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YouTube Beats Facebook & Twitter For Educational Social Video Potential

Well, it's official. YouTube is better than Twitter. At least... it is where education is concerned. That's the word from college professors who participated in a new study by Brabson Survey Research Group and Pearson, who overwhelmingly saw more value for secondary education in YouTube's ...

The 2010 Online Video Report Card - Consumption Grows Across The Board

comScore compiled 2010 into a new report called The 2010 U.S. Digital Year in review. In the report, as you might guess, they take a look at the U.S. Digital Media Industry. How did the year fare? ComScore says it was a year of, "renewed ...

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 ...

Video Encyclopedia Qwiki Wants To Make Information Into An Experience

Qwiki is out of private testing and now available to the public. Haven't heard of them? Well, then, you haven't been reading TechCrunch lately.  Qwiki is the winner of the most recent TechCrunch Disrupt contest and is using video in some pretty interesting ways.  Now ...

The Sunday News Reel – Week of 18-24 October, 2010

Brrr! It's cold over here (well at night anyway). I do believe there's snow at the top of the local mountain already. That would be Ještěd for those that are interested, on a clear winter day I can see it from my office window, we ...

HDR Video - What It Is, Why You Want It and Its Future

I have a friend who is deeply into photography. So one day he starts asking me about HDR (High dynamic range) video. I frankly am at a loss having only a passing acquaintance with photography in general (it's one of those hobbies I would like ...

Kaltura Helps To Spread The Word About HTML5

Hot hot hot on the heels of the IE9 HTML 5/H.264 news is an announcement from Kaltura that they're teaming up with some others to start some new open video initiatives, specifically in regards to HTML 5

Can User-Generated Video Work As A Business Model? Interview With Wikipedia CEO Jimmy Wales

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell interviews Wikipedia CEO and Co-Founder Jimmy Wales at the adtech conference and asks: Can consumer-generated media (CGM) work as a monetizeable business model for video like it has for text? What are the challenges with incorporating video into public Wikis? And, can ...

Kaltura.com The Do-It-Yourself Video Solution?

Some of us are the do-it-yourself types or don't have a huge budget to implement a solution from some of the major providers of online video delivery systems. Some of us just need to get our hands dirty and some of us are proponents of ...

Search Engines Use UGC To Improve Video Search

As you likely have heard, Youtube recently a new annotations feature that basically enables video creators to add add background information to a video hosted on Youtube. You can also use the annotations to link to related YouTube videos, channels, or search results from within ...

Wikipedia Adds Online Video With Kaltura

Wikimedia is partnering with the collaborative video service Kaltura to start rolling out video to Wikimedia sites. Wikimedia and Kaltura have begun a process aimed at bringing rich-media collaboration to Wikipedia and other wiki websites. The vision of this project is to enable the Wikipedia ...

Video Search for Your BlackBerry Mobile Phone

vTap has just updated the blackberry community on the status of vTap, the video search and video player for mobile devices. Daren Gill, the VP of Vtap, announced that Vtap is now optimized for BlackBerry OS 4.3. This includes support for streaming video and will ...

Video Conversion and Encoding Tools for Video SEO

There are tons of tools available out there for video conversion and encoding.   Thanks to Blinkx.com, we have a few recommendations to start with. Blinkx aims to differentiate itself from what it calls first generation video indexing by considering information culled from an analysis of ...

How To Create Videos Without A Video Camera

Here is a great post that I found from Paul Nilsen at paulnilsen.com. Clearly you don't need a video camera to create a flash video presentation/movie. Below are 3 excellent ideas as to methods that you can use to create successful videos online. Anyone can ...

Eurekster Adds Video To Social Search Swicki With Blinkx Partnership

"Powered by the Community: Social Search Meets Video Search" Eurekster today announces the availability of custom social video search and a video buzzcloud widget featuring best-of-breed video content from blinkx. Eurekster is a pioneer and leader in providing a custom search experience and a content ...