On Tuesday, National Geographic announced that it will be expanding its business into video games in an effort to reach its younger audience. The magazine hopes to have at four games released by next year.
This news comes at such a morbid time in the world of print media. National Geographic seems to be making moves to reach out to its younger readers. Instead of just watching things deteriorate, the picturesque magazine is putting forth some innovative effort. Who knows what the developers have in store, but I can imagine game plots ranging in anything from escaping the Amazon to leading a…
President-elect Obama has just announced that the weekly address will no longer be shown on television. Instead, the address will air on the radio and be posted immediately on YouTube.
These talks originated with FDR and were called “fireside chats”, and every president since then has done them, either on the radio or on television. Posting them immediately on YouTube will allow a greater audience to hear the remarks, and to respond, as long as they keep the comments turned on. It will also allow for others to reference the speeches easily, in order to spread the message or address a…
MySpace is sweetening the deal, yet again.
They are adding a Primetime Application, and with it comes every video currently on Hulu.
Once the app is added to and embedded in a profile, then the app can show all the videos on Hulu, MySpace originals, and videos from more than 150 licensed content partners.
The videos can be nicely expanded to full-screen and shared with friends. There’s an improved microsearch for all the videos on MySpace that can filter by category (film, TV, original, partner, etc) and an A-Z directory for the indecisive viewer who wants to casually browse (that would be me). Here’s…
Today, Google also announced that video is an option for chatting. It works with the regular chat services and has many options, such as popping out the video window so you can continue working while chatting.
Here’s what you’ll need to get started:
- Download the Gmail voice and video chat plug-in, quit all open browser windows, and install the plug-in.
- Sign in to Gmail.
- In the Chat section of your Gmail, select the contact you want to call. If they have a camera icon next to their name, you can make a voice or video call to them; just click Video & more.
If your friend…
In the never ending battle between video sites and studios, MGM and Youtube are close to an agreement. They’ve decided to allow Youtube to host full length videos on their site. Starting today, YouTube will have some of MGM’s content available.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios will kick off the partnership by posting
episodes of its decade-old “American Gladiators” program to YouTube,
along with full-length action films like “Bulletproof Monk” and “The
Magnificent Seven” and clips from popular movies like “Legally Blonde.”
These will be free to watch, with ads running alongside the video.
They are not the only studio considering posting content online in this format. Hulu also features…
After years and years of lawyers telling users to pull down copyrighted content from YouTube, MtV and Viacom have changed their minds.
YouTube has announced they will start using a service called Auditude, a file identifying service that matches voices and videos with television shows and videos already in their database. It’s been reported that within seconds of uploading content, Audible can scan and tag the clip, and then identify which show it might have originated from. The end result is an identified video, and YouTube can then use the information to monetize the video by posting an ad over…
Monitoring what your kids watch - especially on the internet - is difficult to do.
Totlol is a community-moderated video website powered by YouTube that is designed specifically for children. All videos are submitted, screened and rated by parents.
Here is how this site is community-moderated:
So, I’m searching for a new cell phone. I also am searching for a new laptop. Then, I came across this:
Although my favorite show is “Ghost Whisperer” (supposedly based on a fellow Northeast Ohio resident http://maryannwinkowski.com/html/home2.html) I find myself to be a bit of a skeptic. Maybe that’s why I love doing online searches for haunted houses–the kitsch factor.
The army has apparently done research to determine if Twitter is a terrorist opportunity waiting to happen. The report also talks about using VoiP and mobile phones with GPS and photo or video capabilities.
The fear is that the terrorists will use Twitter and other real time apps to inform the others of police presence or activity. The use of camera and video imaging, combined with the GPS capabilities of many phones, will also allow them to follow along and perhaps stay out of jail.
Then the presentation launches into an even-more theoretical discussion of how militants might pair some of these mobile applications…
