DAVOS: The Internet is set to revolutionise television within five years, due to an explosion of online video content and the merging of PCs and TV sets, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Saturday. “I’m stunned how people aren’t seeing that with TV, in five years from now, people will laugh at what we’ve had,”… [Read more…]
January 17, 2007 by Ingjerd Jevnaker
YUSER-GENERATED VIDEO, WHICH MADE UP 47% of the online video market in 2006, will grow to encompass 55% of the market by the end of 2010, according to a report released Monday by media research firm Screen Digest. But despite the growth, video created by consumers will account for just 15% of overall video ad… [Read more…]
January 15, 2007 by Ingjerd Jevnaker
Finally someone sees through the myth (From Staci D. Kramer‘s article on the Venice Project in PaidContent): “Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, the creators of the three services and the technology behind them, have Google or Jobs-like status when it comes to new projects: they could start work on a stealth grocery list and people… [Read more…]
January 15, 2007 by Ingjerd Jevnaker
The P2P advocate organisation DCIA today announced that DCIA Member INTENT MediaWorks, a provider of technology for online distribution of licensed digital media, is partnering with fellow Member Nettwerk Music Group to distribute Nettwerk’s large and ever expanding catalog of artists, such as Barenaked Ladies, Sarah McLachlan, and Avril Lavigne. Nettwerk has been responsible for… [Read more…]
December 18, 2006 by Ingjerd Jevnaker
Wired Magazine published a story today on a reporters’ experience of switching to watching TV content purely online and he does raise a few interesting points, such as the following: The issues with sports underscore the problems with internet delivery of real-time video, such as games and breaking news. People don’t mind waiting for the… [Read more…]
December 7, 2006 by Ingjerd Jevnaker
Next Generation P2P: Digital Hollywood Europe: Synopsis (Pt 2) <!– –> Marty Lafferty 07 Dec 2006 Marty Lafferty, CEO of the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) gives us a synopsis of the Next Generation P2P sessions at the recent Digital Hollywood Europe conference held in London’s docklands. Ingjerd Jevnaker (pictured… [Read more…]
December 1, 2006 by Ingjerd Jevnaker
Demand for video now rivals music online, according to a recent survey. The study, commissioned by iCrossing and carried out by Harris Interactive, noted that video formats like movies, clips, television shows, and sporting events are rapidly attracting more attention from media-hungry consumers. Specifically, the poll found that 46 percent of online adults in the… [Read more…]
November 27, 2006 by Ingjerd Jevnaker
(from BBC News, published Monday 27/11) Video sharing site YouTube has taken online viewing to the masses The online video boom is starting to eat into TV viewing time, an ICM survey of 2,070 people for the BBC suggests. Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile device at… [Read more…]
November 24, 2006 by Ingjerd Jevnaker
Which one of the UGC websites below is the best for you? Why? a) vSocial Website: www.vsocial.com Info: vSocial is a social networking for video platform that enables content owners,site operators and online marketing organizations to custom brand, target, virally distribute and monetize their message via video. b) Heavy.com Website: www.heavy.com Info: Heavy.com is a… [Read more…]
November 23, 2006 by Ingjerd Jevnaker
CBS issued a release today with some of its YouTube clips viewing numbers, which while heartening in some of the numbers it portrays, is what I call “reductive speculation”. The way the release is structured it is meant to imply that since CBS clips officially went onto YouTube, the “Late Show with David Letterman” has… [Read more…]
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January 27, 2007 by Ingjerd Jevnaker
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