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You spend hours and hours crafting the perfect video. You upload it to YouTube certain that you'll be famous within a matter of hours. The acting is superb, the editing sublime. Once people click the play button, they'll be blown away. And then you realize that nobody's ever going to click that play button. Because the thumbnail image for your video is just a blank screen. Up until now, there was ...
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Earlier this year Netflix announced a new service that lets you watch a limited number of videos online instead of waiting for the DVDs to come in the mail. There's just one problem. You have to watch on Netflix's terms. The video player is browser based, and the movies are wrapped up in Windows Media DRM. If you want to want to copy a movie to a portable device for viewing on the go, you're out ...
Taken at face value, You3b is an absolutely horrible idea. Watch three YouTube videos at the same time. While you can probably handle the visual information overload, we dare you to listen to three simultaneous videos of teenagers complaining about their problems without your head exploding. But it turns out there's actually a small amount of artistry involved in picking three short videos that ...
While it's not entirely clear that the world needs another user-generated video website, we're at least a little intrigued by the teaser trailer at KnockaTV. The people behind this video sharing site are the folks who brought us ICQ, one of the first successful online chat applications. The site hasn't even launched a private beta yet, so we can't tell you what, if anything, sets it apart from ...
Sure, the whole idea behind internet television platform Joost is that there's a better way to watch internet video than using a web browser. But developer Paul Yanez tells NewTeeVee he was frustrated that every time Joost issued a new beta release he had to download a new application. So he built a Flash-based Joost clone that runs inside of a web browser. He can push out any updates he likes ...
Joost co-founder Niklas Zennström says more than a million people have signed up to beta test Joost. The service from the makers of Skype and Kazaa is still invitation only, but a few months ago Joost removed restrictions on how many invitations users could send out. Of course, having 1 million registered users doesn't mean there are that many people using the P2P video application on a daily ...
Oh they grow up so quickly. It seems like just yesterday that DivX's answer to YouTube was taking its first baby steps. But now it's all grown up and ready to leave the nest. DivX has announced plans to spin Stage6 off as a separate company. According to the press release, the move will let DivX focus on its "high margin, fast-growing technology licensing business" by separating Stage6 from the ...
So you're flipping through your RSS feeds using Google Reader, consuming news faster than any human being should really be able to. And you happen across an embedded YouTube video or audio podcast. For some time now, Google's been allowing you to view or listen to that file without leaving the Reader. But your media file will stop playing the moment you switch to another feed or folder. But ...
Okay, we know that Democracy was supposed to be renamed Miro when it hit version 1.0. But Miro 0.9.8 is out now. Whoo hoo. Technically, this is a technical preview of Miro. But as with most of the beta releases of Democracy, it's already a pretty full featured video aggregator/player. While new programs like Joost and Babelgum aim to provide a peer-to-peer streaming video experience, Miro lets you ...
Finding the best online videos could be a full time job, and assuming you've already got a job, you might just occasionally pop in and out of YouTube or subscribe to a few channels. But there are a growing number of sites and services designed to help you find the cream of whatever personal crop you prefer. One of the latest to join the fray is Mesmo.tv. Mesmo.tv is an internet video aggregator ...
No one has filed a lawsuit against VeohTV yet, but it could just be a matter of time. The service is something of a cross between YouTube and Joost, giving you the ability to surf for online videos without using a web browser. The problem is that many of those videos don't come from Veoh, but from sources like NBC, CBS, and YouTube. That includes full length streaming episodes of shows like 24, ...
There's a good reason The Daily Tube looks like every other online video site put together. That's pretty much what it is. Conde Nast Portfolio editor Michael Caruso founded the site with a staff of about 25 people who scour the web looking for the best online videos. The idea is pretty simple: there's a lot of crap out there on sites like YouTube, MetaCafe, and Revver. Caruso and his team will ...
MySpace TV is up and running, and there's something kind of familiar about it. In fact, if you look at the screenshots above, you can see that it looks an awful lot like YouTube. That's not surprising, seeing as YouTube is the most popular video sharing service on the web, and MySpace wants a piece of the action. But as the folks at Mashable point out, there's more than a superficial ...
Somebody might want to mention to Real People Real Stuff that their name is a bit long to type into a web browser. But the site's an interesting attempt at blending YouTube and Craigslist. The premise is simple enough. Post a video add for pretty much anything you're trying to sell, whether it be goods, services, or just a concept. That said, some items work better than others as a video ad. For ...
