August 14, 2007
Google introduces a marketplace to sell and buy videos on its platform Google Video. The idea was interesting: a site to sell its own videos or to buy real contents (no only videos of the neighbor following down…).
Google was even claming that this market was to increase, attracting interesting partners such as CBS or the NBA.
Now, Google announced it’s over…Google Video is still online, but don’t expect to sell or buy videos anymore…this marketplace is over (for now…?).
Actually, most people prefers to watch free contents, even though they have to see advertisements first…
Charlene Li, a Forrester Research analyst, think that this was a failure to focus on videos rather than on communities around videos, which make the success of YouTube….
But, the target was not the same maybe…and there is maybe not a place for a service between VOD and free web videos yet…
Now Google seems to focus on advertisement and free video contents around communities…
August 13, 2007
Fiction.TV is a very sober website as I like. This website is actually a web tv that dedicated to fiction movie lovers. You can watch this web tv right from your favorite web browser without any additional software to be installed. On the menu: all the latest trailers, as well as trailer archives.
The Fiction.TV interface is very intuitive and nice to use:
On the left we find a very simple menu. On the right a list of thumbnails is displayed: this is the list of videos and pictures that will be broadcasted within our selection. Indeed, remember this is a web tv, meaning you will not be watching only one video, but a kind of channel…
On the center of the screen you can watch this channel, or go directly to the sequence you want by clicking on a thumbnail from the right. Another click on the main screen and all the space is used to display videos…You just have to sit down, relax and enjoy the show…
A very good and intuitive example for a Web TV you can watch right from your web browser without installing an additional software.
August 11, 2007
PokerTube is a video community where you can watch and upload poker videos. PokerTube is divided into two major parts “Your Films†which are all the films uploaded by members, and “From PokerTube†which is all the material from the site (interviews of well known and not so well known poker profiles, reports from big and small tournaments, worldclass card & chip tricks, documentaries and all sorts of moving images from wherever there’s a flop).
To upload a video you have to register/log-in. Once you’re registered you will have access to your own page where you can upload your videos, see all your uploaded films and activate/deactivate them.
When you upload a video you have to fill in certain fields: Title, Category and Language. You will also have to confirm that you hold all the rights for the video you’re uploading. PokerTube will screen all videos before publishing them.
Each video must be no more than 100MB with a maximum length of 60 minutes.
PokerTube accepts the following video file formats:
- avi
- wmv
- mov
- 3gp
- divx
- rm
- mp4
- mpg
- mpeg
(via Le Bouzin)
