Once of the things I’ve immensely disliked about YouTube since its launch is that the site offers you no way to download a video. (All of the 100,000-plus videos on Ourmedia can be downloaded.) I’ve previously written about MobileWhack (download YouTube videos to your iPod) and about Spain’s vDownloader. Now comes this great list of […]
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Web sites for user-generated video
With Hollywood’ writers strike on, the San Jose Mercury News suggests switching off the television and tuning in to Web video. They include Ourmedia.org in their list of Web sites for user-generated video: www.youtube.com vids.myspace.com video.msn.com www.current.com www.blip.tv www.break.com www.videoegg.com www.dailymotion.com www.veoh.com video.google.com/ www.crackle.com www.jumpcut.com www.aol.com www.eyespot.com video.yahoo.com www.metacafe.com www.ourmedia.org
A chat with the COO of Blip.tv
Recently I had a chance to sit down with Dina Kaplan, the visionary, vivacious co-founder and COO of Blip.tv. Wanted to post this earlier but I haven’t been able to carve out time to learn Final Cut Pro, so I’m still using iMovie here. In this 6-minute video interview, Dina talks about creating shows on […]
Mashup: Nobody’s Perfect in Politics
Had fun with my latest mashup: Nobody’s Perfect in Politics, done to the counterpoint of Hannah Montana’s bubbly "Nobody’s Perfect," with appearances by Sen. Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Alberto Gonzales, Dick Cheney, George Tenet, George W. Bush and others. I entered it in the DIY Video Summit political mashup contest (whose […]
Citizen journalism hits the big screen
Had a great time judging last night at the last of four Pier 38 screenings in San Francisco, put on by NewTeeVee. (They’re holding a fifth in September in New York.) This one focused on citizen journalism, with six well-done submissions covering the gamut from a gay parade in San Francisco to coverage of the […]