One of the companies involved in the exploding Internet television industry filmed a pilot show in Dexter earlier this month. On Aug. 8 and 15 Dark Elf Entertainment, a company created in May 2009 and housed in the Ann Arbor SPARK facility on Eastern Michigan University's campus in Ypsilanti, filmed WordSmith and Happily Ever After? for the Internet TV station A2YP.TV.

Posté le mercredi 1 septembre à 1h42

Eagles drummer and singer Don Henley has a world of trouble on his mind, and he hopes that Congress will lighten his load... by gutting the best part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Defending his copyrights in the digital age is just too hard for Henley and his labels, because it requires constant vigilance of both mainstream user-upload sites like YouTube and dodgier ...

Posté le mardi 31 août à 8h08

Editor's note : The following guest post is by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, the CEO of WatchMojo , a producer and distributor of premium video content. Last week, Erick posted an article on TechCrunch titled Industry Insiders Say Online Video Advertising Is Reaching A Frenzy Point.'" It was a surefire way to get online video entrepreneurs excited, right? Not so fast. The article quoted two CEOs of ...

Posté le samedi 28 août à 8h05

Is Michael Eisner about to resurface at Tribune? Chicago-area business news publication Chicago Breaking Business says the former Walt Disney CEO is a contender to replace current chairman Sam Zell once the company emerges from its very messy bankruptcy proceedings.

Posté le mercredi 25 août à 18h31

By Eriq Gardner EXCLUSIVE: The idea that a copyright owner can sue hundreds of anonymous pirates all at once in a single lawsuit is spreading. No doubt influenced by recent similar lawsuits, Io Group is alleging copyright infringement and a...

Posté le mercredi 25 août à 12h30

BaseKit, the fast and easy way to create websites from a Photoshop design without coding, is launching a new version of its platform today, focused on improvements to the sharing functionality and addition of open design themes to quickly build sites without existing PhotoShop knowledge . BaseKit, a Seedcamp winner, makes it easy for web professionals to produce and publish websites without ...

Posté le jeudi 19 août à 8h30

Video companies are adding news features to make viewers stick around longer. Watching TV has always been a social experience, although today's users are more likely to post about the big game on Twitter than to gather with family on the couch. Startups and established companies alike are developing new ways to take advantage of this social side to watching video.

Posté le mardi 17 août à 0h17

With video cameras and players everywhere, it's no surprise that video sharing has become an industry with legal controversy. The much-anticipated decision in Viacom v. YouTube continues a trend: owners of video copyrights have the burden of policing their rights on the internet.

Posté le samedi 14 août à 0h38

Los Angeles- and Israel-based Qlipso, a developer of online video sharing and editing tools, announced this morning that it has integrated its service into Veoh.com, after its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Veoh.com. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The sale had earlier been reported in April. According to Qlipso, it is adding its social features into Veoh ...

Posté le mardi 10 août à 9h06

Innovative content sharing company Qlipso today announced that following the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of the Web's 10th largest video portal, Veoh.com in Spring 2010, it has successfully integrated its multiuser content-sharing platform into Veoh.com.

Posté le lundi 9 août à 4h45