Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston are friends. They both came from Friends. So, it appears that Cox needs some help to boost the ratings of her show called Dirt. So what do you do? Ask your friend Aniston to appear as guest. Cool. How about asking your friend for some kissing scene? More coolness. It’s a hit in YouTube. See for yourself and tell me what you think about it. [Read more]

Women are not really into Internet videos. A study by eMarketer revealed that 97 million women in the US will use the Internet this year compared with 91 million men. The report also says that only 66 percent of those women are watching videos online compared to 78 percent of men. Not really that much gap. “Men are more visual than women, who tend to communicate in writing and or in words,” said Debra Aho Williamson, senior analyst with eMarketer and the author of the report. Williamson also said that despite the growth of YouTube, women have not been part of the site’s traffic spike. Possibly true, but maybe it’s just because there are not that many videos that are really suited for women. [Read more]

blinkx, a video search engine on the web, announced that Quintura, a visual discovery engine dedicated to making web-based entertainment easier and more intuitive to find, will use blinkx to power video search. Quintura employs a unique graphical user interface with an interactive tag cloud to visually navigate and easily refine searches. Quintura’s neural networking technology discovers related search terms to the initial query and presents those terms as the interactive tag cloud. Users can then refine or narrow down their searches by clicking on any word or phrase in the cloud. “blinkx’s large video index is a perfect compliment to our graphical user interface,” said Yakov Sadchikov, CEO and Founder of Quintura. “As... [Read more]

I thought it would be easy when I started writing for Inside Online Video. I love videos, short videos, and videos found on the Internet, to be specific. I have the patience to watch a video on the web, but not shows on TV. Yes, no matter how flat nor big the screen nor crisp the screen is. I am no really just a TV guy. I know some people who can watch three TV shows a night, not just for me. It’s just online video for me. Anyway, when I started this blog, I started lightly but then moved to simply providing news. Not good. It’s not in line with what I planned. So, let me reboot and start all over again. Take Two! [Read more]

YouTube is rolling out the red carpet to celebrate the winners of the 2007 YouTube Video Awards. “2006 was a groundbreaking year for YouTube, user-generated content, and entertaining online videos. With this in mind, we established the YouTube Video awards to recognize the ingenuity and achievements of our community,” said Jamie Byrne, head of product marketing for YouTube. “These individuals put the first stitches in the fabric of the YouTube community. Instead of seeing a way to share videos they saw an opportunity for worldwide visibility and through their success have changed the landscape of how a ’star’ is defined.” “It’s incredible how quickly and completely YouTube is changing culture... [Read more]