VideoFaces can be used for marketing, recruitment, corporate training, demonstrations and testimonials and the person talking can be one of their many professional actors or a representative of a company who wants a more personalized message. An ideal product for real estate agents, car dealerships, life coaches and any other business that sells by its people.

The companies suite of internet video products uses HD Quality video, full motion graphics, and crisp audio integrated with flash design technology. Its most popular offering is called the borderless Virtual Spokesperson, but they can also integrate the Virtual Spokesperson into Video Headers, Video Presentations and Video Banners.

The Ziff Davis Enterprise Web Buyer’s Guide announced it has launched a new Video Syndication Program designed to help technology marketers take advantage of the emergence of new media by syndicating and generating leads from their valuable promotional videos on the premier Ziff Davis Enterprise network of Web sites.

Developed and powered by the Web Buyer’s Guide, the Video Syndication Program helps technology marketers generate high-quality enterprise IT sales leads by hosting up to 3 of their valuable promotional and educational videos on the WebBuyersGuide.com and then strategically syndicating them across the award-winning Ziff Davis Enterprise network of Web sites including eWEEK.com, Baselinemag.com and CIOInsight.com. Video downloads are then generated via strategic and aggressive promotion across Ziff Davis Enterprise eNewsletters and Web sites, with qualified lead and video performance data being delivered to the client on a weekly basis.

Hotswap.com, a little-known internet video company, stole a little of the digital spotlight last week when Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Red McCombs, who co-founded Clear Channel Communications, said they would provide the firm with venture capital.

According to Wozniak, Hotswap’s solution to bring internet video into the 21st century is likely to yield results. “I like what they’re doing,” said Wozniak. “It’s definitely a step forward.”

btw: Hotswap lets people upload video of their stolen fancy wheels for sale!

via: iMedia Connection

Video: Matteo Berlucchi

Microsoft is getting renewed attention this week for LiveStation, an Internet video site co-developed by its research arm and Skinkers, a British start-up. LiveStation uses peer-to-peer technology to allow live video to be more effectively broadcast over the Internet. In this video, Skinkers CEO Matteo Berlucchi says that the company wants to do several months of more beta testing to see how the application performs and scales, with a goal of a broader 1.0 release by October.

However, in a response to an Ars Technica post, the LiveStation team says it is not aiming to compete with Joost, but is instead focused on using peer-to-peer networks to deliver live television.

via: WebWare

Nielsen Wireless announced will begin measuring mobile phone users to see how many people use content services such as mobile Internet and mobile video and what impact this has on established media behavior. The company estimates that in the first quarter of 2007, more than 33 million persons 12 and older used mobile web in the past 30 days, and more than 8 million persons 12 and older viewed video on their mobile phone

Their first product – Mobile Vector – will launch in the U.S. in July 2007 using information culled from Nielsen’s existing National People Meter TV sample to report on media behavior and audience demographics segmented by wireless carrier.

The new RealPlayer, due at the end of June, will seek to regain popularity as the best and most useful media player on the Internet. It’s great news for Real, and great news for consumers. Real have said they believe their software is operating within the law, but video providers may not agree.
[No kidding.. ya think? -- eds]

RealNetworks are billing it as “the first media player to make it one-click simple to download online videos from thousands of Web sites”, allowing you to save most types of video that haven’t been marked as copyright or non-downloadable to your computer, and then burn them to CD as a with the free Real Player and by sharing the video links with friends as is more commonly done.

It’s too early to know if action will be taken, but chances are that the legal implications are under discussion by multiple parties in multiple companies as we speak, and if it’s planned, we’ll all know soon enough.

via: IT Wire

The Pixelodeon event will feature keynote addresses from speakers bridging the divide between traditional media and new media, and those dealing with issues such as copyright and file sharing. Two dozen curators, including notable new media content creators Amanda Congdon of ABC News, Veronica Belmont of C|Net, and Bre Pettis of Make Magazine, selected videos from the Internet to illustrate themes for one-hour theater screenings starting at 12PM until 6PM each day.

“The current media landscape is changing so fast that these up-and-coming creators have a chance to help define its new foundations,” said Ryanne Hodson, co-founder of Pixelodeon, as she announced speakers, curators, and a line-up of over 300 videos for Pixelodeon’s first annual Web video screening festival to be held at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, California on June 9-10.

L.A. We Love It..

via: Social Computing Magazine

The Washington Post announced a relationship with video blog PrezVid.com, the latest production from blogger and media critic Jeff Jarvis and partner Peter Hauck, to provide the site’s “Politics” section.

Jarvis praised the daily (oh dear) for inventing a new relationship with an independent news blog; “This is an important experiment, showing how a news organization can expand by building a broader network of coverage through independent blogs.”

Slick Flash-driven front end.. the full program list is Here

“VeryFunnyAds.com is a website about–you guessed it–very funny ads. The TV commercials on this site are some of the funniest from around the world. We’ve got Super Bowl classics, the Daytona 500’s funniest ads, hilarious foreign finds–even a few that were too sexy to be aired in the United States. We’re adding funny commercials all the time, so keep coming back.”

Seems more like a typical corporate stunt from the folks over at Turner..

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