We’re excited to say that support for watching 1080p HD videos in full resolution is on its way. Starting next week, YouTube’s HD mode will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p, depending on the resolution of the original source, up from our maximum output of 720p today.
As resolution of consumer cameras increases, we want to make sure YouTube is the best home on the web to showcase your content. For viewers with big monitors and a fast computer, try switching to 1080p to get the most out of the fullscreen experience.
YouTube Blog: 1080p HD Is Coming to YouTube
November 13, 2009
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Clicker Aims to Be the Path to TV Online – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com
November 12, 2009The Web is increasingly filled with television shows, but finding them can be hard. Clicker, a well-financed startup, believes it can help. On Thursday, the company is rolling out its service, Clicker.com, which it calls a “TV Guide for the Web.”
“If you created TV Guide in 2009 instead of 1953, you’d create something like this,” said Jim Lanzone, Clicker’s chief executive, who previously served as the chief executive of Ask.com, the No. 4 search engine.
via Clicker Aims to Be the Path to TV Online – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com.
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Music Industry Changes Tune of New Program to Fight File Sharing
November 4, 2009On six campuses, the music industry is quietly experimenting with a service intended to lure students away from illegal downloads.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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New Site Indexes Information on Digital Books
October 21, 2009The Internet Archive has created a system called BookServer to help people find digital books on the Internet.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education - Wired Campus ]
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OverDrive – Global distributor of digital eBooks, audiobooks, music & video for library, school & retail–College Download Library
October 20, 2009OverDrive® College Download Library™ is an extension of your college library that delivers digital audiobooks, eBooks, music, and video to your mobile and connected students. Two-year and four-year colleges, universities, community colleges, and distance learning programs get a 24/7 digital library that extends off campus, into students’ homes, and even onto the commute route with a portable audio player or Smartphone. All formats are available on a single digital media delivery platform–based on our popular service for public libraries–with easy, effective collection development tools for the librarian and an intuitive user experience for students!
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Google to Launch Google Editions Platform
October 15, 2009Google Inc. is launching a new service for booksellers next year called Google Editions, which will let readers buy books and read them anywhere on gadgets ranging from cellphones to possibly e-book devices.
[Source: Wall Street Journal]
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A Pocket University (or iTunesU at Oxford University)
October 14, 2009If you have any question about whether you and your Institution should think a little more seriously about getting involved in iTunesU, then take a look through this amazing presentation below from Peter Robinson and Oxford University. It was presented at the 2009 Future of Technology in Education (FOTE) conference.
[Source: eLearning Blog]
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photoshop.com – 2 Gb free!
October 14, 2009Photoshop.com is the complete solution for managing, editing, storing, and sharing your photos online. Photoshop.com is available from any web-enabled computer, compatible mobile phones, and directly from within Photoshop Elements 7 or Adobe Premiere Elements 7 software. With Photoshop.com, you can organize, tweak, create, e-mail, display, and store your photos. Photoshop.com is free and provides registered users with 2 Gb of disk space.
Photoshop.com Mobile [via iTunes] for the iPhone lets users edit and share photos from anywhere.
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How 4 Colleges Support Free Online Courses
October 13, 2009
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Bringing Alumni Back to the Classroom, Virtually
October 5, 2009In an effort to engage former students with events on campus, Colgate University is using Webcast technology to allow even the most remote alumni to watch and participate when prominent writers visit the school.
The program — called Living Writers — is hosted by the streaming Internet television platform Livestream.
So far there have been two lectures, one by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz and another by the husband and wife writers John and Carrie Brown. Tim Mansfield, the director of alumni affairs, said 75 people watched the entire lecture virtually.
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