Monday, May 21, 2007

Internet Video News - Internet Video Magazine


May 21, 2007 - San Diego, CA - Internet Video Magazine, the longest running online magazine dedicated to spotlighting the best in Internet Video and showing everyone - amateurs to broadcast professionals - how to create their own Internet shows, today announced that they have added over 100 new videos to the various video sections. This includes Best Internet Videos of the Week, Best Internet Video Web Sites of the Week, New Funny Videos, Fathers Day Videos, Parody Commercials, Videos for the politically active and aware, new Animated Videos and Films, Video for the Nerdy, etc. more

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IDAHO POTATO COMMISSION LAUNCHES FIRST VIDEO CONTEST ON YOUTUBE.COM - Three Grand Prizes of $1,000 CASH Will Be Awarded

Dawn Wells, Mary Ann of Gilligan’s Island shares her potato Video

To enter, contestants must be willing to have two minutes of fun with an Idaho Potato (on camera-of course) and to share their entry with the world via YouTube. Three Grand Prize winners will be awarded with $1,000 CASH each!

A gourmet cook herself, Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island, jumped at the chance to demonstrate her unique way of peeling Idaho Potatoes. The Idaho resident doesn’t reveal where she learned this fun trick, but does admit that even the “Professor” would be impressed! To see her video, visit the contest website, www.iTuber.org.more


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Saturday, May 19, 2007

Internet Video News, Trends and Cool Stuff - Internet Video Magazine

GLOBALTEC LAUNCHES FIRST ONLINE TV NETWORK DEDICATED TO STOCK TRADERS. Wizetrade TV to Offer 12 Hours of Daily Real-Time Online Financial Programming

The country’s estimated 10 million individual stock investors who rely on their PC for their livelihood are getting good news: Dallas-based GlobalTec is joining the online TV revolution by launching the first online TV network featuring 12 hours of live, in-the-market programming every trading day. more

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SitePoint Pty. Ltd. (sitepoint.com), provider of fun, practical, and easy-to-understand content for web professionals, has announced the release of The Art & Science Of CSS -- a guide to creating inspirational web sites using CSS. The Who's Who of web design have joined forces to share their secrets to creating inspirational web sites with CSS. Cameron Adams, Jina Bolton, David Johnson, Steve Smith and Jonathan Snook take the building blocks of traditional web site design and bring them to life with innovative CSS techniques. more

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To kick-off the Foster Care Month celebration in May, Kashif has produced three new public service announcements to inspire many more people to do something positive that will change a lifetime for America’s 513,000 children and youth in foster care. more

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The Nintendo Short Cuts Showcase invites filmmakers from all walks of life to demonstrate their passion and skills by creating a Nintendo-themed short film or video. The top three films will be chosen by a panel that includes a Tribeca senior programmer, an entertainment industry reporter and a Nintendo executive. The final films will premiere as a part of the inaugural short film showcase at the Top of the Rock Observation Deck at Rockefeller Center during Rock Center’s annual summer film showcase, June 19-22.

Sign up at www.nintendoshortcuts.com

The first-place winner will be awarded a $10,000 cash prize along with a lunch meeting with the co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, Craig Hatkoff, and a trip to New York to see the winning entry shown at the Rock Center’s annual summer film showcase. In addition, the top three winners will all receive Nintendo hardware and games. more

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You can now watch cool IFC videos online at VMIX. Independent Film Channel (IFC) <http://ifctv.com/> , the first and most widely distributed network dedicated to independent film and VMIX <http://www.vmix.com> , the leading interactive media and social networking company, announced the launch of the IFC channel on VMIX.COM. The new channel available at: http://www.vmix.com/ifctv, will feature the first ever IFC web series “Getting Away with Murder.” more

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The Visual Effects Society (VES), announced the results of the VES 50: The Most Influential Visual Effects Films of All Time, which was determined by a vote of VES members. The VES 50 is the backdrop of the 2007 VES Festival of Visual Effects, which will take place the weekend of June 7-10 at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. more

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Maker Faire 2007: 400 Makers, 40,000 Attendees, 200,000 Square Feet of DIY Mayhem -

Established by the tech-loving creators of the gloriously irreverent Make (http://www.makezine.com) and Craft (http://www.craftzine.com) magazines, Maker Faire is a family-friendly, hands-on event where hundreds of backyard inventors gather to share their fun projects, creative ideas and eye-popping creations. This resurgence of grassroots invention has been celebrated everywhere from Rolling Stone to The Wall Street Journal, but nowhere is it more visible than at Maker Faire. more

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Internet Video News - Internet Video Magazine

Sony today unveiled a portable multimedia PC with Blu-ray Disc® technology that packs power and entertainment into a compact package. Part of a series, the new VAIO FZ notebook comes in multiple configurations, including a premium and standard model. The premium version plays Blu-ray Disc high-definition content so you can enjoy movies in full 1080 HD resolution, as well as record, store and play back personal content on high-capacity BD media. more

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Best Internet Videos of the Week

Best Video Web Sites of the Week

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Award-winning filmmakers (“Taxicab Confessions”) Joe and Harry Gantz announced the creation of their new internet network, CrushedPlanet.com, designed to provide the most intimate, innovative and provocative content on the web, while it protects the rights of artists and gives them the majority of funds from the distribution of their work. CrushedPlanet is an international online community for people 18 years and over, featuring inventive and intelligent content from artists around the world. This is a curated site with fourteen interconnected channels, each with its own unique identity, and all featuring content with a strong point of view. more

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Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), today announced that its Consumer division, Pinnacle Systems, Inc., is empowering consumers who are interested in sharing home videos on the Web with new, easy-to-use publishing tools. Using the "one-click publish" feature within the Pinnacle Studio 11 software family, consumers can now upload their video content to the Yahoo! Video website for public sharing - or to the recently launched StudioOnLine.com service for private sharing. more

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VMIX Media announced a new dedicated online channel for DIRECTV’s hit show The Fizz™, a comedy TV program featuring video bloggers from around the world, amateur animation clips and indie music. As part of an ongoing promotion on VMIX.COM, fans can also easily submit their own video content to be considered for upcoming episodes. more

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Bringing together student and professional filmmakers globally, Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced that it will team with Vancouver Film School and Intel on Reel Ideas Studio, a global program featuring two documentary film competitions during the 60th Annual Cannes Film Festival, May 16 to 27 in Cannes, France. Winning entries from both competitions will be recognized and their documentaries will be screened at the Reel Ideas Studio Awards on May 24 in the American Pavilion during the film festival. more

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If you are into music, video and mash-ups, you ought to check out this new site and technology. Eyespot's browser based solution fosters creativity and discovery while empowering consumers to play with copyrighted media without having to download clunky software or learn new skills. The drag and drop editing application allows anyone to upload, remix, and create new video from the community's vast pool of popular and legally-accessible content ranging from movie, television, and music clips or from user generated content. The company has been selected as a trusted partner by many of today's most compelling brands and media entities, including Paramount Pictures, NBA, Jive Records, among others, Eyespot can be found on the web at http://www.eyespot.com .

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Music 2 Hues released today a brand new addition to its Flagship Series production music line. Andy Wells, president of Music 2 Hues adds, "With the addition of this new release we are providing our content developers with new and exciting music selections. The new title: "FlashBack: The 60's" is now shipping worldwide. more


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LambdaStream, the Interactive Personal TV Company, is launching YouLike.TV, a global Internet TV platform that allows you to deploy unlimited Internet TV services in a fast and cost-effective way with a worldwide access through the IP set-top-box or the PC more

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How does "Generation Net" get their foot in the door of a potential job, film, or fine arts school? A new option is to send the potential employer or prospective school your professional portfolio created on MyMovieNetwork.com MyMovieNetwork stands alone in the online video sites by focusing on the amateur and independent film making community by providing film makers an environment to showcase their work, give and receive constructive feedback, participate in contests to push them to new levels of quality. more


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MTV Movie Awards - 2007 -

“300” Leads the Way With 5 Nominations Followed By “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” With 4 Nods; MTV Unveils New Categories “BEST MOVIE SPOOF” And “BEST SUMMER MOVIE YOU HAVEN’T SEEN YET”. Sarah Silverman Will Host The “2007 MTV Movie Awards” LIVE On Sunday, June 3rd at 8PM/7c. More


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This new book helps you get close to your subject - Closeup photography is one of the most fascinating photographic genres. "Closeup Shooting: A Guide to Closeup, Tabletop, and Macro Photography" takes the reader on a journey into this fascinating world of small, smaller, and smallest objects, and shows how to capture their beauty with photographic images. more


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Pure Digital Technologies today introduced Flip Video™, a new line of digital video capture devices designed to revolutionize how everyday consumers shoot and share video. These remarkably simple and affordable camcorders feature a major advance in video sharing technology combined with an ultra-portable design and easy-to-use capture functionality. press release product review

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The Webby Awards - Best Online Films and Videos - The winners of the inaugural Webby Film and Video Awards, the first major awards to honor original film and video premiering on the Internet, were announced today with victors ranging from Hollywood heavy hitters like NBC's "The Office Webisodes" to Eepybird.com's pop phenomenon "The Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments." more


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Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE), a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, today announced the availability of Ulead® VideoStudio® 11 and Ulead VideoStudio 11 Plus, the newest versions of its award-winning consumer video editing and DVD authoring software. Widely regarded for its powerful features and unmatched ease of use, VideoStudio now includes the industrys first AVCHD editing solution, enhanced DV-to-DVD Wizard and Movie Wizard features, more title/subtitle and overlay tools and a host of quick-fix solutions for common video problems, including automatic color/tone correction. With the new Plus version, consumers also have a complete, end-to-end solution for capturing, editing, authoring and burning HD DVD videos. more


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Pinnacle Systems announced a new product family that provides video enthusiasts with the latest technology within easy-to-use editing software. Pinnacle Studio 11 family includes Studio, Studio Plus and Studio Ultimate. The product family offers powerful video creation and sharing capabilities that address the latest consumer video trends, including support for new HD media types like AVCHD, the new operating system Microsoft Windows Vista, and Web publishing for online video sharing. more


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Kulabyte, a leading provider of advanced audio and video processing technologies, announced that it will be shipping the industry’s fastest video encoding solution, Kulabyte Professional Flash Encoding Suite. The Kulabyte Professional encoding solutions enable faster-than-real-time video encoding, enabling noticeably improved picture quality and significant bandwidth savings, while utilizing industry standard codec engines. Media creators can encode, and distribute digital content at speeds more than 12 times faster than industry-standard codec times and deliver higher picture qualities. more

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HollywoodUpClose allows users to access thousands of the Net's best celebrity media sources through one easy to navigate destination. In addition to a multimedia search engine, HollywoodUpClose is a portal that aggregates Web-wide celebrity and entertainment news, photos, and videos, featuring movie trailers, interviews, red carpet footage, music videos, outtakes, and more. The content is categorized into tabs: TV Celebrities, Movie Celebrities, The Infamous, Music Celebrities, Athletes, Reality Celebrities, and Models, making it easy for fans to locate content on their favorite luminaries. more

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

May 1 News and Articles - Internet Video - Internet Film

Pure Digital Technologies today introduced Flip Video™, a new line of digital video capture devices designed to revolutionize how everyday consumers shoot and share video. These remarkably simple and affordable camcorders feature a major advance in video sharing technology combined with an ultra-portable design and easy-to-use capture functionality. press release product review


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The Webby Awards - Best Online Films and Videos - The winners of the inaugural Webby Film and Video Awards, the first major awards to honor original film and video premiering on the Internet, were announced today with victors ranging from Hollywood heavy hitters like NBC's "The Office Webisodes" to Eepybird.com's pop phenomenon "The Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments." more

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Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE), a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, today announced the availability of Ulead® VideoStudio® 11 and Ulead VideoStudio 11 Plus, the newest versions of its award-winning consumer video editing and DVD authoring software. Widely regarded for its powerful features and unmatched ease of use, VideoStudio now includes the industrys first AVCHD editing solution, enhanced DV-to-DVD Wizard and Movie Wizard features, more title/subtitle and overlay tools and a host of quick-fix solutions for common video problems, including automatic color/tone correction. With the new Plus version, consumers also have a complete, end-to-end solution for capturing, editing, authoring and burning HD DVD videos. more


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Pinnacle Systems announced a new product family that provides video enthusiasts with the latest technology within easy-to-use editing software. Pinnacle Studio 11 family includes Studio, Studio Plus and Studio Ultimate. The product family offers powerful video creation and sharing capabilities that address the latest consumer video trends, including support for new HD media types like AVCHD, the new operating system Microsoft Windows Vista, and Web publishing for online video sharing. more


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Kulabyte, a leading provider of advanced audio and video processing technologies, announced that it will be shipping the industry’s fastest video encoding solution, Kulabyte Professional Flash Encoding Suite. The Kulabyte Professional encoding solutions enable faster-than-real-time video encoding, enabling noticeably improved picture quality and significant bandwidth savings, while utilizing industry standard codec engines. Media creators can encode, and distribute digital content at speeds more than 12 times faster than industry-standard codec times and deliver higher picture qualities. more

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HollywoodUpClose allows users to access thousands of the Net's best celebrity media sources through one easy to navigate destination. In addition to a multimedia search engine, HollywoodUpClose is a portal that aggregates Web-wide celebrity and entertainment news, photos, and videos, featuring movie trailers, interviews, red carpet footage, music videos, outtakes, and more. The content is categorized into tabs: TV Celebrities, Movie Celebrities, The Infamous, Music Celebrities, Athletes, Reality Celebrities, and Models, making it easy for fans to locate content on their favorite luminaries. more


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Crisp Wireless, a mobile technology solutions and services company, and Internet Broadcasting, the nation's largest publisher of local news online, today announced the launch of 29 mobile Web sites, creating one of the nation’s largest mobile networks of local TV station sites. more