Two weeks after Louis CK offered his downloadable streaming concert , “Live at the Beacon Theater” for $5, the experiment has now crossed the million-dollar mark .  A couple of days ago on CK’s website, he decided to tell everyone that he had made a million and what he was going to do with the money.  He even has a picture of his PayPal account showing the balance.  The questions raised by this successful venture become, “Do people copycat Louis CK in the future?” and “Can others be successful following Louis CK’s model?” Louis CK: Live At The Beacon Theater Hits A Million Bucks What is CK doing with the money?  On his website he says he’s splitting it up into 4 pieces: The first 250k is going to pay back what the special cost to produce and the website to build. The second 250k is going to his staff and the people who work for him.  Christmas Bonus! The third, 280k, is going to charity.  These charities include The Fistula Foundation, The Pablove Foundation, Charity: Water, Kiva, Green Chimneys. The remaining 220k will be his.  I love this explanation: Some of that will pay my rent and will care for my children.

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The Louis CK Online Video Experiment Is Now Worth A Million Dollars

Last month, Chris Atkinson reported that Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR), one of the nation’s largest providers of telecommunications services, was creating TumTiki .  I was getting ready for SES Chicago, so I didn’t get a chance to check out the largest online library of premium TV episodes, movies, local content, professionally-produced clips, and web original series until this past weekend. Hold the phone, Mabel!  (TumTiki was created and is operated by Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR), one of the nation’s largest providers of telecommunications services.) TumTiki features more than 700,000 free TV episodes, movies, original web series, professionally-produced clips, and local programming directly within TumTiki.com , without redirecting to another site; and premium movies and episodes for rental through a partnership with Amazon.com.

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TumTiki Launches TikiGuide’s Video Countdown To Christmas

Unlike, well, pretty much everyone, I have had a WHDI device in my house for much of the year. What is it

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Wireless Home Digital Interface Product Roundup

Boxee is breaking the mold it set for itself and will now begin to include a new Boxee Live TV Tuner according to GigaOm who got an unreleased version of the Boxee 1.5 update which will be released soon. From their article it seems that Live TV is ready to be integrated into the Boxee Box.

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Boxee Getting Into TV Tuning With Boxee Live TV Tuner

Encoding.com announced that they have worked with Roku to make several profiles for video encoding specifically for the Roku service. So now when you’re wondering what settings you need to use to get that video looking crisp and streaming quickly for Roku users, you can just pop over to Encoding.com and use their service.

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Encoding.com Teams With Roku To Make Video Channel Creation Easier

Comcast has been named in the recent Xbox TV lineup and some other interesting Internet TV deals. But now, they seem to just be going it alone on their own IPTV service, according to what they stated to the FCC, along with a device that will wireless stream the content in subscriber homes to be ready sometime soon. Comcast IPTV Service This was all in a filing to the FCC in order to help fend off AllVid, the spiritual successor to the CableCard

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Comcast Set For Its Own IPTV Service To Fight AllVid?

Adobe is all about Flash, or are they? While supporting their existing products, they are also taking on an approach to allow it to co-exist with HTML5.

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Adobe Edge: Animated Web Content With HTML5, CSS3 & JavaScript

Here we go folks! All those high-priced OVPs are going to have to fight to stay alive as Longtail’s Bits on the Run has announced they’re going freemium (YA!). While they’re not the first OVP to do free (as I already use PlayWire’s freemium service which is still going through some growing pains but for which you can sign up and click Free Premium account), they are perhaps one of the largest and most well known.

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A Tale of Two Online Video Freemium Platforms: Longtail and Playwire

Here we go folks! All those high-priced OVPs are going to have to fight to stay alive as Longtail’s Bits on the Run has announced they’re going freemium (YA!) with a Free video hosting and streaming service option. While they’re not the first OVP to do free (as I already use PlayWire’s freemium service which is still going through some growing pains but for which you can sign up and click Free Premium account), they are perhaps one of the largest and most well known. Of course, it’s not quite all that

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A Tale of Two Freemium Online Video Platforms: Longtail and Playwire

YouTube is most popular free technology platform and user-generated content site for hosting, sharing, and marketing video today.

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The Pros and Cons of YouTube Video for Your Website