Awakened Voice

I may be late to the game on this one. Wouldn’t be the first time. But I noticed today that YouTube has finally added some features that allow for more customization of user channels on the site. Chief among these changes is the ability to upload a channel image. Previously you were only allowed [...]

There’s so much buzz over free video hosting sites that sometimes my head hurts. Blip.tv continues to cut through the buzz by honing the features available via their video publishing service.
They announced a new show player yesterday as part of a scheduled upgrade of the service. I learned this info while I was in the [...]

I’ve spent quite a bit of time publishing and consuming content on both Google Video and YouTube over the last year and a half. As a result I’ve come to some definite conclusions on how business can and should use both services.
Since both services are now owned by Google they are in the unique position [...]

Now that YouTube has been fully acquired by Google I think they should aspire to a high level of service. After all they’re no longer a cash strapped startup anymore. Heck, in terms of internet startups they are now filthy rich. So they should have the money to make their feature set a bit more [...]

The Associated Press is reporting the Google has bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock.
I almost can’t believe this because it seems like YouTube is very vulnerable to lawsuits from the many copyright holders who are being infringed upon as a result of videos hosted on YouTube.
The linked story contains the following quote: “We are [...]

One thing I love about WordPress is the fact that there always seems to be a plugin available for every need I can think of.
I recently started a project that requires me to embed a link to the video in a post so that people would have the option of viewing videos (at a [...]

Earlier this evening I listened to an excellent conversation between Jon Udell of InfoWorld and Mike Hudack of the Blip.tv video blog service.
Blip.tv is one of the many services that allows people to host and distribute their videos for the very nice price of free. I tried them out in late 2005 only a few [...]

The official Google Blog has announced their new web based video upload tool.
Previously, video publishers on Google had to download the Video Upload Program. I use this program and have never has a problem with it. But some folks publishing from a corporate environment might be limited on what types of software they can install [...]