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American Cancer Society launches video channel for cancer stories

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The American Cancer Society has launched a new online community to help connect cancer survivors, their friends and family members. SharingHope.tv allows users to upload video, audio, photos and artwork to tell their stories of cancer. Innovative for a non-profit organization, the new site relies almost completely on people outside of the organization to create its content and it enables OpenID technology.

“This site is not about the American Cancer Society – it’s about the people cancer affects. We are providing a forum for people to share their stories, their heartbreaks, their triumphs and joys. No one knows more about cancer than the people living with it. We want to make it easy and even fun for that knowledge to be shared,” David J. Neff, Director of Web and Interactive Strategy of the American Cancer Society, said.

Originally posted on March 4, 2008 @ 10:17 am

Internet TV to reach mainstream viewers in 2008

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It seems the invasion of Internet TV is inevitable. According to the latest projections by eMarketers.com, 154 million or 52.5% of all Americans will stream or download online videos at least once a month.

Now here’s something hulu.com is dying to hear. It turned out American and British online viewers prefer to “watch programming online that is produced by professional TV networks and film studios.” In terms of video contents, 40% of Americans favor short clips, usually five minutes or less, about movie trailers, music videos, news, TV shows and jokes.

Looking forward, the growth of rising channel is expected to slow down in 2012 simply because it will reach its saturation point with almost 90% of the American population watching online videos.

On the perspectives of video providers, an ideal business model goes beyond the ability to stream and store online videos.

“From the video provider’s perspective, online video is not scalable, which means that the more people viewing video at a Web site, the more it costs that site to serve video and/or the slower the video gets served,” says David Hallerman, eMarketer senior analyst and author of this report.

Via MarketingCharts

Originally posted on March 3, 2008 @ 8:59 am

Pakistan loves YouTube again

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pakistan.gifThe Associated Press reports that Pakistan’s telecoms regulator has lifted restrictions on YouTube and restoring access to the site.

Pakistan ordered YouTube blocked last Friday over a clip featuring a Dutch lawmaker who has said he plans to release a movie portraying Islam as fascist and prone to inciting violence.

Originally posted on February 26, 2008 @ 5:21 pm

DailyMotion implements INA’s technology on copyright detection

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Dailymotion said that it is implementing INA’s “Signature” technology across all localized and local language Dailymotion sites. Dailymotion’s use of video filtering technology follows several other copyrighted material protection initiatives throughout the site, including a hashing system, blocking videos that have already been removed from the site and use of an audio fingerprinting solution. In addition, Dailymotion is an original signatory to the UGC Copyright Principles.

INA´s innovative image-based technology is based on a signature, or digital fingerprint, which constitutes a genetic code representing a sequence of images. Content that has been protected by a producer or a broadcaster using this technology will be automatically detected and will either be rejected or managed according to agreements before it is placed online.

Originally posted on February 25, 2008 @ 11:50 am

GyPSii, Shanghai Rannuo, China Unicom to launch mobile-location services for 2008 Olympic Games

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GyPSii has partnered with Shanghai Rannuo and China Unicom to launch its GyPSii service during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

The GyPSii service combines social networking, mobile, location and web 2.0 technologies to offer China Unicom users a seamless mobile lifestyle experience. It will allow users to create pictures, video and blogs centered on all things Olympic while using their existing camera phone. GyPSii users can capture their special moments during the Olympic games, upload the content to their personal space and share it with friends, family and communities. The users can also search other GyPSii User Generated Content (UGC), people and points of interest and get maps and directions to their location – all from their mobile phone.

The GyPSii service will be available to Unicom users in March 2008 at yypsii.com.cn.

Originally posted on February 20, 2008 @ 10:36 am