I think it’s great how many ideas have started at CTVglobemedia and branched out into their own companies. It’s really inspiring that CTV appears to let their employees work on their own sites on the side, then lets them quit to pursue the dot-com dream. I’m going to start highlighting some of these [...]

In my aimless Internet-wanderings today, I ran across Start Your Tube. Want to start your own YouTube for your dancing sheep videos? That’s now an option…and with revenue sharing to boot w00t.

Or you can just set-up your own video site in 10 steps on Debian, but it’s really your option. [...]

Does anyone else think it is kinda funny that Microsoft chose to build the video player for MSNBC in Flash, when they are pitching their Silverlight applet as their new multimedia platform?

Don’t get me wrong, Flash is definitely the way to go for video on the web right now. It’s cross-platform and YouTube [...]

In the next in my series of Media websites using the crappy Maven player, comes the CBC’s new episodic video player. *sigh* How are these players everywhere all-of-a-sudden? They must be significantly cheaper than their competitors (Brightcove and The Feedroom) or something, because I can’t see any other reason they would go [...]

In the advertising-space race to get full episodes online, Global TV (one of the bigger media companies in Canada) just launched their new video player with a series of promotional bumpers on TV. From the URLs of the RSS feeds (e.g. http://canwest.a.mms.mavenapps.net:80/feeds/) it looks like they purchased Media Services from Maven Networks.

Positive aspects of [...]

As you may have noticed, I released my first Facebook Application into the wild yesterday. Since then, a bunch of people have asked me how the Facebook platform works and what it can do. Unless I’m missing them, the Facebook developer area is lacking some of the fundamentals of building an application, so [...]

Without getting into the exact details of why I’ve been debating this point, this article about “U.S. newspapers debate unfettered online reader comment(ing)” has been a sticking point in my efforts to bring commenting to a news organization’s website.

Faced with declining circulation, many U.S. newspapers are trying to engage readers by allowing them to respond [...]

WARNING: This blog entry is super geeky. Proceed only if you know what an “elastic computing cloud” is

This article is a little older, but I was blown away when I saw it. The Enomaly Open Source Consulting group has been able to get Windows Server 2003 running on the Amazon Elastic [...]

As I mentioned yesterday, I’m a big fan of the feature-set being developed by the people at Mojiti. I’ve started following their blog, and today they added another innovative feature: community translation. They’ve provided an interface for users to translate all the text on the site (1117 phrases) from English to one of [...]

I’ve been looking for an easy way to add uploading to WhyYouShould for a while now. My main problem is that I built the site completely in ASP.NET, and without buying some expensive Control (or spending months writing it myself ;)), it’s hard to do uploading with a progress bar. Also, it seemed [...]