Good reads for 06.20.2007

Posted on June 20, 2007 by Melissa Worden

>> Huge growth in online video use — and it’s not all user-generated videos. And there’s good news here for newspaper Web sites: “News stories are reported by consumers as the most frequently viewed video they watch regularly on the Internet. Over a third of online Americans 12 to 64 watch online video news stories regularly.”

>> Katy Sai and Jay Olsen have launched StoryBridge.tv, a community video news site serving the small town of Madison, Wisconsin, after quitting their jobs as anchor and cameraman at the regional WISC-TV/Channel 3000 station, reports CyberJournalist.net.

>> Your ad department’s gonna love this one: Video search engine Blinkx will launch blinkx AdHoc Monday. “It will offer media companies and video sites a way to place targeted ads alongside (or even in) Web videos based on the specific words spoken in the videos, as well as their overall context.”

>> “When the iPhone ships next week, it will be able to play about 10,000 YouTube videos,” reports Lost Remote. “Going forward, YouTube will encode all of its videos in H.264, which is the iPhone video format.”

>> Paul Bradshaw is somewhat underwhelmed by CNN’s redesign, now in beta. He says: “In a year of relaunches, CNN’s effort lacks the ‘big canvas’ approach that seems to becoming the norm (larger images, larger text), and looks ’small’ as a result. The redesign reminds me of that old cliche: ‘more evolution than revolution’, i.e. ‘we bottled it’.”

>> If we set our media consumption habits at a young age, then the habit’s of today’s youth are interacting in social networks, says Mindy McAdams. Here comes the big footstomper from the professor, so listen up: “Their habit of staying connected digitally, checking for updates, making plans, sharing gossip, getting information — this will likely remain their habit, their means of keeping in touch with the world around them, for the rest of their lives.”

>> Looking for a new job? Log on to Second Life, and go on a virtual interview. Seriously. It’s happening.

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One Response to “Good reads for 06.20.2007”

Patrick Beeson on June 21st, 2007 7:04 am

>> Paul Bradshaw is somewhat underwhelmed by CNN’s redesign, now in beta. He says: “In a year of relaunches, CNN’s effort lacks the ‘big canvas’ approach that seems to becoming the norm (larger images, larger text), and looks ’small’ as a result. The redesign reminds me of that old cliche: ‘more evolution than revolution’, i.e. ‘we bottled it’.”

This is coming from a guy that uses those horrid “Snap” popups on his links! :)

Kidding aside, I think the beta is an improvement on the already nice existing design. It’s clean, easier to navigate and provides useful AJAX enhancements.

It’s not revolutionary by any means. And it lacks many now-standard social features such as comments.

What do you think of the design?

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