Sharing videos over the network: a new development trend of the era

2005 marked a boom in blogs, but for most users, blogs are not enough.

Nothing can be more vivid and realistic than the videos. New trends are websites that allow you to share videos online .

Event

For years, Ms. Jannelle Gunther has often recorded videos of interesting events that she happened to meet, such as the image of an elephant marching through the street or a party of friends . However the passages That movie simply stays in one place on her computer . until last week, when she started transferring her videos to the Vimeo website, at http://www.vimeo.com. (According to Yahoo! News)

One of many websites that gives you the space to store and share your personal videos. When signing up to Vimeo, you will be given a maximum space of 20 Megabites per week. Of course this service is free.

These websites are different from websites that allow file sharing online, these websites are designed specifically for sharing video clips. With a dedicated design, it will be easier for many users, and the content is more "specialized", which is one of the advantages of these types of websites.

The founder of Vimeo website, Jakob Lodwick, said that in the last six months, the number of websites that are similar to Vimeo has grown tremendously.

According to Nielsen / NetRatings, one of the leading websites in the field, http://YouTube.com in December has tripled the number of visitors, reaching 3 million. YouTube Inc. Also said, about 20,000 videos are shared via YouTube every day, and the number of viewers is up to 10 million.

Reason

Explaining this new trend, there are many reasons. The first is the rapid development of the number, price and quality of video recording equipment. Today, every world can film with a lot of available devices, built with them, from mobile phones, digital camcorders, even digital music devices have gradually integrated functions film. The development of digital video recording devices is the first factor leading to this new trend.

The second thing to mention is the invention of new digital video standards such as Mpeg4, Mov, Wmv . lowering the size of the videos, along with the outbreak of broadband Internet, Both of these factors lead to the need for users to record "current" videos into storage media so they can be distributed to friends. The fastest method is still the Internet.

The third reason is the trendy of portable devices such as mobile phones, music players, portable movies, etc.

Was it past the time when all the major events of humanity were in the newspaper? The explosion of blogs has triggered a new wave in the online media, but also with this new trend, will there be a new revolution? Everything is possible .

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