Media sharing
YouTube - the world's largest video hosting.
The online video service YouTube was founded in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. Since 2006 video service belongs to Google internet corporation, which spent $ 1.65 billion on the deal.
According to Steve Grove, a head of department of news and politics on YouTube,
Associated Press uploads about 300 movies a week. The New York Times uploads from about 6 to 12 videos a week. The same with The Washington Post. "Most media companies have realized that not only distribute content via its own platform. They need to go where their audience - on YouTube, Facebook or Twitter. We exist to anyone able to download content and watch it. Therefore, the audience comes to our site, "- says Grove.
Stars of YouTube.
The key difference of YouTube and similar services is that there are placed professional videos produced by media corporations, TV shows and movies (but in order to post videos longer than 10 minutes must be enclosed with the company a special partnership agreement), and amateur videos and videoblogs. The most popular of them are well known not only in Internet, sometimes bringing their creators worldwide fame and love of the audience.
Company Pew Internet & American Life Project conducted a reconnaissance, from which it was reported that there are about 70% of adult Internet users in the U.S. often visit online video services such as YouTube and Vimeo. If compare to last year, this figure was
66% and in 2006 - 33%. 28% of adult Americans feel free to answer the question “Have you visited a particular broadcasts yesterday?”'. In the United States of such users was about 8% five years ago.
YouTube is the most popular video service. On YouTube daily video views passed 3 billion for YouTube users uploaded every minute 50 hours of video. For comparison in 2009 the figure was 24 hours, and in 2007 - a total of 8 hours.
Visit YouTube not only from desktop devices. There are 200 million of mobile users, giving the service about 22% of global mobile web traffic.
YouTube will make a possibility to earm money on a video for everyone.
To affiliate video hosting YouTube, which allows authors to make videos and promote their works, can now become anyone. It is stated in the partner blog of YouTube.
This affiliate program allows authors to receive a portion of revenue from display ads on their videos. Partners also provided enhanced by downloading a video, design of channels, the protection of copyright and the study of statistics. Earlier partners could become only the creators of popular videos.
The admission is for authors of original movies, which owns all rights to their works or who are authorized by holders to use them.
After YouTube has become part of the Internet giant, the service began to sue by copyrights holders of different countries, arguing that many online videos are piracy, for which they should receive royalties. Stream of lawsuits did not stop even after the introduction of a special system for YouTube as Content ID, using which rights holders can remove illegally posted video, and get a percentage of revenue for advertising commercials.
If you ask users on the network which online service to store, view and share video, they know, in most cases you will receive a reply that is YouTube. Here is Vimeo. It is particularly relevant was before an introduction of the so-called
YouTube HD video with high quality. The focus of Vimeo was made precisely on the quality of downloadable movies, so it can be used not only to home users, professionals and video industry, but young directors and "shoot" fans also.
In general the video builds a social network with users, communication, personal pages, etc. A sense of "sociality" in YouTube a little less - a list of some faceless comments below a video and connected clips.
There is a list of Vimeo main features:
1. The ability to download easily any video that you made by yourself - you get 500
MB of storage each week. Files are stored on the servers of service to you or anyone else can then download them when you are so inclined. The developers emphasize that the video quality is a major achievement, HD video is also supported.
2. Vimeo allows to share your video (or even the whole album) in one click with anyone. The system has a rights divestiture, so you can determine who exactly will be available for your video - registered members, friends, and by password. You will also be able to publish their videos on various social sites like Facebook, MySpace, Flickr or Digg. It is possible to embed code player in blogs and in general and any other projects also.
3. Vimeo is a great place to communicate with other people also, you can sign up for video updates of anybody. Chat with your friends, comment on videos of others, unite in the community.
4. In Vimeo there is a directory of all videos, which are divided into categories, there are groups and channels also that you can subscribe.
It should be noted that online video service Vimeo has two types of accounts, a free allows:
• 500MB upload videos every week. • Download files.
• Create groups and channels.
• Download HD video.
• Post videos on other sites.
• Control the privacy settings.
Vimeo Plus account costs about $ 60 per year or $ 10 per month. It is clear that for most users this is quite acceptable amount. In return, you get a number of withdrawal restrictions, for example, 5 GB of video every week, no advertising, any number of downloads HD video, and much more.
Vimeo is a nice, comfortable and pleasant to work with it in principle, really easy.
You can stay for a long time on a free account, so as to capture HD video you need a professional equipment.
Vimeo it is more simple and intuitive than YouTube service. The message of Vimeo says that it was created for filmmakers by filmmakers, so all the wishes intuitively considered:
• In Vimeo is a clean and simple but stylish interface.
• Provides users with a limitation of the video over the license Creative
Commons.
• You can protect the video with a password.
• You can choose an icon for the video and a brief reference to it.
• It's easy to celebrate the film with a link to their pages (but only if they are in
your friends list)
Nothing more. And the audience is extremely serious and creative. YouTube with its subscriptions, channels and links within a video to other pages is more service for video blogging and promoting musicians, rather than to produce a filmmakers portfolio.
Metacafe is one of the largest "video transmitters" on the Web. According to the
MediaMetrix agency, here comes every month about 16 million unique users viewed more than 400 million videos. Well established part of the social service which uses its own technology ranking shared videos. You can sort it by a criteria of "Top Rated", "Most
Discussed", "The most recent uploads". Last fall, the administration of MetaCafe introduced a reward system for users (referred there as "producers") called Producer Rewards, in which the authors of the best spots for them can receive a reward. On the title page shows a dozen individuals who have earned the most.
Any creator of the original video, which meets requirements of the program may submit it for consideration. Metacafe pay $ 5 per 1000 views - you receive your first payment of $ 100 after crossing the 20,000 visits and are accepted into Metacafe Producer Rewards ® program which is designed to encourage creativity and celebrate an art and craft of making short films.
Comments on a rejection of video:
1. A video which are substantially similar to other video already in Metacafe Producer
Rewards ® - are not accepted into the program.
2. Unsuitable Content. Video Metacafe Producer Rewards ® are meant to entertain a large and diverse audience. Videos that have a sexual awakening as their primary goal, is not accepted. Videos that instruct the audience how to do something questionable, how to make a weapon or an explosive firepower is likely to cause harm, incite action, intended to cause harm.
3. Rights are not protected. - Metacafe Producer Rewards ® must be original work, and the video creator must prove that he or she has all the necessary documents to images, music, and people featured in a video.
4. Low Technical Quality. A video that are extremely dark or granular, are missing the structure or low frame rate or have a poor sound quality is not accepted in Metacafe
Producer Rewards ® program.
5. Abuse. A video signs, names or descriptions that are misleading.
6. Too Short. A video must be at least 30 seconds long.
7. Not interesting video. Metacafe is a video entertainment site, so if your video is not interesting video, it will not be accepted in a program of Metacafe Producer Rewards ®. This includes items such as number of captures of a computer screen, slide shows, photo compilations, fractals and optical illusions.
Metacafe reserves a right to reject or remove any video from Metacafe Producer
Rewards ® or take a video to Metacafe Producer Rewards ® program at any time.
Metacafe Producer Rewards ® is designed to encourage and celebrate a creativity.
All people are different and they are also perceived differently new ways of working, new technology. It plays a role of age, sex, temperament and character of a person. Is what one gets used for a day, the other will develop a week, and you have to be ready for it.
IT development is influenced not only by a scope of human life’s work - it changes a person. This is particularly noticeable in younger generation - children, teenagers become more difficult to communicate in real life, it is more inclined to communicate through the Internet. The Internet is changing the way of thinking - it becomes more imaginative, are beginning to run other parts of the brain. Physical development also goes the other way - develop fine motor skills (through ongoing work with a keyboard), but there are postural problems due to the constant sitting at the table. The child, too early to start to use the computer begins to see him as a member of a family (known as "imprinting").
In different countries and different cultures, the idea what is ethical and what is not, can not match. This also applies to ethics in information technology. In Japan, the West does not disrupt camera, watching every step of a man - in the store, on the street, at work ...
Employers do not feel ashamed every few minutes (or even seconds). Take screenshots monitor their employees and monitor their every step, in fact - read personal mail, watch a behavior of employees on the Web. In Russia, most employers today believe this is unacceptable. But who knows what will happen in five years, ten years? In the East, also has its own characteristics - where the state itself keeps track of when and what people are doing on the Internet. Foreign sites are blocked, access to the Internet is limited.
On the computer of average user can be about 20 spyware (or potentially spyware) programs - and this is not always already familiar viruses as "Troy", keyloggers, etc. Even it would seem harmless, does regularly provides reports to its developers. Any program can contain hidden features and functions that enable it to gather information and pass it on to interested parties.
IT ethics including technical, ethical, legal, social, political and philosophical issues that have in particular:
• development of codes of ethics for professionals and users of IT;
• protection of property rights, copyright, rights of privacy and freedom of
expression in relation to information technology;
• computer crime, legislative and regulatory issues. The main provisions of the code of IT ethics as for media sharing can states:
• Do not use a computer to harm other people.
• Not to interfere or intervene in a work of other users.
• Do not use files that are not intended for free use.
• Do not use your computer to spread false information.
• Not appropriate the intellectual property of others.
• Do not use the computer hardware or network resources without the
permission of who owns it, or compensation.
• Use a computer with self-restraint, which show your courtesy and respect for
others. References
1. http://socialmediatoday.com/node/481533
2. http://quibbling-towards-enlightenment.blogspot.com/2010/07/ethics-of- file-sharing-and-media-piracy.html
3. http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/29508/vimeo-vs-youtube-internet-video
4. http://cksyme.org/2010/06/21/youtube-or-vimeo-which-is-best-for-you/
5. http://www.helium.com/items/1229715-metacafe
6. http://www.mndaily.com/2010/04/28/youtube-and-ethics-copyright