Category Archives: Video Content

Deconstructing Stephen Fry

By Dhiren | Published: November 16, 2008
I’m really liking StephenFry.com, he has turned into a celebrity Social Media Evangelist. The only thing that I question about his whole concept is the use of his own video content? Why is it not being hosted on a platform like Vimeo, Revver or Viddler? If people could embed his video content onto their own blogs [...]
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BBC moves to embrace remix culture

By Dhiren | Published: November 12, 2008
I discovered today that the BBC are behind a project called Masher. Masher essentially enables people to splice and mash their own video’s with content from the BBC Motion gallery. This is the second move the BBC have made to recognise how people want to view and use content. The launch of the iPlayer was monumental because [...]
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The growing importance of video content

By Dhiren | Published: September 9, 2008
I have made various references to video content and video websites recently and I think video in it’s entirety is being under used as a social media communication method. This is primarily due to the restrictions of existing social video platforms as the majority of them only provide basic uploading and organisation functionally. Up [...]
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BigStage – A virtual 3D you

By Dhiren | Published: September 3, 2008
Really liking BigStage, It lets you create a 3D version of yourself from photographs you upload. The virtual 3D avatar can then be then be dropped into anything from computer games to TV shows. I am yet to fully experiment the service, however, if the avatars can be exported and imported into the likes of [...]
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Seesmic – Video Microblogging

By Dhiren | Published: September 2, 2008
I’m sure we’ll hear a TLA or an abbreviation for Video Microblogging at some point so I might as well have an attempt….V-Mlogging, sound good? :-/ Seesmic is just hours of entertainment to be quite frank, but there are some serious innovative marketing uses a facility like this can provide. We’ve all seen how effectively businesses [...]
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