JoshPaul

• Advertising Age – Mobile ESPN Shuts Down After Less Than a Year
  After less than a year in the marketplace, ESPN has pulled the plug on its mobile-phone endeavor….and losses of $25m+
  (tags: espn mobile video adage cellphone cell)
• The continuing push of major entertainment companies into the digital world has remained a key industry theme
  We do, however, believe that some of that revenue lost to the Internet will be recaptured by the online businesses of the old-line media companies
  (tags: hollywood video advertising revenue media)
• RadioTail – Podcast Advertising – Home
  …advanced metrics and dynamic ad serving technology
  (tags: ads advertising audio marketing podcast podcasting radio traffic business aweli)
• WHV China plan: pre-empt piracy
  pirates still beat the studio to the punch
  (tags: p2p piracy hollywood video dvd superman)
• Oh yeah? MySpace is worth twentyeleven gajillions! – Valleywag
  Mr. Expert also said MySpace video ads currently run as high as $35-40 per thousand clicks
  (tags: myspace video cpm advertising ads valleywag funny)
• Online Video Advertising And Promotion: Share Your Video Online Is The Only Way To Go – Robin Good’s Latest News
  The true advantage is in letting your video content be free so that not only others can watch and talk about it, but they can easily download it, redistribute it, if not even publish it directly on their own sites.
  (tags: advertising internet marketing podcasting youtube video aweli)
• Advertising Age – All Eyes on Viral Video (at Least With the Under-25 Set)
  TV watching, moviegoing and music listening all took a backseat to the internet for Americans under 25 this year.
  (tags: marketing video viral advertising aweli interesting music audio adage)

So, I was looking around iDVD’s package contents, and came across an interesting framework…WirelessVideoOutput. Well, I guess it’s not literally a “framework,” it’s a “oxygene” package. Okay, we know about iTV (yes, a Business Week link; mainstream), but I find it interesting the package is already in the app. Alright, I don’t know why this is even interesting. Maybe I need some coffee.

• Reel Pop: Why you can’t trust traffic stats and video site valuations
  “…when there’s uncertainty in an online video site’s traffic, that uncertaintly can be passed through to uncertainty in the company’s valuation.”
  (tags: nielsen ratings traffic video aweli statistics youtube)
• Yahoo! Ranks #1 in Number of People Streaming
  Fundamental to the effectiveness of online video as an advertising medium is an accurate measurement of streaming video
  (tags: video statistics ratings aweli advertising yahoo youtube comscore metrics)

• Howard Stern’s Ad Rates on Sirius Slump to Low of $5,000
  To $5k from $30k. Ugh. “The problem … with recommending Sirius is they don’t give out real measurable data,” said Robert Davidman, CEO of Earthquake Media.
  (tags: advertising adage stern radio statistics sirius aweli ads)
• Mickey Mouse – A Truly Public Character
  A paper on Mickey Mouse and Copyright. From ASU, no less.
  (tags: copyright legal mickeymouse asu publicdomain)

• Open CV Library Overview – Open Source Computer Vision Library
  This library is mainly aimed at real time computer vision, including facial recognition.
  (tags: opensource vision facerecognition opencv intel code library video image graphics mapping)

• www.chinwag.com – viralmonitor – home
  The viralmonitor is a list for those who want to be amongst the first to know about the latest online viral marketing campaigns.
  (tags: marketing viral campaign viralmonitor mailing list)

• FollowTheWhiteLaptop: (only 1%?)
  Follow TheWhiteLaptop is a fundraising campaign organized by Cambrian House, a crowdsourced company. As part of our company initiative to payback 1% of our profits, our time, and our equity, we created FollowTheWhiteLaptop.com and hope to raise $10,000 fo
  (tags: whitelaptop laptop charity guykawasaki cambrianhouse FollowTheWhiteLaptop)
• Processing 1.0 (BETA)
  Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound.
  (tags: programming graphics design software java processing mapping)
• Microsoft’s Vista Tips Site Won’t Work on Vista
  From O’Reilly Windows DevCenter Blog. Pretty funny, if you ask me. “Want to check out Microsoft’s new Windows Vista Tips & Tricks site? If you’re a Vista user, don’t bother — the list of top tips is posted in a .pdf Acrobat file, and Acrobat doesn
  (tags: oreilly vista windows acrobat xps)

• A List Apart: Articles: Printing a Book with CSS: Boom!
  Don’t know why I didn’t catch this earlier…
  (tags: book css design howto pdf printing alistapart boom)

• Error page for Adult Swim
  “Please be advised that you almost broke the Internet.”
  (tags: classic funny error adultswim)
• Starfish – ridiculously easy distributed programming with Ruby
  automates the process of divide and conquer for large data sets
  (tags: distributed mapreduce google programming ruby api code development documentation)

• Motion DSP
  MotionDSP’s software re-constructs a high-resolution video from low-resolution video
  (tags: codec compression development video analysis youtube clear image)