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Lesson for Flickr: don’t mess with your paying users

I thought that Flickr adding video wasn’t a great idea – there is a 90 second maximum and you need a pro account ($25 a year) to even upload videos.
Flickr’s users, however are the ones that really didn’t like this new service, especially that Flickr put their money towards developing a video service. Wired [...]


Seesmic is open for your business – but I already left…

Thanks to its founders amicable nature and good marketing strategy, Seesmic (the “Twitter of online video”) quickly became the talk of the town when the first beta invites were released.
Now, Seesmic not only has received $6 million in funding, but it also opened up the door to the public at large, as Venture Beat reports.
My [...]


Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation makes popular series available DRM-free via BitTorrent

Maybe because it’s in Norwegian, it’s unlikely to become a huge hit worldwide, but Norwegian Broadcasting has just started to distribute on of its more successful shows on BitTorrent, without any DRM and in very high quality:
As one of many ways to reach people with our content we have decided to do an experiment and [...]


Is Joost Dying?

Short answer, yes.
Mathew Ingram and MG Siegler are wondering today if internet TV provider Joost has much of a future. From MG:
Well if they’re anything like me, I open it once in a while to see if anything new has been added, maybe watch a few clips, then shut it down 15 minutes later. [...]


Hulu HD

(Via ParisLemon) Hulu, NBC’s online video venture, just announced that it will make some if its content available in HD, thanks to the latest update of Flash.
Thanks to the efficient compression of the H.264 video codec, that day may be coming sooner than anticipated. Today we’re excited to launch an HD Gallery featuring a selection [...]


Seesmic

Loic Le Meur, who is mostly known for running Le Web, is starting up a new video site, that wants to be something like a mash-up between Twitter and YouTube.
Just a few questions:
Loic is French, how does he start a company in the US? I couldn’t even get a job at McDonalds here when [...]


Cool Little Video to Start This Blog Off

As good a first post as I could come up with. Great video:
http://www.katjatrijber.com/?p=30
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