Vidize Blog

This is a follow up to BBC’s Ashley Highfield (he’s BBC Director for New Media) plan to move BBC beyond traditional media.
The BBC has more than one million hours of video and audio plus supporting notes and scripts. The archive trial—closed to 20,000 consumers—will launch in May and is expected to last up to six [...]

BBC is (one of) my favorite news source. I usually tune to it in my car and sometimes I switch between CNN and BBC World Service on TV.
They’ve been putting most of their radio shows as podcasts on their site, so maybe it was only a matter of time before they decided to put [...]

When a friend of mine first sent me Nightwish’s misheard lyrics video I didn’t think much of it. My previous experience with Youtube directors and user-generated content in general was a “talking head” experience.

It seems that more than 50 songs already sport a “misheard lyrics” version and this particular Nightwish song has been featured [...]

I just visited Google Trends to do a comparison of two terms. Then, I saw that they got Numa numa featured on the homepage.
By itself, Numa numa doesn’t speak tons but look at this comparison with the Pussycat Dolls.
Apparently, the Pussycat Dolls still have some way to go until they reach numa numa’s peak in [...]

Here’s another video phenomenon posted on Youtube (and Google Video). Goes straight to the top of my Best of user-generated content.

One of the reasons I’m posting it is because it took O-zone’s hit (mostly in Europe though?) and transformed it into a DIY video marathon. All kinds of people did covers, some pretty elaborate [...]

Youtube has been offering “Director” accounts for some time now. The guys who sign up for them, have the the dubious benefit of having a director logo appear on their account.
There’s no doubt some of these are REAL directors. The director logo, however, raises the bar somewhat in terms of expectations. I expect these are [...]

According to this press release, BBC has successfully concluded trials of their most deadly weapon – the integrated media player (a.k.a. BBC iMP). This traditional media killer was tested on 5,000 BBC viewers for four months (between November 2005 and February 2006).
Some may find my irony a bit ill-fitting but according to an Independent interview [...]

Even before the term user-generated content became big in web 2.0, it ruled a niche in the computer game industry. Games like The Sims took the concept and ran with it. They were not alone as multiple expansions to popular games were created by users.
Cases in point: Diablo’s Hellfire expansion and Counter Strike (based on [...]

I’ve been trying to incentivize people to use the company Wiki. A new post puts it into perspective. It would appear that less than 1% of people actually contribute in an democratized community.
Out of the millions of visitors to the Wikipedia in June 2005, only 68,682 actually clicked the edit button and contributed in some [...]