Archives Tag: Google Video
The Chrome Video Codec Change
Last week, Google announced that their Chrome browser will no longer support the H.264 codec. The primary reason being that this codec is only freely available for next couple of years. After that, it will be a licensed codec — there’s no longetivity with that strategy. Google has taken the hard, but better route and [...]
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Starting at the end of March 2009, Google Enterprise is offering the educational sector some free storage. 10 gigabytes of free storage for Education in Google Apps. As of March 31st, we will be offering 10GB of Google Video free to every Google Education Edition domain. This will give each school the ability to stream [...]
Full StoryOnline Playback System with a Community Bias
Yahoo! has their work cut out for them. Google, even more so. Yahoo! recently registered a patent for an “online playback system with community bias.” This looks to me like an attempt to re-innovate Yahoo! Video to create a feature that tops YouTube. The new idea behind this patent for Yahoo!, I believe, is one [...]
Full StoryGoogle Partners with Buy.com
Google recently launched video chat for Gmail. But, you obviously cannot have a video chat without a video camera. So Google has generously offered some links through Buy.com to purchase a camera. As far as I can tell after looking at the links (in the source view), they are clear HTML clears. No onClick’s, no [...]
Full StoryGoogle Loses German Lawsuit Over Image Searches
Google officially lost the lawsuit brought to them by a photographer in Germany. The issue at hand was a case of copyright violations; displaying images without prior consent from the artist. Google’s preview of a picture by German photographer Michael Bernhard violates his copyrights, the Regional Court of Hamburg ruled, his lawyer Matthies van Eendenburg [...]
Full StoryYouTube to Compete with Hulu
Google’s online video property, YouTube, has announced that they will be offering full length television programs in addition to shorter video offerings to increase ad revenue. Hulu has drawn quite a bit of attention due to it’s strong partnerships that it has already completed. But something that Hulu has had as an edge to YouTube [...]
Full StoryGoogle Acquires Omnisio, Joining YouTube
The Omnisio team will be joining the YouTube team shortly. News flashed today that Omnisio has been acquired by Google. Why was Omnisio founded? “Omnisio was founded with the goal of drastically improving your online video experience,” taken directly from the about page of Omnisio.com. A little more from the YouTube blog, “It’s in this [...]
Full StoryGoogle Hosts Online Advertising Meetup
Earlier this week on Monday, I attended an advertising meetup that was being hosted at Google NYC. A lot of people felt it was a sales pitch for Google products, but I had other thoughts. Since I author this site, I felt it was actually informative and there were some really interesting things touched on. [...]
Full StoryThe Untold Gmail Stories
Some of the untold Gmail stories, in a single clip. Here’s a quick wrap-up from some Gmail software engineers.
Full StoryGoogle Video Blog Moves to YouTube
Recently, the Google Video Team Blog has moved to the YouTube Blog since, as we know, Google acquired YouTube last year. Not much else to this article, just that the blog has changed its address. New Adress: http://www.youtube.com/blog
Full StoryGoogle Video Jumps in Bed with the Dow Jones
Seems like a lot of companies have been sleeping around, but this is the latest couple to get together — but rather we should call it a party in the pants since there are a few companies involved. Google Inc. is working with Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Conde Nast, Sony BMG Music Entertainment and other large content companies to syndicate their video content on other Web sites, the
Full StoryWhat is Wrong with Google Video
Something I’ve never noticed with any other video sharing site is something that I noticed today on an actually pretty funny video. I noticed the timestamp was wrong. A flaw that could be overlooked very easily, but something I noticed and it really stood out to me. I was watching the video to see how much time was left and I noticed it went 7 seconds over the allowed time it said. It’s not a huge deal by any means, but something they should be looking at fixing sooner than later.
Full StoryYouTube’s Whack-a-Mole
On Monday, even as YouTube was removing clips owned by Viacom Inc. to meet the entertainment conglomerate’s demands from last week, those same clips were popping up on Google’s own site, called Google Video. Since Google acquired YouTube not too long ago, they should be considered as the same company as Google. Viacom Inc. may not be looking at Google Video yet for the copyright infringement, but they should be. YouTube was much more popular than Google Video 6 months ago and probably is still more popular, but that shouldn’t dismiss the fact that they have copyrighted videos too.
Full StoryGoogle video being sued this time
Google Video is the target of legal action this time. SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc.’s on-line video service has been sued for copyright infringement, providing a possible preview of the legal trouble that may plague the Internet search leader after it takes over YouTube Inc. and its library of pirated clips, the company said Wednesday. Seems like the video search industry is taking a big hit. Google is
Full StoryVideo Loses NBA and Gains NHL
The NBA has officially pulled their videos off Google Video from being sold, but on the flip side you can now download NHL videos for free. Here’s one of many NHL clips. Feel free to do your own search for “owners” of the videos too, which will bring up a lot of results.
Full StoryVideo: Google Just Brought Sexy Back
Google’s recent partnership now allows for users to view music videos for free. This only allows for “lower quality” videos to be played. You can purchase a higher quality video for $1.99.
Full StoryAdvanced Video Search
Google Video now has Advanced Search. What was the major feature I’ve been waiting for? You got it. Advanced search that will let you search for videos within a specific length. I think that’s a pretty sweet feature to have, I’m glad it’s finally on there.
Full StoryThe Unlisted by Google Video
The Google Video Team got the call, they answered. What did the people want? They wanted to be able to upload videos, but make them private — sort of. Google Video has responded with the “unlisted” option that will now allow for people to upload videos and make them not searchable. This means you can only give your friends or family the link. It’s helping create a more sense of privacy for the entire community. Unlisting videos is easy. All you have to do is check the “Unlisted” option when uploading your video(s) at http://video.google.com/videouploadform. You’ll then get a unique URL that you can email to anyone you want – and no one else. Google Video
Full StoryYouTube Tracks with Google
YouTube.com has struck up deals, just like Google has, to deal with music videos through companies such as Universal Music Group, Sony BMG, and CBS. Google just finished up deals like this which they were hoping would put them up front, but YouTube isn’t far behind. While the rumors are still flying around of Google buying YouTube, it still doesn’t look like it’s going to happen (to
Full StoryGoogle Video Shortcuts
The Google Video support site has some nice keyboard shortcuts that you can use while using Google Video. Keyboard shortcuts: Space bar plays and pauses the movie Right arrow skips the video forward 5% Left arrow jumps back 5% in the video Up arrow increases the volume by 5% Down arrow decreases the volume by 5% The “M” key toggles muting The “F” key toggles fullscreen Clicking on the ESC key in full screen mode returns to normal mode Check out all the shortcuts, there’s more.
Full StoryFree Music Videos
Google has signed agreements with Sony BMG and Warner Music Group to offer a large collection of music videos via the Google Video platform. “Google is a defining force in the ongoing development of the Internet, and we’re extremely pleased to be expanding our video relationship with them,” commented Thomas Hesse, President, Global Digital Business, SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT. “We see this agreement as an important part of our
Full StoryGoogle to Acquire YouTube.com at 40%?
Michael Arrington on Techcrunch got an email recently talking about how Google might be acquiring YouTube for anywhere between $1.2 – $1.5 billion. I am very skeptical at this move and I doubt it will happen. I don’t feel that Google needs to make a move like this to stay in the ball game. Yes, YouTube does have a huge head start already as far as userbase goes in video submissions, but Google — on the larger scale — as the better overall user database. If Google could push a bigger promotion for user submissions, such as with a contest offering cash prizes or something like a trip to Google, it could easily take over the lead and become number one without buying YouTube.
Full StoryGoogle Video Lectures
Google Video finished up an agreement with the UC Berkeley to offer courses via Google Video. Berkeley is the first university to have its own Google Video page. Initially, the university has put up a library of more than 250 hours of video for public viewing. Most of it previously was not available online, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said. News.com So what kind of affect does this have on the way learning can be done? It changes everything. While you still can’t get a degree just from watching these videos, it does allow for people to become more informed and better educated even without a degree. For those people that once could have not had an education or teaching to this degree, it has now become a viable opportunity for them.
Full StoryGoogle Video Adds Caption Capability
Google Video has added caption capability to the platform which will allow video producers to add in the captions and have them appear on Google Video’s site. This stuck out to me and I thought this was worth sharing, …it’s particularly meaningful to me because I’m not only an engineer fortunate enough to work on Google Video — I’m also deaf. Ken Harrenstien It’s amazing to me (at least) to see someone with a handicap doing such great things. It’s not everyday you see someone with such courage to overcome what has happened to them to go on to do bigger and better things. I probably won’t ever be an engineer for Google nor do I ever plan on going deaf, so I give Ken my up most respect that he has accomplished all that he has already and continues to do more.
Full StoryGoogle Video Being Unstable Again
Recently I’ve noticed that I’ve been getting the “Google Video Error” screen a lot more often. I was going to write a post about the recent Family Guy season premiere, but it seems Google Video (for this specific video and others) has been unavailable. Slightly disappointing to see how unstable Google can be sometimes.
Full StoryNew Google Video Gadget
There is a new Google Video gadget which will allow you to add video to your Google homepage. The gadget is based on the Video Search solution which allows users to add video to their site.
Full StoryMTV Talks to Eric Schmidt
Google and MTV have had some talk amongst themselves and came up with an agreement that will allow for MTV shows to be streamed on Google Video. AP released this news just two days ago that Google Video would start streaming over 100 hours of footage from Laguna Beach. This initial streaming of this show will be a test to see how functional and how adaptive the Google Video Network can be for MTV and to see if it will be successful or not. I have no doubt that MTV will continue using Google Video as their hosting content provider since Google Video is one of the largest video networks in the world now. While YouTube and similar providers are still up there, Google Video has been leading the path for paid videos and content of that type.
Full StoryStart Where? Start Here.
Google Video now has the functionality to provide users the ability to embed a starting point with a video. FlashVars=”initialTime=number” Using that code in the embedded video, the video will start at X seconds into the video — which the user puts into the variable. (via)
Full StoryNew Feature Roll-out for Google Video
Some of the new key features for Google video: Rating System — allowing suers to ‘Rate’ a specific video. This could help with ‘most popular’, ‘highest rated’ etc etc, for the userbase. Labels — now you can categorize the videos and help make things a bit more organized for the whole Video portal. Comments — have something to say? now you can speak your mind. Google now has the Top100 of all videos. (via)
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