Author: Ken Pyle, Managing Editor
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Internet Video – In One Place
It’s 11 AM on Tuesday, 3/18 and I still haven’t made it to the VON conference, but it looks like the really big news is from the show’s organizer, Jeff Pulver. He has co-founded a company, Prime Time Rewind, with Amit Shafrir which serves to aggregate network content that is already out available on the…
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Better Quality YouTube Videos
Some real good tips for embedding higher quality YouTube videos on a web site can be found at this link: http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Watch_Higher_Quality_YouTube_Videos There are several methods, but this one seems to be good for quickly modifying older posts Add &fmt=18 to the URL of the video and it will look for a higher resolution version, if…
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Artichoke City & Other Stories
Telling stories and using imagery to let people draw their own conclusions. This was one of the key messages given by Jim Gilmartin of Coming of Age at CalCom’s 2008 Annual Meeting in Monterey. He was speaking in the context of effective marketing to baby boomers and older customers. Read on to see what this picture has to…
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MTA Public Service Award Winner – Gary Johnson
One of the best things about the MTA conference is seeing friends, old and new. One person I did not catch up with is Gary Johnson of Paul Bunyan Telephone. .He should have been there to accept his MTA Public Service Award. The irony is that the reason he was not there was the reason he…
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Alternative Video Killed the Video Store
Back in the early days of commercial Video on Demand (circa 1999), when I was with the on-demand, Application Service Provider, DemandVideo, one of the benchmarks for our success was the demise of a video store. That is, we knew that if a video store went out of business because of what we were…
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A Market-Based FCC?
The FCC released three studies regarding on the topic of licensed versus unlicensed spectrum. These could be very critical policy papers that shape the future of spectrum allocation and are important for Congress to read. Interesting timing, as their release comes during the 700 MHz bidding process. Of particular interest, is Working Report #43, which looks at the…