(Source: Cory Williams aka Mr. Safety on How To Improve YouTube Quality)
What exactly is video podcast? It's simple - video podcast is some kind of video uploaded to internet and online users will go to the video podcasting site to stream and watch it there. The video podcast has become the rival and challenger to our so-called television. It seems that the Web 2.0 is up to something larger than life.
The future of online video is feature films in streaming HD (High Definition). But people still prefer to watch on television because for those who doesn't have a fast bandwidth of broadband to stream will reluctantly ignore it. So online video works something like the television (nevermind the streaming bandwidth) where online users can watch their television programming online. Interestingly, if one would still watch TV shows broadcast the old way, nevertheless will noticed that most of the big shows run a teaser at the end inviting viewers to come online to watch the full episode again and/or watch deleted scenes and cast interviews and read cast blogs.
These days blogs comes with video podcast which is trying to grab the audience attention and yet so as they continue subscribing via the RSS feeds. So videos in blogs? - They are vlogs! How did the webdevelopers comes out with vlogs?
Instead of using texts and more texts online covering the whole web pages with just text is simply so boring. So in the year 2000, it was said that Adam Kontras was trying to promote a video on his blog detailing his move to Los Angeles and his attempt at showbusiness. He would later host a segment on The Early Show (Wikipedia). After that, vlogging has been blossoming into something new. And we have the guys like Chad Hurley and Steve Chen invented YouTube in February 2005. Since then it wasn't much of a vlogging when YouTube came out. It was later known as video podcast or vidcast (whatever it was).
It has become a trend after Hurley and Chen built the killer application for internet video with simple video-uploading and off-site video embedding (Beckett p.90). With their ratings popping like popcorns, they have created and fostered a whole new community around sharing video and in the process to release a revolution platform for creative expression. At the present YouTube, contents now consisted from video games trailer to presidential speeches and wacky stuffs on the video.
In Malaysia, the general election which were held on early March 2008, the now Chief Minister of Penang who is also the Secretary-General of Democratic Action Party (DAP) has urged all Malaysians to change the government by voting them. In fact, he has been using the YouTube as his propaganda tool to provoke Malaysians to make a change in the Malaysian government system at that period.
Say what's a vlog again? Simple as it is 'V' stands for video and 'log' is log which equals to video log. So a vlog is a video log - a video record, or journal, or progress report (VlogBlog.com)
Rivaling against YouTube is Veoh Video Network. Veoh is a Web site that’s headed for your TV. It’s also the name for a suite of applications for collecting, publishing, and watching a vast selection of HD-quality video programming. Veoh is a diverse, virtual community of indie publishers coming together with their new audiences.
VeohTV and Veoh.com combine as a virtual television network that organizes, showcases, and delivers clear, full-screen video programming to anyone with a broadband connection. VeohTV turns online video into Internet television.
With VeohTV, watch video from thousands of websites, in one easy-to-use full screen application. Watch streaming video from major television networks such as Fox and CBS, to independently-produced content available on sites such as YouTube, Google Video, Veoh.com and MySpace. Navigate with a keyboard and mouse or use a PC remote control. VeohTV is like a free DVR for web video. Online users can watch video on-demand or record it to their hard drive to watch later.
(Source: CommandandConquer.com )It makes us to never look at television in the same way again!
References:
Wikipedia 2008, Vlog, viewed 11 November 2008,
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlog>
VlogBlog 2005, What Is A Vlog, viewed 11 November 2008,
<http://www.vlogblog.com/index.php/archives/2005/02/19/what-is-a-vlog/>
Beckett, M 2007, 'Chad Hurley & Steve Chen: How YouTube created the video generation and changed my life', TIME: The Most Influential People in The World, vol.189, no.18, pp.90.
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