Today's Fresh Blogs...

• GodTube: Web Video's Second Coming

  Published: August 8, 2007, 3:08 pm

  Tags: Web Video

  and other faith-based video content. I was hoping for a few episodes of Davey and Goliath or some Veggie Tales, but I think we all know how the lord feels about copyright infringement.

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• The Portable Film Festival

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:25 pm

  Tags: Web Video

  plenty of site across the Web that aggregate Web video, but where is the industry's Cannes, Sundance, or even Slamdance? That's where the Portable Film Festival comes in. The site features more than 150 short-form Web videos, running the gamut from well-known works like Ask a Ninja, to more obscure fare. The entries will be competing for the

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• Google Video Revokes DRM: Purchased Videos are Gone

  Published: August 10, 2007, 5:32 pm

  Tags: Web Video, 279, 423, 1345

  strangest e-mail from Google Video just now. Seems they're doing away with their download-to-own/download-to-rent programs, so everything I've purchased will from now on be inaccessible. It's a DRM nightmare come true! See, when Google Video first launched, in the course of writing a review of it for PC Magazine I purchased and downloaded a

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• PC Magazine's Top 100 Classic Web Sites

  Published: August 13, 2007, 11:58 am

  Tags: Blogs Rss, Business Software, Cool Web Sites, Games Entertainment, Maps Gps, News Events, Search, Social Networking, Web Video

  first part of our annual top Web sites roundup is finally here. This week, we look at the Top 100 Classic Web Sites--well-established sites that we continue to visit, day after day, even after all of these years. That's not to say that the Classics list is merely a summary of the best-known sites on the Web--doing a run down of those would have

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• Netflix Apple, Firefox, Living Room Compatibility Delayed

  Published: August 14, 2007, 2:48 pm

  Tags: Apple, Browsers, Web Video, 126, 914, 3645

  Bummer news for Netflix fans with non-Intel Apple machines at home. Looks like we're going to be waiting until 2008 before we're afforded the opportunity to try out the service's very cool Watch Now feature. According to a post over at Gizmodo, the delay has to do with Apple's refusal to license their own DRM. There are also delays on the

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• YouTube Seeks Stewart, Colbert for Truthiness Face-Off

  Published: August 15, 2007, 12:55 pm

  Tags: Web Video

  once among the most popular videos on YouTube before Viacom yanked them from the site over copyright concerns. So what will Stewart and Colbert bring to the proceedings? Publicity. Would we be writing about this if the list only included Viacom's CEO and general counsel? No. Though I'm sure Colbert's on-air alter ego would love to wax poetic

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• FanCovers.com: Music to My Ears

  Published: August 17, 2007, 4:45 pm

  Tags: Cool Web Sites, Music, Web Video, 117, 217, 1954, 2813

  members rate one another's videos--highly rated videos and songs rise to the top, and artists with high ratings who upload frequently can have their profiles and music featured on the front page. FanCovers works like any other Web video site: users create their profiles, upload their videos, and comment on one another's content. The videos

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• vConvert: Save and Encode YouTube Videos With One Click

  Published: August 20, 2007, 4:34 pm

  Tags: Cool Web Sites, Utilities, Web Video, 416, 4380, 1954, 2976, 2813

  to toss the latest Keepon video from YouTube onto your iPod to show all of your friends when you meet them for dinner. Sure you could download the video as a Flash file with one tool and then convert it to mp4 format with another, but finding the right tools for the job can be difficult if you don't know where to look. vConvert, a Web app that

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• SciVee: YouTube for Scientists

  Published: August 23, 2007, 5:25 pm

  Tags: Cool Web Sites, Crazy Startups Vc Time, Web Video, 4378, 4380, 1954, 2813

  create SciVee. SciVee is a Web video project designed to give the scientific community a place to share videos of their work and to discuss with other members of the community and the public. SciVee was created by scientists for scientists in some regards, but for the public in others. Anyone can sign up for the service, and

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• Yahoo! and YouTube Tweak Video Delivery

  Published: August 23, 2007, 1:12 pm

  Tags: Web Video, 423, 915, 374

  interesting developments in Web video over the past couple of days. The first is that inevitable buzzkill of modern capitalist society, the unavoidable advertisement. YouTube, who abandoned banner ads on its site a while back, has finally found an advertising method that does Google proud. Yesterday the site launched animated overlay ads for

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• YouTube Improves Comment, Rating, and Search Features

  Published: August 24, 2007, 11:41 am

  Tags: Web Video, 374

  favorite Google-owned video service. YouTube has gone ahead and slightly improved a number of existing features across the site. It's now possible to view the top rated videos on the site, view videos' rating histories, and check out the last five videos that a user has rated. The site's comments have also been improved, letting users

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• Teen Fined For YouTube Posting of Teacher

  Published: August 24, 2007, 1:17 pm

  Tags: Web Video, 373

  was liable because the video had gained international recognition and caused anguish for the teacher, who was reportedly teased about it for two years. The video was viewed on YouTube more than 600 times before Vesikko pulled it down May 7 after his principal ordered him to do so. When I was in eighth grade, I had the octogenarian Sr. Mary

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• PC Mag's Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites

  Published: August 27, 2007, 10:59 am

  Tags: Audio Video, Blogs Rss, Business Software, Cool Web Sites, Instant Messaging Video Chat, Maps Gps, Music, News Events, Social Networking, Web Video

  phase of our annual Top 100 Websites list, over at PC Mag.com. I've got to say, as important as I think the Classics list is, it has a tendency to be a touch stodgy. Granted, we tried to keep the list a bit more fresh this year, including some sites that, while well-established, might as of yet be unfamiliar to some of our readership. That

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• Nero 8 Set for Oct Launch

  Published: August 30, 2007, 11:46 am

  Tags: Web Video, 4619, 4555, 3013, 4617, 374

  include integration with video sharing sites such as YouTube and MySpace, giving users the ability to upload and share video with a single click. Optimized for use with Windows Vista, Nero 8 also has various built-in features that compliment the OS, including Nero's DiscCopy gadget, which utilizes Vista's burning capabilities , giving users

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• The Peacock vs. The Apple: NBC Drops Out of iTunes

  Published: August 31, 2007, 12:17 pm

  Tags: Music, Web Video, 126, 973

  provider of paid digital video--making up around 40-percent of downloads--couldn't reach a pricing agreement with the Cupertino company, who has traditionally priced TV episodes at $1.99 a pop. NBC confirmed the move, but both companies refused to issue comments to reporters. The decision, which also reflected NBC's call for stronger

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