Topic - Online Video & MySpace
News Corporation + Yahoo = Perfect Combination?
According to various recent news articles across the web, Microsoft may be intent on gaining control of Yahoo through a proxy battle after Yahoo rejected their unsolicited buy-out offer. Apparently, News Corporation wouldn’t mind a shot at Yahoo either. News Corp., of course, owns Fox, MySpace, IGN, and part of Hulu.com. We know that web video has been a focus for the company in the past few years with MySpace being a popular video sharing destination and more recently the launch of Hulu.com which features online video episodes of popular FOX television shows.
Links to Video Sharing’s Most Popular Videos
Below are links to view the most popular videos at the following Video Sharing Websites:
Clipblast = Remote Control for the Video Web
As you may have seen on our site on Nov. 26th , ClipBlast.com appeared to have undergone a complete redesign, incorporating a much cleaner, web 2.0 feel and AJAX functionality. This redesign was officially launched earlier this week on Monday, Dec. 3rd.
Free Video Upload & Tracking Tool – Vidmetrix
VidMetrix is a new online video service and tool which enables you to automatically upload your video file to all major video sharing website networks. Similar to Tubemogul, vidmetrix will not only help you upload your file at once to all major engines, but will enable viewership and engagement tracking of your video across the various networks as well as anywhere that your video file is embedded..
TV Guide Announces Online Video Awards Winners
TV Guide, which canceled its online video awards ceremony and television special out of respect for the Writers Guild of America strike (a story broke on NewTeeVee), has named its award winners in a fanfare-free press release.
Characteristics of Video Sharing Sites & Monetization
TubeMogul released a nice summary of the online-video search and sharing sites that it supports and provided an excellent post with a summary of user feedback about each site and the monetization opportunities and status.
MediaPost Launches Video Sharing & Social Networking
I just received the following email from Media Post announcing their new social networking platform which is powered by conVerdge. In it, you can see that it mentions the ability to share videos…
2008 & Future Online Video Value Chain Predictions
Every Thursday at AltSearchEngines, they feature posts from Guest Authors from from the search engines themselves. Today, AltSearchEngines posted the following future predictions from Tom Wilde, CEO of EveryZing, the multimedia search and merchandising platform.
Detailed Instructions on Video Blogging – Vlogging Guide
Vlogging is the short form of video blogging; sometimes it is also termed videodcasting. Mostly all blog sites provide syndicated feeds through RSS, Atom etc. and some feeds provide enclosures too. Video is contained within the enclosures. Vlogging is the practice of attaching video to RSS and Atom enclosures. There are many parts of the process called vlogging. For your ready reference they are:
Video Industry Weekly Recap – 10/26/2007
Youtube announces improved Features
Although they do not disclose all that is coming, they do show a sneak preview of Youtube’s new video browsing page.
Research – Comparison of Online Video Viewership Statistics
What Counts as a View? - Testing for Various Online Video Sites
