Here’s a standard for wannbe streaming portals to look at up to!

Hat-tip to Steve Garfield’s Off on a Tangent

Manify.net has been doing some great work helping folks to get into the web video streaming game. We came across this post about how they even include Creative Commons tagging for their uploads.

Chances are, you’ve noticed the CC – and maybe even know what it means. But for most casual users of the Uploader, the deftault share and share alike license is just fine. But if you haven’t dug deeper – you should. Magnify.net provides a whole array of license options (courtesy of the folks at Creative Commons) that allows you to define with great specificity the rights you are willing to share, and the rights you want to retain.

Gotta love the opening line of their company page

The Magnify team is a growing band of media makers, code wranglers, and web evangelists who are committed to making video a team sport.

Hats off to Steve, Simon and crew!

California’s prison system has been condemned in a 400 page report that to this day has been basically concealed from the public. The Full Disclosure Network presents this ten minute video presentation featuring Joe Gunn, Executive Director of Corrections Independent Review Panel told FDN host Leslie Dutton the prison system was in “chaos, a disaster and total disarray”. This is the second in a series of FDN video news covering the ongoing crisis in California’s jail and prison system.

With over 18months left to go.. no doubt things are gonna get ‘nasty’

The creator of a widely circulated Web video portraying Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton as an Orwellian Big Brother was identified Wednesday as an employee of an Internet consulting firm that works for one of her opponents, Sen. Barack Obama.

Phillip de Vellis, a strategist with the Washington-based consulting firm Blue State Digital, which hosts the Obama campaign Web site, acknowledged he was the creator of the ad shortly after his role was disclosed by HuffingtonPost.com, a liberal-leaning news and opinion Web site.

“I did it. And I’m proud of it,” de Vellis said in a response posted on the Huffington site Wednesday night.

Via: Chicago Tribune

Surfed over to the Pulver site to sse if there was any video up from the VON show and noticed this little ‘gem’ above claimed 1st prize – and a cool 25k – for their Network 2 Contest.. who knew?!? In all fairness it was better than the only clip we could find so far from the spring 2007 event.. Yikes.

We’ve been loyal fans for years, and wondered when they’d make the leap.. finally seems the Onion News Network of internet video will be coming online soon.. Ya!

Via: Steve Garfield

The NYT ran an article back in late Feb. that we missed about Blinx search service. While they certainly have a nifty flash Wall o’ Video, the idea of looking for cool streams in certainly not new.. btw: what happened to Singing Fish..?!?

The World Wide Web is awash in digital video, but too often we can’t find the videos we want or browse for what we might like. That’s a loss, because if we could search for Internet videos, they might become the content of a global television station, just as the Web’s hypertext, once it was organized and tamed by search, became the stuff of a universal library. What we need, says Suranga Chandratillake, a co-founder of Blinkx, a start-up in San Francisco, is a remote control for the Web’s videos, a kind of electronic TV Guide.

Via: Fred Destin