IPTV is growing every year, with advances in technology, and distribution systems happening often. So, knowing where to start can be a confusing and complicated business.

Thankfully, there are a number of resources available for anyone keen to learn the basics about IPTV, and the how, where and when of IP Television.

There is Web TV Wire of course, which thankfully you are reading now, but we simply cannot offer the type of crash course some people may need to get in to the business of IPTV.

There are, however, books on the subject which cover exactly that, providing readers with a good basic knowledge base to work with, and start increasing how much they know about IP Television.

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Have you ever thought text is becoming a thing of the past? Videos are becoming such a normality on the Internet, that the written word just doesn’t do it any more.

So, to that end, Seesmic, a video micro-blogging application for the Web, is now available as a Wordpress plugin, which will instantly make it available to millions of new users.

What the new Seesmic plugin offers is the chance for bloggers and writers on websites to easily record videos for their posts, as well as the opportunity for readers to comment using video rather than text.

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When Mogulus launched properly last November after spending a few months in beta, it enabled anyone and everyone to become television channel owners, and broadcasters.

Amongst the features that Mogulus offered straight away were the ability to stream 24/7, and adding TV like special effects, and all this for free.

However, one thing which was missing was the ability to replay live broadcasts as and when you wanted, meaning if you weren’t online at the time of the streaming, then too bad.

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Last week saw the CTIA Wireless show take place in Las Vegas. Ripcode were there for the first time, and exhibited solutions for on demand mobile video transcoding.

Considering booth location was less than optimal – Ripcode’s own fault for signing up late – they still got good foot traffic and were kept busy talking with visitors and demoing their On-Demand Transcoding solution for mobile video. 

There was a lot of positive reactions to the message. It’s obvious that delivering video to mobile is a challenge for many companies. 

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Joost was at one point cited as the next big thing, the future of Web television, the application that will take the industry in to the mainstream.

But not any longer. In fact, over the last few months, Joost has roundly criticised and had its aspirations kicked by lots of better placed competitors.

Hulu On Top

NBC’s Hulu has well and truly taken the mantle, offering Web based television viewing without the need for any software downloads, and offering a much more mainstream selection of programmes.

In January, I wrote a piece asking if Joost would actually last the year, as the doom merchants were out in force predicting an early demise for the service.

Maybe Joost have taken some of the criticisms levelled at them on board, as it now seems they are about to embark on a major restructuring of the company.

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Up until today, people who uploaded videos to YouTube could only get limited statistics and information about the people who were viewing that content.

This included number of viewers, viewers ratings, and the number of comments left on that video. Now, through a new feature called YouTube Insight, content creators can get a whole lot more detailed stats than that.

YouTube Insight

YouTube Insight is free, and available to anyone with a YouTube account who uploads a video to the site, allowing them to view a diverse range of facts and videos about their audience.

These include how often any particular video is viewed from different geographical location, and how long it takes for a video to become popular or even go viral.

Content creators will basically have at their fingertips the means to accurately determine which part of the world is interested in their video, and how that affects popularity worldwide.

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Justin.tv, the lifecasting network which enables the most ordinary of people to become the star of their own Web TV shows, has reached its first birthday.

To celebrate, the company has published its first year statistics, and they make for impressive reading, with 87,331,037 page views in the last twelve months.

But, are they telling the full story, or giving a skewed vision of how well the network, and web television companies other than YouTube are doing?

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