Category: video

  • Soapbox – Microsoft's YouTube killer?

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    Following on from YouTube’s success in garnering audience, Microsoft have rolled out their own video sharing site called Soapbox. Right now, the site is in closed beta but I applied for an account and had one on a couple of hours! The site runs out of Flash which means it looks very well, but it…

  • Sometimes it pays to listen

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    I wrote, shortly after Google bought YouTube, that this purchase was a potential windfall for YouTube copyright claimants however recent happenings are proving me wrong (imagine that!). Prof Tim Wu (Professor of Law at Columbia) wrote recently in an article in Slate that YouTube (or GooTube as people are now taking to calling it): is…

  • Google's windfall for copyright claimants

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    In case you haven’t heard (where have you been?) Google announced that the rumours were true after all and that they have agreed to buy YouTube for $1.65bn. Yep. You read that correctly, $1.65bn. Unsurprisingly, this is the top story on TechMeme. It looks like Google believes video on the web has a real future…

  • Oh no! Scoble Show launched

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    Robert Scoble’s video show was launched this morning. The delay in the launch was due to the PodTech.net site’s re-design apparantly. There are some fascinating interviews there. One of the videos is of a photo walk with Thomas Hawk. Thomas is a photographer in San Francisco and works with photo sharing site Zooomr. I did…

  • Blip.tv enable in-browser video recording

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    I have mentioned Blip.tv previously but I didn’t mention their in-browser video recorder. Today I decided to try it out and I have to say, apart from a few minor quibbles, I am well impressed. Especially since this function is still in Alpha. What quibbles did I have? Well The counter counting off the time…

  • Video sharing sites ToS reviewed

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    Simon of Tuppenceworth has a great post where he reviews the terms and conditions of video sharing sites (YouTube, Blip.tv and Google Video). Simon works in McGarr Solicitors a well known law firm in dublin. I haven’t tried Google Video yet but I have tried both Blip.tv and YouTube and I much prefer Blip.tv. Google…

  • YouTube vs. Blip.tv

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    I have signed up for accounts on both YouTube and Blip.tv to check out their video upload features. Initially I tried YouTube and was quite taken with its features. Today I tried Blip.tv and was even more impressed – its feature set and community building feature-set blows YouTube out of the water. Not alone can…