Unmarketing, AKA Scott Stratten, served up a stellar keynote without notes, a mic or even notes to an enthusiastic crowed on the roof of the Merchandise Building in Toronto. Scott’s blunt and in-your-face approach to social media was appreciated by most everyone, even the most jaded in social media/ communications professionals present.
Scott manages to explain in a colourful and entertaining manner that perhaps social media isn’t for some people… and some people are idiots.
The Biz Media thanks all who were able to make it out to our first #TheBizMedia Sessio; you are all wicked awesome.
As of late, concern has risen about the H.264 codec. If you read the fine print on any video camera encodes natively to the format, it states that the footage may not be used for commercial purposes. The consortium that owns patents that make H.264, which includes heavy-weights such us Apple, Microsoft and Toshiba amongst about 30 others.
The Biz Media crew would much rather see an “open” standard, allowing anyone to use a codec without royalties. Google recently bought the VP8 Codec from ON2, this could be the open codec required to get around licensing fees.
This small article is certainly not doing justice to this issue. A Recent Engadget posting – Know Your Rights: H.264 and You does an absolutely fantastic job in explaining the issue in plan English. The Engadget article was in response to a very strongly worded piece called Why Our Civilization’s Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA.
“The video above demonstrates the comparative visual difference between VP8 and H.264 at the same datarate. The source videos were 1080p and encoded to H.264 (using build r915 of the x264 encoder, set to HQ 2 pass) and VP8 at a bitrate of 2mbps.”
Read More Post a comment (0)Though the first use of the phrase Information Superhighway is often attributed to Al Gore, who mentioned it during a 1979 speech, Nam June Paik (1932 – 2006) is the first official person to use it. Paik recalls his use of the phrase: “I thought: if you create a highway, then people are going to invent cars. That’s dialectics. If you create electronic highways, something has to happen.”
Paik is best known as the father of video art, that is, video as both an artistic subject and a medium. A common motif of his was screen-multiplicity, connoting that our contemporary reality is composed out of multiple media sourced facets.
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Watchout Netflix and Apple, YouTube is “unofficially” in the online video rental space. With a quiet debute today, YouTube opened YouTube.com/store, which if accessed from outside the U.S will bring you to someone’s vacant channel.
The biggest advantage Youtube will have in the rental space is its access to more independent/ non-movie content. Sure you can rent the latest blockbuster or even art films from Netflix but you can’t rent a semi-pro tutorial on how to use After Effects CS5. This monetization of amateurish content is part of the evolution of online video.
It will be a while before Youtube allows for non-movie or TV show content to be sold. It’s not hard to see its inevitability.
