A View on ViewThis blogs examines the world of online video from the hot companies and entrepreneurs to exciting new trends.Video Bonanza- June 29, 2007 If you ever wanted a complete lowdown on all the video tools out there, check out Mashable's list of 150 tools - everything from hosting, sharing, converters, editors, mashups and mobile video apps.http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/6/28/3055228.html Google Launches New Video Search- June 14, 2007 It has taken awhile following the $1.6-billion purchase of YouTube but Google has a launched a new video search tool. When your search is completed, you can rate the video, share it, and watch related videos. Google Video covers videos from a wide variety of sites, including Metacafe, iFilm, Grouper, Yahoo Video, MySpace, Break.com, Daily Motion, Vimeo, Veoh, AOL Video, Jumpcut, Revver, Guba and BBC - although the predominant result is, surprise, surprise, YouTube. Veoh, by the way, raised...http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/6/14/3022345.html Oversi Raises $8-million- June 13, 2007 Oversi, which provides peer-to-peer caching and content delivery for video, has raised $8-million in a private financing led by Cisco Systems. It's interesting to see P2P being embraced by "mainstream" telecom equipment suppliers given so many people equate P2P with free downloads. Oversi CEO Joav Avtalion said: "We see Cisco's investment as an exciting milestone for our company, helping us to grow our business in line with the fast-evolving world of online video and P2P content distribution..http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/6/13/3019064.html Everyone's Doing Video- June 7, 2007 I was walking along Queen St. in downtown Toronto yesterday afternoon and came across a film crew doing "streeters" for TV or the Web, which usually involve a pretty young girl asking people passing by what they think about something fairly simple (e.g. Are people in Toronto still polite How do you deal with summer heat). It used to be that seeing a film crew was a big deal because there weren't that many around. Like moths to light (or Cinderella to the spindle), you would find yourself...http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2007/6/7/3004545.html |