What kinds of videos are people watching online? It’s sure not Lost or Desperate Housewives, even if downloads of traditional TV shows command most of the media’s attention, thanks to Apple’s bottom line. At Supernova on Friday, Mary Hodder, CEO of Dabble, said she’d list the different varieties or genres of grassroots video her company […]
At Bloggercon 4
After Supernova, headed down to the street to Bloggercon 4, which its organizers decided to put on opposite Supernova as a protest against the latter’s high fees and too-traditional content agenda. So far, not a great deal new here, though a nifty discussion about user gripes about software shortcomings. A few photos tomorrow. I posted […]
At Supernova
Spent the morning at Supernova, the business technology conference in San Francisco. Tomorrow I’ll post Just posted to Flickr a photo of FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps (forgot my flash card connector). I moderated this morning’s opening panel, “The Rise of the VideoNet,” with Jeremy Allaire (Brightcove), Jonathan Taplin (USC Annenberg Center), Mary Hodder (Dabble), […]
Google Video to allow comments & ratings
Today from Kevin Nalty at Will Video for Food: Google Video to Allow Comments & Ratings (and what we REALLY want). Google Video will soon allow online video viewers to post comments and ratings. This places the site closer to YouTube’s model, and could well help it steal market share from the #1 online video […]
Announcing the Open Media Coalition
Today we’re launching a new initiative called the Open Media Coalition. The idea is a simple one: Too often, open media efforts get mired in vertical silos. Project teams and developers don’t talk or collaborate across different initiatives. So a group of us decided it was time to create a working group of developers and […]