Monday Morning Vid-biz Headlines
Fresh off the NewTeeVee news ticker, headlines from the world of online video:
Internet VOD Sees Big Increase in France, with offerings up 23%, according to French survey. (MuniWireless/LeMonde)
No Future for iTunes Video Stores, as free content grows, says Forrester Research. (Reuters)
How-To Videos, and the 10 Best Places to Find them. (Mashable)
Car Buyers Turning to Web Videos, as 70 percent of buyers go online for info. (NY Times)
Defense Dept. to Block YouTube, MySpace, citing a need to protect information. (AP)
NBC to Launch The Office 360, and other additional digital extensions of its shows (emailed press release).
Recent
GigaOM Network
- Brad Neely Revises History in the Name of Comedy [NewTeeVee Station]
- Grocery IQ: Grocery Shopping Just Got Easier [TheAppleBlog]
- Countdown to Blog Action Day - October 15, 2008 [WebWorkerDaily]
- AT&T outs first 3G Walkman phone: Sony Ericsson W760a [jkOnTheRun]
- Microsoft to Release Silverlight 2 Tuesday [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Jobs Feed
- Jr. Software Engineer at LOLapps Media, Inc. (San Francisco, California)
- User Interface / User Experience Designer at LOLapps Media, Inc. (San Francisco, California)
- Production Operations Engineer at LOLapps Media, Inc. (San Francisco, California)
- Software Engineer at LOLapps Media, Inc. (San Francisco, California)
- Senior Writer at Zivity (San Francisco, California)
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I used to get excited about all of these webisodes, but after seeing how short they were and how many spammy ads that they contained, I’m not really all that enthusiastic about checking them out this year. If I knew that these were going to be exclusive web content, I’d probably bite the bullet, watch their crappy ads and see the show, but since NBC decided to repackage an entire season of webisodes into one episode this season, I don’t feel like there is any reason to sit through the ad heavy clips, when I can just TiVo it next season and fast forward through their ads.
Davis Freeberg on May 14th, 2007 at 11:49 am - Permalink
[...] that follow in its wake are in keeping with the dramatic report (first mentioned here in our morning news roundup). Sorry to disappoint, but only 9% of online adults [in North America] have ever paid to download a [...]
NewTeeVee » Easy Now, Video Downloads Not Dead on May 14th, 2007 at 8:01 pm - Permalink
[...] Vía MuniWireless y NeeTeeVee. [...]
El vídeo bajo demanda crece en Francia « TV 2.0 on May 15th, 2007 at 7:14 am - Permalink
I liked the 10 best how to video sites list but it seemed to be missing some of the newer websites. One of my favorites is http://www.monkeysee.com. They have thousands of professional how to videos
Ashley on June 13th, 2008 at 9:38 am - Permalink