Here’s our team’s round-up of the most useful links, resources and industry news we’ve bookmarked this week – January 26th – February 1st (2009).
Development & Production
- Slicing Decades Of Video For New Life On The Web by NY Times
- Sponsors Bolster Web Series’ Chances by TVWeek
- Target Web Videos To Popular Topics ‘Obama Girl’ Creator Advises by TVWeek
- Ten Motivators That Inspire Participation by ClickZ Experts
Promotion & Distribution
- The Great Internet Video Lie by Blog Maverick
- For YouTube, A William Morris Deal Would Create Issues by VideoNuze
- Evidence Of Viral Video Evolution by Visible Measures Blog
- Pirating The 2009 Oscars by Waxy.org
- Sundance Panel On ‘Models & Experiments In Indie Distribution’ by CinemaTech
- Worth A Gander: Web Site For ‘Objectified’ by CinemaTech
Monetisation
- The Future Of The Web Is Small by Ideas On Ideas
- Three Freemium Strategies by Lessons Learned
Technology & Infrastructure
- The Case Against Web Apps by Slashdot
- In Cloud We Trust? by ReadWriteWeb
- A Very Prosaic Side Benefit Of Gdrive For Google by SmoothSpan Blog
- Mozilla Gives $100,000 Grant Towards An Open Video Format For The Web by Techcrunch
Miscellaneous
- Refactoring Yourself Out Of Business by Lessons Learned
- Warning: Dependence On Facebook Or Twitter Could Be Hazardous To Your Business by Mediashift
- BBC Stops Trying To Be Google, Abandons Web Search by paidContent.org
- 1981 TV Report On Birth Of Internet News by Techcrunch
Tips
- Sundance: Expert Panels 2009 by HP Presents Sundance ’09
- Getting Started With Amazon Cloud Front by Mike Culver