Setting up a home surveillance system can be expensive and frustrating, from choosing the type of system to purchase to the wiring and placement of the equipment. Two new companies, Dropcam and Skycam, are making home surveillance easier and more affordable for the average person. Skycam is a crowd-funded standalone video camera coming in at [...]
Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy aka “The Slow Mo Guys” are back with a bubble bursting at 18,000 frames per second using a Phantom v1610. “In the slowest video they have ever done, Gav and Dan slow down the moment a bubble pops by over 700 times. This is the first time we’ve used the Phantom [...]
Written on 04 March 2013 by Vincent AbryNew You Tube App for Your Mobile Millions of people watch You Tube videos everyday, turning them viral in less than 24 hours. Audrey Doronichev, the head of YouTube mobile and her team has designed a new app for all the true, You Tube fans, and it can be downloaded from the App Store today. [...]
Written on 12 Sep 2012 by Vincent AbryGoogle is planning to pursue legal action against a huge Youtube to MP3 conversion website that makes use of YouTube videos to extract MP3 audio and makes it available for site members to download. This official move by Google was written in a letter sent to YouTube-MP3.org, the video-MP3 conversion website in question, and seen [...]
Google-owned YouTube is broadening its offerings to publishers and regular users alike, through its latest monetization option – the pay-per-view. For the longest time YouTube has operated through a free video-sharing service, backed up by ads on its site; but lately plans for adding paid options to its slew of services have started to materialize. [...]
Many people each year look for ways to supplement their income, especially in a global economy that seems to be slow to recovery. However, people do not want to take on additional jobs outside the house if they can supplement their income by working at home. One such way to make money at home that [...]
Inception Park is a wonderful edited video showing Roller Coasters flying through Buenos Aires in Argentina. The video was made by Fim Director Fernando Livschitz. This is an excellent way to auto-promote himself : hoping he will be contacted by a major hollywood studio for next Big One on US Box Office.
Written on 20 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryNetflix has taken a lot of hits lately, first changing their pricing structure which resulted in a loss of hundreds of thousands of customers. Then, in a further damaging move they separated the streaming capabilities from disc rentals resulting in even more customers canceling their services. During this time, Redbox proved to be a worthy [...]
Here is a nice infographic brought by Dacast legal streaming service. As you can see by the numbers, this is a Huge Industry : [via]
Written on 26 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryYouTube has now 4 billion videos viewed every day and 60 hours of video uploaded each minute. This exactly a 25 percent increase in the last 8 months (in May 2011, this was 3 billion views/day and 48 hours of uploads/min). Revenues & Money : “YouTube, which Google acquired for $1.65 billion in 2006, represents [...]
Written on 23 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryGoogle just rolled out two updates on Google + Hangouts (=video-chat). First, a new updated application for iOS (iphone/ipad/ipod touch) is now available on iTunes. Second update : screensharing and bigger video player. “- Screensharing: share what’s on your computer screen with everyone in the hangout. This is the first of many extras we’re graduating [...]
Written on 12 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryGoogle just launched Youtube Slam, a fun video-game where you can vote for the best videos in 4 categories and earn points to become the master of Slam. You have nothing to win except the fact that your account will be highly visible in the 4 main pages in users rankings. (not so bad for [...]
Written on 28 Dec 2011 by Vincent AbryYoutube just published the Rewind 2011 : the most popular videos of the year. “Today, we rewind through the videos and channels that absorbed our collective global attention this year. To compile these lists, we looked at global view counts of popular videos uploaded throughout this year, and, in some instances, we aggregated views across [...]
Written on 20 Dec 2011 by Vincent AbryGoogle is launching Youtube for Schools, Educational Content without distracting music videos or LOL Cats vids. “We’ve been hearing from teachers that they want to use the vast array of educational videos on YouTube in their classrooms, but are concerned that students will be distracted by the latest music video or a video of a [...]
Written on 12 Dec 2011 by Vincent AbryGoogle has just announced the replacement of Insights by Youtube Analytics, an online analytic tool that’s very useful for video publishers. “You’ve been able to discover who is watching your videos and where they’re coming from for awhile now on YouTube, through Insight. Now we want to make it even easier to learn about your [...]
Written on 30 Nov 2011 by Vincent AbryGoogle has just updated the new design of Youtube with a layer of Social. The default home page shows subscriptions (center). In the right column are recommended videos. In the left column you have access to all Youtube Channels including Google+ account with videos of your circles that appear in the center of the page. [...]
Written on 18 Nov 2011 by Vincent AbryYoutube has now 2 online video editors : this one (not new) and a new feature that allows to edit videos directly on each video you have uploaded. You can add special effects (background style : sepia, cartoon, black and white, pixelised,…), modify the image (color, light, saturation, contrast), rotate right or left, trim start [...]
Written on 15 Sep 2011 by Vincent AbryYouTube has just launched a ranking of the top 100 most viewed music videos on its video platform. The top videos will be visible on the page youtube.com/music (vertical, right sidebar) and should be updated once a week. All music videos will be ranked including official videos from top singers like Jennifer Lopez or Lady [...]
Written on 14 May 2011 by Vincent AbryFor a year, the Quebecer Dominic Boudreault photographed cities the night, from of his Quebec City to Toronto via Montreal, and then Chicago and Manhattan. All together put in this Time Lapse video. The photographer has done an absolutely amazing video, with inspiring music from Hans Zimmer. Equipment used: Camera Canon 5D Mark II.
Written on 06 May 2011 by Vincent AbryThere are lots of programs and gadgets out there that offer to create MP3 from YouTube videos, and many of them cost money. However, there is a simple, straight-forward, and free way to record YouTube videos on your computer and save them as an MP3 file. Here we’re going to take a look at the [...]
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