(Okay, so I am a complete ditz and A-didn't realize there was a course website...where was I? And B-didn't catch that we had 3 articles to read and comment on....Was I asleep?  Guess I expect too much out of the printed syllabus) So, I thought we were supposed to review Brightcove, which review without introduction equals WRONG DIRECTION!  English is my first language, really...

Boy! First I will say that it is "totally" distracting to go to a video site with the intention of doing anything other than watch videos.  First impression of Brightcove was to be "aghast" at the "most popular choices" by Americans.  (Say, can I leave the country now?)  So I started to look at submission source sites.  Went to iFilm, another Video display site. They had several additional categories, like for Mac/PC.  Interesting. (Justin in our other class brought Mac/PC vids up and I guess the topic stuck in my brain.)

Get a Mac UK - Office

Posted Jan 30, 2007

Apple gives a delightful injection of British humor to the U.K. Get a Mac campaign.

The two sites were fairly indistinguishable.

I decided to go back to the first question, use of Windows Media on sites.  I searched "who uses windows media streaming".  www.tvworldwide.com used it for the streaming media east conference archives, however I noted their home page ran flash. Riding the Global webcasting wave, TV World is offers narrow niche broadcasting. There is one site here to teach you how to draw http://www.discoverartwithsandra.com/. Just think, you can get this training over the web, rather than spending 4 years in art school!  Sandra gives you the option of buying her dvd's or signing up for a 6 month program to watch them online.Many of TVWorld channels have an auto playing video, which is annoying.  I found this business model repeated in www.playstream.com, listing some of their customers who were also offering subscription or purchase of lessons to either be videos streamed to your computer or dvds.  Not particularly stunning.

Of more enjoyment was CBC radio, easy to use and I listened to Vancouvers channel for a while.  It broadcast over Windows Media without making me open my media box, having opened it small in my window.  Sort of locked up briefly when I went to close it.

Getting further off track:  John Hopkins uses streaming video for a number of educational purposes, such as for the 24/7 research channel.  I hit webcast and stumbled into a broadcast on Northwest ebusiness, Good Software Goes Bad (from UW business school).  The quality was excellent, though small. There is a video on demand option, under where to watch/viewing information.

Littleton uses Windows Media (Colorado) This one did not work for me.

Albuquerque, New Mexico  has their city council meetings online

You could find out what the deers vision is, by subscribing here....then you can learn how to kill bambi (wow, sick).

This here is a video tour of how logs are milled to get you some wood veneer to work with.  I lacked the necessary windows media audio codec and so had to watch it with quick time. The site offered both types. 

I am sure there are a whole lot of other sites using Windows media, I probably should have searched under technorati rather than yahoo.  However, if we go back to the Mac versus PC commercials, all of these sites would definitely fall under the "PC" definition of customer (I even ended up with Rush Limbaugh's site, but could not bring myself to sign in in order to access!).  Yipes!

P.S.  I have a PC.  (Methinks I should rethink this....)