One area of web video baffles people more than any other; how to prepare a video for the web and then get that video on their web site. First you need software that will encode your video in a web-ready format (Flash, QuickTime or WMV), then you need a player for your video and cryptic [...]
This morning OoVoo announced the release of OoVoo 2.1, the latest incarnation of their popular, high-quality video chat software. I have previously posted about OoVoo here. What’s notable about this release is that Mac user’s finally get the full treatment. The Mac version of OoVoo had been in beta for quite a while, but now [...]
There are two new contests running online that you may be interested in…both involving video. First up is Amazon. They are running a contest for user-generated video ads…promoting Amazon.com. The winner(s) can receive gift cards from Amazon, up to $20,000. Here’s a break down of the rules from Amazon’s site: Film your own short video [...]
Cisco Systems just published a new white paper analysis…and in it they predict that web traffic will quintuple by 2013…driven largely by video. Right now, web video makes up about one-third of Internet traffic. But within four years, that number is expected to swell to 60%. And once you figure in ALL the ways video [...]
Back in the old-days of the Internet, free was a very bad thing. It attracted the wrong crowd. So you never gave anything away for free…even a simple article. You charged for everything. These days, that’s not the case. Especially with new media, where the entire point is to freely give people your content, tips [...]
