Topic - Online Video & streaming
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!
ScreenFlow 2.0 Stream from Mac, Publish to YouTube
Much like Procaster does for a hoard of live streaming, video-blogging, PC users, ScreenFlow 2.0 now gives the gift of video screen capture to the mass of Macheads in the world. The newest version of the screen capturing software gives easy access to YouTube publishing, advanced editing and more.
The Dark Side of Online Video?
Just as there are white hat and black hat hackers, SEO companies and just about everything else in the world, there is also black hat online video…the so-called pirates. But where is the line drawn between legal and illegal video and where is the line on morality?
Livestream APIs and Brightcove Integration
Livestream, formerly Mogulus, have released a set of open APIs for the service expanding the ability to integrate it into your online video strategy. Plus the service is also now able to integrate its live streaming with the Brightcove video player.
Google Gets ON2 Video Compression
Google is in the buying mood again it seems as they recently gobbled up ON2 Technologies who create high-quality video compression technology. What’s that mean for the video web? One can never be certain, can one? But we’ll tell you what WE think.
On Video Cloud 9 – Video & Cloud-based Computing
Video can sometimes require a large amount of resources. So it’s no wonder that with the ever-increasing popularity of cloud-based computing that someone realized it might be a good way to go with online video. This past week, FierceOnlineVideo published a good post that looks at how “cloud computing,” can be applied to support online video destination sites.
If you’re not familiar with cloud computing then read on and find out how it’s helping some online video businesses keep things flowing freely in streaming media.
Microsoft Silverlight 3 offers H.264, full HD, Dev Tools
Version 3 of Microsoft’s video player is out and included a host of new functionality including H.264 and High-Definition video. The multimedia software is available for Mac OS X (Intel-based Macs), Linux and of course, Windows.
Akamai Delivers Optimizied Video to iPhone
The new iPhone 3GS means you’ve got a whole new slew of options in regards to video. Without Flash capabilities on the iPhone our options were extremely limited, but now Akamai is working to fix that problem.
Joost Reinvents Service as Brandable Video Platform
Joost was what the creators of Skype went on to after it was sold. They’ve recently announced a new focus for the company, mainly they want to be a white box video platform and they’re working toward that goal now.
The new Joost will seek to allow media companies to create a branded video sharing presence for themselves. It seems that Joost wasn’t doing so well as a consumer-facing product, competing directly with YouTube, and so they’ve moved their aim at bigger potential clients. Meanwhile Hulu has taken the lead for high quality broadcast TV video online.
Streaming Media Market to Grow 135% Over 5 Years
It is estimated that the streaming media business segment will generate more than $78 billion in revenue in the United States over the next six years. That’s a fat stack of cash!
C-Level Execs Turn to Web Video for Business Information
Forbes Insights, in association with Google, announced the release of a new study today called, “The Rise of the Digital C-Suite: How Executives Locate and Filter Business Information.” The study is of 354 C-level and top executives at major US companies with annual sales in excess of $1B and is designed to shed insight into how these executives discover and share business information. As one would expect, the findings show that clearly the internet is the major source of information above that or network contacts, trade publications, etc…
Textual information is still king, but online video is growing in importance. Almost 1/4th (24%) of those C-level respondents (vs. 16% non-C-suite) indicated a preference for retrieving business information via video. So, do you want to graduate from a mere top level executive to a C-suite executive? Its simple, watch more online video 
You Want to Host Your Own Live Online Video Show?
Who doesn’t have dreams of creating their own video show and pushing it out to the masses, getting it picked up by a major media outlet and having it turn into their 15 minutes of fame? Heck, even I do!
