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Dueling Web Videos Released From Romney, Perry Camps
Sep 27, 2011 11:04am
Nothing says “good morning” like dueling web videos from the Romney and Perry campaigns.
Each camp came out today with a fresh video that attacks the other’s recent statements on policy, each attempting to paint the other as being aligned with less conservative positions than they’ve claimed to be.
While Perry goes after Romney, accusing him of being a flip-flopper on Race to the Top, an education program put in place under the Obama administration, Romney attacks Perry for his stance on educating illegal immigrants, a view that Obama shares.
Perry had challenged… Continue reading
Dueling Web Videos Released From Romney, Perry Camps
Sep 27, 2011 11:04am
Nothing says “good morning” like dueling web videos from the Romney and Perry campaigns.
Every camp came out these days with a fresh video that attacks the other’s current statements on policy, every trying to paint the other as getting aligned with much less conservative positions than they’ve claimed to be.
Even though Perry goes right after Romney, accusing him of being a flip-flopper on Race to the Top, an education program put in location below the Obama administration, Romney attacks Perry for his stance on educating illegal immigrants, a view that Obama… Continue reading
Internet Archive Now Supports HTML5 for a Half Million Videos
The Internet Archive’s complete stash of digital videos — that is a lot more than 500,000 assets — now supports HTML5 as well as Flash.
The Archive, which is very best recognized for hosting older versions of sites, is utilizing technological innovation from open-source video organization Kaltura to get the job completed.
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The Kaltura video player automatically recognizes no matter whether a user’s gadget and browser want a Flash or an HTML5 player. Then, the video material gets delivered accordingly.
The Wikimedia Foundation is also… Continue reading
Internet back online in Syria; violent protest videos surface
Internet access came back on-line in Syria on Saturday after two-thirds of networks in the country became unreachable from the rest of the planet in the midst of street protests on Friday. As the strife-ridden nation when once more became visible to the online world, videos of snipers apparently firing on peaceful demonstrators started to surface, like the unsettling clip beneath, which turns violent about 20 seconds in.
According to Renesys, which monitors World wide web connectivity, the country’s 3G information network and other ISPs disappeared from the global network grid Friday morning, but domains linked to the Syrian government… Continue reading
Frequency Finds $3 Million To Help You Find Cool Web Videos
, On Thursday May 26, 2011, 7:00 am EDT
Does the Web really need another service that helps you discover Internet videos?
Yes, say the investors in Frequency.com. They’ve put together a $ 3 million Series A round for the internet site, which promises to deliver “your customized stream of internet video from all over the world wide web, all in one particular spot.”
Frequency is run by Blair Harrison, best acknowledged as the guy who constructed iFilm.com and sold it to Viacom in 2005 (you can nevertheless locate iFilm’s bones if you poke around Spike TV’s… Continue reading
Sony Ericsson Taps Kristen Schaal for Edgy Web Skits [VIDEOS ]
In one more instance of an advertiser employing the freedom of the internet to be a bit far more edgy than a conventional Tv campaign would enable, Sony Ericsson has introduced a number of somewhat profane internet skits featuring comedienne Kristen Schaal.
Schaal, best known for her role as obsessive fan Mel on HBO’s Flight of the Conchords, makes a quirky case for Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play (a.k.a. the “PlayStation Phone”), at times dropping the f-bomb (which is bleeped.) Posing as a businesswoman, Schaal offers an overview of the device’s characteristics prior to segueing into a fantasy of gameplay… Continue reading
63 percent of Web videos no longer require Flash
Much more than 60 percent of all streaming video on the Web is HTML5-compatible (H.264), according to video-sharing web site MeFeedia (by way of CNET). In much less than a year, the amount of video on the Internet that does not require Adobe Flash has grown more than 50 %. Undoubtedly, this news ought to make Steve Jobs content. Last year, the Apple CEO announced that Apple would no longer assistance Flash.
HTML5 is the newest version of HTML and the initial to support direct <video> embedding tags inside Internet pages, enabling internet sites to embed video without utilizing a… Continue reading
