Sara Watson's Posts

It's Cyber Monday, everyone! And this year, the online holiday retail boon seems to be spreading out over the entire holiday season, as consumers become more comfortable making their purchases online.

A lot of our Express customers present video that caters to local niche markets. One awesome example is Thumb Magazine, a video magazine covering the people, places, organizations, and events in the Thumb of Michigan.

Last week, comScore, Inc. released data showing that 175 million U.S. Internet users watched online video content in October 2010 for an average of 15.1 hours per viewer. That averaged out to about 30 minutes per day, up from about 16 minutes a day the prior year! The online video watching population covers 84% of the total U.S.

Last week, Brightcove's CTO Bob Mason walked us through the state of HTML5 video in a well-attended webinar, HTML5 Experiences for Today and Beyond - Developing your HTML5 Strategy.

The New York Times had a great article highlighting how scientists and animators at Harvard are using data to visualize biological processes in new ways.

Back in March, Brightcove announced early support for HTML5 experiences. And Brightcove has supported HTML5 in a basic form since 2008, when we introduced support for the H.264 format.

For a while now, cameras have been getting steadily cheaper as they simultaneously bring increasingly higher quality recording to the masses. From ultra-portable Flip cameras to DSLR cameras recording HD video, there are a proliferating number of options to capture beautiful video footage.