Interviews with Digital Media Thought Leaders

blip.tv Compared to YouTube

Podcast Audio | Posted by Phil Leigh on May 31, 2008

 
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Mike Hudack of Blip.tvIf you would like to learn how to use a hosted service for your Internet video that is available at no charge, and avoids using a high-profile branded player like YouTube’s, this interview is for you.

Subject: Our guest today is Mike Hudack who is the Co-Founder of blip.tv. His company is a lot like YouTube except they do not force you to use a player that has obvious third-party branding like the prominent logo YouTube uses in the lower right of the player frame. As a result, the blip.tv player looks like it “belongs” on your website. Read more…

“Unbranded” Video Player for Your Website

Podcast Video | Posted by Phil Leigh on May 24, 2008

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If you would like an easy way to avoid using the YouTube player to post your own videos to your website, this interview is for you.
 
Subject: Our guest today is Preetam Mukerjee who is the CEO of www.marcellus.tv. After working at the Center for New Media at the University of California at Berkeley, Preetam returned to India where he organized a company to provide “white label” video hosting, player, and networking services. His Software-as-a-Service enables you to post videos to your website and (html) emails as easily as if you were using YouTube. However, unlike the YouTube player, the marcellus player is unbranded which means that the video window looks like it “belongs” to your own website.

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Online Videos: Post Once - Distribute Everywhere

Podcast Audio | Posted by Phil Leigh on April 26, 2008

 
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Brett WilsonIf you would like to learn how to post videos to a single website that will automatically re-post them to the others where you have accounts, this interview is for you. 
 
Subject: Our guest today is Brett Wilson who is a Co-Founder of TubeMogul.  Videos posted at TubeMogul are automatically re-posted at (most) all the other video-sharing sites where you have accounts. That includes YouTube, Revver, Veoh, Metacafe, and many more. They also collect episode-specific audience statistics at each website.

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Made-For-Web Video Sitcom Get’s Bought By CBS

Podcast Audio | Posted by Phil Leigh on February 16, 2008

 
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Angel Acevedo, Steven Tsapelas, Brind AmyotIf you would like to learn about a scripted video sitcom that originated on the Web but has recently been purchased by CBS for a television pilot, this interview is for you.
 
Our guests today are Angel Acevedo, Steven Tsapelas, and Brian Amyot who are the producers of a made-for-the-Web scripted video sitcom called We Need Girlfriends at weneedgirlfriends.tv. The series achieved such wide popularity on the Net that CBS purchased it as a new pilot.

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The Media & Internet Experience on Campus

Podcast Audio | Posted by Phil Leigh on December 15, 2007

 
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If you would like to get some insight into what media and Internet usage is like within the student body of a major university, this interview is for you. 

Our guest today is Matt Ragas who is a PhD candidate in the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida with a student body numbering 51,000. After his Bachelor’s, Matt spent eight years in the business world where he was a successful Internet entrepreneur having authored two books and participating as a co-founder in Raging Bull.com and Indie Research. He fascinates us with tales of how much the Internet and Digital Media has changed the campus experience since his undergraduate years. Read more…

Discouraging Telephone Solicitors

Podcast Video | Posted by Phil Leigh on November 22, 2007

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If you would like to learn how one clever guy discourages unwanted telephone solicitors, this narrative is for you.
 
It is an excerpt from a three minute video at YouTube.

Will Copyrights Restrict Media Use Over Home Networks?

Podcast Audio | Posted by Phil Leigh on July 13, 2007

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As we get more familiar with home networking we’re likely to start buying appliances that will display Digital Media stored on our computers in other rooms of the house. As consumers, we are likely to regard such uses as entirely legitimate and consistent with the personal use application under the Fair Use exemption of the Copyright Act.
 
But, as Will Rogers put it, “If I don’t see things your way, why should I?” In short, broadcasters and content rights holders may consider that the distribution of media across home networks is not an implicit right of the acquired media. Our guest today is an intellectual property attorney who discusses how this issue came up at last month’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) meeting.

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A Point-and-Shoot Camcorder for the Mass Market

Podcast Video | Posted by Phil Leigh on July 11, 2007

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Owing to exponential growth at YouTube nearly everyone is conscious of Internet video. Increasingly, many of us want to make our own. As a result, companies are starting to market un-complex “point-and-shoot” camcorders that make the process simple enough for the mass market.
 
Today’s guest is Rich Phipps who is Director of Business Development at Thomson Audio Video, which markets under the venerable RCA brand. Recently they introduced a $129 “point-and-shoot” camcorder that stores the pictures in solid state memory, instead of tape.

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