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Why I love Vimeo

Vimeo is already popular in the Social Media community because its new, its dynamic and more importantly its not Youtube!

Why do I like it? Well it has to be the HD functionality it has. Having a newer Macbook I  really get to enjoy all the glorious high-def content.

Entertainment aside, you only have to take a look around what’s going on in the technology world to see the significance of HD content online.

In the next few years HD flat panel TV’s will become standard equipment in most UK households. In addition to this The Guardian commented that the UK had a 55.5% broadband penetration rate which is increasing YOY.

Broadband facilitates the high speed connection required to stream and download HD quality content to desktops and browsers, with these two major upgrades occurring in a lot of UK households we will soon see people browsing a lot more from their TV sets, there is nothing better to see on a HDTV than HD video content.

Soon we will have to cater for people browsing the web with bigger screens whilst situated in more relaxed environments. Taking this into account I believe HD video blogs will become more significant and this will be the easiest way to catch up on the thoughts of all our favorite bloggers or vloggers from our lounges.

Its also a great excuse for me to run out and buy a HD camcorder and screen, Amazon whish list here I come.

Tags: broadband, HD, HDTV, technology world, The Guardian, United Kingdom, video blog, vimeo, Youtube

Social Music

Yes I’m back….it’s been ages since I’ve blogged. I haven’t been walking around with my eyes closed though, my recent social media stumbling’s are as follows…

None of us are strangers to Last.FM or Pandora but I’ve recently become a fan Favtape.com an online service that makes a “mixtape” out of all your recently played tracks and stations.

Just a neat gadget I think not? This tool has the potential for a multitude of uses for clients within the music and entertainment sector and I’m looking forward to putting into some real innovative use.

Also another one out there for the garage bands types is amazingtunes.com, a great way to hear unsigned music.

Things have come a long a way since people just started tuning into on-line radio….we now have itunes, myspace and all the others I mentioned above.

The future in my opinion?

Well I think it has something to do with my earlier ramblings about smart phones and streamed music. In time I think we’ll start to see people move away from retained music on storage devices and instead have paid subscriptions for sites, which allow you to stream music to any device or computer.

Your whole itunes/music library could merely be a list held on line, which is then connected to a central music database. No running out of disk space or worrying about corrupt storage.

We’re already moving in this direction and some of the techies out there have got installations like this set-up via combining various technologies. As soon as broadband and 3G become a standard they will enable a mass-market concept like the one I’ve been discussing to become active. Who knows we might be waving bye bye to MP3’s and MP4’s in the near future.

Tags: 3G, broadband, Favtape, itunes, MP3, mp3's, on-line radio, online music, online service, recent social media, social media, storage devices, Tracks