Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – June 15th – 21st (2009).
Creative & Technical Development
- How To Write A Media Objective, Part 1 by ClickZ Experts
- Sweatpants Forever? by Ideas on Ideas
- Scott Berkun: Why Designers Fail And What To Do by From Business To Buttons 2009
- Gene Liebel: 3 Seconds, A Users Dies Somewhere by From Business To Buttons 2009
- The Wikipedia Usability Initiative by 90 Percent Of Everything
- Testing Results For LessAccounting.com Call To Action by Konigi
- Exploring The Basecamp Account Screen by 37 Signals
- Stop Counting Clicks by UX Booth
Promotion & Distribution
- Producers Of Web Series Test Release Strategies by Video Business
- Consoles To Rule Web-to-TV Video Delivery by NewTeeVee
- Where Hollywood Meets Reality by ADWEEK
- Making Smarter Movies by indieWIRE
- The Second Most Important Question A Filmmaker Can Ask by CinemaTech
- Sorry, There’s No Way To Save The TV Business by Silicon Alley Insider
Consumer Behaviour & Statistics
- Unravelling comScore’s Monthly Data For Online Video by VideoNUZE
- Nielsen Video Stats A Jumble, Viewers Up 13% From Last Year by NewTeeVee
Business & Monetisation
- YouTube Infrastructure Costs Vastly Overestimated by NewTeeVee
- We Should Care About YouTube’s Core Business, Not Their Market Share by Dan Rayburn
- Does It Matter How Much Money YouTube Is Losing? by VideoNUZE
- What’s Holding Back Online Videos Ad Spending? by MediaPost.com
- Hollywood Hits The Stop Button On High Profile Web Video Efforts by LA Times
- Digital Technology And Dollar Signs by LA Times
- Viddyou Founders Looking To Bid Adieu To Video Sharing by NewTeeVee
Technology & Infrastructure
- RTMP Specification Now Available by Kevin Towes
- Google: The Data Center Is The Computer by GigaOM
- Digital Britain Report by ReadWriteWeb
Tips & Tutorials
- Why Continuous Deployment? by Eric Ries
- Why Metrics-Driven Startups Overlook Brand Value by Andrew Chen
- Why You Should Make It Easy For Users To Quit Your Product by Andrew Chen
- PPC/SEM Analytics: 5 Actionable Tips To Improve ROI by Avinash Kaushik