Boxee Totally Removes PC Software From Site, Here Are Some Alternatives
Boxee had already announced that they were going to to stop supporting the computer application, available for PC, Mac and Linux, they had made. But they never mentioned they were going to completely remove it from their site, yet, that is exactly what they've now done. Boxee is now focusing solely on the Boxee Box ...
The State Of HTML5 Video - Growing, But Also Kind Of A Mess
Remember all the hustle and bustle there was to get HTML5 off the ground and implement immediately even though there was no standard codec, it lacks tons of functionality and all that? LongTail Video does and they broke down just where it all stands now in a nice, informative way in the LongTail Video State ...
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 ...
WeVideo Brings Cloud-Powered, Collaborative Video Editing To Almost Any Device
I have known about WeVideo for a couple weeks now and have been bursting to tell you all about it. I mean really, when something this cool comes along, embargoes get in the way of my enthusiasm. I did mention a brief bullet point or two to a couple people and now I can let ...
Microsoft's Hotmail First Major Web Mail Client to Support HTML5 Video in Email
We are happy to be the first to report that Microsoft now appears to be supporting HTML5 video emails in their Hotmail web client (provided what we're seeing isn't part of some beta test). The Hotmail web mail client displays HTML5 video in Chrome, Firefox, and IE9. IE8, which does not support HTML5, still can ...
Mozilla Wants To Create A World Without Search Engines
You might have heard about Mozilla's new mission statement, released earlier this week. It's fairly standard stuff, full of optimism and grand goals. But nestled in the epic statement is some talk that makes it sound like Mozilla's aiming for a world where search engines are no longer needed or relevant. And while that's a ...
YouTube Teams With NVIDIA To Offer 3D Vision In Browser
Being in the gaming industry as I am, there's no way to avoid NVIDIA when talking about graphics, 3D or GPUs and why would I? They make some of the greatest gear in the world in that regard. So when I happened upon an article that they were teaming up with YouTube to offer 3D ...
The Online Video Weekly News Reel - Opening Week Edition
Opening week in the MLB has wrapped up and I have to say, MLB.tv is doing a fantastic job so far. I bought a one-month to cover the gap between the beginning of the season and my return to America. Why am I telling you? It's online video streaming at its finest! Plus, my Milwaukee ...
Vid.ly Universal Video URL Service Goes Public Beta
A while back I wrote about the new vid.ly service from Encoding.com. Well they have been working on it for some time now and today it's ready to throw open its doors and welcome in the public for the rest of the beta period. Vid.ly, a new automatic transcoding, universal URL service from Encoding.com is ...
3 Chrome Extensions To Improve Your YouTube Experience
I've recently made the switch to Google's Chrome as my default web browser, almost out of necessity. Firefox had gotten to be a bit of a memory hog on my machine, and I began using Chrome to try and ease the pain. What I found was a browser experience I greatly enjoyed. Being a video ...
Microsoft Drops 3,000 Word Reason for Supporting H.264, Fails to Mention Stake in MPEGLA
Microsoft's Dean Hachamovitch, has lobbed a 3,000 word grenade at Google. The grenade is a lengthy description of why Microsoft will now support H.264 for web video in their Internet Explorer web browser and allow users to load a third-party codec for WebM. The one thing they forget to mention, was that they stand to ...
Fear and Loathing in Online Video: The Video Codec Conundrum Continues
My last post described, what Google's decision to drop H.264 from Chrome in favor of its own WebM format means for you, and concluded that this situation creates even more complexity video publishers, along with the potential of a massive increase in video publishing costs. It's been almost two weeks now since Google made that ...
RockMelt - The Hotshot New Browser Video Marketers Should Be Rooting For
The web was abuzz yesterday with the news of the latest browser on the block, RockMelt. It’s a web browser that is intently focused on one thing: social interaction. And I think all video creators and marketers should be hopping on the bandwagon.
Google Releases Goo.gl, Their URL Shortening Service, To The Public
URL shorteners are all the rage. With the rise of social media like Facebook and Twitter, there is a greater need than ever before for users to find a way to make their links shorter so as to leave more room for actual text in their updates. And now even Google has their own shortener, ...
Dive Into HTML5 Video With The Masters - HTML5 Webinar Replay Video
Last week, we held our second ReelSEO webinar event titled, "Dive Into HTML5 Video - Learn From The Masters." The webinar was a great success and we had more than 1100 attendees join us for the first hour with more than 500 remaining online past the hour as we extended the Q&A session an additional ...
