30 years after the revolution. In the words of Ian Black “…minority groups are persecuted and the media often faces repression, one reason why Iran has such a vibrant blogosphere and alternative Art scene.” src: The Guardian – audio slide show Here’s a short visual essay produced by 4 students from the Vancouver Film School.
Another stab at informing us – just what is actually going on – in 5 minutes flat … and then ends by asking us what it all means. It sounds like we were all born yesterday and the Internet is 10 minutes old. How should we know? At least now I know that during the [...]
Check these videos out. Funny – takes you by surprise – I’ve not seen this before, perhaps it’s been done already but it surprised me. It’s a Dutch team behind SelfControlFreak going by the name of Holland Interactive. There must be many ways this technique could be put to use for some daft on-line games, [...]
Yesterday Freebox, the sister company to Free – a rapidly growing broadband ISP operator in France – launched an IPTV User Generated Content service. With TV Perso Free subscribers equipped with a Freebox HD are the ‘first people in the world’ to be able to create their own television channel that can be viewed directly [...]
After the OpenWengo project – ‘A VoIP provider whose goal is to make standards-based SIP telephony available to all’, Wengo, a subsidiary of the French telecommunications company Neuf Cegetel, has begun flirting with the blogosphere. WengoVisio, a video communication widget has gone live in limited public beta – limited to the first 10,000 (6,000 as [...]
The most popular francophone video-sharing destination, Daily Motion, recently struck a deal with the leading French TV station TF1. DM has developed a Web site for TF1 called Wat.tv where users can post and view videos. TF1 are following in the footsteps of another French TV station M6 who have launched Wideo with the help [...]
Spanish start-up launched on the 21st of October, Visuarios is a new video sharing site with an educational slant. Visuarios videos are a mixture of tutorials, advice, tips & tricks, and simple how-to’s. “Visuarios is a website to share videos about everyday knowledge among everyday people.†If you sign in for a free account with [...]