Tagged YouTube
Jason Calacanis quitting blogging has been widely reported, switching over to a newsletter format instead. I’m on that list, and I’m happy to say there’s been plenty of interesting e-mails from the Mahalo guy already. This isn’t surprising, the e-mail format doesn’t stress you to write on a daily basis, so Jason can stick to the good stuff, leaving out things not being as necessary to comment.
The last e-mail was on Knol (Wikipedia entry), Google’s “we’re not in the content business” project that so obviously is in the content business. I think that Knol is a step in the wrong direction for Google, if they want to keep their search domination. Think about it, how reliable is a search engine if some sources of information will be valued higher because they are owned by the search engine itself? We already get YouTube results pushed out on every search, and Knol is ranked high already, of course. Read more →
I installed Windows XP on my Kohjinsha yesterday, finally gave up on Ubuntu. That’s after I’d gotten almost everything working on it though, the thing that made me switch was the poor performance of Flash.
Yes, Flash. Read more →
Online video is big, that’s nothing new. Lots of people want to get into it, post-Rocketboom and whatnot. And there are some great content out there, I just recently found Natali Del Conte’s show TeXtra (via CrunchNotes), which is the perfect example of a great online video show (or podcast if you prefer). They have some budget there, I can imagine, since they managed to lure Natali from TechCrunch, not known to be paying its writers scraps – but what do I know?
Anyway, online video is big, and I’ve been wanting to dabble with it. I actually bought a Sony handycam a little while back, just to see what I could do with it.
So how would I launch a video show? Read more →
I just published a post over at The Blog Herald about how you can get your own flash movies on your blog, hosting them yourself and not relying on Youtube.
It’s long. Matt should pay me double.