Inside View

Video Ad Technology

GOOGLE IS MORE than YouTube but it's in video and mobile that Google will reach a new revenue line. From the looks of Adsense for Video, Google's "InVideo" will deliver results. The advertisements appear as a banner at the bottom of vide...

EBU Streaming Solution

IN 1999, MID-CAREER professionals from the European Broadcasting Union attended week-long workshops in the Arthouse Multimedia Center for the Arts. Back then, we produced video for playback on the Real Media Player. In 2006 the EBU decid...

Sunday News from Ireland

WITH A WINNING Irish rugby team and a weeping Eamon Dunphy on the front page of most broadsheets, many in Ireland believe the recession is well and truly beaten. In a 10-minute Qik video clip [27 MB MP4 file], I run through three Sunday ...

Streaming to my TV

Recent research conducted by In-Stat, Web-To-TV Video Changes Everything, found that 40% of young adult US households view Internet video on the TV at least once per month. This is such a big change from the day television entered my lif...

Handheld HD with Qik Video Connect Plus

I SPENT MY FIRST coffee with Qik today, using Qik Video Connect Plus. It's an iPhone app that is totally integrated to all the social services and it incorporates several clever real time effects. There are two ...

When Everyone is a Composer

SEVERAL INTERESTING THOUGHTS have emerged on the newly-formed SocialMedia.net and I'm grateful to be able to know several of the writers. In a recent piece, Tom Murphy (his kit is at left) has written about the importance of crafting a n...

Big Win for Little People with Facebook's Newsfeed

Screenshot of @topgold's Facebook video. WHILE HEARING MOANING from brands and marketing teams after Facebook changed its newsfeed algorithm, I noticed videos I upload to Facebook quickly ramp up to more views than I have real friends. ...

Sunday News from Ireland

MSN Tube

MSN PLANS to launch its own version of YouTube, says Mark Sweney in Cannes. No major media player has tapped the home-spun video market segment, although I have seen rumblings from Yahoo! that tie the Yahoo! Messenger into easily-publish...

DAVE with my mobile phone

SEAGATE rolled out public demonstrations of its DAVE storage platform, a technology that allows me to store and share my mobile media on one device for easy access. With DAVE, I can combine the audio and video files that I download onto ...

iPod Video

SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, we spotted metadata on iTunes that supported video content. Now it's official--the new iPod supports video. The new iPod has a 2.5 inch 320X240 QVGA screen capable of displaying 260,000 colors and playing H.264 and M...