We’ve been working hard on different ways to promote Calliflower as an online meeting tool for the last few weeks. One of the latest techniques we’re using is online videos.
It turns out to be surprisingly easy. Create a script, grab some stock photos (check out www.istockphoto.com), royalty free music, and put the whole thing together. I used Audacity to record the sound track, and Adobe Premier Elements to render the video. Next, circulate your draft to a few friendly faces for feedback, edit and upload.
This morning we talked with Global IP Solutions about the future of video conferencing. You may remember Global IP Solutions as the company that teamed up with Skype to deliver high quality voice over IP from the desktop when everyone said it couldn’t be done. Today they believe we’re on the cusp of the same kind of revolution, but this time for desktop video.
VP Jan Linden and Product Manager John Hermansen discussed desktop video technologies, the challenges associated with delivering quality desktop video experiences, and what GIPS is doing to address them. To help promote the work that they’ve done, GIPS has put out a whitepaper and video demonstration.
SightSpeed Marketing VP Eric Quanstrom joined us on this morning’s SquawkBox conference call. This call was inspired by the fact that SightSpeed seems to be multiplying the number of ways that you can use their technology pretty dramatically. They’re touching everything from MySpace to corporate video conferencing. It seemed a good opportunity to hear from one of the market leaders in desktop video how the market is evolving.
We covered SightSpeed’s product offerings, corporate video versus personal desktop video, and how the new SightSpeed Lite widgets embedded in MySpace and Hi5 have different usage models from traditional video calling. Along the way we also talked about the background trends in the industry that are driving the adoption of video, such as the inclusion of video on almost all new consumer laptops.
On the conference call: Eric Quanstrom, Mike Pruyn, James Body, Jeb Brilliant, Cheryl Cink, Sheryl Breuker, Jim Courtney, Bill Volk and Andy Abramson
Pal Om Malik talked with us today about the launch of NewTeeVee Station, his service for finding and presenting the best of web video to viewers. Om envisions the target audience as the universe of people who have a few minutes after lunch and just want to veg-out with a quick, but quality video clip. NewTeeVee Station is stuffed full of short 5 and 10 minute videos, selected by the editors.
Perhaps the most dramatic part of the conversation was toward the end when I asked Om what it was like to be a media owner, rather than a journalist. In the company of the friends on the line, he talked about his heart attack earlier this year, and how it had impacted his business and his management style. It was truly a remarkable conversation.
On the line: Hudson Barton, Martyn Davies, Howard Thaw, Dan York, Dameon Welch-Abernathy, Jim Courtney, Jeanette fisher, Adam Somer, James Body, Mike Pruyn, Frank Abrams, and Giga Om.
It’s hard not to admire the trajectory of Om Malik as he cuts a broad swath across the blogosphere. First with GigaOm, then Web Worker Daily and NewTeeVee, he has been recruiting quality journalists to do what journalists do best – report the news.
Today, NewTeeVeeStation launches at Midnight eastern time. A spinoff of the NewTeeVee video news site, it address online video as a legitimate entertainment format. You can read the full details in Om’s post. Here’s the meat of it though.
NTV Station features editorial reviews of online videos written by a team lead by Liz Shannon Miller, who comes to us from Variety and the Daily Reel. We eliminate the static and bring to you videos that are actually good — but also the stuff that’s so bad it has everyone talking. We’ve also developed a database of cast, crew, and other details to map out the expanding web video universe. We encourage our readers to become part of the editorial process by adding their own reviews, comments and ratings. You’re also welcome to get lost in our eight channels of the most memorable comedy, commercials, drama, music, news & talk, personalities, reality, and zeitgeist picks.
Think YouTube meets Siskel and Roper. It’s going in my RSS feed for sure – just the thing for the media center PC I’ve been building over the last few weeks.
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