A World of Conflict: Innovative online documentary project on Yahoo News

Online television broadcast took another important step recently with the launching of A World of Conflict – an innovative documentary series in which veteran war correspondent Kevin Sites reports from major global conflict zones. Even though it is also included with Sites’ new book “In the Hot Zone: One Man. One Year. Twenty Wars.” with […]

Bubble 2.0? Laugh until you cry.

“Need a good domain name, must be cheap, can’t be lame Something cool like Flickr, Meebo Wikiyou, Mahalo, Bebo Telephone without the T Diggg but with a triple G Make your elevator switch Code it up and hit the switch.” Anyone who was part of the IT industry back in 1999 knows the word “bubble” […]

From Columbine to Kaarst: the new nihilistic terror wave

We, the real people who send our children to school don’t have any ECHELONs, CTUs, SD-6s or 8200s units to inform us when a new type of threat emerges, but we still have to realize the sad news: As if we didn’t have enough of them already, a new form of anomic or nihilistic terror […]

vConvert: online video streams to to local video files

Ever wanted to save a YouTube video on your computer or upload a file you saw on one online video platform to another? vConvert is an online service allows you to convert online video streams as those broadcasted on YouTube and similar to local video files on your computer using popular formats such as mov, […]

Metacafe and Peerbox team up for user video sharing on mobile phones

PeerBox by Nareos, a popular mobile social networking service already reviewed on this blog, announced last week a partnership with Metacafe, the world’s leading independent online video entertainment site, to provide Metacafe’s users with mobile social networking. With the help of PeerBox technology, Metacafe users may now access, download and share user generated videos directly […]

Animusic: video art by computers

Can computers make art? Working from home just like your humble servant and mastering his craft for over a decade, programmer, composer and movie director Wayne Lytle think they can. As the main creative force behind Animusic LLC, a 3D animation company producing animated music content founded by Lytle in 1995, initially under the name […]

VideoEgg: overlay video advertising

(Ad: Microbounce, Adidas)And while we are on the subject of the mass media world engaging with the new generation of media users, here is some extended information about a company who does just that very successfully and mentioned in my previous post. With approximately 30 million unique viewers each month VideoEgg is a rich-media advertising […]

Google InVideo: The future of advertising. but where are you?

Soon after the announcement about integrating video feeds in their news services, Google have practically launched a limited version of their new video advertising format branded Google InVideo designed to be used on YouTube. Starting August 21, clicking on an animated overlay area of a Google InVideo ad in some selected YouTube partner videos, launches […]

100 feared dead in Phuket plane crash: online media review

Photo: AP, news.bbc.co.uk Online media channels respond fast as number of last night plane crash victims now feared to be 100, according to latest reports. Thai budget airliner crashed while attempting to land in driving rain at the resort island of Phuket. According to Associated Press the plane was “splitting in two as it was […]

The Battle at Kruger: Dinosaur media following new generation giants

Makers of The Battle at Kruger, the world’s most famous nature video, announced today they are going back to Africa with the National Geographic Channel to work on a special planned to be aired later this year and tell the behind-the-scenes story about how they came to shoot this spectacular footage. Witnessed by Jason Schlosberg […]