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befunkyEver wanted to turn a simple home video into a slapstick cartoon? According to representatives at the 2008 TechCrunch50 Conference in San Francisco, BeFunky plans to soon offer the service to its Web site users as an addition to their upcoming service, “video cartooning.” The service will enable the user to manipulate the physical features of video actors, putting the ability to create full motion animation at her fingertips.

If you have seen Richard Linklater films like A Scanner Darkly or Waking Life, you can appreciate the art of rotoscoping. While rotoscoping is available on professional editing software such as Final Cut Pro, BeFunky plans to offer such services online and catered to the amateur video editor. Additionally, the amateur user will soon be able to make exaggerated cartoons from these rotoscoped videos.

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avn and vudu logosOn August 5 VUDU and the Adult Video Network announced a partnership to bring High-Definition adult-entertainment to a dedicated AVN channel on the VUDU network.

This latest step in TV set-top box entertainment further develops the trend in immediate access to full-resolution, full-length movies and television episodes to rent or to buy. It’s TiVo from the Internet, but more so.

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illustrationThe one-time vice presidential candidate is urging Google to take down videos posted by Islamist terrorist organizations that show violence and spread propaganda.
Earlier this week, Connecticut Senator Lieberman sent a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt asking that Google “immediately remove content produced by Islamist terrorist organizations from YouTube.”
In the letter, Lieberman states the videos, many of which are produced by an al Qaeda production arm, violate YouTube’s community guidelines because they depict “graphic or gratuitous violence” by showing American soldiers being injured, if not killed.
Furthermore, Lieberman suggests YouTube “implement its own policy against this offensive material,” which he calls propaganda to “enlist followers, and provide weapons training,” and prevent it from reappearing on the popular video-sharing website.

Lieberman is also the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and his appeal follows the committee staff report on terrorist Internet activity published earlier this month.

The YouTube team replied in a blog post, saying “In response to his (Lieberman) concerns, we examined and ended up removing a number of videos from the site, primarily because they depicted gratuitous violence, advocated violence, or used hate speech.”

Still, “While we respect and understand his views, YouTube encourages free speech and defends everyone’s right to express unpopular points of view.”

YouTube is said to have removed 80 videos from its site due to the display of violence which it agrees violates the community terms; however, it disagreed with Leiberman’s request to pull all content produced by Islamist terrorist organizations.

“We believe that YouTube is a richer and more relevant platform for users precisely because it hosts a diverse range of views,” the site said, “and rather than stifle debate we allow our users to view all acceptable content and make up their own minds.”

By Kathleen Clark

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flickr logoPhoto-sharing site Flickr launches a new video service aimed at competing with online video giant YouTube.
Flickr, the Yahoo-owned company that allows you to share pictures with anyone online, finally followed through with its promise of bringing video-sharing to the site. The popular Web site hopes to provide ample competition in the vast Internet rivalry between Yahoo and Google (who owns YouTube).
The service will only allow “Pro” members who pay $24.95 a year to upload video clips of up to 90 seconds, but anyone can see them.
The short time limit is meant to keep the videos personal, unlike the array of wild and odd videos that make their way onto YouTube.
Privacy settings will allow content producers to limit access to the videos. The aim is to keep members’ videos and photos on the same website, adding a personal touch to video sharing that other sites like YouTube do not have.
“What we are doing is going to meet a huge unmet need in the market,” says Kakul Srivastava, Flickr’s general manager. “Most people aren’t showing their personal videos at all right now,” he says.

With a dedicated following, Flickr is the perfect place for Yahoo to competitively enter the video-sharing market while catering to its members. While the time limit suggests Flickr’s video-sharing service is a scaled-down version of YouTube, the intent of keeping video sharing a personal experience shows Yahoo’s goal of differentiating itself from Google.

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Flickr video

The videos are displayed as thumbnails alongside a user’s photo and are able to be played like so or enlarged. Just like photos on the site, users can leave comments and captions for the videos. And like Facebook and Myspace, users can embed videos on their blogs.
With a February audience of 42 million, according to comScore, Flickr increased its audience by 53% from last year, second in online photo sharing to Facebook with 65 million viewers.
Yahoo has been competing with Google since the birth of the two companies, but Google has dominated the rivalry, prompting Microsoft to offer and unsolicited bid of $42 billion to purchase the Yahoo.
With Flickr’s video service being offered in English and seven other languages—French, German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and traditional Chinese—Yahoo might offer more competition to Google while backing its argument that it is worth more than Microsoft’s offer.
Though online videos are nothing revolutionary, they do enhance the Flickr experience and provide a video forum different from the pop culture of YouTube and Myspace.
It is to be seen whether the new video service enables Flickr to grow. Nonetheless, it gets Yahoo into the video sharing world while enabling its users to share short, personal clips to the world.
By Danny Scuderi

The International CES 2008 in video

Atelier’s team was also at the International CES 2008 to come back with a homemade video about the event.

CES also makes keynotes videos available. Select a topic below to browse recordings from CEA/CES events.

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loic le meur sitting at his officeLoic Le Meur, a very well known entrepreneur in France, just relocated in San Francisco this summer to launch his new start-up: Seesmic.

It is in his freshly painted office/studio that Loic gave Atelier’s readers his very first interview.

Watch the video interview below!

Video interview by Isabelle Boucq.

Starting up with Zoho

Founded in 2005, Zoho is a Pleasanton, CA-based start-up company providing Office Suite products through dynamic web pages.

Zoho’s quality products include Zoho Writer, Zoho Sheet, Zoho Show, Zoho Meeting, Zoho Notebook, Zoho Planner, Zoho Projects, Zoho CRM, Zoho Creator, Zoho Wiki, Zoho Chat, Zoho Mail, and much more.

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Watch Dominique Piotet’s video of Zoho’s Ceo Sridhar Vembu:

Mathieu Ramage
Media and Editorial Manager of Atelier

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Diet Coke and Mentos on You Tube

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This week I decided that it was high time for me to show you some of the very cool videos about the diet coke and mentos stuff… What you need is a bottle of diet coke, some mentos and that’s it! Here is a little video manual of what you can do, enjoy .

  • One of the very first You Tube video post with Diet Coke and Mentos as subject. This one is very cool, notice the ‘matrix like’ effects, I love it!

  • Could a simple bottle of Diet Coke become a mass destruction weapon? Rocket scientists should look at that closely…


  • Well, we know what happen when you pour Mentos in a Diet Coke bottle… Someone tried it directly in his mouth, hilarious and crazy!

  • Even Letterman is doing Diet Coke and Mentos experiments in his show… I don’t think that Coke and Mentos brand advisors had though of that way of reaching their consummers! Who’s next!?!

  • Now that will all know what you can do with Diet Coke and Mentos, let’s try soemthing else…

  • Diet Coke and Mentos experiments, the last video on the subject and definitively my favorite! Is this going to be Vegas’ next big hotel attraction?