Archive for June, 2009

Creative & Technical Development

• Are Research Labs Just Too Scary? by 90 Percent Of Everything
• Pivot, Don’t Jump To A New Vision by Eric Ries
• Creating Consistently Colourful User Experiences, Part 3 by UX Booth
• 20 UX Books You Should Own by UX By Design

Promotion & Distribution

• Social Media Shrunk Big Business by ClickZ Experts
• Private-Label Media: A New Kind Of Marketing by Digital Media Buzz
• Social Filmmaking by Peter Broderick
• Finding Your Built In Audience by Movie Marketing Madness
• Netflix’s CEO Offers Frank Assessments by VideoNUZE

Business & Monetisation

• The Simpsons: Worth More On Hulu Than Fox by PC World
• The Fable Of Free: Lessons From An iPhone App by ClickZ Experts
• Long Tail Of iPhone Apps Is Extra Long by GigaOM
• Brightcove Profitable & Cash Flow Positive by Dan Rayburn
• Why Targeting Small Business Is Good Business by GigaOM

Technology & Infrastructure

• Open Video Welcomes Video Into The Browser by NewTeeVee
• Peaking Through The Clouds by GigaOM
• How Some Of The Busiest Sites Manage Their Web Ops by GigaOM
• The Coming Trans-Atlantic Bandwidth Crunch by GigaOM
• Arup Foresight – Drivers Of Change by Putting People First

Tips & Tutorials

• Building A Great Web Service by ReadWriteStart
• Vision Is Strategy, Execution Is Tactics by SmoothSpan Blog

Creative & Technical Development

• How To Write A Media Objective, Part 1 by ClickZ Experts
• Sweatpants Forever? by Ideas on Ideas
• Scott Berkun: Why Designers Fail And What To Do by From Business To Buttons 2009
• Gene Liebel: 3 Seconds, A Users Dies Somewhere by From Business To Buttons 2009
• The Wikipedia Usability Initiative by 90 Percent Of Everything
• Testing Results For LessAccounting.com Call To Action by Konigi
• Exploring The Basecamp Account Screen by 37 Signals
• Stop Counting Clicks by UX Booth

Promotion & Distribution

• Producers Of Web Series Test Release Strategies by Video Business
• Consoles To Rule Web-to-TV Video Delivery by NewTeeVee
• Where Hollywood Meets Reality by ADWEEK
• Making Smarter Movies by indieWIRE
• The Second Most Important Question A Filmmaker Can Ask by CinemaTech
• Sorry, There’s No Way To Save The TV Business by Silicon Alley Insider

Consumer Behaviour & Statistics

• Unravelling comScore’s Monthly Data For Online Video by VideoNUZE
• Nielsen Video Stats A Jumble, Viewers Up 13% From Last Year by NewTeeVee

Business & Monetisation

• YouTube Infrastructure Costs Vastly Overestimated by NewTeeVee
• We Should Care About YouTube’s Core Business, Not Their Market Share by Dan Rayburn
• Does It Matter How Much Money YouTube Is Losing? by VideoNUZE
• What’s Holding Back Online Videos Ad Spending? by MediaPost.com
• Hollywood Hits The Stop Button On High Profile Web Video Efforts by LA Times
• Digital Technology And Dollar Signs by LA Times
• Viddyou Founders Looking To Bid Adieu To Video Sharing by NewTeeVee

Technology & Infrastructure

• RTMP Specification Now Available by Kevin Towes
• Google: The Data Center Is The Computer by GigaOM
• Digital Britain Report by ReadWriteWeb

Tips & Tutorials

• Why Continuous Deployment? by Eric Ries
• Why Metrics-Driven Startups Overlook Brand Value by Andrew Chen
• Why You Should Make It Easy For Users To Quit Your Product by Andrew Chen
• PPC/SEM Analytics: 5 Actionable Tips To Improve ROI by Avinash Kaushik

Creative & Technical Development

• Guesses Versus Data As Basis For Design Recommendations by Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox
• Putting Together A Production: A Rehearsal Strategy For Design by UX Matters
• Design With Intent by DesignMind
• Know Your Core: Providing Focus For Web Applications by UX Matters
• Can Using Free Software Lower The Bar For Your Own Design Standards by 90 Percent Of Everything
• Using Content To Grow Customer Relationships by UX Matters
• Web Design Basics: Migrating From Immigrant To Native by Digital Media Buzz
• How To Approach Categories And Navigation In Blogging by UX Booth
• Low-Cost Indie Web TV Creators Can Rule by Tubefilter
• A Monster Week In Online Video That Wasn’t by ClickZ Experts
• MediaVest Digital Chief On Online Video Advertising by Beet.TV

Promotion & Distribution

• Two Great Examples Of Online Video’s Growing Pervasiveness by VideoNUZE
• Do Companies Still Control Their Brands by Digital Media Buzz
• Why Blog When You Can Tweet? by Beet.TV
• Hacking Traction: The Dark Side Of Market Optimisation by GigaOM
• Why Things Become Unpopular by Physorg.com
• All Your Questions Answered by CinemaTech
• BitTorrent’s Long Tail Alive And Well On Private Torrent Sites by NewTeeVee

Consumer Behaviour & Statistics

• Cisco: By 2013 Video Will Be 90% Of All Traffic by TechCrunch
• Cisco Say Video Traffic Growing, But Where Is The Business Going To Come From by Dan Rayburn
• The Greatest Change In Media by ClickZ Experts

Business & Monetisation

• Microeconomics Of The Consumer Web by GigaOM
• IAB: Online Ad Spending Fell 5% In Q1 by paidContent.org
• Ad Sales Reps To MSOs – Money Moving Quickly To Broadband by Broadcasting & Cable
• Why YouTube WIll Sink Or Swim by Advertising Age

Technology & Infrastructure

• Video Follies In The UK by Telecom Ramblings
• BT Talks Up Plans To Charge Video Providers by GigaOM
• The Lowdown On Apple’s HTTP Adaptive Bitrate Streaming by NewTeeVee
• HTML 5, Comparing H.264 With Theora by Slashdot

Tips & Tutorials

• Creating Value Versus Optimising Revenue by Andrew Chen
• Benefit-Driven Metrics by Andrew Chen
• How To Analyse Referring Traffic by KISSmetrics
• Data Blindness by Eric Ries

Creative & Technical Development

• The One About “Look And Feel” by Adaptive Path Blog
• The Importance Of Analytics In User Experience by 90 Percent Of Everything
• 8 Tips That Boost Conversions by Click Tale Blog
• Consumers Have Changed, So Should Advertisers by ClickZ Experts
• The Power Of The Moving Image by Beet.TV
• Original Web Series Still Lack Funding by Variety

Promotion & Distribution

• Anatomy Of A Blog Post Well Received by ReadWriteWeb
• 9 Simple Steps For Using Social Media by Ideas on Ideas
• MSNBC Gets It Right With Minisite by VideoNUZE
• Blip.TV’s Mike Hudack On The Evolution Of Web Video & TV by ReadWriteWeb
• How Cable Companies View Web Video by NewTeeVee
• UK Report Measures Impact Of P2P by The Hollywood Reporter

Consumer Behaviour & Statistics

• Studies Say Web Video Usage Overstated, P2P Users Buy More DVDs by NewTeeVee
• Business Must Learn From The New Tribe by Financial Times

Business & Monetisation

• Dan Bricklin On Piracy, Monetising Content, And More by CinemaTech
• A Second Wind For Paid Content? by NewTeeVee

Technology & Infrastructure

• Measuring Up The Online Video Measures by NewTeeVee
• Video CDN Pricing Drops Slightly In Q1 by Dan Rayburn
• Akamai Debates Amazon In The Cloud by Contentinople
• Adobe Flash Catalyst by Adobe Labs

Tips & Tutorials

• 10 Tips On How To Slay The Analytics Data Quality Dragon by Avinash Kaushik
• It’s A Startup, Not A Spreadsheet by Eric Ries
• Using Adobe Media Encoder CS4 by Adobe Developer Connection
• Graphic Effects Learning Guide For Flash CS4 Professional by Adobe Developer Connection

Creative & Technical Development

• Great Designs Should Be Experienced And Not Seen by Jared Spool
• Following The Recipe by UX Matters
• The Web vs. The Fallacies by Tim Bray
• Inside IDEO by Konigi
• Selling What We Do by Johnny Holland Magazine
• Custom Error Pages by Pixelwave Web Design

Promotion & Distribution

• The Streaming Content Is There, Just Not Enough People Are Watching It – Yet by GigaOM
• Harry Jenkins On Transmedia by postmoderntimes.com
• Online Video Fastest Growing Medium In History by Mediapost.com
• TubeMogul Gets Embedded Players Around The Web by NewTeeVee
• Notes From The 2009 Producers Institute by CinemaTech
• Networks Show Respect For TV Streaming By Ignoring It by NewTeeVee
• Fox’s Prison Break Finale Demonstrates The Power Of Social Media by Beet.tv
• When 1.3 Billion People Are Too Many by Techcrunch

Consumer Behaviour & Statistics

• DRM Truly Does Make Pirates Out Of Us All by Arts Technica
• Video Behaviour Changes Suggest Evolution Not Revolution For Now by VideoNUZE
• Just 3% Of Consumers Bought A Movie Download But 7% Digitally Rented by Variety
• Study Looks At Early Adopters by THR.com
• The Changing TV Experience by Intel
• Tinkering To The Future by Vodafone Receiver Magazine
• Living In A Connected World by Nokia Siemens Network
• Web Analytics In Awkward Phase by ReadWriteWeb

Business & Monetisation

• Netflix CEO On The Economics Of Movie Streaming by Techcrunch
• Payoff Over A Web Sensation Is Elusive by NY Times
• The 4 Steps To Online Media Success by Futurescape
• Common Craft Shows That Video Entrepreneurship Is Alive And Well by VideoNUZE
• Google: We’re Monetising More Than Anyone Else Is Making by paidContent.org
• It’s Easier To Launch Businesses But It Is Harder To Keep Them Going by paidContent.org

Technology & Infrastructure

• Cloud Computing: A System Of Control by GigaOM
• Evolution Of The Fourth-Generation User Interface by Intel

Tips & Tutorials

• Vanity Metrics vs. Actionable Metrics by Eric Ries