Stupeflix Reworks Video Creation API Access To Commoditize Video Creation
Stupeflix announced today, at the Business Video Expo, that they are changing the way they connect to developers and allow access to the Stupeflix video creation suite API. Whereas it was somewhat cost prohibitive in the past, they are now lowering the price of both access and video rendering to commoditize video creation. Previously, says ...
Future Proof Your Online Video Library With Vid.ly Integration with Encoding.com
Some time ago I wrote about Vid.ly - one upload, universal URL, fire and forget sort of encoding service where you could upload video, grab one single URL and it would work just about anywhere. Today, they're announcing that everything Vid.ly offers will be directly integrated into Encoding.com for a simple workflow from uploading to ...
Google Plus Open To Everyone, Adds Killer Video Features To Hangouts
Google Plus, the social networking service that has long been in a restricted field test, is now officially in beta. That's right, folks, you can stop leaving comments on this post asking people to invite you and just head on over and sign up yourself because Google Plus is now open to the public. The ...
Google TV To Be Central Device In Home For Cable, Internet, Automation & More?
See, I told you it probably wasn't dead. Several months ago I wrote Android Apps May Save Google TV’s Ass though I did then later write The Death Knell For Google TV? Logitech Revue Drops Price To $99 Admittedly, in that second one I did say, "What it really sounds like is one of two ...
Leanin Launches Customizable "Social Video Player" For Brands
Leanin today announced the launch of something the company calls the first of its kind: a social video player. The Leanin service is a hosted solution, integrates smoothly with YouTube & Facebook, and aims to help brands better understand video engagement through an arsenal of custom analytics and viewer data points.
Vid.ly Grows Up, Goes Pro - The Universal Video URL Slam Dunk
When I hop on a conference call and say "Go Team [INSERT BRAND] Woo!" you can be pretty sure that I dig your product. So Jeff Malkin and the team over at Vid.ly should be well aware of that fact now since I both opened and closed the conference call with that. Why? Because they ...
Video Chat on Facebook with New Bibbil App
I have to admit, it's not the most intuitive name, bibbil. It sounds like a Hobbit that might be related to Bilbo in fact and that doesn't inspire thoughts of gamified video chat in my mind, but hey, what's in a name, right? Anyway, Bibbil (actually no relation to Bilbo) is all about gamified video ...
Google's New Search Globe Offers Slick Visualizations Of Search Volume By Country
This isn't technically video-related, but it's search-related. It's also exceedingly cool. Today Google has unvieled a new experimental toy called Search Globe. It's an interactive visualization tool of daily searches by volume from around the world. Most of us know there is life outside our own countries, but seeing the data in this format really ...
Open Web TV Standard in the Works: A Foundation for Web-TV
This week marks the deadline for Open Connected TV standard proposals. The goal: created an open source specification for software and standards for Internet-connected, Web-ready televisions. The driving force behind the specification for OCTV is the Digital Media Project. According to their website they want to promote continuing successful development, deployment and use of Digital ...
Reel Quick Clips: Mid-Week Online Video Industry News
Another week is rapidly slipping past. While I planned on doing this on Wednesday, I didn't manage it. So here's a quick look at some online video stories I have been tracking but didn't really think merited a full blown article: Google TV and CNN Partnership, Samsung to Offer 3DOD - 3D On Demand (video), Google Acquires Green ...
Google Android TV API - You Shall Be Assimilated, Soon
It's Friday again. I've still got a full whiteboard of work to do on the weekend and a terribly messy desk (I am letting entropy have its way there). So I thought I would inject some humor into the title to lighten the mood round here. Actually, the mood round here is fairly light already, ...
Apple Announces The iPad They Should Have Released A Year Ago
Apple just made Xoom's road to success a lot harder, by announcing the iPad 2. Apple's big product announcement event today has garnered a ton of press, and rightly so. You'll never guess what they announced... A new iPad! Called the iPad 2! And guess what?! It has cameras!! It only took a year, but Apple ...
SocialEyes Launches Unnecessary Video Chat for Facebook
A new venture from RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser aims to do what Chatroulette couldn't--succeed in the world of video chat. The company is called SocialEyes, and is co-founded by Rob Williams, who also worked at RealNetworks. The secret weapon? Facebook, apparently. SocialEyes will allow you to chat instantly on streaming video with the people in ...
Blinkx Sokx it to Boxee with 35 Million Hours of Video Via New App
Blinkx brinkx (no typo, it's Friday) a literal downpour of online video to the TV with its own application for Boxee, coming soon. The app will give you access to all the video search wonder that is blinkx right from the comfort of your own couch, if that is where you so choose to watch ...
HTML5 Video Codec War Explodes as MPEG-LA Openly Calls for VP8 Patent Claims
The HTML5 video codec war just exploded! MPEG-LA, who you will remember holds the H.264 patent pool, just invaded Googlonia with a call for patent claims on the VP8 video codec. You will remember that Apple is a member of the H.264 owners, along with Microsoft. You might also recall that there have been some ...
