Amsterdam Articles

Amsterdam (English /ˈæmstərdæm/; Dutch: [ˌɑmstərˈdɑm] ( listen)) is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The city’s status as the capital of the nation is governed by the constitution. Amsterdam has a population of 790,654 within city limits, an urban population of 1,209,419 and a metropolitan population of 2,289,762. The city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. It comprises the northern part of the Randstad, one of the larg...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Video Marketing Lessons - Star Wars Guitar Edition

The week's best viral videos contained a mix of the old standbys and new trailblazers. We've got branded social video successes, both the kind created by the brand itself and the kind that tends to come from consumers who are super-fans. We've also got some ...

Online Video Summit 2010 - A Day In Amsterdam With Video

Amsterdam, once the financial center of the world, will for one day, December 7th 2010, be the center of online video (at least for the Netherlands) with the Online Video Summit 2010. More than a dozen experts will offer insight into online video and what ...

Exploring HDR Video - The Real Future of 3D Video

For those who shoot video on a regular basis, high contrast lighting situations generally provide a challenge, as you have to make a trade-off between correctly exposing for the shadows or the highlights in the frame. Thanks to HDR video techniques you can have the ...

Silverlight Gets Streaming Surround Sound With SRS 5.1 Support and Toolkit

SRS Labs, Inc. has teamed up with Microsoft to offer full SRS 5.1 Surround Sound via a new toolkit for the platform. That means Silverlight will soon feature encoding and decoding of surround sound for streaming content.

JW Player 5.0 Launches With Some Huge Upgrades

At Streaming Media West a few weeks back, I had the pleasure of meeting Jeroen Wijering, one of my "heroes" in the online video space. I know, I know - hero? Seriously Mark? Yes! Jeroen is the creator of the most popular open source video player around, ...

Microsoft Wants You To Use Their Stuff To Stream HD

We all know that Flash rules the roost when it comes to online video. We also know that HTML 5 could put a serious dent in that dominance. Now Microsoft is trying to do the same but in the HD streaming category with their upcoming ...

Simultaneous IPhone, Web and TV Live Video? Wowza!

Telestream and Wowza have shined light on a deal between them that will offer live video production and universal streaming to the iPhone, Web and TV. That is something to say Wowza! about!

Silverlight Announces H.264 Support for Online HD Video

Microsoft Silverlight has recently played a major role helping to shape some of the world's biggest events in recent months. Silverlight – Microsoft's cross-browser, cross-platform solution for delivering rich interactive applications and content experiences on the Web – helped viewers experience both the Olympic Games ...

Semantic Video Search Indexing and Concept Detection

Semantic video indexing is the process of automatically detecting the presence of semantic concepts in a video stream. This incredible session (my personal favorite), titled, "Semantic Video indexing," was presented at the 2008 Video Search Summit and was delivered by Dr Marcel Worring, Head of ...

Meeting The Challenge of Indexing The Video Web

This was recorded at the 2008 Video Search Summit during the panel session titled, "Meeting the Challenge of Indexing The Video Web." Panel Participants from left to right: Chase Norlin (CEO, Pixsy) , Gary Baker (CEO, ClipBlast!), Dr Marcel Worring, Head of research, MediaMill University ...

Last Chance To Register for 2008 Video Search Summit

Reel SEO will be in San Francisco this week at the 1st Annual Video Search Summit.  The event starts on Tuesday so here is your last chance to save $100 off registration.  To get your $100 off registration to the video search summit Here is ...