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| 61 | Do you remember when MTV actually used to show music videos instead of reality shows with pseudo celebrities all around the clock? If you do, then this new site will let you relive such days. And show your younger friends what things were like in the golden days of music television. Basically, AtticTV. Read more Learn more about AtticTV.com in Dataopedia.com Find out how much AtticTV.com is worth with Stimator.com killerstartups.com » | | 62 | Gnzo reminds me a lot of Twitter, as it's a platform that makes for sharing not micro-messages but micro-videos. By installing the Gnzo application on your iPhone, you'll be able to shoot and share quick videos that will show your friends what you're up to. Your friends, and every other user of the app if you decide to have your media shared on Gnzo's "Public" channel. Read more Learn more about Gnzo.com in Dataopedia.com Find out how much Gnzo.com is worth with Stimator.com killerstartups.com » | | 63 | | | 64 | If these Facebook guys change something, then everybody complains. And if they don't change something, then people are also unhappy because they don't have alternatives. It must be horribly frustrating for them, really. Read more Learn more about Clipster-Video.com in Dataopedia.com Find out how much Clipster-Video.com is worth with Stimator.com killerstartups.com » | | 65 | Forget Variety. Michael Green has put down the bible of showbiz and is actively seeking the next big star among a wave of homegrown YouTube producers and performers attracting millions of viewers online.
Green, who represented stars such as Roseanne Barr and Martin Lawrence at the height of their TV careers, realized there was a new business to be had from the online audience.
"It's a seismic shift," says Green, the CEO of The Collective, a company he formed to manage careers and work with Internet creators to produce content.
Other Los Angeles-based firms -- Big Frame, Maker Studios and Mighty Fresh lead the pack -- are also looking to YouTubers as a major new source of potential income.
Why not? The popularity of some YouTube performers and their "channels" dwarfs many TV shows, and their videos have been seen more than a billion times. Ray William Johnson, Shane Dawson's ShaneDawsonTV, Dane Boedigheimer's Annoying Orange, Justine Ezarik's iJustine and Freddie Wong and Brandon Laatsch's Freddiew channels are among the biggest.
YouTube itself is on a major expansion kick this year, trying to keep viewers tuned in longer by shifting them from watching single videos to channels.
YouTube is investing $100 million to help launch 100 channels this year, from heavyweights such as Madonna and Ashton Kutcher to YouTube stars such as Mystery Guitar Man and Michelle Phan.
The idea is to have "channels that act like curators, that help you find the content you're passionate about," says Jamie Byrne, YouTube head of original programming.
On YouTube, anyone can become a star by signing up, making videos and posting them. They can even make a living doing so.
YouTube shares ad revenue with folks who sign up for Google's AdSense program, which places ads all over the Web. When the performers start making lots of videos and attracting audiences, they... newsfactor.com » | | 66 | More corporate IT directors are playing traffic cop. Companies are stepping up their efforts to slice and dice their data network's bandwidth to ensure that critical work flow isn't hampered by employees' demand for greater Internet access.
With heavier files jamming the network, some employees in need of critical business applications are given more capacity on the data network than those with less pressing business need.
"Organizations see it as a necessity in order to achieve the right type of experience," says Tom Hobika, vice president of business development for XO Communications, which helps manage corporate networks.
The problem of clogged networks has been exacerbated by wide use of streaming sites, such as Netflix and Pandora, and by workers tapping into corporate Wi-Fi to listen to music, watch videos and use social-networking sites on personal devices -- even if it's during breaks.
The issue is particularly urgent for global or national companies with far-flung branches. Candymaker Cadbury, a Kraft subsidiary, chose to manage the network used by its global offices more extensively after an audit found 55% of its traffic was recreational, says Nolan Rosen, chief marketing officer at Exinda, a consultant to Cadbury. Each office now gets prioritization based on size or contribution, he says. At Georgia Southern University, game videos used by the football team or video-based student learning applications get priority over videos shared by students. "Almost every company has a heat map of what it considers is important," Rosen says.
XO worked with a movie studio that has marked special network priority for video files that are delivered from movie production sites to post-production digitization studios, Hobika says. Another XO client sends its buy and sell orders on an entirely dedicated network so that they are processed in a timely way, he says.
While some companies even manage their bandwidth based on... newsfactor.com » | | 67 | A German court ruled Friday that YouTube must install filters to prevent users uploading some music videos whose rights are held by a music-royalties collecting body.
Hamburg's state court sided with Germany's GEMA, which had sued Google Inc.'s YouTube unit over 12 temporarily uploaded music videos for which no licensing fees were paid. The organization represents about 60,000 German writers and musicians.
The online video platform has maintained that it bears no legal responsibility for the uploaded content -- saying it checks and sometimes blocks content when users alert the firm about alleged violations of laws.
YouTube currently offers copyright holders software that allows them to identify recordings for which they hold copyright, enabling them to flag the content as infringing their rights.
The Hamburg court ruled that once an alleged violation is flagged YouTube must now apply the software to the recording to prevent further copyright infringements.
The court also told YouTube to install a new program that filters uploaded videos for possible copyright infringements according to key words -- such as musicians' names and song titles -- to catch versions of a song that only sound somewhat different, such as live recordings.
"The platform operator only has the obligation to block the video ... and take appropriate measures to hinder further rights violations after being notified about the copyright violation," the court said. "There is no obligation to control all videos already uploaded to the platform," it added.
Kerstin Becker, a GEMA attorney, said the verdict is "a great success for GEMA" because it made clear that YouTube bears some legal responsibility for videos uploaded by its users, German news agency dapd reported.
But Google spokesman Kay Overbeck said the ruling was only a "partial success" as the court made it clear that YouTube is a platform hosting external content.
In its ruling, the court said it... newsfactor.com » |
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