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Guba launches services with a splash

Video search site parties in San FranciscoCNET News.com's Neha Tiwari spoke with Guba employees at their bash in downtown San Francisco. Hear about their new services and why they have reason to celebrate.

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Videos 2006-10-02

Guba is moving toward the premium market

User generated content is important, but premium content takes tUser generated content is important, but premium content takes the leadTom McInerney, founder and CEO of video-sharing site Guba, speaks with CNET's Neha Tiwari at the Digital Hollywood conference in San Jose, Calif. McInerney explains how Guba offers user-generated content and...

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Videos 2006-08-17

Guba inks film deal with Sony Pictures

Guba inks film deal with Sony PicturesHollywood recasts its download alliesMy question: Why are we going to pay $19.99 for a restricting download of a movie that's been out for a while. When BIG WAL sells them totally transportable for $14.99 or less.Dan

Tags: Guba, Sony Pictures

Discussion threads 2006-07-13

Guba

Editors' note: Guba has just signed a distribution deal with Sony Pictures. Adding 100 of the studio's feature films (available 7/12/06) to the Guba premium lineup is definitely an improvement for this fledgling service. (7/11/06)Take the homemade and user-driven sensibilities of a YouTube and add the feature-film pedigree of a...

Tags: video, Guba

Product reviews 2006-07-06

At C3 Expo in NYC today

I'm fresh off the Delta Shuttle from Boston and sitting in the press room at C3 Expo Corporate and Channel Computing at the Javits Center on New York City's West Side photo of a dead show floor shown below. I'm also fully loaded with gear for some multimedia...

Tags: Guba, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Blog posts 2006-06-27

Additional Resources

VDownloader (zip)

VDownloader allows you to download videos from Youtube, Google Video, Metacafe, MySpace, DailyMotion, Pornotube, and many other similar sites, saving them in AVI or MPG format. Supported sites: Youtube; Google; Video; DailyMotion; MySpace; Stage6; DivX; Porkolt; Metacafe; Break.com; 123 Video; Bolt; VSocial; Lulu TV; Guba; This version is the first...

Tags: YouTube Inc., Video, MySpace, VDownloader, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Software downloads 2007-06-29

Bigger isn't better with Web streaming performance

Small user generated Web video companies can offer better performance than big players. YouTube has 100 percent availability and delivers video in 1.08 seconds. Yahoo video has the best connect time. And the worst video site takes a full 10 seconds to deliver video in a flash player....

Tags: YouTube, Broadband, Google, Yahoo, Hardware Infrastructure, Web Technology, Hollywood on Demand, General, Software Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-03-08

Students do eco-study in Costa Rica - remotely

Thanks to some innovative educators and podcasting, some students in New Jersey will get a chance to study the ecology of Costa Rica, reports theHome News Tribune Online Rich in biodiversity, Costa Rica is a perfect place to study ecological issues, such as global warming. Through an two-year partnership...

Tags: McGinnis, Education Technology, Distance Learning

Blog posts 2006-12-27

Message to TV broadcasters banding together against YouTube: Remember Go.com

Yesterday, I was interviewed by Amy Scott on NPRs Day-to-Day show and the subject of the interview was a Wall St. Journal story that reported on how, in true the enemy of my enemy is my friend fashion, a bunch of television broadcasters are considering a joint Web venture that...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Go.com, YouTube Inc., TV network, TV, network, advertisement, Web

Blog posts 2006-12-13

AOL Video

Following in the footsteps of online movie vets CinemaNow and Movielink (as well as upstarts Guba.com and Amazon Unbox), AOL Video now offers a selection of A-list Hollywood movies for viewing on a computer and on many portable devices. Yet another content choice for Windows users, AOL...

Tags: video, America Online Inc., AOL Video

Product reviews 2006-09-28

Amazon Unbox Video Downloads

The latest source of legal downloadable movies and TV shows comes from online retail behemoth Amazon.com. The Amazon Unbox Video Downloads store and rental service joins a growing number of like services such as CinemaNow, MovieLink, Vongo, AOL Video, and Guba and premieres just a few days before Apple's...

Tags: Digital media, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Unbox

Product reviews 2006-09-11

Video sharing is vehicle for propaganda

Video-sharing sites allow soldiers to tell their storyCombatants on the battlefield in Iraq--from both sides of the conflict--post video clips of the war by using sites such as Guba, YouTube and Ogrish to tell their sides of the story.

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Videos 2006-08-22

Dabble dips into social networking for x-site video indexing and search

Here's something that pretty much everyone has had happen to them (or, at least you can relate to it): You do some search on the Internet and find you're way to an audio or video file. But, when you get there, the name of the file has pretty much...

Tags: Dabble, video

Blog posts 2006-07-24

Hollywood beckons for Movielink, CinemaNow replacements

Hollywood beckons for Movielink, CinemaNow replacementsOne word"Vividas"HilariousOkay, this article is just completely ridiculous. First, it calls out the current movie download sites for selling low quality versions of movies at slow download rates for the same price as a high quality DVD (plus with the DVD you get all...

Tags: Digital media, Peer Impact, MovieLink, DVD, movie, CinemaNow

Discussion threads 2006-07-12

Warner Bros. strikes deal with video-sharing site

Warner Bros. strikes deal with video-sharing siteHere we go again.If it's not at least DVD quality, it's not going to fly.dvd quality?Judging by the Guba view trailor, it is definately not up to par. Oh well, hopefully someone will catch on that the customer wants quality and convenience, not one...

Tags: Corporate communications, DVD, Consumer electronics, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., video

Discussion threads 2006-06-27

TiVo for your iPod

As you can probably tell, I'm pretty fired up about the iPod video lately. It went from having little or no video content available for it to a glut in less than a month. I previously blogged about how to convert your own content and DVDs to the iPod's 320*240...

Tags: TiVo Inc., Apple iPod, TTG

Blog posts 2005-11-21

More video content for the iPod

More video content for the iPodMore choices for the video iPod can't be anything but good.Pagan jimNot sure if I trust you, JasonMy mind is still reeling from your Bikini Calculus suggestion. Will I ever be the same? I wash and wash but still don't feel clean!!!GUBAIs it legal...

Tags: Corporate communications, video, Black iPod, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2005-11-18

More video content for the iPod

On Tuesday I blogged about options for finding video content for the iPod other than from the iTunes Music Store. I've found what may be the holy grail of video content for owners of the new iPod video. Guba.com is a subscription service that costs US$14.95 per month and...

Tags: Apple iPod, video

Blog posts 2005-11-18