Viddling Around™

Wow… lots of industry news this morning, that’s for certain.
JumpCut announced this morning that it’s licensing its video editing application to FoxAtomic, who is using a private-labeled version of the app to allow people to create their own audition tapes for the new Revenge of the Nerds remake. As we’ve seen elsewhere in the […]

Nice job on the stealth-mode prep work guys. Atlas Ventures-backed Gotuit Media launched late on Sunday night, complete with a substantial library of videos (lots of music videos) ready to go. Typical of the other YouTube clones it offers fast start Flash playback.
I’d say however that Gotuit’s UI is more friendly for […]

Courtesy of our friends at Boing Boing, news it out that a new version of the Democracy Player is available.  For those of you unfamiliar with Democracy, it’s an open-source player that lets you choose from over 500 channels of free videos - in just about any format.   Some of the things I like about […]

Expanding on their early success in the US and Canada, Google this past week expanded their service the the UK. Unlike the typical cost-per-click text ads which then direct the consumer to the advertisers offering - typically their web site - the new video ads are billable when the user simply watches the […]

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 […]

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 […]