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Our video hosting solutions compatible with iPhone 3.0

admin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:56:28 +0000

Today Apple talked about the new iPhone 3.0 software that will be available this spring.

Apple announced that the new iPhone software will be compatible with embedded video in HTML5, which is supported by GravityLab’s mobile hosting solutions, like mp4 H.264. Also HTTP streaming for audio and video, codecs and chunking support.

Trust the GravityLab network for all your streaming video hosting solutions, including iPhone streaming products designed to reach your mobile audience.

To get started with a free consultation about converting your multimedia assets to mobile compatible formats and delivery, contact us today.

Pacific Northwest bands at the Experience Music Project in Seattle

admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:47:09 +0000

The Lonely Forest, Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head and The Oregon Donor are Pacific Northwest pop bands finding new fans across the country. The groups are getting recording contracts, touring widely and generating buzz in the pages of pop music magazines like Spin. Part of their success comes from their prize winning performances at Sound Off. Sponsored by Seattle’s Experience Music Project, the Sound Off competition is a battle of Pacific Northwest bands made up of musicians 21 years old and younger.

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Live performance from Tom Morello, lead guitarist from Rage Against the Machine

admin — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:46:52 +0000

Tom Morello, lead guitarist for Rage Against the Machine performing “Midnight in the City of Destruction” from his new solo album “The Fabled City” at the Wall Street Journal … of all places.

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Interview with YouTube founder on how they’ll finally generate revenue

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:38:04 +0000

Google investors have really only one question about YouTube: When does the search giant figure out how to turn those hundreds of millions of video views into cash?

While founder Chad Hurley is still bullish on YouTube’s ad potential, he told us that this one, big online video answer everyone was looking for didn’t exist. Instead, YouTube would be rolling out a range of options starting in the next few months.

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Life is Not Virtual – Tom Brokaw at MIT

admin — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:33:27 +0000

Tom Brokaw speaks passionately about the transformative power of technology at MIT.

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Emerging Technologies and Trends in Online Entertainment and Business

admin — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:37:29 +0000

With the arrival of digital technology, we’ve become a nation “of multitaskers, snackers and samplers,” says Jonathan Miller, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AOL. A longtime player in the media industry, Miller perceives two distinct trends emerging: the fragmentation of consumption, due to “an incredible explosion of choice,” and the consolidation of money and power in the business.

These intertwined phenomena will continue to play out, Miller believes, “to the consumers’ benefit,” because the consumer is in control. Content is available across many platforms, from cell phones to laptops to handheld games, and with broadband and wireless penetration, users can get their fix of video, news, entertainment and data virtually anywhere, anytime. Consumers have at their command cheap and easy ways to produce and distribute their own content, whether original or freely exploited from other authors. There’s been a grassroots explosion of blogs, websites, mashups, instant messaging, and YouTubing. Miller notes that the internet served up five billion screens of video in 2002, and in the past year, five times as many.

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When good people turn bad

admin — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:54:41 +0000

MIT’s Technology and Culture forum presents The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil featuring Philip Zimbardo.

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Charlatans UK live

admin — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:44:05 +0000

British rockers Charlatans UK breathe life into their latest release, Simpatico, with live versions on Morning Becomes Eclectic from KCRW.

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Prison Escapee socially engineers his escape.

admin — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0000

Smooth-talking escapee evades police

Woe is Carl Bordelon, a police officer for the town of Ball, La. His dashboard camera captured (below) his questioning of Richard Lee McNair, 47, on Wednesday. Earlier that same day, McNair had escaped from a federal penitentiary at nearby Pollock, La., reportedly hiding in a prison warehouse and sneaking out in a mail van. Bordelon, on the lookout, stopped McNair when he saw him running along some railroad tracks. What follows is a chillingly fascinating performance from McNair, who manages to remain fairly smooth and matter-of-fact while tripping up Bordelon. The officer notices that the guy matches the description of McNair — who was serving a life sentence for killing a trucker at a grain elevator in Minot, N.D., in 1987 — observes that he looked like he’d “been through a briar patch” and had to wonder why he would choose appalling heat (at least according to that temperature gauge in the police car) to go running, without any identification, on a dubious 12-mile run. But he doesn’t notice when McNair changes his story — he gives two different names (listen for it) — and eventually, Bordelon bids him farewell, saying: “Be careful, buddy.” McNair remains on the loose. (Note: Video is more than eight minutes long but worth it.)

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Video clip via Salon ‘Video Dog’

DJ Spooky video interview – Exploring a Media Ecology

admin — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:07:39 +0000

WGBH asked filmmakers, journalists, industry observers, and scholars to talk about the pressing trends in broadcast media and the future of television. Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Independent artist, writer, producer, and musician discusses “Exploring a Media Ecology”.

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Live Ben Harper performance

admin — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 20:05:50 +0000

Ben Harper and his band perform an uplifting set of great music on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic:

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Streaming video symposium at MIT featuring Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder

admin — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:46:16 +0000

The rising tide of digital communication has not lifted all boats equally, and threatens to leave others stranded altogether.

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