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Video Sharing: A Brand New Way to Express Yourself on the Web

2008-06-01T01:52:14+02:00

A video hosting service, also known as video sharing service allows individuals to upload video clips to an Internet website.The video host will then store the video on its server, and show the individual different types of code to allow others to view this video. Because many users do not have personal web space, either as a paid service, or through an ISP offering, video hosting services are becoming increasingly popular, especially with the explosion in popularity of blogs, forums, and other interactive pages. The website, mainly used as the video hosting service, is usually called the video sharing website.Since the world is fast becoming a global village, the popularity of various or video sharing services has hit the roof top.To begin with, YouTube has become such a rage among different sections of the crowd. The reason for its popularity can be attributed to the ability to upload videos as and when required.YouTube’s popularity has led to the creation of many YouTube Internet celebrities, popular individuals who have attracted much publicity in their home countries (and sometimes across the world) due to their videos.Seeing the rising popularity among different sections of the crowd, these sites have started to conduct contests for the best video clips hosted in their site in the respective categories. These type of Video clip contests organized by these sites has thrown open the door for many aspiring film-makers to exhibit their talent and compete with the elite.Online video sharing sites allow anyone connected to the web to easily upload digital video recordings so that these clips can be viewed by other people. Online video sharing sites have become a high in-demand online type of service because they allow small independent publishers the ability to publish video files of almost any size without problems. Normally, bloggers and other small independent publishers have only a limited amount of space on their web service provider server to upload additional files to be published on their web site. While this space maybe quite extensive for publishing hundreds of photos or audio files in mp3 format, video files can easily inflate to be several tens of megabytes each, if not hundreds, depending on video quality and length.Video Popularity competition has gained terrific response as the number of persons using video sharing sites have multiplied tremendously over the last few years.Let us see the Purpose of Video Hosting ServiceSave on bandwidth costs, often eliminating costs entirely•Creating a common place•Make a hassle-free experience, where uploading a video and streaming or embedding would normally require advanced programming knowledge. It is now commonly achieved through a web browser, with little or no programming experience.The businesses need to become familiar with some of the trends in online video sharing and begin to explore how these can be used to enhance the prospecting, customer engagement, and services. Video Sharing will explore whole world to share anything in the near future.Author Biography: Alex Koyfman is founder of the brand new video sharing service viddiction.com. Viddiction is a trendsetter in the video sharing niche. Viddiction develops and maintains a network of video content creators and advertisers. Unlike many other video sharing services, viddiction offers the video up loaders a chance to win cash prizes up to $500 depending upon the popularity of the uploaded video.

My Life is full of CRAP and CORRUPTION!!!

2007-11-20T21:18:38+01:00

Monday, 6:45 am the alarm goes off, husband hits snooze…6:55 am, the alarm goes off, husband hits snooze…7:05 am, the alarm goes off, husband hits snooze, at which point I say…”Are you going to get in the shower? I have to get in there, I have to go to work today”…7:10am, I get in the shower because he didn’t…now running behind schedule, I shower get dressed, do my hair and proceed to get Madison clothes from her room…trip…fall…and cuss…alot. Her room is a damn disaster and there is no where to place your feet without stepping on miscellaneous small and pokey sharp little teeny tiny pieces of Brats dolls, Sweet Streets, Princess crap, and at least a gagillion bucket loads worth of fricken video game paraphernalia. In the midst of this mess is not one single pair of clean pants…anywhere…proceed with mini melt down followed by a very well displayed temper tantrum out of a 38, umm, I mean 28 year old grown up ( I am sure you all would have been proud)! The disaster that was there turned into a complete catastrophe in a matter of 5.2 seconds.7:50 am temper tantrum almost over with, Madison is dressed and ready to proceed out the door to school by 8:06 am and I am now also late getting out the door to get to work.Eff-ing traffic is backed up for no.apparent.good.effing.reason.damn.it.8:35 am…Arrive at work. Apparently the last day worked by someone else, was too hard on said someone else and they didn’t get the prep work done for Monday before they left at 4:15 pm on Friday, (what the hell did you do all day?) I can get the whole days work and the prep done before 2:00 pm on everyday that I am there and then some…I.just.don’t.get.it.moron. I Luckily escape serious injury for the day, ei, no papercuts or staple stabs, although I didn’t get time to practice my left handed paperclipping, I did manage to finish ALL of my work and prep for the someone elses for today before 3:00 pm.2:45 pm…Hubby calls…he wants to know if I want to go to JP’S for dinner and a few drinks? Well hell yeah! I am going to need it by the time today gets over with! I AM IN!!!3:05…phone rings again…daughter number two calling to ask to go to a friends house after school until she has to go to hockey…I respond…HELL NO!!! Have you seen the freakin house? No one is going anywhere until that shit is cleaned up, I am totally sick of looking at the messes and dishes and the laundry and the crap and corruption that has taken over our abode and it is going to get cleaned up TODAY! I proceed with my rant for a good long time and said basically the same crap I say to everyone in this house everyday. I.AM.ONLY.ONE.EFFING.PERSON.AND.I.CAN’T.DO.ALL.OF.THIS.SHIT.MYSELF. I swear they are all in on a conspiracy to drive me to the insane asylum. Hang up phone and proceed to drive home.3:15 pm…Phone rings again…daughter number two again, “Dave called” (her hockey coach)…”he wants me to go to Varsity and JV practice…he is picking me up in a couple of minutes…my stick is in your truck”…3:20 pm…Haul ass to hockey rink…drop off stick…come home to pick up son (kid number 4)…bring him to the rink…tie his skates…proceed home…4:55 pm…assess the disaster at home briefly…turn around and get back into the truck to go back to the rink once again to pick up daughter number two.5:10 pm…daughter number three calls…”I NEED some Chex cereal, brown sugar, and Karo syrup, for a school project…can you get that for me?” What the hell? Why would you need that now? And I suppose this is due tomorrow? Damn it! and also…NO! 5:25 pm…thought I would try to relax at the rink until 5:40 at which point daughter number two is done with practice…I was wrong…so wrong…a hockey board member (name withheld) approaches me and says she needs my sons birth certificate…now.5:27 pm…hop in lightning fast Lincoln press the “invisible from police officers” shield and proceed through the streets of town heading for home again at approximately five gagillion miles per hour to scan, and print sons birth certificate…5:40 pm back at the rink…beeyotch is gone…but look! Hubby has arrived! Receive rather big hug from hubby and as I am hoping that all things are better now, he says…”I don’t think we are going to make it to JP’s on time for dinner”…I respond with…”WHAT! That was all that was getting me through this day! What are you doing to me?”5:45 pm…daughter number two emerges from the locker room smelling like a dead and rotting carcass and says she needs me to bring her to Taylor’s to do a project…Taylor goes to school in our town but doesn’t dwell here, it is a very long drive to Taylor’s house and it is a school night and daughter number three has a band concert at 6:45 pm. And hell to the no…I am not driving you to Taylor’s, do your project alone at our house and next time pick a partner that lives by us…DUH!…Now SHE need ingredients. Proceed to grocery store to buy…Chex cereal, brown sugar, Karo syrup, cream cheese, graham crackers, semi sweet morsel, vanilla…6:05 pm…return home…drive daughter number three to school for band concert…realize we forgot the damn graham crackers.6:15 pm…call Dad have him pick up some graham crackers.6:47 pm…Dad and I arrive at the band concert…we listen to the horrible harmonious band concert7:15 pm…arrive home once again…call JP…GREAT NEWS…they haven’t started eating yet! Hop back in car and fly to JP’s where we were served a fabulous meal and drank six a few beers talked and then finished up the night with a few really, really, fun rounds of Beer Pong. Don’t worry, I didn’t know what it was either…but I do now…and it’s a blast!

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12:05 am…arrive home to this…12:15 am…write this…Am I still in the running for Mother of the year? You can just drop my trophy in the mail and ship to: 555 I have lost my frickin’ marblesInsane Asylum MN, 55555 USA

Packard Bell. All mine!

2007-08-08T19:29:14+02:00

I have got my computer back! It's not been away for repair, it hasn't been broken. But as I may have told you, it was taken over by two teenagers. Also, it's not good to sit and mess on here when we have visitors. Bad manners.I tell you something, I have not recovered yet. Still feeling shattered. Just shows how age creeps up on you. Could have managed all last week, stood on my head, a few years ago. This computer of mine has taken a beating. Goodness knows what they did with it. lol. They can do things I never knew could be done. Movies! Matchstick people. They put them on U-tube. See, I don't even know if that is spelt right! No, it isn't, it's YouTube. Just goes to show how much a nan knows eh?

Where is the bubble?

2007-02-16T19:58:49+01:00

Following the take-over of YouTube by Google last fall, we have seen many comments on the return of the Internet bubble. This 1.6 billion dollar deal for a company with virtually no revenues was illustration that irrational thinking was infecting us again.Well, 6 months later, it does not look at such a bad deal for Google. On the contrary, the fast growing on-line advertising market shows that it should not be such an issue for Google to monetize this extra inventory.On-line advertising growth is very much connected to the growth of Internet itself, especially of broadband access. And this broadband access is accelerating in all major countries. As a result, e-commerce is also growing at a nice 30% rate per year with no sign to cool down. This strong and steady e-commerce growth is financing portals, media and community sites with profitable advertising budgets. This makes the whole picture much healthier than in 1999 & 2000. This is why there is not much to worry about a bubble bust as so far, there is no bubble at all, just plain fast growing market. Remember all those crazy IPOs in 99. Anything similar today? Not really. Not only companies are getting profitable much quicker, but investors are also much more selective. It looks like for the first time they show some memories of the past to keep the market at a reasonable and healthy level. Not bad at all. ;-)

Video sharing startup Metacafe appointed former Electronic Art executive as CEO

2007-02-08T08:50:00+01:00

Video sharing startup Metacafe appointed Erick Hachenburg as the company's CEO. Prior to joining Metacafe, Hachenburg was Electronic Art’s senior vice president of global online publishing and managing director of EA China. Hachenburg joined EA following the company’s 2001 acquisition of casual games firm Pogo.com, that Hachenburg founded. Arik Czerniak, co-founder and former CEO, will remain on the executive management team to focus on strategic product issues and partnerships.Metacafe, an independent rival to online video service providers like YouTube, Break.com, Revver and GoogleVideo, expanded its management team early this year, with several new key executive hires. MetaCafe named Bud Colligan, former head of software maker Macromedia and a software investor at venture capital firm Accel Partners, as its chairman. Colligan co-founded Macromedia in 1992 through a merger of Authorware and Macromind-Paracomp. Prior to Macromedia, Colligan worked at Apple Computer's Macintosh Division.The company hired Erik Smith as vice president of content and programming. Smith, who brings considerable experience in experience in bringing companies like ESPN, Fox Sports, Disney and ABC to emerging media platforms and youth media, will be responsible for building new media partnerships and developing an engaging content mix for the Metacafe site. MetaCafe also added Allyson Campa as Vice President of Marketing and Mort Greenberg as Vice President of Sales.Metacafe attracts a global audience of more than 17 million unique viewers consuming 550 million page views every month, according to comScore report form December 2006. The company was one of the first to compensate creators for great video through the Metacafe Producer Rewards Program that pays video creators $5 for every 1,000 views of their short videos on the Metacafe site. The company, which has headquarters in Palo Alto, California, has also opened an office in New York City to better serve its advertisers and media partners. The company Research and Development center are located in Tel Aviv, Israel.Israel Digital Blog Ad – Peer to Peer File Transfer | USB Flash Drive Security| Multimedia Adaptation

YouTube names names: why is anyone surprised?

2006-10-24T22:58:56+02:00

MarketWatch ran a story last week about YouTube that's been making the rounds. In the piece, MarketWatch reveals that YouTube turned over user data to Paramount so that the film studio could file a lawsuit against a young filmmaker who had produced a 12-minute version of Oliver Stone's Twin Towers using his own actors and working from a leaked script. It's an interesting story, but not for the reasons you might think.

The case itself is old news. Paramount filed their complaint against Chris Moukarbel on June 16 of this year, alleging copyright infringement that caused the studio "great and irreparable injury that cannot be fully compensated or measured in money," according to court documents. Moukarbel settled with Paramount, and Judge Royce Lamberth signed off on the settlement on August 1. The case itself was straightforward: shooting a film based on a "bootleg" script currently being used by another director is going to get you in trouble. Surprise!

But it's the YouTube angle that has people talking. For whatever reason, people have convinced themselves that YouTube is different. Posting copyrighted content, though it remains illegal, is widely seen as behavior that cannot get the uploader into trouble. So YouTube takes down the infringing clip when someone complains—big deal, right?

When YouTube also turns Moukarbel's information over to a movie studio, people are shocked, but they shouldn't be. In fact, that this case has aroused comment at all is interesting, because it's the sort of thing that happens every day to companies across the country.

Why so much buzz around Web 2.0?

2006-09-08T13:55:17+02:00

A couple of months ago, only experts were debating over the web 2.0 phenomena. But recently, we see more and more mainstream national Medias covering Web 2.0.This new buzz gives a fresh smell of bubble. But what is behind all the excitement? In fact, what fascines before all the mass media, is clearly not new technologies related to Web 2.0 (Ajax or RSS for instance), nor even the community aspect (which has existed for a long time). What fascines them is two things: 1) the irresistible growth of giant Google which is eating more and more in the mouth of old superstars Yahoo! and MSN 2) the irruption of an unexpected new generation of Net players. Unknown sites like YouTube, Flickr or MySpace made spectacular rises in traffic rankings in matters of months. And even more dary, they have achieved this spectacular rocket growth almost without any dollar spent in advertising! In 2001, after the burst of the Internet bubble, one believed that the game was over. The survivors seemed to be able to lock the market, in particular large e-commerce sites. A that time, everyone considered for instance eBay untouchable. Moreover, traditional brands finally thought they had their revenge over those arrogant pre bubble start-ups. Suddenly, this reassuring feeling disappeared. People were surprised to rediscover a basic rule of business: positions are never secured for ever. On the Internet even more than in the old economy, new entrants can always change the rules. Fast successes tend to fascinate people. One thinks that there must be some hidden dark secret behind such miracles. Well, in some ways, this secret could be called Web 2.0 ;-)

Video sharing community site MetaCafe raised $15 million from Benchmark and Excel Partners

2006-07-03T21:20:00+02:00

Free video sharing portal, MetaCafe, has completed a second financing round, raising $15 million from Benchmark Capital and Excel Partners. The Israeli Web 2.0 video entertainment firm raised $4 million from Benchmark Capital and private investors in its first financial round. Metacafe, that competes with two largest video sharing websites, YouTube and Google Video, serves over 280 million videos or Media Snacks a month. Established in 2003, Metacafe currently employs more than 50 people with plans to add an additional 20 workers.In April 2006, YouTube has received $8M in Series B funding from Sequoia Capital. Founded in February 2005, The Company completed an initial $3.5 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital in November 2005. YouTube currently delivers more than 40 million video views every day with 35,000 new videos uploaded daily.In May 2006, Vpod.tv, a Paris and Madrid based online video sharing site, has received $5.1 million in funding fron the French VC firm Innovacom and Jazztel founder Martin Varsavsky. Besides features simialr to what other video sharing sites have, Vpod includes the ability to integrate advertising in videos, a wide variety of output/device formats, and editing tools. Also, the service seems to have a more editorial focus in terms of videos on the site.The venture capital rush to invest in online video sharing sites is based on the growing advertising spending on internet video. According to the Online Video Advertising report from eMarketer, advertisers will be spending at least $1.5 billion for online video ads by the end of the decade. eMarketer predicts that internet video has the potential to blend several hot marketing elements: paid search, branded entertainment, viral marketing, consumer generated media, behavioral targeting, website site brand marketing and online gaming.Last month NBC and YouTube announced a strategic partnership that will combine NBC's quality programming with YouTube's vast audience to enhance the entertainment experience on YouTube while engaging viewers in innovative new ways to promote NBC's Fall program lineup and other preferred shows over the next year.Israel Digital Blog Ad – EPOS Tablet PC Pen | File Sharing Application | Portable Storage Devices

Video entertainment company YouTube has received $8 million Sequoia Capital

2006-04-06T10:35:00+02:00
Internet video entertainment company YouTube has received $8 million in second funding round from Sequoia Capital. The Company completed an initial $3.5 million in first funding round from Sequoia in November 2005. "This is the birth of a new clip culture where the audience is now in control more than ever," said Chad Hurley, CEO and co-founder of YouTube. Founded in February 2005, YouTube currently delivers more than 40 million video views every day with 35,000 new videos uploaded daily."YouTube is at the forefront of a cultural shift in digital media entertainment and media distribution and we are delighted to continue our support," said Roelof Botha, Sequoia Capital partner and board member. "With more than 100 million page views per day and 6 million unique users daily, YouTube has an opportunity to expand its business while allowing its users to continue to share in the entertainment experience they have created."