Glossary 2

Working Glossary of New Media Terms

web video: short video clips that maybe downloaded onto and viewed over the web.
viral video: Typically amusing online videos that generate tremendous buzz and circulation, thanks to viewers who use email, blogs and web forums to send the links or the files themselves to friends and colleagues. Many viral videos are amateurish consumer-generated media, but several companies have also cashed in on this phenomenon and won some free publicity.
user-driven video: Video created by ordinary people who use blogs, web forums and media-sharing portals to post original creative works and commentary.
web-based VOD: Video content—most commonly feature films—which subscribers can request at any time of their choosing, and view from beginning to end and can be accessed online.
broadband television: A high-speed internet connection. Broadband connections available to home users through DSL and cable provide sufficient bandwidth for most new media applications and can all be viewed an used on a TV screen.
vcasts: Type of podcast that features video content. Content providers create XML syndication links from which podcast clients automatically download videos for onboard playback or for transfer to portable video players. Subscribers can then play back this video on demand.
vlogs: Type of blog that features video content instead of photography or simple text. Due to video’s greater bandwidth load, vloggers keep their videos fairly brief—or should they choose to spotlight lengthier content, they simply link to the file in another location.
video podcasts: Video content distributed regularly via XML syndication feeds—such as RSS or Atom—that subscribers download automatically to podcast clients. Subscribers can play back podcasts directly from the client, or transfer them for future viewing onto iPods and similar portable media devices.
mobisodes: Video content edited and encoded to play on a wireless phone or PDA. A mobile episode is typically short in duration—often an abridged version of movies or TV shows that function as promotional trailers.
Webisodes: An episode of a television show that airs initially as an Internet download or stream as opposed to first airing on broadcast or cable television.
Diavlogs: A video blog in which two people participate.
custom interactive video: Analyzes recorded video from a video camera to identify camera and object motion in the recorded video. Keyframes representative of clips of the recorded video are displayed on a user interface that allows a user to manipulate an order of the keyframes. Editing rules are then applied to the keyframes to intelligently splice together portions of the representative clips into a final output video.
embedded video ads: Advertisements that appear in an online video, such as something off of youtube.
mashups: A web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool, thereby creating a new and distinct web service that was not originally envisaged by either source.