Posts Tagged with ‘online-video’

Joss Whedon and company weren't prepared for the enormous interest in his created-for-the-Web musical Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, which premiered Act I Tuesday online and crashed the servers almost immediately. The online-only musical features several Web 2.0 in-jokes, such as the villain, Dr. Horrible, having a vlog, then being thwarted by police and the superhero Captain Hammer after revealing his plans for a freeze ray on the vlog.
Conceived during the recent writers' strike, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog came with the [...]

Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.
SciFi fans, web content fans, and cult musical fans will all have something in common this summer: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog . No one but Joss Whedon could have cooked up something so completely bizarre, yet virtually guaranteed to take the Web by storm as well as push the envelope of online content.
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog will "air" online in three parts, with the first part premiering on 15 July, the second [...]

For those looking for an alternative to the rather lengthy list of video players already available to web publishers, Userplane is certain its new and ingeniusly named Mediaplayer will appeal to those looking to bring video content to their respective websites. If you are a fan of existing Userplane applications, then Mediaplayer could certainly be right up your alley.
Userplane is a direct subsidiary of the AOL group, and has been slowly building a library of publishing applications since 2001. Currently Userplane has a gaggle [...]

Anyone who has sold items using eBay (or even Craigslist) knows how much more potential an item has to sell when a photo is provided. And 'actual' images are better than the 'stock' photos that some sellers download from the manufacturer's website. Prospective buyers don't just want to read a description, they want to see exactly what they would be spending their money on since some sellers can be very vague with their words.
For this reason, several services such as [...]

Since its launch at the end of October, Hulu has changed the opinions of many of its negative critics with outstanding features implemented into a clean and easy-to-navigate interface.
Not only that, but the private beta testing phase that the service has been under since going live also appears to be receiving all of the attention and updates necessary to provide a successful public launch, whenever that may be planned for. 
The way I see it, online video [...]

In news that shouldn't be too surprising, Brightcove has announced that its YouTube-style consumer video community, which currently resides at the Brightcove.TV domain, will soon be closed.
As of December 17, 2007, users of the video service and community will no longer be able to upload videos, as the website will be refocused to provide a central destination for the professional distribution and promotion of the company's network of media partners.
Brightcove has always seemed more focused on developing methods of distributing [...]

Although online video and television programming offerings have surged over the past year, one particular aspect of the experience, the pricing scheme, can turn out quite costly if viewers are paying $2 to $3 per episode of a show. Not to mention the fact that, as we have seen with Google, purchased videos may not be yours to keep forever.
Now, aiming to keep its pricing strategy more in line with traditional television, SyncTV is a new TV download service running [...]

The wait is over (at least for me), and now I have finally received a chance to test out Hulu, the recently launched video service that had me scratching my head just a few short months ago.
Early on in the development process of Hulu, there seemed to be no clear focus on what exactly the service would provide or even what name it would assume upon launch, which left more than a few journalists and bloggers wary of what NBC [...]

Magnify.net is releasing a private beta aspect that allows anyone to produce their own Vlog. Magnify's latest addition to their video curation platform lets anyone with a video camera produce, edit and add elements to their own Vlog page. Podcamp co-founder Chris Brogan will be hosting a daily video blog called “Attention Upgrade” to illustrate the power of this cool new tool. Magnify and Brogan are sending out an open invitation to anyone interested in Vlogging as part of this [...]