Inside Digital Media

If you would like to learn what a prominent television producer thinks is the future of Internet video, this interview is for you. Our guest today is Steve Rosenbaum who is the Founder of Magnify.net. Earlier he was the creator of MTV News: Unfiltered. He has also produced prime time television for A )

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[See post to watch Flash video] Download to iPod Video If you would like to learn about a website dedicated to original video programming that is professionally produced, this interview is for you.  Our guest today is Jim Louderback who is the CEO of Revision3. The company’s name was chosen to imply that it is focused on the third version of television. The first version was broadcast TV and the second was cable television. Version three is all about Internet video. (more )

[See post to watch Flash video] Download to iPod Video If you would like to learn about a standards movement that will get Internet video into future televisions without going through a computer, this interview is for you. Our guest today is John Gildred who is the President of Synctv.com which is an Internet video service based upon the Marlin DRM industry standard that enables consumer electronics appliances to get television programming directly from the Internet without going through a computer. Synctv.com is currently an invitation-only Beta website, but next year John expects televisions to be introduced into the market that will have the Synctv service built-in. (more )

[See post to watch Flash video] Download to Video-Enabled iPods Brightcove recently introduced a new version of its Internet video delivery service that is (1) more search-engine-friendly, (2) capable of adjusting the screen images for fluctuating bandwidth, and (3) employing a new user interface. Our guest today is Adam Berrey who is the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Strategy at Brightcove. His company is a pioneer in Software-as-a-Service for Internet video delivery, propagation, and, tracking. Brightcove clients include National Geographic, CBS News, Discovery Channel, HBO, The Weather Channel, Disney, and Showtime, among others. (more )

[See post to watch Flash video] Download to Video-Enabled iPods Ever since the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey I’ve waited for the time when reliable video phone calls would be routinely available to the public. Well, that day has arrived because at TokBox.com you can access the service at no charge through your web browser.   Our guest today is Nick Triantos who is the CEO of TokBox. His company provides a reliable two-way video communications service over the Internet that is as easy to use as YouTube. There is no software to download so users don’t have to worry about potentially fouling-up applications already loaded on their computers. Neither do they need to bother with keeping the TokBox service up-to-date since it is provided as Software-as-a-Service. (more )

[See post to watch Flash video] Download to Video-Enabled iPods If you would like to learn how to embed multimedia presentations in your press releases without using the simplified tools from BrainShark and Netbriefings discussed last week, this program is for you. Last week in Part One we demonstrated how simple tools from Netbriefings and BrainShark can be used to embed multimedia presentations into your press releases.  BrainShark users only need to know how to use a telephone and narrate a PowerPoint presentation. Similarly, anyone who can post a video to YouTube can use the Proclaim tool from Netbriefings. (more )

[See post to watch Flash video] Download to Video-Enabled iPods If you would like to learn how to embed multimedia presentation in your press releases, this program is for you. The multimedia press release is not merely an idea whose time has come; it is one that is long overdue! Although I receive most press releases via email, they are still composed as though the delivery mechanism is the U.S. Postal Service. Moreover, they are overflowing with bad writing and technology companies are the worst offenders. Nearly all of their characteristically jargon-filled releases fail miserably to explain why anyone, other than those who wrote them, should have any interest. (more )

[See post to watch Flash video] Download to iPod Video If you would like to learn about a service that will host both the web pages and media files of your podcasts, promote them, and put them in a community of similar shows, all at no charge, this interview is for you.  Subject: Our guest today is Lee Gibbons who is a Co-Founder of Podango. Lee’s company is focused on audio and video podcasting. Podango is a place where you can have your Website hosted along with the media files of your podcasts. The podcasts are delivered over the high-capacity Amazon Web Services network. Podango will also place your show in a community of similar podcasts and permit you to opt-into an advertising revenue sharing arrangement. (more )

[See post to watch Flash video] Download to iPod Video If you would like to know how to hold video conference calls on the Internet for no charge, this interview is for you.   Our guest today is John Ham who is a Co-Founder of uStream.tv. His company is a lot like YouTube except it is real-time video communications whereas YouTube is all about uploading and distributing a recording. To be sure, as you are holding a video conference on uStream.tv, you can also click a button to have them record it on their servers where it is available for playback. Presently, all such services are available from uStream.tv at no charge. (more )

If you would like to learn how to use a hosted service for your Internet video that is available at no charge, and avoids using a high-profile branded player like YouTube’s, this interview is for you. Subject: Our guest today is Mike Hudack who is the Co-Founder of Blip.tv. His company is a lot like YouTube except they do not force you to use a player that has obvious third-party branding like the prominent logo YouTube uses in the lower right of the player frame. As a result, the Blip.tv player looks like it “belongs” on your website. (more )

[See post to watch Flash video] Download to iPod Video While YouTube makes it easy to produce a video of ourselves that we can email to others, today’s guest-company enables us to just as easily produce and send personalized videos about our company to clients and prospects. It also provides crucial tracking statistics. Our guest today is Gary Anderson who is the CEO of NetBriefings. For the past seven years his company has provided Webcasting services for companies that want to host Webcasts for large audiences. However, last year they introduced a hosted service at proclaimyourself.com that permits users to easily produce a short video of themselves and combine it with a professionally produced PowerPoint or corporate video. (more )

[See post to watch Flash video] Download to iPod Video While YouTube makes it easy to produce a video of ourselves that we can email to others, today’s guest-company enables us to just as easily produce and send personalized videos about our company to clients and prospects. It also provides crucial tracking statistics. Our guest today is Gary Anderson who is the CEO of NetBriefings. For the past seven years his company has provided Webcasting services for companies that want to host Webcasts for large audiences. However, last year they introduced a hosted service at proclaimyourself.com that permits users to easily produce a short video of themselves and combine it with a professionally produced PowerPoint or corporate video. (more )

[See post to watch Flash video] Download to iPod Video If you would like an easy way to avoid using the YouTube player to post your own videos to your website, this interview is for you.   Subject: Our guest today is Preetam Mukerjee who is the CEO of www.marcellus.tv. After working at the Center for New Media at the University of California at Berkeley, Preetam returned to India where he organized a company to provide “white label” video hosting, player, and networking services. His Software-as-a-Service enables you to post videos to your website and (html) emails as easily as if you were using YouTube. However, unlike the YouTube player, the marcellus player is unbranded which means that the video window looks like it “belongs” to your own website. (more )

If you would like to hear how new SEC regulations will stimulate public companies to make more use of Digital Media for investor relations, this interview is for you.   Subject: Our guests today are Don Duffy, Tim Carey, and Doug Campbell, with the investor relations firm of ICR.  Don is the President, and Tim and Doug are Senior Vice Presidents. The three discuss new regulations from the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) that they believe will encourage public companies to make more use of Digital Media at the investor relations pages of their Websites (more )

If you would like learn how to create a customized network of video Websites where you can place video ads, this interview is for you.   Our guest today is Jayant Kadambi who is the CEO of YuMe Networks. His company is an Applications Service Provider (ASP) that places ads in digital video.  YuMe offers a variety of ad formats including pre-roll, post-roll, mid-roll, overlays, player skins, and others. You can get a look at samples at their ad gallery. (more )

If you would like to hear what the founder of WordPress.com has to say about the future of blogging, this interview is for you. Subject: Our guest today is Matt Mullenweg who is the Founder of Automattic, Inc. which is the owner of WordPress.com and the Akismet anti-spam software for blogs. Invested capital in Automattic is now $30 million from such sources as The New York Times, Polaris Ventures, True Ventures, and Radar Ventures. (more )

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[See post to watch Flash video] Download to iPod If you would like to learn how radio stations can use the Internet to generate incremental revenue from conventional broadcast advertisements, this interview is for you.   Subject: Our guest today is Scott Savage who is a principal in a new venture named Octopus. The venture provides a way for traditional radio to generate incremental ad revenues from conventional broadcast advertisements. Here’s an example of how it works: (more )

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If you would like to learn about the differences between blogs and forums in the future, this interview is for you.   Subject: Our guest today is Patrick O’Keefe who is the author of Managing Online Forums which has just been released by the publishing arm of the American Management Association. (more )

If you would like to learn how to post videos to a single website that will automatically re-post them to the others where you have accounts, this interview is for you.    Subject: Our guest today is Brett Wilson who is a Co-Founder of TubeMogul.  Videos posted at TubeMogul are automatically re-posted at (most) all the other video-sharing sites where you have accounts. That includes YouTube, Revver, Veoh, Metacafe, and many more. They also collect episode-specific audience statistics at each website. (more )

[See post to watch Flash video] Download to iPod If you would like to learn how to stream live video (like sporting events) over the Internet, this interview is for you.   Subject: Our guest today is Dave Stoner who is the President of ViewCast. His company manufactures high speed video capture cards and appliances that will convert live video into Internet-ready streams in real time. (more )

If you would like to learn how the National Hockey League is generating revenue from advertising-supported video online, this interview is for you.    Subject: Our guest today is Larry Gelfand who is Senior Vice President for Media Sales at the National Hockey League.  Recently the NHL launched its Internet-based NHL Network Online which provides a number of free video shows that are advertising supported.  Initial sponsors include Cisco, Budweiser, and Dodge. (more )

[See post to watch Flash video] Download to iPod If you would like to learn how one blogger became a leading source of information about his local community, this interview is for you.   Subject: Our guest today is Tommy Duncan who is the Founder of the Sticks of Fire blog. Through it, Tommy has become a go-to source of information about events, history, and news affecting his home town of Tampa, Florida. From an “unknown” four years ago, Tommy quite often now sees his blog writing republished by the local metropolitan newspaper. Tommy shares his thoughts about what it takes to be a successful blogger in both a content and platform technology context.  (more )

If you would like to know how to protect video streams from piracy, this interview is for you.   Subject: Our guest today is Barrett Lyon who is a Co-Founder of BitGravity which is a video-centric Content Delivery Network (CDN). His company characterizes itself as a CDN for today’s Internet, as opposed to the older ones designed to deliver the static web pages of an increasingly bygone era. (more )

[See post to watch Flash video] Download to iPod The Internet is a more important invention than the printing press because of its (1) frictionless publishing, (2) interactivity, and (3) multimedia characteristics. (more )

[See post to watch Flash video] Download to iPod If you would like to learn how leading colleges and universities are using audio-visual recordings of professor lectures, this interview is for you.  (Part 2 of 2). Subject: Our guest today is Mark Jones who is the CEO of Echo 360. His company provides an electronic appliance enabling college professors to record their lectures for two purposes. First, is to make them available to attending-students on-demand so that they might review the material whenever desired. Second, is for use in distance learning so that students at any remote location, including their homes, may take classes from respected universities. (more )

[See post to watch Flash video] Download to iPod If you would like to learn how leading colleges and universities are using audio-visual recordings of professor lectures, this interview is for you.  (Part 1 of 2). Subject: Our guest today is Mark Jones who is the CEO of Echo 360. His company provides an electronic appliance enabling college professors to record their lectures for two purposes. First, is to make them available to attending-students on-demand so that they might review the material whenever desired. Second, is for use in distance learning so that students at any remote location, including their homes, may take classes from respected universities. (more )

Summary: If you are curious to know whether the new Software Developers Kit for the Apple iPhone is a genuinely significant industry development, this interview is for you.   Subject: Our guest today is Steve Lang who operates the MadMaxMedia.com blog. Steve believes that the new SDK is a truly important and will live up to the general media hype. He feels that in the future there will be a multitude of 3rd party applications that will make the iPhone a portable “teleputer” upon which voice conversations shall be merely one of a great many applications.   (more )