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May 9, 2008
Benjamin J. Higginbotham As a videocaster I try to keep up on the latest and greatest video players out there. From YouTube to Blip.tv to Revver to Google Video and many, many, many others. It seems that time and time again I end...





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...





September 5, 2007
Ed Kohler I've decided to put together a series of posts on how to blog. As of now, I plan on kicking this off with posts looking at the technical decisions one has to make in order to be a successful blogger....





April 14, 2007
Robert X. Cringely This just in from Australia, where a teenager posed as ABC (an Australian TV network) and caused YouTube to withdraw hundreds of videos: "A 15-year-old boy from Perth has apologised for pretending to be from ABC Television and having...





January 29, 2007
Robert X. Cringely When all of us were writing last fall about YouTube being purchased by Google for $1.65 billion in stock, part of that mantra was YouTube’s traffic consisting of users viewing 100 million videos per day.  Thousands of news stories and...





January 21, 2007
Ed Kohler This past weekend was a big weekend for announcing presidential campaigns for the 2008 elections. I spent some time watching announcement videos from various candidates from both a political and technical standpoint. This point isn't meant to be political, but...





December 17, 2006
Ed Kohler Red Herring has reported on a comScore report stating that Fox Interactive, largely through Myspace, has surpassed Yahoo as the top dog for monthly page views: Fox Interactive Media’s total U.S. page views increased to 39.5 million from 38.7 million...





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....





October 31, 2006
Ed Kohler CNET is reporting that Google has started cutting revenue sharing deals with video content creators: The search company has agreed to turn over most advertising revenue generated by the latest video from Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz, creators of "The...





October 17, 2006
Ed Kohler AdWeek is reporting on a Nielsen/NetRatings study showing a drop in traffic to social network sites this September.: "Visitors to social network heavyweight MySpace dropped to 47.2 million in September from 49.2 million in August, a 4 percent decline, per...





October 5, 2006
Ed Kohler Andrew Careaga points to Wired's Monkey Bites blog's calculation of time spent (wasted?) watching some of YouTube's most popular videos: Wired?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Monkey Bites blog calculates how many years have been wasted watching the following five YouTube posts: 14.26 years watching...





September 21, 2006
Ed Kohler If 90% of the 100,000 videos views per day on YouTube violate copyright laws, does that mean YouTube can only honestly serve advertising against the remaining 10,000 viewed? How much advertising do you need to sell against those10,000 video views...





September 1, 2006
Ed Kohler YouTube has added a new "Colleges on YouTube" feature making it easier for students to share video content based on their school affiliation using the popular video service. FaceBook is the largest player in college social networking today, but could...





August 25, 2006
Ed Kohler Jeff Utecht, a teacher and blogger at The Thinking Stick put together a video tutorial on how to use Flickr, then published it to YouTube: It provides step by step instructions on how to use Flickr, followed by tips on...