Ryan Merkley: Online video -- annotated, remixed and popped

Videos on the web should work like the web itself: Dynamic, full of links, maps and information that can be edited and updated live, says Mozilla Foundation COO Ryan Merkley. On the TED stage he demos Popcorn Maker, a new web-based tool for easy video remixing. (Watch a remixed TEDTalk using Popcorn Maker -- and remix it yourself.) Ryan Merkley is the Chief Operating Officer at the Mozilla Foundation, and is dedicated to making the web a more user-friendly place.
Ryan Merkley: Online video -- annotated, remixed and popped ...
By TEDTalks - Videos on the web should work like the web itself: Dynamic, full of links, maps and information that can be edited and updated live, says Mozilla Foundation COO Ryan Merkley. On the TED stage he demos Popcorn Maker, a new ...
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How to Edit Video on YouTube
Yahoo! News (blog)
Linear video editors like YouTube's are based around an intuitive and easy-to-use timeline. If you want to add a clip from your pool of videos into the project, simply drag it onto the timeline. You can also include any YouTube videos that were ...

How to Edit Video on YouTube
By Fran Berkman
The YouTube video editor is often overlooked and frustratingly flawed, yet it can be a useful tool at times. ... For context, there are now more than 1 billion smartphones in the world, and YouTube video views surpassed 1 trillion in 2011.
Mashable » Social Media

Google Launches Digital Thermometer For Nonprofits On YouTube
By Matthew Panzarino
Google has launched a new tool for its YouTube Nonprofit Program users called Campaigns. This acts as a progress bar that takes on the role of the 'thermometer' that nonprofits raising money have used for years to represent their progress ...
The Next Web

How To Get More Views On YouTube - hypebot
By Hisham Dahud
Obviously YouTube users love music content—so how can you best position your videos to reach a higher proportion of that massive (over 127 million unique visitors in May 2012 alone) audience? Unfortunately, there's no simple answer to that question. YouTube is ... Ensuring your digital team understands the specifics of how YouTube ranks and profiles its content is essential for building a successful YouTube Channel. Overlooking these details can leave even the highest quality ...
DOPNEWS: Music Tech & Biz

Tip: Upcoming Kindle Fire a good big-screen option
USA TODAY
A: A smart TV is a Web-enabled TV that can connect to streaming video services and browse the Web. Some models even play mobile games. However, smart TVs can be more expensive than similar models without Internet access. You'll save by buying a ...

Smart TV Shipments Expected to Jump 15 Percent This Year
TV Technology
The accessibility of content and broadcast services market penetration have been helped in Europe and Japan by connected TV. In China, the availability of free content on the Internet has had a similar effect. Connected TV's shipment shares were 26 ...

Newsweek to Go All Digital
Women's Wear Daily
NEW YORK — At around 11 a.m. Thursday, new Newsweek-Daily Beast chief executive officer Baba Shetty convened his first company-wide meeting at the magazine's High Line headquarters. Editor in chief Tina Brown was by his side. Earlier that morning ...

Instantly Motivate With GRS Digital Media Library
Sacramento Bee
CHICAGO and TORONTO, Oct. 19, 2012 -- Global Reward Solutions to provide world's largest collection of on-demand music, movies, e-books, TV shows and sporting events as part of innovative new technology platform. CHICAGO and TORONTO, Oct. 19, ...

Haivision at Streaming Media West 2012
Broadcast Engineering
Haivision offers users a range of Internet streaming and enterprise IP video-distribution solutions that enable the delivery of rich media to global audiences. At Streaming Media West 2012, Haivision will debut its KulaByte(TM) 4.0 live H.264 ...

Smart TV shipments grow 15% in 2012
Broadband TV News
With the shift, regional preferences and TV consumption habits are changing, according to the latest NPD DisplaySearch Quarterly Smart TV Shipment and Forecast Report. Critical to the development of connected TV has been the accessibility of content ...

Review: This Device Turns Your TV Into A Giant Android Tablet
Business Insider
So far I'm on board with the device, but there's a huge caveat: While the hardware is done, the software driving the Smart TV is far from finished. By the company's own admission, there are some pretty obnoxious bugs to be worked out. Video on HBO GO...

Business Insider

Canal Digital: “Smart TV apps are not currently adding value to the TV experience”
IPTV News
Tore Melling, Digital Entertainment Director at Norwegian pay-TV provider Canal Digital, on the new business areas presented by second-screens, the user experience currently offered by Smart TVapps, and the impact that Social TV services might have in ...

Wowza's Chris Knowlton to Take on 'Servers and Clouds' in Seminars at ...
Broadcast Engineering
Oct. 18, 2012 -- Wowza(R) Media Systems, LLC, VP of Product Management Chris Knowlton will present two sessions at Streaming Media West 2012: "Streaming Media Delivery -- Servers and Clouds" and "HOW-TO: Simplify Video Delivery and Slash ...

NPD: smart TV shipments up 15 percent in 2012 | Electronista
The smart TV sector is moving from technological novelty to the mainstream, according to NPD DIsplaySearch. The consumer information company has just ...
www.electronista.com/.../worldwide.smart.tvs.move.into.the.m...

Netflix Completes Scandinavian Roll Out Ahead of HBO with Bows in Norway ...
Hollywood Reporter
Netflix's Stock Rises 10.5 Percent on Analyst Upgrade. Netflix will charge 79 Crowns – Danish, Norwegian or Swedish respectively – per month for their local services and €7.99 per month in Finland, the only Scandinavian country that is part of the Euro ...

Hollywood Reporter

Providence Confirms Its Exit From Hulu
New York Times (blog)
But the valuations proved unsatisfactory to the service's owners, including Providence, which did not initially want to sell. Since then, the company has grown, becoming one of the top online video sites and a rival to older competitors like Netflix ...

New York Times (blog)

How Google, Microsoft and Netflix Failed At Tech Transitions
Forbes
Google, Microsoft, and Netflix are living proof that pioneers don't cope well with technology transitions. And that's because the skills that make the pioneer so good, doom it to disaster when new technology emerges. Thanks to an error with its ...

Netflix, HBO Competition Hits Shares of Sweden's Modern Times Group
Hollywood Reporter
COLOGNE, Germany - Shares in Nordic broadcaster Modern Times Group fell close to a 52-week low on Friday after the company warned increased competition from new VOD players, including Netflix and HBO, would mean a drop in its pay TV subscriber...

Hollywood Reporter

Tell us: How has technology affected your TV viewing?
USA TODAY
And how big a part of your TV diet are Netflix, Hulu, iTunes and other online sources? Describe your habits — and how they've changed over the past few years — by 3 p.m. ET on Wednesday for possible inclusion in a future story. (Click on "Comments ...

Did Netflix's Reed Hastings Lie to Us?
TheStreet.com
After reading Keating's account, I better appreciate Hastings, the CEO and the man. In fact, for as great of a job as Keating did, Hastings got an equally-as-raw deal. Keating reveals a side of Hastings many of us knew existed, but, without firsthand ...

Bell is miffed that the CRTC won't let it compete with unregulated Netflix
Canada.com
Bell Media president Kevin Crull was quick to allude to Netflix in response to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications ruling that BCE Inc. could not follow through with its $3.38 billion acquisition of Astral Media, as he cited the need ...

Canada.com

Down With Netflix! Down With Redbox! Saturday is Independent Video Store Day
Austin Chronicle (blog)
Sure, they're convenient when you're too stoned/tipsy/lazy to get up and go outside very, very busy, but have Netflix or Redbox -- or for that matter Hulu or Vimeo or even freaking Blockbuster Video -- ever given you free beer, like, for free? Thought not.

Austin Chronicle (blog)

Netflix Officially Available in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and ...
By Shane McGlaun
Netflix announced that during the summer that it would be expanding streaming offering to certain Nordic countries. As of this week, Netflix streaming content has officially become available in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland. Netflix ...
Geeky Gadgets

Japan's KDDI to Launch Netflix Style eBook Subscriptions in ...
By Nate Hoffelder
Japan's KDDI to Launch Netflix Style eBook Subscriptions in December. October 18th, 2012 by Nate Hoffelder · No Comments · ebookstore news. Decent ebook subscription plans are few and far between here in the US but it looks like the ...
The Digital Reader

LiveStream - Mark Kornfilt | Welcome to bnetTV
By ria
Livestream operates with over 120 full-time staff members in 4 offices—in New York (headquarters), Los Angeles, Bangalore, and the Ukraine. The service is available for free (advertising-supported) or as a feature-rich, monetizable, premium ...
Welcome to bnetTV

Online Video Viewing in Latin America is Evolving, Rápidamente!
ReelSEO Online Video News
comScore just put out some numbers for Latin America in regards to online video. I figured it's entirely possible that some of our readers have interest in the region and so I compiled a couple releases to take a look at how online video viewing is ...

ReelSEO Online Video News

(Photo : Reuters) Sean Parker, shown here, co-founded the online video chat ...
IVCPOST
(Photo : Reuters) Sean Parker, shown here, co-founded the online video chat room service Airtime with Shawn Fanning. The two also created Napster together. Despite a splashy, star-studded coming out party in June and funding from celebrities and big ...

IVCPOST

Xiaomi explores internet TV
South China Morning Post (subscription) (blog)
Doug Young has lived and worked in China for 15 years, much of that as a journalist for Reuters writing about Chinese companies. He currently lives in Shanghai where he teaches financial journalism at Fudan University. He writes daily on his blog ...

Will the new Boxee be worth buying?
Network World
The first generation all-in-one Internet TV, Boxee tried to do everything you could do with TV and the Internet...and it wasn't very good at doing anything. Oh sure, if you put in the sweat equity you could do great things with it. At day's end, though ...

Network World

TDF Media Services wins three consecutive awards in October for outstanding ...
Advanced Television
TDF Media Services won two awards at 2012 Streaming Media Europe in London this week for “Best Video Cloud Service” and “Best Online Video Platform”. Earlier this month at MIPCOM in Cannes, the TDF group won an International ITV award for “Best ...

Argentina Leads Latin America in Online Video Adoption ...
More than 9 in 10 Argentinean Web Users Tuned Into Online Video in August. comScore Presents Complimentary Webinar on the “A New Era for Online Video ...
www.comscore.com/.../Argentina_Leads_Latin_America_in_...

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