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TV and the Internet: Both Dead & Boring?...
Posted in IPTV, Television, Internet, News on August 30th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Two ideas made the rounds in the blogosphere this week. The first one, a prediction from Vint Cerf, “founding father of the Internet” and Google’s Vice President: it’s the end of TV, as we know it. TV is dying. Upon further reading and beyond the sensationalist headers, what Cerf means is that the way we consume TV contents and how we get to them is changing. (more…)
News Corp. and NBC Universal’s answer to YouTube: Hulu...
Posted in IPTV, News on August 30th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
News Corp. and NBC Universal presented Hulu, the name of their online video joint venture and billion dollar startup. Hulu will feature free premium, professional content such as Family Guy, My name is Earl or The Office among many others. (more…)
Tech Industry Backing Up The Fight For Fair Use...
Posted in News on August 30th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
The Computer & Communications Industry Association, a group backed up by companies such as Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo, filed a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission alleging that Hollywood studios, book publishers and professional sport leagues are using copyright notices that misrepresent the law and completely disregard Fair Use (more…)
Through the Viewfinder (Photography)...
Posted in Visual, Art, Photography on August 30th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
[Detail of “Fuschia“, from Russ Morris]
History has witnessed how we humans can’t never get enough of experimenting with the images we perceive, creating new ones. (more…)
YouTube Introduces Ads...
Posted in IPTV, Advertising, News on August 24th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
After months of testing different ad models, last Tuesday YouTube introduced their chosen ad format. This MCH article is a wrap up of the most important facts, opinions and conclusions that have been written so far about YouTube’s entry into the world of video advertising. (more…)
Links of the Week...
Posted in Television, Citizen Journalism, Music, Mobile, News on August 24th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
The Onward March of Citizen Journalism
Every major news event from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami has been recorded by Citizen Journalists and broadcasted by traditional media. The Beijing Olympics of 2008 could be the event that pushes the trend forward. (more…)
Mamoru Kano (Animation)...
Posted in Visual, Animation, Illustration, Video on August 24th, 2007. By Ona Vinyamata.
Mamoru Kano is a Visual Art Director at WOW, a Japanese creative production agency known for it’s high-quality TV commercials. (more…)
Is the Internet Ready for Mainstream IPTV?...
Posted in IPTV, News on August 16th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Several articles this week discuss the readiness of the Internet, in it’s current form, to adapt to a mainstream use of IPTV. Most ISP’s would probably say that the Internet is not ready for mainstream IPTV, or in other words, that they are not ready to provide the bandwidth this would require, under the current broadband payment plans. (more…)
Google Video to Stop Offering Paid Video Downloads...
Posted in IPTV, News on August 16th, 2007. By Eduard F. Vinyamata.
Google Video, a free video sharing and video search service from Google, stopped offering paid video downloads. Google let video content producers upload their own contents and sell them through Google Video. Such contents where protected by Google with DRM and thus had copy, share and play limitations. (more…)
Plastic news, Internet and the political discourse...
Posted in Television, Internet, News on August 16th, 2007. By Maren Hermans.
One quarter of all Americans are using the Internet as their primary source of information, and they have some comments on traditional news coverage on television: artificial, not trust-able, biased, uncaring, are only some of the appraisals published in a new study. (more…)