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Video

Ditching Cable has launched!!

November 28, 2006

In the last few months, I’ve become more and more disgruntled with my cable service. The cost is high and I simply don’t watch enough television to justify the price. The video quality is poor and the DVR makes me not want to watch television. The selection of video on demand and movies on the [...]

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Diet Coke and Mentos, Part Duh

October 30, 2006

Feeling much like most sequels do, the EepyBird boys are back. Bigger and better than their first video, but lacking the wonder and awe. This time, they’re getting paid by Google, not Revver. TechCrunch reports on the deal between Google, Eepybird and their new sponsors, Diet Coke and Mentos (You’d think that Diet Pepsi would [...]

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Links for Tuesday, October 17, 2006

October 17, 2006

PopSugar gets $5mm in funding from SequoiaBlog network for “young, hip women” got a nice kitty from the folks at Sequoia. It looks like PopSugar’s main site has been growing a fair clip on their main blog (see graphic) and are doing a bit more than just blogging with a little bit of social networking [...]

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For Mark Cuban, history repeats itself

October 9, 2006

The first thing that I thought today was how strange it was that Mark Cuban had been calling Google “moronic” for thinking of buying YouTube. I don’t imagine that he was telling Tim Koogle that he was “crazy,” for buying his company, Broadcast.com, a company that Yahoo! would spend the next several years dismantling. Mark’s [...]

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Links for Wednesday, September 27, 2006

September 27, 2006

Berkeley and Google Video team upNot content to get your lectures via podcast? Now you can watch your prof’s give lectures on Google (as well as talks, symposiums and more). I wonder what this does to attendance? [via eContent Two thumbs down for Amazon UnboxWow... so I never did my review of the service (actually, [...]

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Links for Thursday, September 13

September 13, 2006

Skype 2.0 beta available for the MacI can finally use video Skype with all my PC pals. I knew the MacBook camera would come in handy for more than making goofy faces via iChat. Zune launching tomorrowThe battle for your pocket (and pocketbook) is on! Web Geeks show off new toolsFuture of Web Apps conference [...]

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Links for Wednesday, September 12, 2006

September 12, 2006

Is Steve Jobs Bill Gates 2.0? Om works out that Steve has the new monopoly so he can afford to pre-annonuce products to scare the competition shitless. Interesting observation… Facebook to allow open registrationApparently, both salt and lemon juice do wonders for open wounds. Tivo Series 3 launch videoDave Zatz gives us the Tivo Series [...]

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AOL Video: Want to buy a video? Watch an ad first

August 24, 2006

You gotta be kidding me…. If you watch a preview of a movie that you would like to buy, AOL makes you sit through an ad. Great user experience. Wow. What are we selling here? A movie download or Citibank Visa? This is one of the reasons going to the movies sucks. It’s the only [...]

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Sony acquires video sharing site Grouper for $65mm

August 23, 2006

Here’s a link and comment roundup regarding the purchase. Sony is acquiring Grouper Networks in web-video bid – WSJ “YouTube Inc., which had about 16 million unique visitors last month compared with 542,000 for Grouper, according to comScore Media Metrix, a research company. Grouper says comScore doesn’t measure its traffic accurately and claims its numbers [...]

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Monday Links

August 21, 2006

Why Apple should buy YouTubeThis will never happen, but it’s fun to talk about. Apple has a long history of not doing big acquisitions (NeXT excepted). Fact is, Apple (a) could build a crappy version of YouTube that integrates nicely into iLife or (b) just sit back and wait for one of the numerous companies [...]

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Amazon Unbox Video launched?

August 18, 2006

Methinks someone pushed the wrong button at Amazon. Gizmodo Kokogiak.com Here are some pix, click for bigger images. More in my Flickr stream. It looks like the video will work on some portable players, will contain DRM, Mac users need not apply, and you will be able to rent as well as buy. Check it [...]

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Thursday Links

August 17, 2006

Del.icio.us slightly less uglyHey, I didn’t say that I didn’t use it, but come on, it ain’t pretty. YouTube talking to record labels on music videos YouTube owns the long tail of internet video and they seem to be going after the head. Interesting… now, if only it worked on my iPod. CBS to Webcast [...]

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WSJ – NBC, YouTube in promo deal

June 27, 2006

This deal is pretty big for YouTube, who just months ago was being sued by NBC: NBC plans to announce that it will make available on YouTube promotional video clips for some of its popular shows, such as “The Office,” “Saturday Night Live” and “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” NBC plans to market its [...]

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GUBA goes legit

June 26, 2006

Usenet and illegal video fans should be weeping today, GUBA has signed a deal with Warner Movies to distribute Warner’s videos day and date as the DVD releases. Rentals are available for $1.99 and purchases are 9.99 for catalog titles and 19.99 for new releases(that sounds really familiar). You gotta have a Windows XP or [...]

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