video Sharing Website

Light Reading, an online publication for the telecommunications industry, named Blip.tv the number one video sharing website. Light Reading came up with the following list of ten sites after reviewing a total of 45 video sharing websites.

A longer list of rankings with descriptions of each site can be found here.

Posted on August 28, 2006
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Dabble Searches Hundreds of Video Websites

BloggersBlog.com reports on the launch of Dabble, a video search tool. Dabble will crunch the videos listed on a hundreds of different search websits.

Dabble is a new video search tool that searches video data from over 300 video hosting websites including Blip.tv, Clipshack, YouTube and FrozenHippo. The launch post announcing the new service can be found here. Currently, Dabble can search over 321,000 videos.

This looks like a very useful website especially for people who love online videos. Dabble users can also tag videos listed in the Dabble database and submit their own videos.

Posted on August 7, 2006
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Yahoo Video Relaunches

The Browser reports that Yahoo has relaunched its Yahoo Video website. The site now includes categories, lists of the most popular videos as well as upload features.

Yahoo made a break for the front of the Internet video pack last night, launching a retooled version of Yahoo Video, its well-trafficked but heretofore uninspired video-hosting service. The buzz online is that the upgrade is overdue, and may well push Yahoo ahead of current video leaders YouTube and MySpace Videos. The San Jose Mercury News reports that the new Yahoo Video, unlike the old, will allow users to upload their own movies, and goes one "step further by integrating the amateur content with professional videos from the likes of ABC News, CBS's "60 Minutes," the Discovery Channel, and CNN. This, says the Merc, "appears to position the Sunnyvale company for a future in Internet television."

The Yahoo Video service also has a new blog to go with it. One of the entries discusses some of the videos people have been uploading.

Posted on June 14, 2006
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AddictingClips Lets You Rate and Share Clips

AddictingClips is another webite targeting the booming interesting in short video clips on the Web. AddictingClips lets you load, play, and share your video clips. You can also rate other people's video clips and see the top-rated clips. AddictingClips was created by the same company responsible for AtomFilms. The video ranking features of AddictingClips are similar to VideoBomb. Technorati also provides a ranking for the top YouTube videos in the blogosphere.

Posted on April 17, 2006
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Viacom's Video Mixer

B2Day blogs about a Viacom website that includes a useful video tool called Video Mixer. Video Mixer lets you mix clips from the N's shows, like Degrassi and O'Grady, with music and graphics.

It is dead-simple, but it gives you enough functionality (you can lay down one of four music tracks, put in transitions between scenes, and add graphics) to create fun, viral video clips. (Here's mine). Then once you e-mail that, an ad from Skittles is inserted in front of your mashup. It's the perfect media microchunk. Media companies need to provide more tools like this to help raise the bar for consumer-generated video.

Many film and tv studios offers stills and desktop pictures on their websites. B2Day is right that they should also be offering video mixing tools as well.

Posted on March 29, 2006
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The Emergence of Clip Culture

BBC has an interesting article about what it calls the emergence of a "clip culture." The article talks about the growing popularity of both streaming video and the short viral video clips that people like to email to friends and post in blogs. The article mentions MSN Video and YouTube as two popular websites for video clips.

The emergence of video sharing sites is yet another seemingly instant internet success story that has caught many by surprise.

Last month, two sites, MSN Video and Youtube, attracted nearly 10 million unique US visitors each.

While those numbers are relatively insignificant when compared with network television viewership, widespread video sharing is just getting started.

Youtube, which is home to 25 million videos and streams 15 million of them each day, just launched its service last year.

Most of the videos on Youtube and other video sharing services are not full-length features.

The article says there are three different types of clips: amateur clips, montage videos and short clips from television shows or movies. The third category has caused the most concerns in Hollywood. NBC recently overreacted and removed a popular Saturday Night Clip, called the Lazy Sunday viral, from YouTube. Eventually, the networks will probably cut deals with sites like YouTube to allow the videos to be distributed around the web as long as a short ad is included.

Posted on March 20, 2006
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Dabble Aggregates Online Video

Dabble is a new website that allows you to aggregate online videos. Om Malik offers this description of Dabble from a recent post about the service.

Essentially you sign-up for the service and create a personal page, where you can aggregate videos you like from anywhere on the web. Dabble gives you a little script-let that creates a quick tag in the bookmark bar of your browser. See a video you like, say on You Tube or vSocial or Veoh, you hit Dabble It, and the video link is added to your video playlist. You can tag it, create micro-playlists and share it amongst your friend. Pretty much like you do on Flickr. When you want to watch a video, Dabble screen is split into two frames, and the second frame takes you to the page where the video is hosted.

It sounds like a useful service. There is so much competition in web video these days it is difficult to say what companies will make it and which will not.

Posted on February 2, 2006
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Google Not the Only Video Search Tool

You may heard about Google's launch of an online video store at CES. Google now offers both free and fee-based videos at Google Video. Search Engine Watch reminds everyone that Google is not the only provided of downloadable videos. Others include Vongo (new service from Starz), iTunes (recent deals with ABC, NBC), CinemaNow, MovieLink, DirectTV and Tivo. There are also services like iFilm which has many short free videos and film clips.

Posted on January 10, 2006
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Do It All With Glide Effortless

PC World has an article about Glide Effortless, a new multi-purpose publishing and storage web tool.

If there was an award for "Most Ambitious New Web Service of 2005," it might well go to Glide Effortless, which a startup called TransMedia launched on Wednesday. Glide aims to let you manage and share music, videos, photos, presentations, and other items online, transcoding them on the fly so you don't, in theory, have to worry about file formats. It's an e-mail program, a contact database, an RSS reader, a photo-printing service, a blogging tool, and a Web site builder, too. And it says it'll soon be a photo editor, a music store, a ringtone vendor, a videoconferencing system, and a whole lot more. Did I mention that it also plans to sell French chocolates? (Note: The last sentence was a statement of fact, not playful hyperbole.)

Describing Glide briefly is practically impossible. To use the service, you upload documents and media files from your PC; a free version of the service gives you 100MB of space, and you can get a lot more by springing for fee-based options. Once files live within Glide, you can get to them from any PC, use them to construct Web sites, and share them. (Sharing can be done with folks who don't have Glide accounts, and it's done through transcoded, streamed versions of files; among other things, this means that you can distribute them via e-mail, but yank them back after a certain number of viewings or a set timeframe.)

Glide Effortless looks like a combination of a purplish desktop with some of the Web 2.0 launches we have seen lately -- but we agree with PC World that it is difficult to describe. PC World suggests trying the free version and avoiding the fee-based services for now.

Posted on December 2, 2005
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The Flickrs of Video

TechCruch has a post that compares the features of the emerging video tagging tools -- the flickrs of video. Flickr has emerged as the leader in photo sharing and tagging but who will emerge in video? The article mentions these websites: YouTube.com, CastPost.com, ClipShack.com, Daily Motion, Grouper, OurMedia, Revver, Vimeo and Vsocial.com

Some of these you have seen mentioned here on SurfersSurf.com over the past couple months. In the comments section of this article are a few others including vMix, Vidilife, Seehaha and Vobbo. There is also an interesting discussion group mentioned for videobloggers.

Posted on November 9, 2005
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OnfuegO is a Growing Video Community

OnfuegO is a new video community that allows users to upload videos and video blogs. The site supports QuickTime (.mov), MPEG(.mpg, and .mpeg) and Windows Media Player formats (.wmf). Onfuego allows visitors to view, rate and reviews the user-submitted videos. A search tool is also provided to make it easier to find videos on OnfuegO. OnfuegO offers both free and paid subscription levels with paid subscriptions getting more uploads and web space. More about video blogging can be found here on our BloggersBlog.com website.

Posted on August 20, 2005
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YouTube is a Video Sharing Resource

YouTube, which bills itself as "your digital video repository," allows web surfers to upload videos to the site and tag them. The videos can then be shared openly with the public or privately shared only with friends and family. People can search the site to see the videos open to the public. For example, here are all the videos tagged under "dog." The website also listed the most popular and the most discussed videos. YouTube says it accepts video files from most digital cameras and from cell phones in the .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG file formats.

Posted on July 25, 2005
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Blinkx Expands to Include Podcast and Vlog Searches

TechWeb reports that Blinkx, a video search tool, has expanded to include searches of both podcasts and vlogs. The company says it is biggest Podcast repository online and that they are currently tracking over 20,000 podcasts. There are not nearly as many vlogs on the web as podcasts but the number is expected to climb as better software and editing tools come available to consumers. TechWeb has more on Blinkx's plans.

Blinkx's site focuses on TV video, which it searches and shows through partnerships with content providers, such as CNN and Fox News. In order to gain access to content not available for free over the web, Blinkx, like other video search engines, has to negotiate agreements with the content providers.

In the case of podcasts, which are programming created by individuals; or video blogs, the multimedia version of weblogs, the content is available directly on the web, and therefore searchable by Blinkx's web crawlers, Suranga Chandratillake, founder of the company, said.

Blinkx decided to start searching the new forms of web content because of demand from people using its service and the fact that the company has seen a 25-fold increase in the amount of the material available on the web, Chandratillake said. Podcasts make up 95 percent of the content, and video blogs 5 percent.

Posted on June 30, 2005
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Blinkx and iFilm Announce Search Deal

Search Engine Watch reports that Blinkx has cut a deal with iFilm to allow it to search iFilm's collection of clips and short films. Blinkx runs a video search engine. The search currently only search metadata but will search through spoke words in the video clips in the future according to Search Engine Watch:

At the moment, a BlinkTV search for iFilm content is searching only metadata. However, a Blinkx spokesperson told me that in the next month or so a transcription search of iFilm content will become available. In other words, every word spoken in a video clip will be searchable. BlinkxTV uses speech recognition technology to create a searchable transcript.

Posted on June 14, 2005
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Current Focuses on Short Video Content

Current is a new, independent cable and satellite TV network. The company is headed by former US Vice-President Al Gore. When Current launches later this year it will provide 15-second to five-minute video "pods" for several different channels including: Current Soul, Current Gigs, Current Fashion, Current Lies and Current Tech. Here is how Current describes its plans to remake TV:

We're rethinking the way TV is produced, programmed, and presented, so it actually makes sense to an audience that's accustomed to choice, control, and collaboration in everything else they do.

So, we're creating a network in short form. Whenever you tune in to Current, you'll see something amusing, inspiring or interesting. And then, three minutes later, you'll see something new. It'll be a video iPod stocked with a stream of short segments and set to shuffle.

The website also has a Studio section where people can submit their own videos. The site is currently running a contest for the best video with a $3,000 prize. The contest ends on May 20th.

Posted on May 3, 2005
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User Submitted Video Website Launches

Vimeo is a new website that allows people to submit videos and then tag them. Micropersuasion.com reports that the service "is like Flickr and del.icio.us meets video." Numerous tags are already listed on the website. For example, the dance tag contains links related to dancing. The site will compete with the new Google Video service which allows amateurs to submit videos. So what does the Vimeo name mean? Vimeo's faq says, "It's video with me in it. It's movie out of order."

Posted on April 26, 2005
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New Media Storage Website Launches

Ourmedia.org has launched as a provider of free storage and free bandwidth for videos, audio files, photos, text and software. Visitors to the site can also browse the available media. The site's developers have an interesting strategy for developing the website: "Instead of taking a year or more to produce a polished site, we decided to plant a flag in the ground, open our doors and say: Come help us build it."

Posted on March 28, 2005
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Amazing Animal Videos From Monterey Bay Aquarium

The Monterey Bay Aquarium website has an expanded online video library, which offers a selection of videos about animals, exhibits and conservation research programs at the aquarium. Once on the site, click on the photos to launch the videos. You can sort the list of videos by clicking on the words Date, Title or Category. These are some very cool videos. How else are going to get to see Abalone's feed and Sea Slugs reproduce?

Posted on February 23, 2005
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Blinx: New Audio/Video Search Engine

blinkx is a new search engine that captures and stores video and audio content from Television/Radio broadcasts and Internet streams. An advanced indexing technology builds an index that can be searched to find specific segments within any clip. When you enter a query in blinkx TV, the servers are searched for matching video and radio clips, and you are presented with a list of the clips that match your query. You can click on the results to view the video clips or listen to the audio clips.

Posted on January 22, 2005
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