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When Politicians And Celebrities Are Lying

RealScoop utilizes leading voice analysis technology to analyze statements made by public figures. The BELIEVABILITY METER™ analyzes each celebrity video second by second, displaying the real-time results in a color-coded manner from left to right. The most believable statements are green, gradually turning red as they become more questionable.

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Abstract
This study by Collactive is the research of a correlation between social media visibility on YouTube and fundraising efficiency of large nonprofits in the US. The result is that such a correlation indeed exists and that high social media visibility goes hand-in-hand with efficient fundraising.

Key Findings

• Most nonprofits are barely scratching the surface when it comes to social media marketing. On YouTube in particular, with communities of tens of thousands, we expect nonprofits to attract tens of thousands of views per movie on average and not a few thousand at best.
• The top social media savvy national nonprofits are 13% most efficient fundraisers than the average national nonprofit. This means that an organization with a viable social media marketing strategy is more efficient than the average organization.
• Lagging social media performers are 17% less efficient fundraisers than the average nonprofit. This means that organizations without a viable social media marketing strategy are less efficient than the average organization.

Download the research: Between Social Media Visibility on YouTube and Fundraising Efficiency

Metacafe’s Producer Rewards™ program rewards you for creating and submitting great videos.

How it works
If your video has what it takes to entertain people, Metacafe want to license it and pay you for every view. Every time someone watches your video on Metacafe, you earn money.

How you make money
Metacafe will pay you $5 for every thousand views your video gets on our site. Payment starts after your video reaches 20,000 views and has a rating of 3.00 or higher - which means that the viewers like the video. On top of that, the license to Metacafe is a non-exclusive deal - you retain ownership of your video. Metacafe helps build your brand by marketing your content and making you money.

What’s the potential?
With well over 1 million unique users per day watching over 400 million videos every month, Metacafe is perfectly placed to deliver the most receptive audience to the most entertaining content. Whether it’s something spontaneous in your home or something you’ve scripted, if it entertains, it has a place on Metacafe.

What are the requirements?
For a video to qualify for Producer Rewards, you must own all the rights to the video and the video must meet certain content guidelines.

Get started now!
Upload your video now to Producer Rewards and start earning money!

>>> www.metacafe.com

The combination of three companies: Ericsson, EndeMol and Triple IT, have created a solution for brining video from the mobile phone to the television set. Together they will create a service, targeted at broadcasting companies, to allow live video from mobile phones to be brought to television studios for broadcasting over the TV network.

MeOnTV Version 1.0 enables broadcasters to receive footage shot with mobile telephones.
In its basic form, the MeOnTV service opens a telephone-number for each customer. This phone-number is a regular phone-number on the Dutch public network. In later versions of MeOnTV, it will be possible to use a 0800/0900 number or an international number.
A maximum of 6 mobile phones can call the public number simultaneously.
Mobile phone users can set up a video-call to this number and all footage shot with the telephone will be stored on the MeOnTV platform.
The mobile phone user than gets the option to categorize the footage he has just shot (using a video-based IVR menu system).
The service can be extended with an optional component (the “Live SDI Box”). This component can convert incoming footage (real-time) to SDI for broadcasting purposes (live transmissions).

MeOnTV gives the broadcaster editorial staff the tools required to manage this solution, it contains tools for monitoring incoming video footage, routing footage to the optional SDI converter, rating pre-recorded footage and exported pre-recorded footage.

MeOnTV intends to be a complete solution for broadcasters to integrate mobile phone generated footage into their broadcasting solutions.

More information and video example

Article from TripleIT

NXTcomm Show, CHICAGO – June 18, 2006 – Ellacoya Networks™, Inc., a leading provider of carrierclass
broadband service optimization solutions for IP networks, today released findings based on usage
data of approximately one million broadband subscribers in North America.

After more than four years during which peer-to-peer (P2P) applications have overwhelmingly consumed
the largest percentage of bandwidth on the network, HTTP (Web) traffic has overtaken P2P and continues
to grow. Presently, as a result of streaming audio and video in Web downloads, HTTP is approximately
46% of all traffic on the network. P2P continues as a strong second place at 37% of total traffic.
Newsgroups (9%), non-HTTP video streaming (3%), gaming (2%) and VoIP (1%) are the next widely used
applications.
Breaking down application types within HTTP, the data reveals that traditional Web page downloads (i.e.
text and images) represent 45% of all Web traffic. Streaming video represents 36% and streaming audio
5% of all HTTP traffic. YouTube alone comprises approximately 20% of all HTTP traffic, or nearly 10% of all traffic on the Internet.
“The popularity of browser-based video such as YouTube is having a significant impact not only on
overall bandwidth consumption but also on the distribution of application traffic on the network,” said Fred
Sammartino, vice president of marketing and product management at Ellacoya. “The way people use the
Internet is changing rapidly - from browsing to real-time streaming. We expect to see new applications
over the next year that will accelerate this trend.”

Research of Ellacoya Networks (.pdf)

I tried to share videos in my Blog (Wordpress), but every time I went to copy the Embed code from YouTube my entire Blog displayed craziness. There was the video, but the Blog layout was absolutely wrong.

There are hundreds of posts around the web looking for the right solution, and I spent last night searching the best one. And finally… I found it!

What about a simple button in the admin panel, a copy a paste of the video link, and… done, like here:

Curious? You really need it? Ok, the answer to our prayers is the WordPress plugin:

Viper’s Video Quicktags

Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box — easy as that. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, alignment on the page) and much more. Best of all, it won’t break your page’s (X)HTML validation. Currently supports these video sites:

• YouTube
• Google Video
• IFILM
• Metacafe
• MySpace
• Vimeo

As well as these file types:

• QuickTime (MOV, etc.)
• Generic video files (AVI, MPEG, WMV, etc.)
• Flash Video Files (FLV)

>> DOWNLOAD the plugin from the official website