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YouTube Live Streaming, Disney Jumping in on Hulu, and the End of Television As We Know It

By John Furnari | Published: May 5, 2009
Two big news stories this week speak volumes to the paradigm shift in viewing habits taking place in the world of digital communication. First, Mashable reported last Wednesday that Barack Obama’s 100-days press conference would be streamed…live…on YouTube.  This was the first live streaming event ever on the site that changed the world as an archive [...]
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Music Streaming Services vs. Music Ownership

By tristan | Published: April 15, 2009
Can music streaming services replace music ownership? This is one of the never ending questions I hear pertaining to the music industry. Because we are in a transitional state from physical retail album sales to digital distribution and online music streaming, answers to questions like this have the potential to reshape to how artists, record labels, [...]
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PhotoHunt 2.0

By John Furnari | Published: February 5, 2009
Just a couple of weeks ago Street Fighter found a new platform on the world’s number one online video destination and the concept of multi-level YouTube games really got us thinking. The latest on this front absolutely warms my heart.  YouTube user ‘copyrighthater’ took the idea and brought the digital world 2009’s version of a long-standing [...]
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Re-confirmed: Music Fuels the Digital Fire

By John Furnari | Published: February 3, 2009
A new report released by market research firm Hitwise confirms what we’ve known for years - this whole web 2.0 thing is a perfect bedfellow for the music industry. The digital generation is turning off their television at increasing rates in lieu of online video, and music has a lot to do with this shift. According [...]
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Playing Street Fighter on YouTube

By John Furnari | Published: January 19, 2009
Long story short: someone has gone ahead and created a way to ‘play’ the legendary video game Street Fighter using YouTube.  Essentially, you can click buttons within the video which link to additional YouTube clips that replicate the action (kick, punch, etc.) that you intended. It’s simply inspiring to see such an innovative use of a [...]
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