The market for Internet video is exploding. Research firm eMarketer projects that by 2011 more than 85% of the U.S. Internet population will consume Internet video, up from roughly 63% in 2006. The last time this kind of viewership growth occurred in a new medium was when the television was first introduced in the early 1950s.
Last night I was on the MITX Technology Awards judging panel and got to see Visible Measures present VisibleSuite, their end-to-end solution for measuring the behavior of the Internet video audience. I saw Matt Cutler and Rishi Dean first unveil VisibleSuite at the DEMO 08 conference in Palm Desert, CA. The Demo conference is great; Continue reading »
Analysts expect nearly 200% growth of the $800 million content delivery network (CDN) market in 2008. The highly competitive companies trailing behind industry leader Akamai, includes Limelight, Mirror Image, Itiva and Grid Networks. Companies are looking for ways to differentiate themselves in the highly competite market.
Enter BitGravity with their game changing architecture designed specifically for the challenge of delivering more immersive bandwidth intensive applications. The BitGravity progressive download technology allows high-definition video video to play with hardly any download time and minimal choppiness. It also allows you to jump around the video with hardly any latency.
Dan Ackerman Greenberg, a student at Stanford, has a consulting group and describes it as viral marketing hired guns. They have a methodology to ensure their clients videos achieve over 100,000 views on YouTube or they don’t charge. In this guest blog post on Techcrunch Dan outlines the strategy.
Ariel Shamir of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science in Israel has developed a promising technology that enables image resizing that is much more intelligent than rescaling or cropping. See the amazing video for details. Hopefully this tool will find its way into Adobe CS4.
Everybody knows that the iPhone can make phone calls, play movies & music, surf the web, and a lot more. But, Will It Blend? That is the question. Brilliant viral video concept by Blendtech, they have created a microsite willitblend.com where they blend things like a can of coke, golf balls and yes, even an iPhone.
The TED organization (TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design) runs an invitation-only conference every year for the famous, brilliant and well connected. I’ve been on the waiting list for a few years. Last I subscribed (iTunes Link) to the TED conference video podcasts and have been enjoying the 20 minute presentations each morning on the tread mill. The conferences have featured such an amazing array of speakers; Bill Clinton, Bono, Rick Warren and many authors, designers, business leaders etc. In April TED launched a new, brilliantly designed website with amazing content.
The site is a great example of using both Flash and browser technology to create a rich experience. The home page features a brilliant Flash based navigation element that allows you to select your view either by visualization or list and drill down by theme. In visualization mode the view presents images that represent topics, as you roll over the images a flyout panel provides a description and list of videos. By default the thumbnail sizes are determined by the most recently updated. You can change that view to size up by ‘ most talks’, ‘ most emailed’, or ‘ most discussed’. As you adjust the visualization the view animates to the new settings.
Once you click down to the video level this page displays a full description of the talk and speaker, and all the social computing features to embed the video, share, email etc.
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The video player provides a chapter navigation on the scrub bar.
The ratings tool is also quite unique providing the ability to quickly checkbox tags and rate the video which then displays a tag cloud.
Jeff Han presented his Multi-Touch sensing work at the TED Conference 2006 and it looks like Microsoft has turned it into a product. At the D: All Things Digital conference Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled Microsoft Surface, the first in a new category of surface computing products from Microsoft that will “break down traditional barriers between people and technology”.
A Surface computer is able to recognize physical objects from a paintbrush to a cell phone and allows hands-on, direct control of content such as photos, music and maps. Surface turns an ordinary tabletop into a dynamic surface that provides interaction with all forms of digital content through natural gestures, touch and physical objects.
An early pioneer in interactive media, Dean Whitney is a Web 2.0 and Social media technology evangelist. Start-up veteran, President of Garfield Group Interactive a Boston-based digital agency.
The market for Internet video is exploding. Research firm eMarketer projects that by 2011 more than 85% of the U.S. Internet population will consume Internet video, up from roughly 63% in 2006. The last time this kind of viewership growth occurred in a new medium was when the television was first introduced in the early 1950s.
