Video Aggregation Sites
What is Transmedia Broadcasting?
Many people within the media field may have heard of the term transmedia storytelling, but what is transmedia broadcasting?
To define transmedia broadcasting we must first explain the fundamentals of transmedia storytelling. Henry Jenkins, a key media theorist in the area of convergence, was the first to discuss this new method of storytelling. Jenkins describes [...]
Friday Night Download or Funniest Home Videos 2.0?
Well we have seen a huge increase in people viewing consumer-generated content. Channel Ten have decided to do something about, no they aren’t going to add their shows online, their going to bring “the funniest, naughtiest and probably the most disturbing material on the web and deliver it right to your television screen”. Yes it [...]
Democracy transforms to Miro
Some people may know about the application called Democracy, that lets you download and watch video, very similar to the iTunes podcast setup.
Well it has been renamed and they have released a new version. Miro as it is now know as, has some great features. I’m constantly running out of hard drive space when downloading [...]
YouTube, YouMobile
YouTube now has a mobile friendly 3G website, http://m.youtube.com is a xHTML site optimize for the mobile phones. Although this has been live for sometime it has been pushed to the side due to the media hype of the YouTube and Apple partnership with both Apple TV and speculation as to whether or not YouTube [...]
YouTube, YouEdit
YouTube has released an online video editing software. YouTube Remixer is powered by Adobe.
I had a go quickly at this and I must say it was pretty boring. I could only manage to add one graphic element, which had to be displayed for the entire video. I attempted to add music, but it seems there [...]
Will Pirate Bay Sink YouTube?
It has been announced the popular Pirate Bay will be starting its own streaming video site. Thevideobay.org will be similar to YouTube, but will have the well know Pirate Bay lack of following copyright and censorship laws. The difference to this site in comparison to their torrent site, is that they are hosting the content. [...]
Band Make Music Video on Mobile Phone
A band by the name of 8mm has produced their own music video simple using a mobile phone and iMovie. Many would say that this isn’t exciting at all. What I find fascinating is that video on phone has got to a point where people aren’t just using it to take videos of their [...]
Media Companies, 360 degree turn on YouTube
After many broadcaster putting the pressure on YouTube to take down content from their stations. CBS has said that YouTube has played a part in it’s increase of ratings.
CBS signed a deal with YouTube about a month ago and since have uploaded over 300 videos with viewings of 29.2m in total. With 3 of their [...]
Shift to Online TV viewing
An article published in the San Francisco Gate reports the increase of people turning away from the tube to watch online content. The example of this is a college student who over hears other students talking about an episode about “World of Warcraft” of South Park. That night he watches the episode online.
Joe Laszlo, a [...]
YouTube, Saved by the Bell
Many people are unsure of how YouTube duck and weave the legal blows of copyright infringement. I recently read an article by slate.com, that gives you a simple overview.
Basically the company who owns the pipes that the internet run through is called Bell. Many years ago they came to a long and debated agreement with [...]
