This video features Michael, Justin and Caleb from Justin.tv. If you’ve heard of “lifecasting”, you’ve probably heard of Justin.tv. Initially started as a 24/7 live streaming view into co-founder Justin Kan’s life, currently Justin.tv’s 1,800+ channels are viewed by millions of people daily. From their site:
“Live video can help you motivate a crowd to tell their friends what’s happening, follow you on Twitter, buy a product, donate to a cause or get up out of their chairs and take action. Justin.tv is built from the ground up to support any audience, whether it’s 5 people or 50,000. One new live video starts each second, and users watch more than 300 million videos every month.”
Watch this expert’s story on how Justin.tv was created, the importance of online video and the branding power of .tv.
I grew up on soccer. My dad played for Juventus in the Azores in the 1960’s before he came to America (for those of you that follow European soccer, it was a first division club back then sponsored by Italy’s Juventus F.C.) so it’s always been in the family. I started playing on soccer teams when I was about 5 years old, and kept playing throughout high school and college. Even though I’m older and don’t really play any more, I still love the sport and try to catch a soccer game on tv occasionally. It’s difficult to make time these days, so I’m really happy someone referred me to Soccer.tv – it’s got exhaustive stats on the players and teams as well as news and video highlights. I’m looking forward to World Cup 2010 (go Portugal!) and will be following the site to see their video coverage of the games.
4.35MM people use Ustream.tv to watch the Chile Earthquake and Hawaii Tsunami Live: I saw this figure on The Tech Journal and I have to admit I have mixed reactions on this one. On the one hand, it seems a bit voyeuristic. But then when something so terrible happens, it’s nice to know that technology can keep us all in touch and informed. As we’ve said on this blog before, please take a moment to donate or otherwise help out our neighbors in need.
YouTube Launches Auto Caption For All Videos: As reported on this blog back in November, Google started auto captioning their videos. It started with educational videos, but just extended it this week to all English videos. What does this mean for video on the web? Well besides being accessible to the deaf, it also helps immensely with search. If you have the text of the words spoken, then search algorithms can find and sort videos much better. The online video history is only at the beginning, with many more changes to come.
Vote for .tv In the Streamy Awards: No, .tv isn’t up for an award directly. But, the nominations came out this week (streamed live by Ustream.tv) and .tv shows up 14 times in the various awards categories [warning, not all have a "G" rating]. From the Streamy Awards site, here is a description of their work
“The Streamy Awards is the first and most prestigious awards ceremony devoted to honoring excellence in original web television programming and those who create it. The annual ceremony, and its live online broadcast, brings together top talent, decision-makers and influencers shaping the online entertainment industry. Awards are presented for the past years’ finest achievements in a variety of categories spanning multiple disciplines, including Performance, Directing, Writing, Editing, Visual Effects, Sound, and more.”
As they say in that “other” awards show…and the .tv nominees are:
Zillion.tv Gets $10MM from Qwest: Zillion.tv, a provider of a Web-based video-on-demand service, has received a $10 million investment from Qwest Communications, Multichannel News reported. The service will offer a library of over 15,000 movies, TV episodes and other videos, licensed from partners including Disney, Fox, NBC Universal, Sony and Warner Bros.
Ustream.tv Recognized as Most Innovative: In the category of the “web,” Ustream.tv was ranked one of the top 10 most innovative companies by FastCompany. Since launching it’s pay-per-view and social stream feature, the site has really grown “in January, the site attracted 70 million unique viewers, up 500% from the year before.”
One Quarter of New TVs Sold in January are Connected to the Internet: Making it that much harder to tell the difference between the Internet and TV, and making the online video space much more interesting, iSuppli released information that 25% of all TVs sold in January were connected to the Internet. Wonder where this will lead…
Mr. DNS is Great: I took DNS (Domain Name System) training today given by VeriSign’s very own Matt Larson. It was a terrific class. It’s fascinating to understand the history and all that goes into resolving a domain name or an email address. For those of you that would like to really know how domain names work, his podcasts can be found at www.ask-mrdns.com
Introducing the VeriSign Trust Seal: This announcement isn’t about .tv or online video specifically; but our sibling division at VeriSign had a big announcement this week that helps the Internet as a whole; so I wanted to pass it along. Fellow VeriSign blogger Tim Callahan’s blog has more details, but the new product adds daily malware scans and will make available the VeriSign Trust Seal to sites that don’t require SSL encryption.
The Internet added 11 million domain name registrations in the fourth quarter of 2009, reflecting a steady pace of Internet growth a quarter-century after the birth of .com. Those findings and more are featured in the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign, Inc., the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world.
VeriSign’s Domain Name Industry Brief provides a review of the state of the domain name industry, including up-to-date trends in new registrations, renewals, and growth opportunities.
VeriSign publishes the Domain Name Industry Brief to provide Internet users throughout the world with significant statistical and analytical research and data on the domain name industry and the Internet as a whole. Copies of the 2009 fourth quarter Domain Name Industry Brief, as well as previous reports, can be obtained at www.verisign.com/domainbrief.
If you are an avid sailor as I am, Sail.tv is a must-see site. When stuck on land because of work or afflicted by cold winter weather, sail.tv will provide the much needed daily sailing fix.. [Read more]
.TV Around The Web
A collection of .tv news and links from around the web.
