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)
July 30, 2007
It is possible to find almost any kind of video on the Internet… A YouTube user as recently published 43 cartoons of the famous Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner.
If you are a fan, I suggest to hurry to watch or download them, because I don’t think this will last for long….I doubt this user has the rights to publish these cartoons on YouTube and I will not be surprised if they are removed very soon…
Below you will find all links to watch the episodes in full screen:
(more…)
July 24, 2007
Did you see how trends are changing in terms of “illegal” videos on the Internet ?
First it was easy to found tons of links towards P2P (peer to peer) software such as Kazaa or eMule. Then .torrent files swept out any other P2P solution when dealing with video downloading.
Now, new websites are streaming videos, allowing to watch them without the need to download a single file !
After TV Links, a brand new one, namely peekvid, allows to share links towards videos that will be proposed in streaming. You can of course browse through categories and watch the video you like… But is it really legal, not sure…I doubt that website owns rights to broadcast the latest series and movies…
Peekvid is also planning the possibility to upload your very own videos…but this option is not activated yet.
If you prefer to remain in a (probably) more legal area, I suggest to use Internet Television software such as BabelGum, but do not expect to find (as for now) the latest series and movies…
(via Bleebot)
