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| Mar 11, 2009 | Shop Talk: ‘Two Guys’ on cheap video podcast production | It ain’t a bad week to be a beer lover in Philadelphia.
For Johnny Bilotta and David Martorana of the Old City-based Two Guys On Beer video podcast, Philly Beer Week is sure to be a busy one.
The show, which demands deliciousness from the b... |
| Feb 2, 2009 | Was Anyone Still In Doubt Over LiveUniverse's Demise? | There’s currently a thread on Techmeme based on this blog post from Pingdom about the downtime of most of LiveUniverse’s services for the past couple of days. We’ve been getting tips about this since last Thursday, and tried contacting foun... |
| Nov 10, 2008 | VideoCrawler: AT&T Launches its Own Video Search Engine | It is not quite clear to us how a video search engine fits into AT&T’s portfolio, but the telecom giant just launched VideoCrawler, a video search engine it developed in cooperation with Divvio, a Menlo Park-based startup. VideoCrawler ... |
| Nov 1, 2008 | Is Revver On The Fritz? | We’ve been getting a lot of tips from people who have been having problems reaching the Revver website lately, getting videos uploaded or playing the ones already hosted on the platform. We haven’t paid much attention to them so far, becaus... |
| Oct 21, 2008 | Online TV network Blip.tv snags funds, touts growth | Blip.tv, a web television network that hosts shows, series and video blogs, announced today that it raised an undisclosed amount in a second round of financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. It also said it has seen a 250 percent jump in vid... |
| Apr 18, 2008 | Pageflakes Acquired By LiveUniverse: Further Push Into Social Networking | AJAX start page provider Pageflakes officially announced today that it has been acquired by LiveUniverse. The deal is a combination of cash and stock, but the size of the acquisition was not disclosed. LiveUniverse, which was founded by MyS... |
| Mar 5, 2008 | Revver Bought by LiveUniverse…and it’s MySpace’s Fault | LiveVideo.com, an online live video community that is a subsidiary of LiveUniverse, Inc. has now acquired 100% of Revver‘s stock. The acquistion will combine Revver’s millions of visitors and 40 million monthly video streams with LiveVideo’... |
| Feb 14, 2008 | LiveUniverse rumored to purchase video site Revver | Online entertainment network LiveUniverse has purchased struggling video site Revver, according to NewTeeVee.
The purchase price was substantially more than the $500,000 to $1.5 million Revver was supposedly asking for, says NewTeeVee’s unn... |
| Feb 6, 2008 | Revver Making Last-Ditch Attempt to Avoid Deadpool? | CNET is reporting that video sharing site Revver is trying to sell itself for $300-500k, a measly price given its total funding of $12.7M.
The company apparently has fallen on hard times, with over half of its staff leaving in the last 18 m... |
| Jan 31, 2008 | Strike this: Video sites you can make money from (or not) | While the strike by Hollywood writers is dragging on long enough to threaten the hallowed Oscars, video-viewing on the web is expanding as fast as ever. As a result, writers, directors and actors are considering splitting from the studios f... |
| Jan 9, 2008 | Roundup: Floating data centers, Xobni, Jaffe, Lanzone, Revver & more | Here’s the latest action:
1. Data centers floating in the SF Bay?
2. CEO of search engine Ask goes to Redpoint
3. Xobni’s Outlook plugin enhanced
4. Microsoft dealmaker Bruce Jaffe to join startup life
5. Yahoo’s browser-based player now pu... |
| Dec 10, 2007 | YouTube Shares the Wealth With Everyone. Apply Now | Tired of not making a dime off your human beatbox video on YouTube that’s been watched five million times? Well, YouTube wants to give you some of that crazy Google money. If you make the cut, that is. After half a year of testing out its P... |
| Jun 15, 2007 | Thoof, a news ranking site that wants to serve the masses | (Updated at bottom with more discussion on differences from Digg, others)
Thoof is the latest company seeking to offer news readers articles that are relevant to them.
The Austin, Tex. company launched today, boasting an approach it says is... |
| May 4, 2007 | YouTube Launches Revenue Sharing Partners Program, but no Pre-Rolls | The news, first broken by Om Malik and now live on the YouTube Blog, that YouTube has launched a revenue sharing Partners Program for its top content creators is a positive step forward for a service that only made $15 million in revenue la... |
| Feb 25, 2007 | Imeem Blocked From MySpace. Who's Next? | MySpace has been acting a bit odd all year. Last month all Flash embeds on the site were turned off for a few hours. Some people speculated that they were testing the waters, seeing what kind of backlash they would see from user complaints.... |
| Feb 15, 2007 | Microsoft Hires Michael Gartenberg as New Evangelist | The Vista marketing challenge saw an interesting new development today with the announcement that Microsoft has hired Jupiter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg as Enthusiast Evangelist. Gartenberg says in a blog post on his move that he w... |
| Feb 13, 2007 | Online Video Industry Index | Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus
There are now so many companies vying to be the next YouTube, it’s easy to lose track
of them all. So let’s take a look at the entire online video industry and categorize the
major play... |
| Jan 16, 2007 | Dovetail.tv offers filmmakers 10 cents per download | Dovetail.tv is offering amateur filmmakers ten cents every time someone downloads their movie, the latest sign of cut-throat competition in the video industry.
This is a great way to market its service, yet Dovetail is going to pay for it s... |
| Dec 21, 2006 | Roundup: LinkedIn, Facebook, Wherifone, Google’s weather, and video consolidation? | Slow posting likely over next few days; here’s the latest:
Weatherbonk lets you do things like overlay weather on Google Maps — So you can plan trips and see what the weather will be like along the way. Click on the links here. (Via Battell... |
| Nov 2, 2006 | YouTube Going Mobile… in 14 Months? | Crunchgear caught an AdAge story today about YouTube founder Chad Hurley telling attendees at the OgivlyOne Digital Media Summit in New York that YouTube hopes to be able to deliver user generated short video clips to mobile devices by the ... |
| Nov 2, 2006 | Creative Commons launches video sharing fundraising campaign | Revver is a video sharing site that allows people to upload, and share videos they’ve created. The people who upload their work get 50% of the revenue generated by the ads that are shown at the end of each video.
Creative Commons uploaded t... |
| Oct 30, 2006 | Google Video Goes High Brow with Revenue Split | While the launch of Brightcove has garnered no shortage of attention today, it wasn’t the only important video news of the day. Google’s first “Sponsored Video” had its debut as well. Titled The Domino Effect, it’s Diet Coke and Mentos part... |
| Oct 10, 2006 | Revver: The Newest British Comedy | User created video sharing site Revver has landed an intriguing partnership with a new UK TV station called FameTV. Revver users will be able to opt-in for TV broadcast and those selected will be shown on FameTV. Viewers will vote for their... |
| Sep 20, 2006 | YouTube headed for Good Morning America | YouTube announced this morning that the site would host an online “battle of the bands” with user voted winners appearing on Good Morning America and as Cingular ring tones. Good grief, how schmarmy can you get?
On the heels of the far more... |
| Sep 10, 2006 | Top social media users getting paid; is the balance shifting? | Jason Calacanis says in an AOL memo he’s posted that his model for Netscape has been vindicated by the recent conflagration at Digg and rapid growth of page views at Netscape . He says recent events are proving that top contributors to soci... |
| Aug 30, 2006 | Guba takes a gamble: affiliate payments for free accounts | Video site Guba, one of the most interesting players in the space, has released an affiliate program that will pay you 25 cents for every new free (US based) account resulting from a clickthrough of an embedded video on your site. The video... |
| Apr 10, 2006 | Revver revs up with another round of funding | Revver, the Southern California-based video sharing service, has taken another round of funding. The $8.7 million B round was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, joined by Bessemer Venture Partners, Draper Richards and William Randolph Hearst I... |
| Nov 6, 2005 | Comparing The Flickrs of Video | I’ve been tracking a number of sites that offer flickr-like services for video.
I’ve taken a look at as many of these services that I could find. The most well known is YouTube, which we profiled in August and which recently raised venture ... |
