If users are going to be creating the video content of the future, they’re going to need to edit at some point. The tools have to move beyond the purvey of the video professional. Come to think of it, it would be nice if these tools were easier to use for the professional as well.
According to this British study, 16 to 24 year olds watch an average of 7 hours less TV per week then the average viewer. Apparently they’re spending their time on the net on social networking services (such as Myspace). One in five of these 16 to 24 year olds have a website or blog.
Are we creating a lost generation that doesn’t understand the simple pleasure of reading the newspaper in front of the television, sitting on the couch? We either need a Royal Commission to figure out what must be done, or we can accept this fact and go with the flow.
Niklass Zennstrom and Janus Friis are a couple of guys who have done well in the Internet racket. Their first project was Kazaa, the peer-to-peer music file sharing system that arose after the demise of Napster. They managed to sell Kazaa before the courts crushed the fun.
Then it was internet telephony, so they came up with Skype. They then sold that to eBay for $2.6 billion in cash, and they are still hanging around eBay to collect another $1.5 billion in bonuses between now and 2009. Not bad work if you can get it.
For their next trick, they are working on something called the “Venice Project” which will allow video broadcasts over the Internet using peer-to-peer technology. This will drop the bandwidth costs to manageable levels, and allow broadcasters (or anyone really) to distribute live video at a fraction of the cost that it takes to do it today. This time, instead of going it alone like they did with Kazaa, they are actively seeking partners amoungst traditional television operations. Judging from their track record, this space could get very interesting very quickly as disruptive technologies are now coming fast and furious.
The Canadian animated series Odd Job Jack is releasing the master Flash files and bitmaps of every piece of art used in this season of the show: every character, prop, and background plus tutorials and other support material. The idea is that fans can now make their own creative mash-ups of the content and share away.
It’s great to see a Canadian show that so thoroughly gets it. When fans are able to connect that deeply with a show, it doesn’t do anything else but promote the television product. Good on them.
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Well, why use your bandwidth when you could use someone elses?
NYTimes.com Links to YouTube for World Cup Clip
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In a development that seems to signal the growing acceptance of YouTube.com by mainstream media, the Web site of The New York Times linked to the online file-sharing site as part of the paper’s multimedia coverage of the World Cup final. The link appeared in a sidebar and pointed readers to footage of the game’s most striking moment–the head-butt attack by French captain Zinédine Zidane against Italian defender Marco Materazzi that resulted in Zidane’s ejection from the game. Both the Times and YouTube said the link was not part of an official deal between the two companies, but a simple editorial decision by the Times. The use of YouTube’s video infrastructure by one of the nation’s leading papers, coming shortly after Walt Disney Company ran an ad campaign on the site, and NBC agreed to distribute videos there, seems to indicate that established companies are increasingly embracing the YouTube platform. The clip was posted by a French user on YouTube within an hour of being aired on Television Francaise 1 and quickly became one of the most watched videos on the site, racking up almost 1.2 million views in just 24 hours.
(Eric Sass 7/11/06)
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