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Can Qik Go Legit on the iPhone?

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Here’s another question I have as I ruminate on Monday’s WWDC news: Will the fact that the iPhone 3G S has a video camera and Apple is touting video streaming as a major iPhone OS 3.0 feature mean that we’ll finally get an official release of Qik’s nifty videostreaming application on the iPhone App Store? [...]

Coming This Summer: iPhone Video Capture?

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

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Apple may have said that its iPhone 3.0 software includes more than a hundred news features at its press event last month, but it didn’t say anything about letting its phones capture video. But MacRumors has published an image of what it says is an iPhone 3.0 beta camera application that can capture both still [...]

Online Video Watching Reaches Record Levels

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

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A comScore Video Metrix report, released today, confirms what we all knew already: People are watching more and more online video. In fact, U.S. Internet users viewed 14.3 billion videos in December alone. Google’s Web properties (including YouTube) received the greatest number of hits, accounting for 41% of the online video market. Fox Interactive was the [...]

How to Produce Great Web Video in a Whole Lot Less Time

Friday, December 5, 2008

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[David Spark (@dspark) is a veteran tech journalist and the founder of Spark Media Solutions, a storytelling production company that specializes in live event production. He also blogs and does a daily radio report for Green 960 in San Francisco at Spark Minute.] Ten years ago when I worked at ZDTV (later to become TechTV) I [...]

YouTube Adds a Search Bar to Every Embedded Video

Thursday, December 4, 2008

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[UPDATE: My colleague Ed Oswald reminds me that we covered this a month ago. It sounded familiar...] TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington has pointed out a new feature in embedded YouTube videos I hadn’t noticed: a search bar. Mike thinks it’s ugly. I wouldn’t argue that it’s gorgeous, but it’s kind of handy, since it turns every embedded [...]

Joost for iPhone: Good, As Far as It Goes

Saturday, November 29, 2008

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Joost, the pioneering video site from the folks behind Skype and Kazaa, is available in a new, smaller form tonight: on the iPhone. In some ways it’s quite impressive–it faithfully brings the Joost look, feel, functionality, and content into an app that feels at home on the iPhone. What you think of it will likely [...]

YouTube Looms Large(r)

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

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YouTube may be the Web’s biggest video site, but YouTube’s videos have never been the Web’s biggest. In resolution, that is–in fact, the YouTube player has been looking increasingly cramped and retro compared to its roomy rivals at sites such as Hulu. As of today, though, YouTube has increased the size of its player to 640 [...]

YouTube Gets MGM Content–This Time With Permission!

Sunday, November 9, 2008

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Looks like it’s all but official: The New York Times is reporting that YouTube will announce on Monday that it’s struck a deal with MGM to put movies and TV shows from that studio’s library on YouTube in legal, full-length, ad-sponsored form. The examples that the Times gives make it sound like MGM isn’t exactly uploading [...]