Tuesday - April 29, 2008
More than a year after it shut down The WB Television Network, Warner Bros. said Monday it is bringing back the brand as an advertising-supported, video-on-demand site. Warner will launch a beta version of TheWB.com sometime early next month as part of a larger push to capitalize on new channels for distributing video content. Like the television network, which shut down late in 2006 after a nine-year run, TheWB.com will be aimed at young viewers and consumers, targeting the 16- to 34-year-old demographic, with an emphasis on young women.
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Tuesday - April 22, 2008
Creating videos in-house means corporations have to either hire contractors who have their own equipment or sink thousands or millions of dollars into hiring trained staff and leasing or buying equipment. Then they have to spend days, if not weeks, editing the videos.
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Friday - April 18, 2008
On any given Monday, a half a million new startups come into the world -- tiny, brand-new companies, sometimes operating out of a garage. Most of them have about as much funding as the CEO/CFO/janitor can ring up on the MasterCard. A few will grow into successful enterprises -- most will die within a year.
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Thursday - April 17, 2008
Internet users watched more than 10 billion videos in February, according to a comScore report released Wednesday at the annual meeting of the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas. The comScore data shows that the number of videos viewed online has risen by two-thirds since February 2007. Roughly 73 percent of Internet users in the U.S. viewed video online in February.
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Wednesday - April 16, 2008
Another company is making a play at online video. Launched Wednesday, PluggedIn is the new kid on the block in a market of heavy hitters that includes MySpace Music, Yahoo Music, AOL Music, MTV.com and of course YouTube. PluggedIn, however, offers at least one thing those other sites do not have -- initial access to 10,000 free streaming high-definition and broadcast-quality music videos.
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Friday - April 11, 2008
For the eight Florida teens accused of imprisoning, beating and videotaping 16-year-old Victoria Lindsay as they brutalized her for more than half an hour, the events of March 30 have led to kidnapping and battery charges that cast a dark shadow over their future. For the rest of the world, the case has shone a bright light on the negative potential of the Internet.
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Wednesday - April 9, 2008
Yahoo rolled out a limited video-sharing service for its online photo-sharing service, Flickr, which will allow its members to upload short videos and integrate them with photo sets and slide shows. The new service isn't a competitor to the likes of YouTube or other video sites.
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Wednesday - April 9, 2008
Adobe on Wednesday announced that its Adobe Media Player 1.0 is now available as a free download. The cross-platform software, which is built on the Adobe Integrated Runtime platform, is customizable and works both online and off to give viewers new ways to discover and interact with their favorite content. It also offers revenue and brand-building opportunities for content publishers, Adobe said.
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Tuesday - April 1, 2008
Jordan's media-savvy Queen Rania has launched an appeal on YouTube for a global dialogue to dismantle stereotypes of Muslims and the Arab world, the royal palace said Monday. Rania vowed to work to break down such preconceptions and wants people to "know the real Arab world ... unedited, unscripted and unfiltered."
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Thursday - March 27, 2008
YouTube, which Google purchased in 2006 for $1.65 billion, on Thursday launched a new analytics service, YouTube Insight. The service includes free software that provides statistical breakdowns of who is watching a particular video, as well as when and where they're viewing the material.
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Thursday - March 27, 2008
"Our principal challenge is not to decide where we want to go, but to stay upright as we go there." In his book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, author and NYU faculty member Clay Shirky describes the profound impact of social technological tools on contemporary culture -- from e-mail and blogs to Twitter and wikis.
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