WorldTV is on a Digital Mission!
WorldTV is one of 21 lucky Digital Mission winners selected by the UK Government’s Department of Trade & Investment to attend the Web 2.0 Expo conference in New York in September.
Digital Mission is organized by Chinwag on behalf of the UK Government with the idea of enabling 21 UK digital companies to expand into overseas markets and attract investment from outside the UK.
We are very excited here at WorldTV to be part of Digital Mission as this represents a unique opportunity to interact with the Tech industry across the pond, show off our service and hopefully meet a host of new influential contacts at one of the key international web events of the year.
Flying the flag for WorldTV will be our Founder and CEO Alx Klive who will be in Geek Nirvana!
Below is a list of the other lucky winners!
B View – http://www.bview.co.uk
Harvest Digital – http://www.harvestdigital.com
Head London – http://www.headlondon.com
Headshift – http://www.headshift.com
Huddle – http://www.huddle.net
idiomag – http://www.idiomag.com
KMP – http://www.kmp.co.uk
Market Sentinel – http://www.marketsentinel.com
Mippin – http://www.mippin.com
Littleloud – http://www.littleloud.com
QuickTV – http://www.quick.tv
Slicethepie – http://www.slicethepie.com
Smarkets – http://smarkets.com/
Sweemo – http://www.sweemo.com/
Tactile CRM – http://www.tactilecrm.com/
Tempero – http://www.tempero.co.uk
UGame – http://www.ugame.net
UnLtdWorld – http://www.unltdworld.com
Unruly Media – http://www.unrulymedia.com
Veedow – http://www.veedow.com
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Read MoreToby’s Choice Week 2
My name is not Sophie it is Toby and this is Week 2 of Toby’s Choice.
1. Hot Tuna – worldtv.com/hot tuna
While fishing around on the World Page we hooked a whopper! Hot Tuna is a super surf channel esque channel that instantly clicks the adrenalin junky button with some sub zero river surfing in Berlin! It continues the theme with more slickly branded surf clips promoting the “Hot Tuna” range of clothing. The channel can be found housed on the Hot Tuna home page where they have skilfully linked the Hot Tuna logo to their WorldTV channel thus demonstrating a great commercial use of the WorldTV service. A long term friend of WorldTV we really like what you’ve done here boys and encourage others to do the same!
2. Olga Galavay – worldtv.com/OlgaKay
I stumbled upon the intriguing Olga this week after she sent in an email with some great positive feedback. Based in LA Olga is a Comedy Juggler originally from Siberia and her quirky camera friendly style has already amassed 12,000 subscribers on her own You Tube page Her WorldTV channel is a sample of these high quality YT clips showing her range of unique abilities and left field sense of humor in a kind of video diary format. All power to Olga and keep juggling those different career balls, batons, hoops and nesquik! Click here for Olgas website
3. Redefined Avenue TV – worldtv.com/redefined_avenue_tv
For those of you of the dope beatz persuasion Redefined Avenue TV is a channel featuring a mish mash of fashion, art, promotion, music, advert nostalgia and some killer “dunking”. Its creator is (i think) an 18yr old called Brey from the UK although the content is very US friendly. A non descript channel in many ways but I guess i just liked the vibe and the way it flows. Click here for Breys blog
Some extras:
worldtv.com/Charlie Chaplin Classic Charlie Chaplin clips from a number of his best loved films, starting with his famous “speech” at the end of The Great Dictator (1940) which he both starred in and directed.
worldtv.com/SoulDiscoFunk features a choice selection of music videos predominantly from the 70′s hey day of booty shaking music and wide trousers.
So that’s Week 2 of Toby’s Choice packed and ready to go. Remember you can contact me with your suggestions at tobyschoice@worldtv.com
Read MoreToby’s Choice
Toby’s Choice is a new weekly WorldTV blog post featuring a selection of cherry picked channels reviewed by yours truly (above) hence the title (A prize goes to the first person who can now guess my name?). My aim is to travel through our World of 50K+ channels (latest count) discovering the cream of the crop that won’t necessarily feature in the World Page Top 40 “picks”. I’ll be looking for channels that display quality and originality in various guises, of all shapes and sizes and I’ll hopefully sniff out some undiscovered gems for your viewing pleasure.
So without further ado lets get the review show on the road and see what we can find lurking beneath the surface.
Week 1
1. Jazzmode worldtv.com/jazzmodetv
For those of you who enjoy the world of Jazz in its various forms this music adoring channel has some real jewels that had my feet tapping, head jacking and goose bumps dancing to that thing called Jazz.. I particularly love the George Benson video. A quote from the creator. “JazZMode Tv is an integration of Vision and Audio of 20th century’s most profound art form, the Splendid art of Jazz. JMTV delivers Jazz to its viewing audience like never before; taking you on a journey though the history of the art, with interview clips on some the greatest Jazz icons from the past, the present and some phenomenal new talents that are paving the way and leading us into the future of Jazz music.” OBJ Ziniwuchi Ihekoromadu. JazZMode Media Network
2. The Muppet Show worldtv.com/themuppetshow
The Muppet Show was created by the late great Jim Henson and when i was a kid it was staple Saturday night TV and as a family, we all used to cuddle up on the sofa and watch it together. From 1976–1981 TMS ruled the roost of mainstream TV with its great scripting, music, ageless humor and unbelievably high profile guests who were quite happy to play the fool in front of a huge TV audience. Looking back with fond memories TMS now seems even more genius and funnier than ever. Kermit and gang were perhaps victims to special effects sweeping through the 80’s leaving little room for talking puppets but “they don’t make ‘em like they used to” and this is TV gold!
3. You Tubes “Fred” worldtv.com/fred
An example of “like it or loath it” Web TV is “Fred”. Lucas Cruikshank is Fred, a 14 year old kid (pretending to be 6 yr old with anger management issues) who has now reached 45 million+ views, unbelievable stats given the low budget nature of its content. I’ve watched a few of the Fred mini-sodes now and while i can completely understand those that find it painfully mind numbing and deeply irritating i happen to think its very well executed, edited and produced and i freely admit i found it rather amusing. Commercially it has proved its ability to reach the masses with the amazing power of its viral appeal. See what you think? After some delving we discovered that Fred is being sponsored by the ZipIt: http://fredonzipit.com
So thats Toby’s Choice in a WorldTV nutshell, we do hope you enjoyed it, please feel free to send me YOUR recommendations they are ALWAYS welcome!
You can contact me at tobyschoice@worldtv.com
Read MoreNew embeddable player appears on Techcrunch
We’re pleased to announce that an embeddable player for WorldTV (above) is now in final testing and will shortly be available to all channel owners. Today it got its first workout in a post on Techcrunch.com.
We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the best way to implement a genuinely useful and flexible embeddable video player, and the kind of features people want most. This is just the first small step in our plans to offer a range of widgets that give content publishers genuinely useful options, wrapped up in classic WorldTV ease-of-use fashion.
The embeddable player you see has had no specific customization for Techcrunch other than we are hosting the video content on WorldTV. The logo you see is the channel logo for the channel, and appears automatically as a way of branding the player to the content owner. We believe strongly in keeping WorldTV branding to a minimum and will offer options for eliminating it entirely.
Getting this player out the door has been three days of all night coding to meet the Techcrunch deadline. Surviving the inevitable onslaught of traffic from being on the homepage of Techcrunch has also been… interesting!
Watch this space, and don’t forget to sign up for our blog-by-email service if you want to be sure not to miss our exciting news announcements to come.
Read MoreMetacafe Issues
Unfortunately you may have been experiencing some problems adding (or viewing clips) from the very wonderful Metacafe – one of WorldTVs favorite video content sites.
We are doing our very best to resolve this issue ASAP and will keep you posted with any new developments. Meanwhile please be advised that adding Metacafe URL’s to your channel may not be possible and videos added may also be temporarily unavailable to view.
Our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
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Read MoreWhat is ‘Fair Use’ in online video mashups?
The issue of copyright infringement is something that most people are aware of. It’s pretty obvious that if you take a recent movie or TV show and rebroadcast it or distribute it online in its entirety, that is copyright infringement. But are you aware that a legal principle of ‘fair use’ exists, and has done so for more than 150 years? And that ‘fair use’ means that much of the current trend for mashups and parodies of copyrighted content is, in fact, totally allowed?
The US based ‘Center for Social Media‘ is an organization with a good track record of educating everyday people about the law, and establishing guidelines that people within the legal world actually follow. They’ve just released a ‘Code of Best Practices for Online Video‘ which we think will be of interest to many WorldTV producers.
In the spirit of fair use itself, we’ve reproduced the main points below. Do read the whole document if you intend to make use of these provisions.
What is Fair Use of copyright material?
Here are the main principles of ‘fair use’.
- Commenting on or critiquing of copyrighted material
- Using copyrighted material for illustration or example
- Capturing copyrighted material incidentally or accidentally
- Reproducing, reposting or quoting in order to memorialize, preserve, or rescue an experience, an event, or a cultural phenomenon
- Copying, reposting, and recirculating a work or part of a work for purposes of launching a discussion
- Quoting in order to recombine elements to make a new work that depends for its meaning on (often unlikely) relationships between the elements
A PDF of the guidelines can be found here, an online version is here.
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