Viddling Around™

MobiTV of Emeryville, CA has raised a $70MM series C round of venture capital through Oak Investment Partners. These guys are hot - they’re supplying over 20 mobile carriers around the world, and here in the US have deals with Sprint, Cingular and Alltel. I haven’t used this service personally, but have seen […]

Guba announced on Thursday that it’s partnered with the MPAA to track down copyrighted material. What’s more intriguing is that they’re making the technology available for licensing to other online video sites. Now, how many competitors in the overcrowded video sharing space will want to partner with Guba is a big question, […]

One of my favorite camcorders and objects of Gadget Lust has been the Samsung line of compact Sports Camcorders. Since I used to be a avid skydiver, and jumpmaster - I always saw the benefit of this form factor, and the remote lens.
Now even better, Samsung has gone RF wireless on this device, […]

YouTube just revised their Terms and Conditions, and just pimped out all their users. Key section (as highlighted by our friends at Boing Boing);
“…by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the […]

Google has announced that they now support linking to positions within videos. This is big. Of course, on the surface, it makes sharing video more convenient - i.e. sending someone to a specific point in time within a particular video, versus a raw link, and instructions on what to wait & watch […]

Today’s Guardian talks about a popular meme about user generated content making the rounds, that;

1% of your audience actually creates content
10% of your audience will add some value by entering comments, tagging or rating,
89% of your audience will simply just consome or view the content

Blows the old 80/20 rule right out of the […]

Think Secret’s reporting that Apple will announce iTunes movie rentals at the upcoming WWDC (we’ll be there — will you?). Our take? Kind of a yawner actually.
I’m willing to pay for rentals a-la Netflix, but those are high-quality/high-res films I can watch on my big screen. Am I willing […]

Due out this September, Sanyo has updated their handheld HD camcorder (courtesy of our friends at Engadget), and it’s definitely an object of desire. While the sensor is only 5.1 megapixel, it can supposedly put about 21 minutes of HD video onto a 1GB SD card. With the price dropping […]

Been debating for a whlie on how to state this, but I’ve come to the belief that this explosion of web video, particularly consumer driven video, could be a positive force for Net Neutrality. If not in front of any legislative stupidity by Ted Stevens & friends, then perhaps by default in the […]

If you’re a fan of the show (and if you’re not - it’s worth Tivo-ing - or better yet - buying an episode) USA Network’s highly-regarded show “The Dead Zone” is now available on the ITMS. Once again, I think that along with shows like Battlestar Galactica, this is the smart transitional move […]