Archive for video publishing

Internet video production done well draws on an entirely different set of skills and strategies to the traditional mass media process. Carving out a presence for your video channel or vlog takes a good understanding of web 2.0 tactics. Mobuzz.tv has risen to great success using just such an approach. Here\’s how: Web video is rapidly evolving into something more closely resembling Internet television, whether in the live video sphere of RobinGood.TV or Chris Pirillo Live, or the video-on-demand model best represented by shows like Rocketboom and the Madrid-based Mobuzz.tv. A far cry from your mother\’s TV shows, or the grainy amateur straight-to-camera confessions of YouTube, Internet television has a foot in both grassroots media and professional production values. But …

Jun
19

Web Video Editing Goes Mainstream: YouTube Remixer Is Here

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Web video editing is nothing new and there are already a host of services that will allow you to remix your videos right from your browser. But now the most popular video sharing website in the world is joining the fray. How does it fare? Services such as JumpCut and EyeSpot have led the way in giving their respective communities the opportunity to mix and match, cut up, add effects to and otherwise edit recorded video on the web. Their strengths lie in a mixture of relatively easy to use tools, and the ability to easily share and remix content from within the JumpCut and EyeSpot communities. But the new addition of remixing capabilities to the biggest video sharing site …

Live video broadcasting is taking the web by storm, with services like UStream, Mogulus and Operator11 leading the way. But sometimes the production effects on offer can be limited. Luckily there is a solution. If you want to add picture-in-picture, watermarking, desktop sharing, RSS feeds, slideshows, videos and a host of visual effects to your web broadcasts all of this and more is now possible. You are not limited to simply broadcasting your face to the world from a webcam. In a similar – but vastly superior – style to its Windows-based counterpart WebcamMax, the Mac-only CamTwist lets you hijack your outgoing video stream, add effects and even bring in different sources, such as pre-recorded videos and slideshows. And while …

Internet TV is transforming from a medium of grainy, amateur video and into one more closely mirroring the full-screen television experience, at least from the technical and usability aspects: easy to turn on, pre-set channels playing at all times, full screen experience. One contender, stepping up to the , promises to put independent content at the very heart of its network. Meet Babelgum. With its full-screen display, TV-like interface and streaming content Babelgum was bound to be compared directly to its nearest rival Joost, which has already gained a significant following and position within the market. Nevertheless, if you dig beneath the surface and focus on the actual content being targeted by the two, significant differences begin to emerge. For …

If you\’re looking for a high quality Internet TV service with full-screen playback, a host of premium content, and social networking tools built right into the interface, Joost is just what you\’ve been waiting for. Brought to you by the people behind the hugely successful Skype and Kazaa platforms, Joost taps into similar peer-to-peer technologies to make distributing high-quality, full-screen video a piece of cake. With a half-decent broadband connection, every viewer effectively becomes a broadcaster and plays their part in the streaming of great looking video-on-demand content. In addition to the ability to tune into great-looking video, Joost makes it easy for viewers to interact with one another as they watch content together. Because while Joost does an excellent …

May
28

Search RSS Newsfeeds With MillionRSS

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RSS newsfeeds have become part of the mainstay of the new web. But where do you go when you want to search through the thousands upon thousands on offer? A new project has set itself the ambitious target of gathering no less than one million feeds together for you to search through. Here\’s how: MillionRSS, which originally launched in February, is that project and its simple goal has inspired hundreds of people to get involved. The website essentially offers a great, free way to promote your web content to interested readers, while contributing to a vast library of RSS news feeds freely accessible to anyone with a web connection. Bloggers benefit by tapping into the buzz around the project, and …