I saw this video yesterday and then kind of forgot about it - I really thought it may be a hoax. Then it popped up in my reader again today.
Here is the video:
It seems like this could be a very interesting way to superimpose images, text and logos on different things. Because I work with some people from broadcast TV - I’m wondering how long it will take to get something “posted” on the news @ 10?
Does this change the way people will “advertise” in the future?
It all started with a tweet from a guy in Utah. He said he had cracked up be cause his mother had emailed him after watch his lawn cam - capturing some landscaping.
Anyway - his blog post was a bout the concept of video stitching:
I saw this amazing Stabilized Video Collage this morning while reading … this is really impressive. You have to see it to really appreciate what is being done.
The author has used a program called Motion (in FinalCut on the Mac) to stitch two videos together to make one. Not only is it obscenely cool, it makes the video enjoyable to watch. It appears you can stitch video from many different sources and multiple camera together to build a killer panoramic vid.
Are we surprised? With the writer’s strike making online TV viewing about as entertaining as back-to-back-to-back episodes of “Are you Smarter than a Third Grader?”
Another week, and another stat has just been released showing that people are increasingly turning to the web to consume televised entertainment. The latest from Solutions Research Group claims that 80 million Americans (43 percent of its online population) have watched their favorite TV shows on the web, and that 20 percent watch TV on the web on a weekly basis.
Who knows - maybe the writers strike will drive all TV viewing online…who knows?
AT&T bought the spectrum from Aloha Spectrum Holdings. The spectrum, in the highly coveted 700MHz band, covers 196 million of the 303 million U.S. residents and includes 72 of the top 100 media markets in the country. Aloha acquired the spectrum in earlier FCC auctions and from other auction winners. This portion of the 700MHz spectrum is not part of the FCC auction now in progress.
I’m just not sure it seems “fair” to allow this to happen. Why not include this in the auction. AT&T is getting away with highway robbery @ 2.5 Billion! (I cannot believe I just typed that!)
Good news for TV networks: online ads work. As TV shows continue their lengthy migration onto the web, new research finds that the people watching those shows actually pay more attention to both advertising and content when they watch online.
I know it’s true for me…when I watch internet TV it seems like the ads are made specifically for that application.
From YouTube’s continued dominance, the television networks’ newfound willingness to experiment online, the rise of the desktop Internet TV application, and a number of new PC-to-TV devices and set-top boxes — it’s been a big year for Internet TV in all shapes and forms. In this post we look back at 2007 through the lens of last100’s coverage, highlighting some of the important stories and trends, and how they point to what we might expect for Internet TV in 2008.
Nat Kausik, CEO of Asterpix, shows me more of the ways that video creators can use Asterpix to add links to certain parts of the video, to interact with the surrounding area, to add clickable areas to the video, and much much more. This is some of the coolest video technology I’ve seen lately and will let us create new kinds of interactive video experiences.
Sure seems like the “thing to do” as more TV goes to the internet and internet to the TV. Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to click on something “on screen” and see more information about it. Or maybe have multiple plots or storylines and you could follow which one you were interested in.
I enjoyed Blog World Expo - as more geek than blogger, it was a little less intereting for me. I enjoyed the talk by Leo Laporte (both keynote and session) - here is a good blog post which wraps it up, also a community building session called “Leveraging Social Media for your Company”
It was hosted by Tom Gerace (gather.com) and Don Crowther (Affiliate Marketer). This turned out to be a great session. Tom and Don gave a short commentary and then answered questions from the audience. The highlights are:
Keys to community success:
You have to participate in the conversation - this isn’t a one way conversation. You must engage.
Further more - add value to the conversation. This is not the place to spam…people will accept you if you act nice.
You have to be honest about your stuff. You have to evangelize - you don;t have to bash your own stuff…but you must be real.
Transparency is key - people must know who you are when you evangelize. If they find out later that you are affiliated with said stuff - then they will be very upset.
I really liked Tom - I feel he was totally genuine and really had a lot of advice. I think Don was “selling” a little too much. He wanted to give advise - but I fell like the went into sales pitch mode too much. Don also did a little too much talk TO us - instead of talking WITH us. But overall I really like the session.
The last thing i want to mention is the closing session with Mark Cuban.
It’s the first ever - Blog World Expo in Las Vegas Nov. 8 and 9 - and I am attending.
I’m looking forward to the interaction with these new media people - and getting the low down on the latest in video blogging (vlogging) and podcasting. I’ll try to put the highlights here soon.
I had never seen “R/Evolution” appear like that - I love it. That explains exactly what you want to say so many times. I think I’ll take it for my “toolbox”.
This video was created as a “conversation” starter & works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future & the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate & create information effectively.
