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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.

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. ;-)

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 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."