What happens to your on-line accounts after death? Are your digital assets covered in your will? Social Media posts and pictures can already haunt you, but what about those accounts after death. Who can get to them, or get rid of them. Jesse Davis of Entrustet talks about them in the combination interview and excerpts from his Pecha Kucha presentation during High Tech Happy Hour in Madison, WI. Produced by Roger Bindl for ViodiTV.
So what’s new on Vudu… since our 2008 review.
Well… it’s one more step closer to better television over the Web. Vudu now has Network and Studio TV episodes for purchase and download, plus it now has Vudu Labs which consists of YouTube videos, On Demand TV, Flickr, Picasa, and a couple of on-line games.
Finding and watching YouTube Videos is pretty straight forward with browsing, search (Viodi for example), plus the interface has featured video’s, most viewed, top rated, and your viewing history… like past views of your favorite recipe perhaps.
I’m not sure about watching short form YouTube video’s on television… it’s slightly too much interaction for me to relax and be a couch potato, but the TV episodes are great for catching up and I’m anxious to see more of it – as I’m sure there will be… over time.
As before, the search features are excellent, and of course, it helps to have a fast Internet connection. See my Vudu review for 2008.
The above video is what I call dual purpose. It was produced for a 48 Hour Film Film event (the Wis-Kino 48 Hour Kabaret in Madison), but with the intent of tweaking it afterwards for the Kraft Cooking Video Challenge on YouTube.
I noticed the contest on YouTube a couple weeks ago and had thoughts about where to shoot and produce it, how to add a twist and when to work on the video. Coincidentally, “the where" tied into the location with friends who like to cook, and the curator of a mustard museum/store who has a flare with mustard. Both the friends mustard museum curator were in Mt Horeb, Wisconsin. The Wis-Kino Kabaret provided the catalyst of “the when” for the location.
The theme for this particular 48 hour event was "change". It worked perfectly into my thoughts for a Shepherd’s Pie recipe, and to replace ketchup with mustard. I wrote the script on Saturday morning for my wife Jacalyn to play the second part, but then I called Barry Levenson at the Mustard Museum (www.mustardmuseum.com) who was happy to participate. The rules at Kraft only allowed two people to be in the film, so that created a challenge where I had to get creative with the number of actors, using voices, doing double shots with masking and having a bit of fun.
By the way: This video has closed captions (CC) which can be viewed in the 4:3 ratio video at YouTube.
Ken Pyle interviews Donovan Prostrollo of Calix regarding opportunities for independent telcos with over the top video. Donovan had talked on this topic earlier in the day before a standing room only session. This is especially timely given this week’s commercial launch of Hulu, the opening of YouTube’s APIs and the TiVo’s announcement that YouTube will be integrated into their broadband-enabled DVRS. This was filmed at Calix’s studio at MTA’s 2008 Convention held during the first week of March.
