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Vimeo Announces New Tools

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Video Hosting and Publishing is still a large growth sector. Vimeo is one of the major players that I’ve liked for a long time. They are getting ready to roll out some major new tools that will really help make their platform attractive to new users, and existing publishers.

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1 Desktop Uploader
I don’t understand why other video hosting platforms namely YouTube doesn’t have a desktop application to allow you to upload videos straight from an application that you can control.

2 Better Stats
Youtube doesn’t provide you with any stats other than what’s publicly available that’s one thing I’ve heard about Vimeo. Publishers like having control, and they like being able to view detailed statistics.

3 Larger Videos
People like BIG. Vimeo gets it on the Big Scale their videos are HUGE. 640×480 Gotta love that.

4 Featured Groups
Vimeo’s featured groups remind me of Flickr groups did before Yahoo bought them. Vimeo is smart, the groups brings community to the forefront and that’s where the important growth is.

Originally posted on October 11, 2009 @ 1:55 am

Twitter to expand internationally with FIGS

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Twitter which is apparently on the verge of announcing a data mining agreeement with Google and/or Microsoft (Bing). But in the meantime they are revealing a plan to expand internationally with FIGS.

In the beginning Twitter will attempt to crowdsource some of the initial translations. I know many users in Mexico, and internationally are using the English Language version yet however their Tweets are in Spanish.

Interestingly I see that market as a major place for expansion if they can make some deals with cell phone providers to provide cheap or affordable SMS communications with Twitter like they have with providers here in the United States.

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“Twitter is currently available only in English and Japanese. With some help, we will soon be rolling out support for French, Italian, German, and Spanish. These languages are commonly referred to using the acronym FIGS and are often the starting point for services like Twitter when its time for more language support. Later, we hope to offer Twitter in several other languages. No matter how sophisticated technology gets, we’re reminded daily that it’s about people and that’s something we’ve taken to heart regarding translating Twitter. ”

Source: Twitter

Originally posted on October 8, 2009 @ 7:58 pm

Telegraph gets it all wrong about Twitter Video

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Telegraph published a bogus report today about Twitter coming out with video. Mashable did the fact checking on it and found out that sure enough in line video is not even in the philosophical premise of Twitter.

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“That said, Twitter does lose out when it comes to multimedia: adding in-line thumbnails for images and videos (even if that content is hosted on 3rd party sites) would make for a much richer experience that could match Facebook’s news feed for image and video sharing. Yes, in-line multimedia can be done with apps like TweetDeck, but that’s non-obvious and an extra step for those more familiar with the leading social network. Even this could bring Twitter into conflict with developers however: if multimedia support were added, would there be default services in the same way Bit.ly is the default URL shortener?”

While I think Twitter could be a bit cleaner, and integrate inline multimedia. If you haven’t taken a look at Yahoo Meme! you really should it’s very clean and smooth and just recently rolled out English language support.

This is what I wish a Twitter 2.0 would really look like.

Originally posted on October 11, 2009 @ 10:03 pm

AP and News Corp Set To Go To War With Google ?

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associated pressThe leaders of the Associated Press and News Corp said Friday it is time for search engines and others who use news content for free to pay.

The leaders of these two companies have made an alliance as ad profits from online media have been eerily going down since the beginning of the financial recession about 2 years ago.

Many media companies argue that sites like Google have reaped a fortune from their online content without just compensation from the corporations producing the content.

To me it’s hilarious you would take a potshot at Google when they send you thousands of visitors a minute to your subsidiaries. But hey what do I know. I would never slap the hand that feeds me if I was a multibillion dollar corporation like News Corp, or the Associated Press.

This just seems like posturing or a twisted negotiating tactic.

Weekend Update:
Newsweek has an interesting solution to Fox and the AP’s problem.

Originally posted on October 9, 2009 @ 6:50 pm

The Economist Is Building A Wall

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The Economist Magazine is building a paywall to limit the number of articles which readers can access online for free, the latest sign that publishers are rethinking their attitude towards free web content.

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Only articles from the past 90 days will be available to the general browser, rather than 12 months under the current system. From the 13th of October, when something over 90 days will be behind a big old pay wall and therefore will be available only to paying subscribers.

In another news, only subscribers may utilize the “This Week In Print” , which allows users to access the magazine in a digital format.

I’m assuming this is similar to what many News Corp sites will begin rolling out as well.

Source: CNET

Originally posted on October 8, 2009 @ 2:55 am