The Digital Signage Project is a nifty hack of Apple’s Powerpoint-killer Keynote to use it for kiosk-style signage. Using Keynote for the presentation layer means visitors would get the benefit of superior text rendering and presentation styles to other signage applications.
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Time based video annotation online
January 2nd, 2007 Comments Off
Mojiti and BubblePly offer time based video annotation for content posted on the main online video sharing sites. With these you can add your own subtitles or speech bubbles or other commentary to videos while they play for sharing and commenting by other viewers (who have to view the annotated video’ through either BubblePly or [...]
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Pew Internet – Actual use of podcasts is low
November 24th, 2006 4 Comments
Interesting reality check from the regular Pew Internet report in the USA (via AP/SMH). A growing number of Americans are listening to podcasts, but very few do so every day. The Pew Internet and American Life Project said that 12 per cent of internet users have downloaded a podcast, an increase from 7 per cent [...]
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Current.TV and an ‘expansion of the pie’
November 22nd, 2006 Comments Off
From “Q&A With Current TV Futurist Robin Sloan” (Robin was one of the duo behind EPIC2014). How has the increased popularity of video affected Current? Do more people contribute to Current? Well, Current was ahead of the curve on Internet video, so really it just means now there’s more competition for both viewers and producers. [...]
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Stutzman on YouTube
October 17th, 2006 Comments Off
Fred Stutzman’s blog is quickly becoming a must read. Here he writes on YouTube from the perspective of YouTube as a social networking service rather than just a video hosting site. As he says, The social architecture that enabled conversation in YouTube was built in, perhaps subconsciously, from the beginning. The founders built a site [...]
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Outsourcing video hosting to YouTube may mean losing users
October 16th, 2006 Comments Off
In a rather sensational piece on unsavoury content on YouTube in the Sydney Morning Herald today there is this little tidbit of note. The site was impossible to access at public schools, an Education Department spokesman said. “[The department] urges parents to monitor their children’s use of the internet at home as this is the [...]
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Great Wall exhibition TVC up on various video sharing sites
September 21st, 2006 2 Comments
We’ve put the latest television commercial from the Museum up on several video sharing sites as an exercise in viral promotion but also as a way of encouraging viewer feedback. The advertisement itself is a response to a advertisement from a prominent Australian telecommunications company that has recently been running which has a child asking [...]
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Full screen web video
September 12th, 2006 Comments Off
Neave TV is an amazing (but processor heavy) Flash site that delivers video from Google Video, Youtube and Blip. Made by Paul Neave who also made Flash Earth which is also very very cool and combines Google Maps images with Microsoft Virtual Earth images.
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Channel fragmentation
August 19th, 2006 1 Comment
Those museum staff who came to my presentations earlier this year on Web 2.0 would remember that I talked a bit about the idea of ‘channel fragmentation’ in relation to traditional media. I used the example of cinema releases, DVD sales, cable TV licenses, traditional TV licenses, as well as competition from Copyright infringing distributions [...]
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Pitchfork’s YouTube music video selections
June 20th, 2006 1 Comment
Ahhhh . . . . . collective ‘intelligence’. YouTube provides the ideal place to put music videos. And Pitchfork has done a nice job of linking to what they consider are the ‘best 100′. They’ve excluded videos that were on the Directors Label series, so its the ‘best 100′ videos ever minus the top 20 [...]
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