Ustream.tv lets you broadcast any live event over the web using nothing more than a webcam.
You could use this free service to broadcast your band's concert, your high school's football game, your company's training session or just about anything else. All you need is a Ustream.tv account, a video camera (either a webcam or a camcorder that has webcam capabilities) and a broadband Internet connection (cellular modem cards are recommended for on-the-run notebook users).
You can schedule events, send out invites and archive broadcasts for later viewing. It's a pretty amazing service, though the Ustream.tv site doesn't do a particularly good job of explaining its features, nor does it offer much in the way of help. Still, this definitely has the makings of a Next Big Thing. What kinds of events would you broadcast?
Broadcast live events with Ustream.tv - Lifehacker
[Like] blogging... podcasting is a relatively easy way to increase consumer awareness and create an open dialogue between your customer and your brand, ultimately creating loyalty...
Customers can also subscribe to your podcast, so that each time you produce a new show, they will automatically receive it. Much as a webinar can do (but without needing to be live), podcasts can reach your target market with regularly scheduled relevant messages and information about an issue, your industry, and your business.
Podcasting: Believe The Hype
What if you had a Web site and no one came?
Success With Search Engines
Your small business can benefit from using blogs to raise awareness, increase customer loaylty, and boost sales.
Business Blogging
PAH-FEST, which stands for “PROJECT ACCESSIBLE HOLLYWOOD,” is a new kind of digital media festival that celebrates the stories and voices of everyday people. PAH-Fest invites people from all walks of life to tell their digital stories using today’s latest technology and pro-sumer equipment. All movies created during the festival are available in the Online Theater.
PAH-FEST
Jaman has an eclectic catalog of easy-to-download movies, including a wide selection of foreign films. The cost is low, the quality good...
At Last, an Online Art House
Video discovery startups generally cull and curate video from around the web, use social networking principles to make personalized recommendations, and allow users to create personal playback lists. Magnify.net, for example, lets users create personalized video blogs around certain topics. Network2.tv, founded by conference organizer Jeff Pulver, rates and recommends videos.
The brand new Divvio suggests videos based on personal viewing habits. Dabble, meanwhile, allows users to link to others with similar tastes. These sites avoid tricky licensing deals by leaving the video hosting to others.
RED HERRING | Panning for Video Gold
When it comes to the technologies that make up the World Wide Web, one thing is certain: HTML clearly represents the past. HTML, you did a great job in building the foundation of the Web, but, today, the future of the Web belongs to XML, XHTML and multiple scripting languages. So long, HTML!
Wait a second. What's that? The World Wide Web Consortium has announced the formation of a new HTML working group chartered to create the next HTML standard...
Examining the Move to Reanimate HTML
Some of the biggest names in high tech are convinced that Second Life and other virtual worlds are the future of the Net. Are they fooling themselves?
The Ins and Outs of Virtual Worlds - Review by PC Magazine
When will virtual reality hit cell phones? It already has. In October, the California company Gemini Mobile Technologies unveiled a new service called eXplo, the world's first '3D Mobile Social Community Platform.' In much the same way that Second Life streams an alternate universe to your PC desktop, eXplo serves one up to your wireless handheld. Even as you're moving across town in the real world, you can walk your 3D avatar through an online virtual world.
The Ins and Outs of Virtual Worlds: Virtual Reality Goes Mobile - Review by PC Magazine
Virtual world residents shell out real dollars for nonexistent clothes, cars, and real estate. Will real-world luxury brands capitalize?
Big Spenders of Second Life
Intel, Raytheon, and other companies are dabbling in technology that enables 3D conferencing, but will employees take to avatar exchanges?
The Virtual Meeting Room
In a bid to capitalize on the burgeoning online video market, the tech titan is launching Silverlight, its new video-player software...
Microsoft Aims to Outshine Adobe's Flash
In the future, the Internet is almost certain to look more realistic, interactive, and social—a lot like a virtual world...
The Coming Virtual Web
The design firm behind Al Gore's Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth offers insights on improving a presentation...
"In the accompanying slide show, I offer seven keys I learned from Duarte that can be applied to any presentation."
Designing the Perfect Presentation
David Perry, a 20-year veteran of the video game industry and BusinessWeek.com columnist, discusses the latest trends in the world of video games – and where savvy investors and designers should look for the Next Big Thing
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What’s New and Next in Video Games
The virtual world could become the first point of contact between companies and customers and could transform the whole experience...
Since it began hosting the likes of Adidas, Dell, Reuters and Toyota, Second Life has become technology's equivalent of India or China - everyone needs an office and a strategy involving it to keep their shareholders happy. But beyond opening a shiny new building in the virtual world, what can such companies do with their remote real estate?
Rather than a simple showcase, some believe Second Life could one day become a first point of contact for customers.
How Second Life Changes Customer Service
While scores of companies allow Web users to create personalized pages, most rotate in the orbit of one of the major Internet players, such as Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, or Time Warner's AOL.
By contrast, Netvibes lets users pull in information from almost any modern Web site -- Microsoft e-mail can sit next to Yahoo photos and Google search on a user's home page, alongside the latest cool features from tiny start-ups.
Personal portals show the Web world what you watch - Yahoo! News
The site covers shooting, editing, licensing, publishing and promoting video on the internet; it illustrates these topics with screenshots, photos, screencasts, graphics, text and more. It's essentially a free online book about video creation and publishing.
[They've] also started the MITV Wiki http://mitvwiki.org - a connected site where anyone can add resources, links and experiences that are related to creating online video.
This guide has step-by-step instructions for creating video feeds that can be easily subscribed to and have the potential to be watched by millions.
Make Internet TV
