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Video-enhanced E-books Beginning To Gain Momentum

E-book readers are all the rage this year with probably dozens of new ones being unveiled by the end of the year. But e-books themselves have gone past the capabilities of even some of the most popular readers, they're now incorporating video in enhanced versions.It's ...

PlayOn Brings Hulu, Netflix To IPhone Via Safari, or Does It?

I found this to be rather interesting, PlayOn if offering a free software update to its Premium subscribers that will work on the iPhone and iPod touch via Safari. That means video from places like Hulu, Netflix, Comedy Central and more can be had on ...

E-Commerce Video SEO Snapshot Spells Huge Opportunity for Internet Retailers

We've seen a lot of research pointing to how effectively video helps increase conversion, sales and revenue for online retailers. But just how well are the online retailers doing from a search engine optimization viewpoint for that same video? Not well according to some recent ...

90% of TV Shows Were Freely Available Online Last Season

According to recent research by Clicker, that's the fact of the matter. 90% of 2009-2010 broadcast TV was on Internet. It makes me wonder what the other 10% was and if they include places like PBS and C-SPAN.

YouTube's Rental Store Is Now Open To The Public

PC World has discovered that YouTube rather stealthily opened up their official rental service, which appears to be called "Store.” You may remember some news about them testing a rental service earlier this year.  It seems the testing is over, and the Store is now ...

Apple Wants To Eat Amazon’s Lunch, But Wait, So Does Google!

With Apple's iPad hitting the market in a matter of days, how big an impact will the computer giant's entrance into the tablet and eReader business make? A huge one, according to several research firms such as eMarketer, Yankee Group and Credit Suisse. Amazon's eBook ...

YouTube's Music Video Discovery Service, Disco, Is Cool

YouTube seems to be constantly on the move, an ever-changing landscape of new services and features for video fans.  Even as their fifth anniversary passes, they seem to be continually striving for enhancements and improvements. Some of these changes are hits—such as the YouTube Safety ...

Cloudy With A 100% Chance of Amazon Streaming Video

Amazon has servers around the world and they offer no-contract, hassle-free static content delivery, or rather they did. Now they also offer streaming server technology which means you don't have to. Is this a big deal?

HD Online - Watch Upload and Share High-Definition Videos

With the ever expanding acceptance of high definition video it's no wonder that making a list of sites that support it is an ongoing task. So this time around it's my turn to update you on all the latest and greatest places where you can ...

On Video Cloud 9 - Video and Cloud-based Computing

Video can sometimes require a large amount of resources. So it's no wonder that with the ever-increasing popularity of cloud-based computing that someone realized it might be a good way to go with online video. This past week, FierceOnlineVideo published a good post that looks ...

How To Create Click-to-buy Links In YouTube – for FREE

YouTube has now begun placing click-to-buy links beneath its videos, as part of a larger plan to offer an e-commerce platform to all its partners. However, YouTube partners are typically large and well-established companies, leaving out the 99.9% of businesses and individuals of this opportunity. ...

75 Percent of U.S. Internet Audience Watched Online Video In July

comScore released its July 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, reporting that Americans viewed more than 11.4 billion videos for a total duration of 558 million hours during the month. Google Sites Maintains Dominant Position - In July, Google Sites once again ranked ...

New Cloud-Based Video Encoding Web Service

In 1999 encoding.com offered a service whereby they hand coded and archived source video content that was sent in by customers in video tape format.  Just last month, encoding.com relaunched their service as a new and robust SaaS (Software as a Service) video encoding platform. ...

Amazon Unbox Survey Hints At High-Definition Rentals

Amazon's Unbox service might finally get some High-Definition video action. The screencap below is from a survey sent out to their customer panel.  If you notice, it mentions $4.99 as the proposed rental price; this is the same price that itunes charges.  I think it ...

Revolutionary Model for HD Video Content Delivery

Digital Fountain, a leading supplier of underlying IP video and audio delivery technology to IPTV and mobile operators, will likely challenge the economic model that CDNs currently offer with it's beta launch of its own video content delivery network (DF Splash) that specializes in instant-on ...