Google wants their new VP9 codec to be royalty-free, but patent disputes could prevent that from happening. Meanwhile, VP9 is supposed to have double the image quality using half the compression of H.264.
The Michael Shannon video where he reads the infamous Delta Gamma e-mail is amazing.
Vinetune is a pretty cool site where you can find a featured, relatively unknown artist lending a song to a music video made of several different Vines that go along with the tune specific to hashtags that match the lyrics. You can even contribute your own Vine to it.
It's no surprise when you take a look at "what's trending" on YouTube, you see a host of election videos, usually something a candidate said that was either candidacy-killing or somehow awe inspiring.
Ooyala has some pretty good offerings in their online video solutions arsenal and now, they've got another one, a new video recommendations system. To help everyone get a better grip on the power of these systems they've put out a new, free whitepaper, Connecting Consumers with Content , that does a great job of explaining what recommendation systems are , and more importantly, how they can help an online video publisher not only have the content discovered and viewed but also generate more revenue. How to Connect Consumers with More Relevant Video Content In Connecting Consumers with Content, Ooyala walks us through reasons that recommendations systems are good for online video publishers: Consumer choice is a powerful competitive force
YouTube is about to join the fold of Google+ in a more tightly knit and cohesive way. No longer will you be able to simply Like a video, now you’ll be giving it a +1 according to recent reports
