January 18, 2007
(Michael Arrington, TechCrunch) “I’ve been paying a lot of attention to the signals NBC is giving to the market around their IPTV and social networking plans. Most of the other players have fallen into place – Fox with MySpace, CBS is in bed with YouTube, Viacom looks to be partnering with Tagworld, etc. Everyone except NBC is at least experimenting with online TV in other ways, too.
NBC seems to be choking, frozen like a deer in headlights. They were close to acquiring Tribe but backed out. A VP wrote a blog post about their strategy, admitting they were late to the game, and then deleted it. I imagine execs at NBC meeting regularly and screaming a lot for someone to just figure this out and do something…”
The Entrenched Player Dilemma/Opportunity
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January 5, 2007
(CNN.com, Technology) “LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Hollywood studios have approved a new technology and licensing arrangement that should remove a major obstacle consumers now face with burning movies they buy digitally over the Internet onto a DVD that will play everywhere…”
Studios sign off on movie downloads – CNN.com
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January 5, 2007
(Michael Arrington, TechCrunch) “The new product is called In Video. Adbrite has created an embeddable video player similar to YouTube, Photobucket, etc. (see video below using their player). If we choose to show a video on TechCrunch, we can use this embeddable player, and at our option it will include Adbrite ads and our logo as a watermark…”
Techcrunch » Blog Archive » AdBrite Makes Brilliant Video Product
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September 20, 2006
(Nik Cubrilovic, TechCrunch) “On a day that saw its stock take a hit, Yahoo! has teamed up with Current TV to launch Yahoo! Current Network, a video site with a mix of professional and user submitted videos arranged in channels. Current TV is a cable and satellite channel backed by environmentalist Al Gore that shows short user-submitted shows and segments in what it called ‘viewer created content’. Yahoo! has been granted the rights to exclusive Current TV content for its video portal, and in return some of the best user submissions to Yahoo! may make it onto the terrestrial Current TV channel…”
Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Yahoo! Launches Better Video Content
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September 13, 2006
motionbox has just released a fantastic new feature in it’s player allowing a user to tag, share, and link to a specific portion of a video. More than that, it does it quickly, simply, and elegantly. Click the link and give it a try.
(from the site) “Today, we launch a very cool feature on Motionbox: the ability to add tags to different parts of your videos — making the “good stuff” even more searchable and shareable.We call this new functionality “deep tagging,” but you can call it chaptering, labeling, adding keywords, or even Suri Cruise. Our only request is that you use it. Play with it. And tell us what you think.Oh, and also? You can embed a video (deep tags included) into your own blog or Web site now. Snap!”
Motionbox Blog: Deep Tagging and the Embeddable Motionbox Player
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