by Allen Weiner | August 16, 2012 | Comments Off
In this wondrous Olympic year, who can resist a track and field metaphor? Picture this: Usain Bolt is blurring his way to the finish line in the 100 meter finals and decides to stop short one meter (that’s 3.28 feet to us non-metricized folks) because the sun got in his unshielded eyes. Years of practice [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: digital marketing, Freshpetidion, GE, General Electric, online video, Video, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | January 20, 2010 | 1 Comment
As YouTube evolves from its roots as the mega community for all video comers to a profitable business, the company is announcing a video rental program which launches in conjunction with the Sundance Film Festival (January 21-31, 2010). Against the backdrop of Sundance, YouTube rentals will launch with five Sundance films—two from last year’s competition [...]
Category: Google Tags: Amazon, Apple, Google, Sundance, Video, video rentals, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | January 10, 2009 | 2 Comments
I am a sucker for cool video gadgets and I found ViewVu tucked away in an out of the way section of the auxiliary CES exhibition floor at the Sands Convention Center. This PVR-Pro camera is a wearable camera that allows you to clip the camera onto your shirt or jacket and shoot video while [...]
Category: blogging broadcasting citizen media Television Uncategorized Video Tags: camcorders, CES, Jumpcut, Video, VieVu, wearable camera, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | December 5, 2008 | 2 Comments
It comes as no surprise that YouTube has made some changes to its business, some that have been well publicized–such as its attempt to shed its “mature” content and give video creators the ability to easily add licensed music to their clips–and others a tad more subtle. In late November, YouTube’s player suddenly changed its [...]
Category: blogging citizen media social media Video Web 2.0 Tags: Google, Hulu, Video, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment
Faster than you can say, I am part of the Mapple Universe (thanks Lisa Simpson), a number of video services including Joost, mDialog and YouTube have brought rich on-demand versions of their web offers to the iPhone. Powered by innovative transcoder Ripcode, who has cracked the code in transcoding while a download is in progress, [...]
Category: blogging broadcasting Mobile Newspapers Publishing social media Television Video Tags: Apple, Google, iPhone, Joost, Livestation, mDialog, MySpace, Ripcode, Video, YouTube
by Allen Weiner | September 15, 2008 | Comments Off
Here’s a clip from The Statesman, the Cox-owned (for now) newspaper in Austin. They are a great example of a daily that uses all the Web 2.0 weapons available to create reader engagement. The paper’s use of Twitter to track Ike is a textbook example others could follow.
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Category: Newspapers Publishing Television Uncategorized Tags: Austin, Hurricane Ike, newspaper, Video
by Allen Weiner | September 15, 2008 | Comments Off
So, it appears blogging fever has hit Gartner. I am excited that my colleagues and I get the opportunity to showcase our insight into all things IT (and some not IT related) on a more ongoing basis. I have been blogging for about six years, and the fruits of my labor can be found at [...]
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Category: blogging Tags: Allen Weiner, blogging, Gartner, Podcasting, Video
