Daily Links: Ze it ain't so!
- Ze Frank goes to Hollywood March 18
The day after his year-long daily videoblog ends. - Obama kickstarts prez candidacy with video
The man of the people didn't use YouTube? WTF. - NBC not moving fast enough in digital markets?
Working with Netflix on streaming service, but afraid to lose their primary markets. - Brightcove gets $59.5M series C funding
Survive a crowded market by outspending the small startups. - Ikbis is YouTube for Arabs
Launched in November, up to 30,000 page views a day. - DRM isn't about piracy, it's about creating artificial scarcity
Valenti circa 1982: "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman home alone." - Hey!Watch is a web app that encodes your video to any format
Also creates podcast feeds of your converted videos. - YouTube to have guest editors for home page content
Brilliant. Tightens bonds between site and users, distances YouTube from questions of editorial nepotism, allows more user control of a site that has been synonymous with populism. - local news on YouTube
OMG lookat that cute kitten stuck in a tree! LOL - Apple TV vs. Mac Mini
An odd comparison, but I'd take the Mac Mini every day and twice on Sunday. - LX.TV launching 30-min HD show on NYC Nightlife
On WNBC at 8am - Is live sex on demand coming to Hotel TVs?
Hotels are live sex on-demand, duh. P.S., that headline was made for search engines. The only way it could be better is if you strategically placed the words "midget" and "take a free tour." - YouTube's Suzie Reider on marketing and tagging
"It is very powerful to have ‘brand channels’ on YouTube, where a brand marketer is housing content and then to use the massive Google network to ignite interest in that content. That is one of the really powerful ways that the YouTube sales organization and the Google sales organization can work together."
And now, because it's making the rounds and looks so godawful cheesy, the original Star Wars trailer:
