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January 25, 2008
Ed Kohler Graeme Thickens has compiled an exhaustive list of every company that's scheduled to present at DEMO 2008 with links to the company sites (which may or may not have much to say yet). There are tons of interesting new companies...





January 24, 2008
Ed Kohler One of the biggest pains I experience as a Mac user is having to boot Windows if I want to stream movies on Netflix. In fact, that's one of the only reasons I ever boot Windows. So, why doesn't Netflix...





October 24, 2007
Ed Kohler Om Malik takes a look at NBC's decision to move from YouTube to their own distribution network co-owned with News Corp called Hulu. He suggests that this is a bad move since it fragments the video distribution market: It is...





October 17, 2007
Ed Kohler How do you build a loyal following? Get your users to participate in the content you're creating. One way to do this is through comments on blogs, where people who've contributed their thoughts to a site have simultaneously become invested...





September 6, 2007
Ed Kohler One thing that causes some frustration for new Wordpress blog users is figuring out how to include videos in their blog posts. There are two popular ways to do this: upload a file to the server for direct download and...





August 8, 2007
Ed Kohler I ran into my good friend Mark Eibner at the Inman Connect conference in San Diego at the blogger party thrown by Zillow.com. Mark was shooting some videos with people attending, including me, using an RCA EZ201 Small Wonder point...





July 2, 2007
Ed Kohler One question that Justine seems to receive with every fresh encounter she has while in iJustine mode is, "How does your setup work?" or some variation on that. Perhaps this will help explain how one lifecasts these days. First, she...





June 12, 2007
Ed Kohler It turns out that Steve Jobs can drive traffic. No surprise there. What's interesting about this is finding out that Ustream.tv was able to handle 75,000 concurrent streams of Steve Jobs on their streaming video platform (with some strain): Biggest…Day…Ever...





May 1, 2007
Ed Kohler Cameron Clarke from Vodium presented in the Broadcasting Online for Business session. Vodium is an online video platform focusing on rich media communication for corporations and government institutions. Videos from conferences, presentations, and training are formatted for the web, and...





Ed Kohler Chris Brogan from Network2.tv included a footer in his PowerPoint slides asking the audience to take pictures, blog about it, talk about it, etc. He clearly didn't have a problem with his presentation being streamed live to the web using...





April 24, 2007
Benjamin J. Higginbotham Recently Apple sent out a newsletter to videocasters explaining how to optimize their videos for the Apple TV. A lot of it was pretty basic stuff but one section in particular caught my eye. Apple suggests only encoding for the...





February 12, 2007
Ed Kohler Adobe announced today that Flash Lite will support playback of Flash video on mobile devices: "At the 3GSM World Congress, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that support for video will be integrated in the next generation of Adobe® Flash...





December 23, 2006
Ed Kohler I created a quick little video tonight for my family based on some holiday cooking that took place earlier today, then loaded it to Revver.com so I could embed it into my blog. Then I waited . . . and...





December 15, 2006
Ed Kohler Robert Cringely's column this week offered some interesting thoughts on whether Google, through their purchase of YouTube, has won the online video battle : But the very success of YouTube strongly suggests that there won't be another YouTube, simply because...





December 14, 2006
Ed Kohler YouTube launched a new video publishing service called Quick Capture earlier this week that allows people to record their content directly to YouTube rather than recording locally then uploading. I gave it a try from home and had horrible results....





November 9, 2006
Benjamin J. Higginbotham

After experiencing the Apple iPod Nano commercial in HD and 5.1 surround sound I got to thinking about web video and the experience it brings. Many have said that the web will be the death of television and DVDs, but I highly doubt that. I think online video will kill television just as much as satellite radio killed terrestrial radio. No, I believe that online video is a completely different medium that will supplement traditional television and will start to actually merge into your home set-top-box.