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NewTeeVee…One Year Young
Can you believe it? It was exactly a year ago when NewTeeVee launched, with one mission: to chronicle the fast-changing world of online video and peer into the future of television.
A year later, everything has changed, and so much has happened. Writers are fighting the studios over monies made from the Internet, YouTube and Viacom are in the courts, and watching “Casino Royale” on an N95 doesn’t seem so awkward.
Funny — we almost forgot about it today, for it has been a busy day in the world of online video. (Also, Liz’s note on NTV) Chris, Jackson, Janko, Craig, Karina and a whole lot of others have followed Liz’s lead and created a thriving and energetic community, thanks to their meticulous, interesting and well-written posts — about 1,887 of them.
Some members of the original team have left to go on to great things, and to them we say thank you! Joey Wan, though less visible, has played a crucial role in the evolution of NewTeeVee, helping organize our Pier Screenings (four in San Francisco and one in New York) and NewTeeVee Live. Please join me in wishing the NewTeeVee crew a Happy Birthday!
Most importantly, thank you readers! And now back to regular programing.
Thank You All For Making NewTeeVee Live a Success
“Are you going to have this event next year?” That was the most common refrain we heard as we were wrapping up our NewTeeVee Live conference last night. How do you answer that question? By saying yes, of course, barring any unforeseen circumstances, we are going to do an encore in 2008. The question also subtly told us that we did, if not all, then most things right yesterday. Yup, the sleepless nights were worth it.
Being rookies at this conference thing, we were a little nervous and as such might have made some errors or came up short in some places — we pledge to do better next time. And even before we start: big thanks to all the attendees who made the conference tick.
It was great to see everyone enjoying themselves, and on quite a few occasions I stumbled into some deal-making conversations. (Don’t worry, guys — I was too worried about the event to remember who was saying what!)
AT&T 2.0, fireworks on the VC panel, a mile-a-minute Quincy Smith keynote, YouTube’s Steve Chen unplugged — those were some of the highlights of the event. All of it is available as an archived stream (coming soon in embeddable chunks) thanks to Mogulus, which did an awesome job of streaming the conference. And The GigaOM Show co-host Joyce Kim did a great job of being the live anchor. Thanks, Joyce.
The event was a testament to the skills and hard work of our team, especially Paul, Mike, and Joey. And there was Liz’s relentless editorial curation. They are the real reason this event came to fruition. Thank you, guys — The Fantastic Four!
Surj thanks for being the voice of god. Craig, Chris and Carolyn worked tirelessly to live blog the event and give NewTeeVee and GigaOM readers as much information as possible in near real time. Carleen and Katie pitched in even though they had their own blogs to worry about. Chancey quietly made the whole web side of things work. From the FM side of the house, Stacey, Julia, Larissa, Sonia were tireless in their organizational skills.
Our moderators, panelists, and speakers were generous with their time and insights and extremely supportive of our efforts. To each one of you — a big thanks, from the bottom of my heart. Hopefully you will join the fun again next year. I also want to thank our sponsors and exhibitors, without whose support it would have been difficult to put on the show – thank you.
Thanks as well to our volunteers and our friends in the press, both of whom came out in big numbers to show their support. And to those of you who traveled from afar, I am glad we met. I am sure I am forgetting many people, so forgive me.
See you next year.
NewTeeVee Live Update: Schedule & Speakers
For past few months, the entire GigaOM team led by Liz Gannes & Joey Wan has been busy pulling together NewTeeVee Live, our first conference, which is slotted to take place on November 14 in San Francisco. We posted the schedule and the speaker list on the site on Friday.
We have a few slots to fill in the lineup, as well as tweaks and fine tuning, mostly depending on confirmations from PR representatives of people we’ve asked to participate. One thing I would like to point out that while there have been a lot of different video conferences this year, each one is unique (or different) in its own way.
The difference is editorial focus of the event, just like each blog or a publication has a different take on the story. So when someone does an event, both Liz and I go out and support their editorial vision, either as moderators or as reporters. All these events are helping the online video industry’s evolution.
My editorial vision for NewTeeVee is that it tries to present coverage of content, community and conduits in a coherent and easy-to-digest manner. To present the economic cause-and-effect of each innovation or industry development is our credo.
Liz and I have put together a schedule that promises to be a ton of fun, explores questions about the business of online video, and exposes and where the opportunities are for content creators, communities and conduit owners.
If you have been a reader of NewTeeVee, you might be recognize that many of our panels have evolved from a particular post on NewTeeVee. With the conference, we will move some of our most interesting online conversations forward in a different venue.
We understand that the dynamism of the online video sector can’t be bottled into a single one-day event. We hope to learn this year, and next year we will have an expanded event. Meanwhile, for those of you who are not able to attend in person, we are going to webcast the entire day via Mogulus, including some on-the-spot interviews with attendees and speakers by my GigaOM Show co-host Joyce Kim. We are also trying to add more online video elements and will keep you posted.
What’s on GigaNET
Web Worker Pay Off: Online Community Manager: The web isn’t the free-for-all that some of us believe it to be. Many sites, especially those catering to niche audiences, use the skills of online community managers to nudge the conversation, seed chat forums with threads, recruit others to take a lead in various topics, and monitor the dialogue to follow site policies. Continue reading.
What Role Should Product Placement Play?: The role of product placement is increasingly important for the emerging online video community to discuss. Does product placement make you worried or excited? Continue reading.
Dangers of a Threesome: A cautionary tale of a threesome gone awry in hopes that may be beneficial to other entrepreneurs. Continue Reading.
NewTeeVee Screenings Registration Open
The inaugural NewTeeVee and Metacafe Pier Screenings is only one week away, next Thursday, May 24 in San Francisco. We have a very limited number of spots available, so please go to http://newteevee.eventbrite.com/ now to reserve your ticket. It is first-come, first-serve, until we run out!
The event will showcase the online video technology and content you read about and watch on NewTeeVee in an outdoor movie screening format. Come join us at http://screenings.newteevee.com/ to help choose the six best web videos to be projected on a large screen at the event next week.
The event includes judging by the audience, with commentary from our own American Idol judging panel of Nick Douglas of Look Shiny, Veronica Belmont of CNET, and Jackson West of NewTeeVee. In addition, we’ll conduct an interview with a surprise guest who’s uniquely qualified in the area of episodic video success.
Refreshments will include beer, soft drinks, and movie theater fare (think popcorn and red vines).
Remember to bring a blanket to sit on and warm clothing. It can get cold near the bay!
Announcing, NewTeeVee Pier Screenings!
If you ever lived in New York, the best part of summer was going to Bryant Park on a warm evening, sitting down on a blanket and watching The Sound of Music, with hundreds of others. Drinking wine, eating some cheese and generally enjoying the communal feeling that often goes with watching films.
The NewTeeVee team is bringing those magical memories to San Francisco with The NewTeeVee Pier Screenings! The first event is on May 24th, 2007.
On a pier overlooking the San Francisco Bay on a summer night, we’re going to project some online video onto a big screen. We’ll provide popcorn, red wines, and beer. The NewTeeVee community picks six videos to show, which the crowd and a panel of judges dissect. We also bring in an industry leader for quick chat, and allow plenty of time to hang out.
In order to get the process going, we worked with Ning (thanks guys!) to develop a special site where you can submit and rank/vote on the videos. Liz also wrote a F.A.Q to guide you through.
Hopefully you can participate!
PS: We are looking for sponsors, and if you are interested in this event that promises to attract the best of the online video community, please get in touch with our ever cheerful manager of business operations, Joanne Wan who can be reached via email at joey at gigaom dot com or our friends at Federated Media, by writing to ads at gigaom dot com.
Get your Joost invite now
Many of our readers have been asking us for Joost invites. While most of you are leaving your email addresses, it was difficult for us to invite each one of you individually. It was a time consuming and laborious process.
In an effort to streamline the process, we worked with folks from Joost, and have developed a special landing page for GigaOM and NewTeeVee readers. All you have to do is click here, and fill out your information, and get your Joost Juice.
Why Joost really rocks… Metadata
When talking about Joost, people tend to focus on its P2P infrastructure, its media center-like interface and its content deals. Now those are all valid points, but the real key to Joost’s success may be something else: A metadata framework that might just revolutionize the way we watch television. … Imagine a personalized TV channel that only serves you shows your friends are literally talking about. Or think about the way this could transform programming itself. What if the Lost folks didn’t do their next Alternative Reality Game on the web, but in Joost itself, allowing you to collaborate with your friends and collect clues while watching the show? Continue reading over on NewTeeVee
Live Sports, Made for NewTeeVee
After spending more than a few minutes sampling CBS’s free live Internet streaming of video from both the NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament and the Masters golf tourney, it’s clear that more live sports coverage will be a popular staple of web TV going forward.
With any luck, it won’t all be put behind a pay-per-view window, though the lure of squeezing out some extra bucks from what used to just be unwatched camera shots has to be strong. Continue reading
What’s on GigaNET
- NewTeeVee: Google goes slumming, doing TV ads now
- NewTeeVee: BitTorrent tests ad-supported content
- WebWorkerDaily: Prepare yourself for Bust 2.0, whenever it happens
- WebWorkerDaily: Sorry state of spam, and what you can do about it
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Could filtering become a fiasco for YouTube?
YouTube’s defense against claims of copyright infringement has long been the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which clears service providers from liability related to material transmitted through their systems. But if Google were to implement copyright filters, proactively screening content before it’s posted to the site, would YouTube leave the safe harbor of DMCA? Continue Reading…
The Really New NewTeeVee
Its been a little over three months since we launched NewTeeVee, our site devoted to the fast changing world of online video. Secretly, we aspired to be the Variety of this new medium, though we aren’t foolish enough to think that it was even possible for us become even a pale shadow of that great publication. Still, we think of it as worthy role model. Of course, we had no idea if the site was going to work or not.
In three months that have gone by, we have had tremendous feedback not only from our readers, but a whole new audience that includes the folks who are changing the world, or as has dubbed it - exploding the teevee.
With the little sapling taking root, we decided it was time for us to give it a facelift, enhance its look and feel to reflect more of the community Liz, Jackson, Paul and our stellar line up of writers have fostered. We entrusted Nicolo Volpato, the genius who designed my personal blog to play Doctor 90210.
Take a look, and see for yourself what a great job he has done. Folks from vod:pod built the awesome widget that you see on the top of the new site, thus making it easier for you to enjoy the top videos curated by NewTeeVee editors. We owe them our many thanks, as we do to you readers - the feedback you have sent us, has been great help in shaping the new look for NewTeeVee.
