Tomorrow is the third day of Streaming Media West, and I’ll be on this panel: The Power of Personal Media Track B: (B301) 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM Let’s unpack the mythology and reality of UGC: User-Generated Content. We all have cameras. We have free distribution. And, practically overnight, almost everyone can become an […]
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Steve Rosenbaum on Magnify.net
Steve Rosenbaum on Magnify.net from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Here’s a 5-minute video interview I conducted with Steve Rosenbaum, a pioneer in the field of user-created video and the founder and CEO of Magnify.net. Steve talks about the explosion of thousands of channels on the service, such as Native American Tube, a channel that hosts […]
Kaltura: open source video
Kaltura: open-source video from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I’ve been following Kaltura for about a year now. It offers a terrific open-source platform, toolset and nearly free video hosting solution for small and large companies and nonprofits. (I think I have that right — it’s hard to explain what they do in a single sentence.) […]
A better way to target video ads
On day 2 of a 4-day Aspen Institute roundtable on cloud computing, Arturo Artom, founder and president of San Francisco-headquartered YourTrumanShow, gave me a demo of a new online video technology being announced this morning called TagLift, a new video advertising targeting technology. As anyone in the grassroots video space knows, sites like YouTube, Vimeo […]
Will Code of Best Practices help video mash-up artists?
At PBS’s MediaShift blog, Mark Glaser conducted a roundtable last week on import of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video released by the Center for Social Media at American University. (I wrote about it here.) Participating were: Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University, Code of […]