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Steve Jobs' Impact On The Video Industry - The Reel Web Episode #8

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Steve Jobs passed away last week. The story is all over the news, and rightfully so! Steve Jobs impacted the world in significant ways, changing how we communicate, consume media, work, and even relate to each other. This week we take a brief look at Steve Jobs and Apple's influence on the video industry. Innovations like ...

What Influence Did Steve Jobs Have On Web Video? Industry Professionals Speak

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In my previous post I made a list of what I thought to be the top video innovations of both Steve Jobs and Apple. However right away one of our readers had reminded me of a few good ones I completely overlooked. So rather than rely on the limits of my own memory, I have ...

10 Great Video Innovations From Steve Jobs & Apple (and Some That Weren’t)

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In memory of Apple’s founder, the late Steve Jobs, who passed away this week, I’ve put together what I think will be a complete list of notable video-related technology creations from Jobs and Apple. See what made the Top 10 list, along with the no-so-great ones.

Adobe Proves Relevant To HTML5 Future With Adobe Touch Apps & AIR Integration

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Adobe MAX 2011 is going on, and while I'm not there, I've been keeping up with what's going on. One of the interesting things for us, the online video community, is Adobe AIR 3 and Flash Player 11. They announced that both are available as of 9pm last night. They also announced that LG and ...

Yahoo & ABC Team Up To Deliver News With Web Series Like Newsmakers

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With so many people getting news from so many sources, the giants of the medium have begun to lose a lot of their audience.  So now, you have giant corporations teaming up to combine their respective viewers into one large audience to be more attractive to advertisers.  Yahoo News and ABC News are now teaming ...

Mixpo SmartVideo Helps Maximize Video Advertising Personalization & Impact

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I sat down with Walter Harp, VP of Marketing, from Mixpo to talk about their new SmartVideo product. The Mixpo SmartVideo product combines interactivity with full multi-platform compatibility in what is one of the more interesting video advertising services I have seen in a while. It allows the advertiser a high level of customization along ...

Adobe Air 3 & Flash Player 11 Bring Big Video Updates

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Adobe Air 3 and Flash 11 are set to bring 3D graphics to gaming (which I wrote up at GDN: Adobe Platforms Will Now have 3D Gaming Potential), but there is more to it than that. There are also some interesting video performance expansions and boosters in all this.

Adobe Flash Media Server 4.5 Brings Flash Video To iOS Devices

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Late last week, Adobe released Flash Media Server 4.5, which will finally bring Flash video content to iOS devices. Can you hear the calls of "neener neener neener!" flying from San Jose to Cupertino? Maybe, instead, they'll make a video of the whole Adobe Flash developer team sticking their tongues out and waving their fingers, ...

Adobe Edge: Animated Web Content With HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript

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Adobe is all about Flash, or are they? While supporting their existing products, they are also taking on an approach to allow it [Flash] to co-exist with HTML5. Gaming, media and data-driven applications are all done in Flash already, so in HTML5 they want to facilitate that along with all sorts of interaction and animation, ...

The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - Hulu Rumor Edition

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This week we have an online video news round up first: I'm just as interested in catching up on the news as you are. I've been out of the country for about a week, and haven't had my usual leisure time to keep up to date with the latest video news. So I'll be using ...

Microsoft's Hotmail First Major Web Mail Client to Support HTML5 Video in Email

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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 ...

Google Swiffy Will Swiftly Convert Flash Files into HTML5

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Okay, this is some pretty cool news. Google has just released a new product to Labs, called Swiffy. It's purpose? To convert your Flash files to HTML5 at the touch of a button. This gives website owners, designers, developers, and publishers an easy way to ensure their video, animation, and game content can be viewed ...

The Secret to Encoding High Quality Web Video: Tutorial

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I like making money as much as the next guy, but the last three or four consulting clients all shared a problem so basic that I was almost embarrassed to take their money. Specifically, they came to me concerned about poor video quality, and the simple fact was that the data rate of their video ...

YouTube Teams With NVIDIA To Offer 3D Vision In Browser

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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 ...

Mobile Video Is Rapidly Changing The Shopping Experience: LiveClicker Study

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Of all the many ways to use video for business purposes, one of the more intriguing and exciting is video commerce: integrating video into our shopping habits. And I'm not talking exclusively about e-commerce, either, but also ways that video is being molded into our real world shopping experiences. Liveclicker is doing a lot of ...

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