Archive for the ‘Video’ Category
YouTube is number 5 in Denmark
The Danish Union of Internet Media (FDIM) has recently conducted a quite thorough survey on the Danes online behaviour in January 2008.
Number 1 is Google (surprise surprise!) with 15 millions visits(!) in January. But what's interesting, for me anyway, is that YouTube is at number 5! YouTube had b little over 1.1 million Danish visits in January, which is more that any of the online newspapers here in Denmark.
The only ones to beat YouTube (apart from Google, of course) are:
- Krak (a service which lets you look up addresses and phone numbers and view the results on a map (think white and yellow pages))
- DR.dk (the Danish Broadcoast Association, which gets a lot of visits, apart from the news service, from people viewing the online TV-guides, listening to internet radio, downloading podcasts and reading more about the various shows)
- TV2 (the largest private television channel in Denmark, which (just like DR) gets a lot of visits from people viewing other things than news and watching online television (their main product) - TV2 also offers online games)
So considering all of this, I think it's a fairly good result for YouTube. I for one use YouTube all of the time, sometimes just for listening to music. I had no idea that the service is that popular in this country, though.
My good friend Kim has the entire list [in Danish] (taken from Danish media news site MediaWatch) [also in Danish]. You can download the entire report from FDIM [it's a PDF file and yes, it's also in Danish].
Related postsTags: Danish media, Denmark, Google, Internet newspapers, News sites, Video, YouTube
What if the bloggers went on a strike?
What they want? Webdings, access to Teri Hatcher pictures and a computer like the one in Minority Report. Hilarious.
Related postsTags: Blogs, Humour, strike, Video
Video: Fatboy Slim live in Second Life
Okay, I'm just going to say in advance, that I'm terribly sorry for posting another uninspirational video post, but projects (both in- and outside of school) take up all of my time at the moment.
I'm not really into Second Life, but I am however into Fatboy Slim (at least the old tracks) so without further introduction; here's Fatboy Slim live in Second Life performing (a segment of) "Right Here Right Now":
If you're a Fatboy fan, you'll know why there's a fat guy in a "I'm number one so why try harder" shirt ;-)
Related postsTags: Off the record, Video, YouTube
Wal-Mart to launch movie downloads
The low price store chain Wal-Mart will now begin to offer movie downloads — a market currently owned by Apple's iTunes.
Apparently they have struck deals with some of the biggest Hollywood studios.
Hopefully the battle on the American market will in some way effect other markets — maybe even the Danish :-P
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Download YouTube videos as…videos
One of my personal heroes, JD Lasinger, has a post with links to how you can download YouTube videos as videos instead of .flv-files.
One is the Spanish site Comunidad UEM and the other is the FLV Converter.
Related postsTags: Social web, Video, Web 2.0, YouTube
Get ready, introducing Joost
CNet News is reporting that the Skype founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, has named their online video startup "Joost".
It looks exciting!
The plan, according to Joost CEO Fredrik de Wahl, is to offer studios, cable stations and anyone else who wants to distribute high-quality video over the Internet, a fast, efficient and cheap distribution method. To do this, the company will rely on the peer-to-peer technology that helped Friis and Zennstrom build Skype and Kazaa.
A small note: Niklas Zennström isn't a Dane, although the article says so. He's a Swede.
Related postsTags: Video