YouTube Buys Next New Networks in First Big Content Acquisition http://tinyurl.com/45zosv6 As well as beet.tv’s coverage, paidcontent.org and Silicon Alley Insider have coverage.
As I suggested over a year ago, Google are getting into the content business. As rumored two months ago, Google have purchased Next New Networks for an undisclosed sum. This makes sense as Next New was heavily dependent on YouTube for distribution.
Tools for Connecting with Bloggers, Twitterers, Superfans and Groups http://tinyurl.com/2vpuv2e
In the modern era of independent production and distribution, the “first audience” is a core concept. Find the first audience – those that will be interested in the topic of your independent project, and reach out to them first.
Finding appropriate bloggers, tweeters, groups (and hopefully) superfans, is the challenging part. These tools are designed to help with that.
No really suitable section for quoting as it’s all just good reference material.
For Every Entertainment Industry Job ‘Lost’ To Infringement, – 12 Jobs Be Created Elsewhere? http://tinyurl.com/4vtott2
It’s an interesting piece of research particularly int he light of the discredited (by the US Government Accounting Office) “studies” by the RIAA and MPAA, which never take into account any potential positive of unauthorized distribution, aka free publicity.
Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software http://tinyurl.com/4aplu9h
This is a fascinating article on how software can detect patterns of behavior from thousands and thousands of pages of documents. This technology goes way beyond searching for keywords:
This paragraph from John Gruber’s reflections on Apple’s iPad 2 event really stood out for me:
iMovie for iPad seems like the realization of Randy Ubillos’s vision for movie editing software. Seldom does an app as popular and useful as iMovie get a genuine “let’s just start over from scratch†redesign like iMovie did on the Mac several years ago. And the current Mac version is, without question, a major improvement over the initial redesigned version. This iPad version, though, feels like the real deal, and makes the Mac version seem like the imitator. The concept, visual layout, and intended workflow are naturally suited to touch. This is what the new iMovie is supposed to be.
The Terence and Philip Show Episode 21: Talking about the “new” Final Cut Pro http://tinyurl.com/69c9mqw
This is the show where we talk for twenty eight and a half minutes about a version of Final Cut Pro that neither of us have seen, nor have any real information about. We make some intelligent guesses on what to expect.
It’ll be fun to revisit this after the new Final Cut Pro is released.
HTML5 Adoption for Web Video Continues to Grow http://tinyurl.com/4cwhnaz
In the time that MeFeedia has been tracking H.264 for HTML5 video on the web, the numbers have grown from 10% in Jan 2010, to 63% in Feb 2011.  That’s a huge boost for H.264 as the message gets out. It’s not good news for WebM, which frankly is only going to take off if Google does something incredibly stupid like making YouTube WebM only. (I doubt it since they have a contract for H.264 versions with Apple, it would appear.)