Yesterday I had written about Mobile Blogging and today Verizon announced a tie-up with YouTube to allow its customers to watch videos on their handsets starting next month. This service will be offered through its Vcast service. Click here.
If you are not a verizon customer or don't want to signup for Vcast there are other options. Click here.
Also while searching for the sites that offer mobile blogging with ability to upload videos, I came across this one.
Mobile blogging may not prevalent right now, but it could be trend of the future. Video camera and web enabled cell phones are ubiqitious, so if someone has captured something interesting (or embarrassing) they can share it with world right away without having to get back to their laptop (or desktop).
This blogger service allows mobile blogging to the extent that you can share text and photos...and mobile video blogging may not be far behind. A handful of start-ups already allow uploading & sharing mobile videos as well as allow you to watch other videos on your mobile phone. Gigaom has an article that discusses one such startup called mywaves and also references some of its closest competitors.
When making travel plans to a new destination, I always talk to my friends who have been there before, read the travel guides and also surf the web for feedback from those who have made that journey.
But I always thought that a good video preview would really help before I book that non-refundable ticket. Therefore I was pleased to learn about couple of websites that aims do just that.
Travelistic which launched recently, will be a site dedicated to travel videos. The website has a simple but pertinent slogan - "videos for travelers". Accordingly there will be professional travel videos as well as user generated clips. The layout of the video portion of the website is similar to many of the video-sharing websites.
Turnhere is another website that is built around a similar theme. Turnhere hosts professionally produced short videos about cities and neighbourhoods from all over the world. It touts to be the venue for local videos that would serve both local people and tourists.
Wander on to these websites to explore the world, whether you do it from your home or in person.
An australian website called Video-tutes.com offers free web based "3D max" video tutorials for most of the popular softwares used to create webpages, print design and 3D animations.
These tutorials are apparently designed for all users and contain lessons from the very basics through to advanced effects and keyboard shortcuts.
About.com, a information website with guides for all sorts of things has a very useful video library. Click Here.
This video library features a collection of short video guides on wide variety of topics ranging from 'how to make guacamole' to ' grouting tiles' .
These instruction and informative videos are sorted in five different categories - Health, Food & Drink, Home & Garden, Electronics & Gadgets and Style & Fashion.
Until recently online video clips was about entertainment or advertisement. Now its lending voice to a protest from an unlikely group. It appears that the labor unions have discovered YouTube.
The striking workers of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. represented by United Steelworkers union has posted a videospot on the popular video website. The 30 second video spot seems to warn customers that the tires made by replacement workers at Goodyear will be subpar.
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It would be very interesting to see the outcome of the this test blimp floated by Goodyear worker's union. If this proves effective, other groups might also resort to this unique approach to reach sympathetic audience.
Michael Richards' (aka 'Kramer') recent infamous racial tirade was a surprise to me. His character in Seinfield was delightful. He later apologized on David Letterman show.
AliveinBaghdad - is fascinating blog from Iraq that offers a different perspective of the situation there than that of the main stream media. AliveinBaghdad brings short news segments from Iraq as well as video testimonies from individual Iraqis and footage of daily life in Iraq to you. The reporting on this website is made possible by a team of American & Iraqi correspondents on the ground.
blinkx claims to be the world's largest and most advanced video search engine.
Fed by bots that crawl the web for audio-video content and content partnerships with over sixty leading content and media companies, blinkx uses visual analysis and speech recognition to better understand rich media content.
Users can search for content, create personal TV channels that automatically splice relevant content together and even has a feature to automatically download content to mobile devices. Blinkx is a privately-held firm, founded in early 2004 and has offices in San Francisco and London.
