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Don't kill your television: A glimpse of the future of video on Newsvine?

News Type: Event — Seeded on Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:03 PM EST
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The video should be big and crisp but reliably load at the speed with which NBC News crews deploy to cover stories around the world. You should be able to quickly find what you want, whatever it is: Anne Thompson on what may be the death march of the penguins, Brian Williams and Keith Olbermann on the steroid scandal rocking baseball, Willie Geist satirizing the news on our very own ZeitGeist vlog, or Hoda Kotb on why women love geeks. And, for you technologically adventurous types, you should be able to watch Hoda's geek love package on the widest possible array of operating systems and modern browsers, including Safari, Firefox, Flock, Camino, Opera and Omniweb. You will need Flash 9 if you don't already have it installed, and JavaScript must be enabled.

Calvin Tang (err, the Newsvine Blog) recently made some announcements regarding Newsvine in 2008:

So what's on tap for 2008 so far...

  • New customizable and extensible user columns
  • Completely new public and private groups
  • Journalism Awards
  • Vastly extended user profile pages
  • Newsvine Assignment Desk
  • A new take on message boards
  • Video
  • New ways of visualizing news stories within your social chain
  • Writer outreach programs
  • Community moderators
  • Discussion clubs
  • NCAA Tournament Pick 'Em

Emphasis mine.

MSNBC unveils a new beta video player and Newsvine announces that video capabilities are on tap for 2008 a day later...

Coincidence?

Maybe.

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Brian Ford

See it in action.

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Reply#1 - Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:06 PM EST
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Calvin Tang

Ever the detective :)

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    #1.1 - Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:17 PM EST
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    Donald Turnbull

    I really hope this new video feature is Cross-platform compatible.

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    Reply#2 - Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:59 PM EST
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    Jeff Croft

    The MSNBC.com one is Flash-based, so it is cross-platform. Based on what I know about the Newsvine team, I'm quite certain they would never do any kind of video that wasn't cross-platform (Newsvine is a bunch of Mac-lovers). :)

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    #2.1 - Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:15 PM EST
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    oldfogey

    Brian, thanks for the link. Beautiful site. Now where are they going to let me upload? I did send them a message. I would have been here sooner but I got booted off IE upon return to this thread. Let me give you a link. Here!

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    Reply#3 - Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:20 PM EST
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    Pamela Drew

    Now where are they going to let me upload?

    How is it you manage to get my questions every time?

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    #3.1 - Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:45 PM EST
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    Tedd Riggs

    Now that is nice ! Loved the video on Sex sells Coffee :-) Neat interface, looks very hi-tech and works very well. Nice job guys !

    However...They left off the "Community" flyout ...

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    Reply#4 - Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:46 PM EST
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