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The Circle of Life: separate UGC page now available

You can now access and play instantly the best and most significant user generated videos with images from Getty Images Footage, Corbis and Flickr here on this separate page. From joy over love to pain, from enthusiasm over melancholy and gloom to death: the images, the videos and the music cover nearly all aspects of our life.
(video below with Flickr images)

 

Zimbabwe: When Destinies Collide

A visual narration in six chapters with images from Corbis and their photographers.
5 minutes and 36 seconds. Take the time. It´s worth every second.
 

The photos speak for themselves: no fancy graphics to supplement the message.
A non-partisan, heart warming tribute to the Zimbabwean people.
Music by Gyptian - Photographs courtesy of www.corbis.com.
Video produced by Kwapi T. Vengesayi - uploaded in April 2007.

Video Blogging, Vapnik´s Support Vector Machines, Video-On-Demand and Bayesian Networks

In the last days C|Net has published a bunch of articles on Videoblogging and Video-On-Demand:

• "Netscape co-founder eyes video blogs" about the new startup of Mark Andreessen (24 H Laundry): "A blogging and social networking site for consumers that will include video [...], 24HL, as in "airing your laundry," is largely funded by its founders, according to one Silicon Valley venture capitalist. [...] Since retiring from Netscape, Andreessen has lived the life of a gentleman entrepreneur. [...] More recently, he, along with Netscape alum Mike Homer, launched the Open Media Network, which caters to broadcasters, independent filmmakers and average people who want to distribute their films on the Internet for free."
• On the edge, the former articles also mentions the "TiVo with search"-tools of Gotuit Media. More about this in "Dawn of a new ad age" at the bottom. Similar an article ("IBM's 'Marvel' to scour Net for video, audio") on Marvel, IBM´s new internet search technology for footage, which is based on MPEG-7: "The 'How Much Information?' survey conducted by the University of California at Berkeley determined that television stations worldwide produced about 123 million hours of total programming in 2002. Of the total, 31 million hours represented original programming, which translates to 70,000 terabytes of data.[...]
  The prototype system can scan through a database of more than 200 hours of broadcast news video and use 100 different descriptive terms to classify and identify scenes. IBM hopes to come up with a list of 1,000 descriptive labels by April.
  A query takes about two to three seconds. Marvel is based on the MPEG-7 data format, but it can search on any standard video format."
• "Video content set free on Web" about the new startup of J.D. Lascia, Ourmedia ("the grassroots media revolution"), which hosts video for free: ""We're still at an early stage of the multimedia-rich Web. The Web is not going to be Web logs and text; it's going to be people posting video and podcasting and taking part in the citizens' media that's just starting to explode." Ourmedia's ultimate goal is not to amass a huge collection of video, but to establish open standards that will make vast multimedia libraries and archives across the Internet accessible through any number of social networks, blog tools, portals and media-sharing sites. [..] "One of our goals is to create an open format for video so that there are no more format wars," Lasica said. "It's crazy right now. It's confusing to people when they can't play video, and it's very frustrating.""
• "Google readying Web-only video search", only a week old, but already widely quoted, about the old and new plans of Google-Video: "Longer term, Google is preparing a payment system for a premium video service that would let people pay to watch full video clips. Google is talking to several top-tier content providers, including Hollywood movie studios, to gain agreements for aggregating their video and selling premium or pay-per-view access. "The ultimate endgame is streaming video, otherwise Google can't get video advertising dollars," said one source. "They have to figure a way to get video into their world to capture those dollars."" Similar "Yahoo, Google turn up volume on video search battle".

Miscellaneous

Getty Images launched the "Getty Images Media Manager", available as WorkGroup Edition and Enterprise Edition (Link); JupiterImages reports the results for Q I/2005 (Link) and Google started Video-Blogging/Vlogging (Link here ["video blogging remains in an embryonic stage"] and also there).

Besides this, Phototalk celebrates the first anniversary (started April 11, 2004).

Posted by Andy

Questo blog è chiuso per ferie, fino all' 8 Agosto 2004

[© Grace and Katie]

Chiudo, per un circa settimana, questo weblog. Infatti, a mio modesto parere, per scrivere bisogna prima pensare e, i blogs spesso ti tolgono lo spazio per pensare.


(Hint for the person/CEO/BizDeveloper etc. who is constantly looking for "DigitalVision 2003 revenues", ""Image source" 2003 revenues" or "Index stock imagery 2003 revenues" and other good stuff-- Google hits are a tricky thing, especially with your really nice -- and static -- IP! So, no one has to work for Pixlogic, the company ("Visual Search") with Venture Capital from the CIA, just to know who you are...).
=:-)

BlogTalk 2.0: Presentations Related To Video- and Moblogging

The three presentations related to video- and moblogging at the BlogTalk 2.0 have been presented here earlier. Here are links to excerpts from two of them:

Jon Hoem: "Videoblogs as 'Collective Documentary'" (excerpt and here the full presentation)
Stephanie Hendrick / Therese Örnberg: "The blog as an immersive space: Moblogging Jokkmokk 2004" (excerpt)

The third presentation (the one we´re waiting for) called "Mobile Blogging: Who, Where, Why?" by Nicola Döring was withdrawn because "We just received an email from Nicola Döring, she is heavily involved in negotiations in context of her professorship.The program changed slightly for Tuesday" (Link).

Related/just discovered: "Introduction - Creating Streaming Video", 7 pages (MediaCollege).

The Best (and Worst) Video Feeds Online

Short Overview and Review: "The Best (and Worst) Video Feeds Online" (OJR.org).

New VideoBlogging/Vog Email List

Vlog 2.1:

At http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging you can join a video blog email list. jay Dedman in Manhattan has set it up, and when I subscribed there were ten on the list. Its charter is broad, largely to facilitate discussion about video blogs with particular interest in things like compression problems and those sorts of things. Sounds geeky? I guess so, but compression and bandwidth is to vogging what leading and kerning is to typography.

See also the category "Videoblogs".

New Tools for Uploading Photos, Videos and Audio to your Weblog

Upload of Video Content:

A weblogging tool, Ecto, has a new feature: Movie upload. It offers users an option to indicate how an uploaded movie is used in the weblog (blog) entry. There are two options: Ecto creates a link to the movie inside your blog entry. The second option: the movie is then inserted right into your blog entry. [via Cinema Minima]
[See also "NoteTaker, Ecto and TypePad taste good together"]

Upload of Photo Content:

Mac users on OS X who manage their photos in Apple's iPhoto will definitely want to try PhotoToTypePad. This neat little extension for iPhoto lets you export an album right into a TypePad photo album. [Typepad]

Upload of Audio Content:

audblog (signup for TypePad users) and Audioblog (check out the Audioblog TypePad site) are two services for posting audio to your Typepad weblog. [Typepad]

Reuters launches Video RSS

Marvellous news for news junkies (Link):

Reuters offers now four TV channels with World News, Business, Entertainment, and Life News (Reuters RSS; Reuters Feedroom).

Headlines and short description of the clips are available in the Video RSS feeds. For viewing the clips you have to enter the Reuters website. This is a serious disadvantage: some photoblogs show their images in RSS readers in a small format, why doesn´t Reuters show the full videos in the RSS reader? |-D

(ya, know it´s not that easy)