Broadcasting 2.0 » 2006 » February http://www.broadcasting20.org Emerging technologies for one-to-many telecommunications Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:28:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Financing vlogs http://www.broadcasting20.org/2006/02/23/financing-vlogs/ http://www.broadcasting20.org/2006/02/23/financing-vlogs/#comments Fri, 24 Feb 2006 03:27:27 +0000 Administrator http://www.broadcasting20.org/2006/02/23/financing-vlogs/ Rocketboom is certainly one of the most popular video blogs (vlog) right now. Because of this, the producers (a small team of 2 I think…) were able to sell five 15 seconds ads for $40.000… all that through EBay (search for item number 5661816188 on EBay to see the details). Will this be a new trend in advertising? Rocketboom is seen by over 100.000 people daily.
 
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I got aware of that yesterday (2 weeks late!) while testing the Democracy player with recent Rocketboom shows.
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  • Revver
    Another video sharing site with advertising possibilities
    (tags: video tagging advertising)
    • ]]>     http://www.broadcasting20.org/2006/02/22/links-for-2006-02-22/feed/ 0     Democracy Internet TV Platform http://www.broadcasting20.org/2006/02/21/democracy-internet-tv-platform/ http://www.broadcasting20.org/2006/02/21/democracy-internet-tv-platform/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:43:37 +0000 Administrator http://www.broadcasting20.org/2006/02/21/democracy-internet-tv-platform/ The Participatory Culture Foundation is on a roll. They just released today the first Windows version of their popular DTV software, which they renamed Democracy player.
     
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    Democracy is actually a complete internet TV platform to watch, share and “broadcast” video on the net. It is based on four main technologies: Democracy player, Broadcast Machine, Channel guide and the Video Bomb web application.
     
    I think that DTV was a better name for the player since it made a direct and “punchy” reference to the more traditional broadcasting world of Digital Television.
     
    The metallic black GUI looks great. It’s quite similar to the recently released iTunes “killer” Songbird. The application crashed when I first ran it but was fine the second time. I also had trouble downloading some video files (the download simply stopped).
     
    Anyways, it looks to me like all these applications show the way forward. Great work PCF!
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  • MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Your Guide to Podcast Directories | PBS
    An overview of the major podcast directories
    (tags: podcasting directory podcasts)
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  • The Wireless Music Player: Do-it-yourself remotely managed music player
    Home made Silm Device
    (tags: mp3 media streaming slimdevice)
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  • Home | Songbirdnest.com
    An iTunes-like web media browser/player
    (tags: mp3 music web iTunes)
    • ]]>     http://www.broadcasting20.org/2006/02/16/links-for-2006-02-16/feed/ 0     Videobomb http://www.broadcasting20.org/2006/02/15/videobomb/ http://www.broadcasting20.org/2006/02/15/videobomb/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2006 03:15:40 +0000 Administrator http://www.broadcasting20.org/2006/02/15/videobomb/ Videobomb is a good example of the power of adding "social" features to video clips viewing services. Here, viewers "bomb" (vote) for clips of their choice:

    Video Bomb filters up the hottest videos on the Internet: people submit links to the ‘Incoming!’ page and you bomb the best ones. If a video gets a lot of bombs quickly, it makes it to the front page.

    Last week I spent at least one hour watching front page entries and I must admit I was laughing to tears. After that I called my friend (over Skype) and I told him to have a look at the best clips. As I expected, I heard him laugh a lot but I was missing the possiblity for us to view the clips simultaneously.

    It becomes also clear with such a service that It will be essential to be able to "bomb" media content on-the-go somehow with the portable media player. This information could be uploaded to the network at the next PC sync. opportunity.

    ]]>     http://www.broadcasting20.org/2006/02/15/videobomb/feed/ 0     Rivendell GPL radio automation software suite http://www.broadcasting20.org/2006/02/09/rivendell-gpl-radio-automation-software-suite/ http://www.broadcasting20.org/2006/02/09/rivendell-gpl-radio-automation-software-suite/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2006 03:51:17 +0000 Administrator http://www.broadcasting20.org/2006/02/09/rivendell-gpl-radio-automation-software-suite/ Three weeks ago I reported about LiveSupport, an open radio automation software. Well, here is another platform I found: Rivendell. Doc Searls reports about it in his recent Linux Journal column:
     
    Rivendell aims to be a complete radio broadcast automation solution, with facilities for the acquisition, management, scheduling and playout of audio content. As a robust, functionally complete digital audio system for broadcast radio applications, Rivendell uses industry standard components like the GNU/Linux Operating System, the AudioScience HPI Driver Architecture and the MySQL Database Engine. Rivendell is being developed under the GNU Public License.
     
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    This looks like a very professionnal an complete radio automation suite that’s already being used in commercial ventures. Intersetingly, Rivendell can be used as the basis for internet radio as well.
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    PanAmSat Holding Corp. is starting a new business that will sell and distribute ethnic programming for television in the United States, a move that the company hopes will pave the way for other new initiatives that get the satellite company into more consumer businesses such as Internet video and mobile phones.
     
    This approach could be similar to the Korean DMB-S system.
     
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  • Hack Attack: The self-sustaining iPod – Lifehacker
    iPod for Windows without iTunes
    (tags: mp3 ipod windows)
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