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Nintendo claims ownership over gamer fanvids on YouTube

2013-05-23T00:00:00.000+12:00

Nintendo claims ownership over gamer fanvids on YouTube - Boing Boing: "Alan Wexelblat comment on the news that Nintendo has claimed "monetization rights" to fan videos on YouTube that feature tips on playing its games. Some of these videos are incredibly popular, and while their use of Nintendo's creations are often fair use, Nintendo gets to use YouTube's monetization system to advertise on all

The first video ever uploaded to YouTube

2013-05-21T00:00:00.000+12:00

The first video ever uploaded to YouTube: "On February 14, 2005, Chad Hurly, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim purchased a domain name that would forever change the way media is disseminated and consumed. You see, a little over 8 years ago is when the aforementioned individuals got together and purchased the YouTube.com domain. YouTube was famously founded by the trifecta of Hurly, Chen, and Karim,

Apple aims to win over video editors

2013-05-18T00:00:00.000+12:00

Apple aims to win over video editors Los Angeles Times Video editors jeered that Apple had abandoned loyal professional users to create a cheap product aimed at consumers. References to "Apple's lemon" and "debacle" became common refrains in blog posts and industry trades scrutinizing the fallout. read more at link above more news below Follow @expriorg

France kills Yahoo-Daily Motion deal

2013-05-16T00:00:00.000+12:00

Yahoo Scraps Deal for French Video Site - WSJ.com: ""I won't let you sell one of France's best startups," Mr. Montebourg told Mr. Pelissier, his voice raised, according to people briefed on the meeting. "You don't know what you're doing." Efforts since then to salvage the sale have failed. Yahoo decided not to pursue a deal after Mr. Montebourg insisted that it not take majority control, the

FTC Dot Com Disclosure Update

2013-05-14T00:00:00.000+12:00

FTC Dot Com Disclosure Update: What's New for 2013 | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP - JDSupra: " . . . The revised guidelines, “.com Disclosures: How to Make Effective Disclosures in Digital Advertising (pdf),” seek to help businesses apply many of the same principles espoused in the previous version of the guidelines to modern technologies and marketing channels. WHAT’S THE SAME: The

YouTube Viewer Growth Pitched to Advertisers

2013-05-11T00:00:00.000+12:00

YouTube Touts Viewer Growth to Advertisers - WSJ.com: " . . . YouTube on Wednesday made its latest pitch to advertisers, saying they should "follow the audience." More than one billion unique visitors watch more than six billion hours of YouTube videos a month, up from about four billion hours a month last year, said Robert Kyncl, a top YouTube executive, speaking in New York at an ad-sales event

YouTube - Follow the audience

2013-05-09T00:00:00.000+12:00

YouTube Blog: Follow the audience...: "DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg announced that his company acquired AwesomenessTV, one of the most subscribed-to, teen-focused networks on YouTube. This acquisition gives DreamWorks an opportunity to align itself with Brian Robbins’ powerful, next-generation, online video powerhouse. By partnering with more than 55,000 YouTube channels that

Eric Schmidt: television 'already over'

2013-05-07T00:00:00.000+12:00

Eric Schmidt: television is 'already over' - Telegraph: "Speaking at a gathering of digital advertisers in New York City last night, Mr Schmidt refused to forecast when internet video would displace television, instead declaring: "That's already happened." "It's not a replacement for something that we know," he added. "It's a new thing that we have to think about, to program, to curate and build

Wikipedia draws from the Wikidata repository

2013-05-04T00:00:00.000+12:00

Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository, and so can you — Tech News and Analysis: It’s worth noting that the initial funding for Wikidata’s development has come from Google, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Ultimately, Wikidata is precisely the sort of venture that is needed to feed the nascent semantic web and AI

Amazon Plans TV Set-Top Box

2013-05-02T00:00:00.000+12:00

Amazon Said to Plan TV Set-Top Box for Streaming Video - Bloomberg: "The device, due later this year, will connect to televisions, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they’re not authorized to speak publicly about it. It will also provide access to Amazon’s expanding video services, which include the Amazon Video on Demand store. Amazon would move into closer competition with

YouTube to livestream its first-ever Comedy Week May 19-25

2013-04-30T00:00:00.000+12:00

YouTube to livestream its first-ever Comedy Week May 19-25, bolstering its channel surfing agenda - The Next Web: "YouTube announced today that it was launching its first-ever Comedy Week, which will take place May 19 through 25. The event will be livestreamed through the service and will feature names like Vince Vaughn, The Lonely Island, Seth Rogan, Nerdist, CollegeHumor, Funny or Die, and many

Amazon Studios original TV shows

2013-04-27T00:00:00.000+12:00

Amazon Studios debuts all 14 original series pilots for free streaming | The Verge: "Amazon's original TV ambitions are live. Starting today, web users in the US and the UK (through Lovefilm) can stream all 14 new pilot episodes created under Amazon Studios, the e-commerce giant's original content arm. Amazon wants web users to watch the pilots and vote on which ones the company should turn into

More Cracks In The TV Business Model

2013-04-25T00:00:00.000+12:00

More Cracks In TV’s Business Model - NYTimes.com: " . . . Finally, there is the success of Netflix’s “House of Cards,” original programming delivered over the Internet, with no cable required. The company announced on Facebook that customers had watched four billion hours of streaming video in the first three months of the year. As Peter Kafka pointed out in AllThingsD, Richard Greenfield of BTIG

Movie film era over

2013-04-23T00:00:00.000+12:00

Movie film era draws to a close | ZDNet: "Fujifilm announced that it had ceased production of most of its movie film products as of last month. With Kodak on very shaky ground and the continuing rapid improvements in digital cinema cameras it is only a matter of time until the oldest modern storage medium ceases to be in production. The culprit What is killing the film market is not that more

Digital on Demand TV vs Cable TV

2013-04-20T00:00:00.000+12:00

"So, we haven't had cable TV in something like 5 years now. Today I got to see how that goes with a child who has NEVER had cable and only knows Netflix.. I was at the doctor with "J" and she was watching Spongebob on Nickelodeon. All the sudden she says "I don't want to watch this, I want to watch Dora, or no Diego" She grabs the TV remote and starts trying to figure out how to stop the show

Cable TV Against the Open Internet

2013-04-18T00:00:00.000+12:00

Cable television companies are distressed about how quickly they are losing customers to internet and mobile viewing-- Arming Cable Against the Open Internet - NYTimes.com: "Companies as diverse as Cisco Systems, known for enterprise networking equipment, and Adobe, with its origins in graphics, are working closely with cable companies and other broadcasters to deal with competition from

Why did Ericsson buy Microsoft's Mediaroom

2013-04-16T00:00:00.000+12:00

It's all about changing TV habits-- Q&A: Why Ericsson snagged Microsoft's Mediaroom USA TODAY Microsoft's fizzled efforts in IPTV is viewed by Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson as a bright opportunity. USA TODAY asked Ericsson's senior executive Per Borgklint why the company is so bullish about it acquisition of Microsoft's Mediaroom IPTV ...The manner in which consumers watch television

Media Deals for Intel Pay-TV Service

2013-04-13T00:00:00.000+12:00

Intel Said to Be Nearing Media Deals for Pay-TV Service - Bloomberg: " . . . Networks such as Time Warner’s CNN, NBC’s USA Network and Viacom’s MTV would give Intel critical mass to offer consumers an alternative to established pay-TV services. Using its own set-top box, Intel plans to offer an online product this year, Erik Huggers, Intel’s vice president for media, said last month. That would

DreamWorks Uses HP Converged Infrastructure

2013-04-11T00:00:00.000+12:00

HP’s Converged Infrastructure Goes Hollywood | ZDNet: " . . . HP’s relationship with DreamWorks is more than a decade old and for their latest film, DreamWorks relied almost entirely on the HP technology infrastructure; networking, servers, workstations, storage, and management tools all were part of the HP converged infrastructure. The network was built for continuous availability and utilized

Yahoo! no longer a digital media company?

2013-04-09T00:00:00.000+12:00

Yahoo! says it's no longer a digital media company | ZDNet: " . . . . Yahoo! is trying to get its mojo back and that means rebranding itself as a "technology company." But is it?" Colleen Taylor at Techcrunch, reports that Yahoo! has changed the way it describes itself in its latest 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Yahoo is now labeling itself first and foremost as a “

Amazon Prime builds audience for Amazon digital content

2013-04-06T00:00:00.000+12:00

Amazon Optimus Prime - John Paczkowski - Commerce - AllThingsD: " . . . Accounting for cost of sales, shipping, marketing, technology, etc., CIRP and Morningstar figure Amazon made about $78 per Prime subscriber last year. In other words, that $79 annual Prime fee is almost entirely profit. Not bad. Particularly since the research firms expect Prime membership to reach nearly 25 million by the

House of Cards Used Big Data to Guarantee Its Popularity

2013-04-04T00:00:00.000+12:00

For ‘House of Cards,’ Using Big Data to Guarantee Its Popularity - NYTimes.com: " . . . already the most streamed piece of content in the United States and 40 other countries, according to Netflix. The spooky part about that? Executives at the company knew it would be a hit before anyone shouted “action.” Netflix, which has 27 million subscribers in the nation and 33 million worldwide, ran the

iPads came to work for NCAA March Madness

2013-04-02T00:00:00.000+12:00

Managers: Those iPads coming to work, it's not what you think | ZDNet: " . . . It's the time of year that a lot of iPads, and this year iPad minis, are coming to the office in the U. S. Managers may be wondering if BYOD is picking up momentum in their domain, but that's not it. There's one app that is responsible for all these iPads coming to work. It's NCAA March Madness Live causing the influx

Which streaming device is right for you

2013-03-30T00:00:00.000+12:00

Find out which streaming device is right for you | Tulsa World: "Apple, Roku, Boxee and others manufacture separate devices focused on streaming. These tend to be small and inexpensive and often enable much more content than you'd get with smart TVs and Blu-ray players. Each device has different capabilities. So investigate which setup is right for you. . . . What's this about streaming media

ABC live streaming app for tablets and smartphones

2013-03-28T00:00:00.000+12:00

When old TV media break free of the cable/satellite stranglehold? NYT: ABC crafting live streaming app for tablets, phones: "According to unidentified sources speaking with The New York Times' media desk, ABC is currently working on a mobile application to bring its broadcast programming to mobiles and tablets. Unlike CBS' offering, which offers a select choice of programs 24 hours after airing