The video sites that pay the most
Which user video sites pay the most money? Blip.TV leads the list, with Revver close behind, according to Light Reading. Blip splits all advertising revenue generated from user content 50/50 with the users.
This is the scenario: If the site gets 1 million hits in one month, books $100,000 in total ad revenues, and your content on that site 10,000 page views and helps serve $5,000 worth of ads, you would earn $2,500 with Blip.TV and with Revver… and still nothing with YouTube. (They have announced that it will share revenue with user, but it has yet to disclose the details).
V-me, a new digital cable network in Spanish-language
A new national Spanish-language television network branded as V-Me has been launched this week in the U.S. It is backed by PBS, who took a minority stake. The Baeza Group, an Hispanic-owned merchant bank, is serving as lead investor in the network, with additional seed money being provided by venture capital outfit Syncom Funds.
Programming on the 24-hour network is divided into four genres: kids, life-style, factual, and movies/specials. According to V-me President Carmen Direnzo, the commitment to quality children’s content is what convinced PBS to invest in the network.
The Hispanic media marketplace is poised to explode, and V-me is trying to take advantage of it. V-me has initial distribution in 28 million homes in 18 markets featuring large Hispanic populations, among them New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Diego and Denver.
The network launches as a 24-hour digital broadcast network presented by public television stations and carried on basic digital cable and satellite. It is programmed for the more than 30 million bi-lingual and Spanish-language dominant US Latinos.
Company revenues will come from the development and launch of strategic partnerships, the international syndication of its originally produced and co-produced programs, and sales of post-broadcast products such as DVDs and other program related products.
Now coming multi-touch screens
Fundamental advance in video field will be mature shortly. Watch this clip. Soon you will be able to interact with footage and material in multi-touch displays. One company, Perceptive Pixel, is working hard on it.
CNBC taps live webcams in show
The worlds of Web 2.0 and broadcast television are starting to converge. The primetime CNBC show Fast Money is encouraging viewers to hook up their webcams and ask a question live on the show. Viewers who want to participate send in an email, and producers then decide to pop on the air.
The technology is powered by WebEx on-demand platform, and the segment is sponsored by webcam-maker Logitech. According to CNBC, Fast Money is the first financial program to include viewer video as a component of a regular segment.
Great web-based tools for developers
There are many useful web-based tools for developers, designers and project managers. This website has assembled a great list of them.
Some of the best are project management applications Basecamp.com and Planix.com, business plan application PlanHQ, and Competitious.
Social networks everywhere
Social networks will soon be as ubiquitous as regular Web sites. Big corporations as Cisco, who bought this month Tribe.net, envision that those networks provide tools to let ordinary people, large companies and even presidential candidates, as Barack Obama, create social Web sites tailored for their own customers, friends, fans and employees.
MySpace and Facebook, with tens of millions of users, are the reference. But new social networking players like Ning.com, the latest venture of the Netscape co-creator Marc Andreessen, are allowing people to create their own communities.
