Larry Kless' Weblog: Weekly Review: Online Video, Gadgets and Social Media Links 11/23/08

Each day I build a bookmark page of links I find through my RSS feeds in Google Reader, web pages that were shared by friends I subscribed to on Friendfeed and people I follow on Twitter. I use them mainly for reference when blogging and sharing. Here's a collection of links I've assembled from this past week. It's a mix of online video news, gadgets and social media. Even with the Thanksgiving holiday it was a busy week. I have several draft posts that I'm working on which will be published soon so stay tuned.

November 23, 2008

Did "Lazy Sunday" make YouTube's $1.5 billion sale possible?

November 24, 2008

FriendFeed And Twitter Have Not Killed Blogging

November 25, 2008

Online Video Not Killing TV, Says Nielsen - ReadWriteWeb
- Earlier this month, we heard how online video was cannibalizing TV consumption, thanks to data coming out of an IBM study that polled people across six different countries worldwide. The study showed that 36% of people watched "significantly less" TV as a result of their online video viewing. This week, however, a report from Nielsen contradicts that study. Their "A2/M2 Three Screen Report" released yesterday shows that TV viewership isn't declining at all...in fact, it's at an all time high.

Streamingmedia.com: Eyes on the Enterprise: Brave New Platforms
Streamingmedia.com: The Ultimate Guide to Creating Online Video Content That Works, Part 2
- In Part 1 of this article, we looked at the importance of understanding your audience—both existing and potential—and the different challenges facing major media companies and independent content creators. In Part 2, we’ll look at the importance of video production quality and the pros and cons of long-form and shortform content. We’ll also get some advice from successful content creators about what works and what doesn’t.

The Complete Guide To Google’s Website Optimizer

Twitter: Your Marvel Universe
- Go deeper inside the House of Ideas thanks to the magic of social networking
- Marvel writers on Twitter include (but are not limited to) Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Duane Swierczynski, Andy Diggle, Jason Aaron, Ivan Brandon, Rick Remender, Matt Fraction, Warren Ellis, Brian Reed, Jim McCann, C.B. Cebulski, Brian Keene, Simon Spurrier, Jonathan Hickman and Paul Cornell.
- Marvel artists on Twitter include (but are not limited to) Todd Nauck, Mitch Breitweiser,Chris Eliopoulos, colorist Emily Warren, David Lafuente, Lee Duhig from Guru eFX, Dan Panosian, Mike Deodato Jr. and colorist Dave Stewart.
- Editors include assistant editor Jordan White, Marvel.com video editor Jason Harvey,Marvel.com video editor Ramon Olivo, collections editor Jen Grunwald, Marvel.com Director of Content John Cerilli, assistant editor Lauren Sankovitch and myself.

Why does everything suck?: Something is Happening To Our Brains
- There are few who at this point have not heard about the suicide of Abraham Biggs on Justin.tv. There are few that don’t know that visitors to the chat room associated with the Justin.tv video feed egged him on. There are few that are not disgusted by the thought, no, the horror of what happened. But there is a bigger picture here. And it is not a bigger picture about the horrors of the Internet. Behavior of the type that was displayed in the chat room is, I think, a symptom of a much larger issue.