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- Vator.tv: YouTube for the elevator pitch
- Bambi Francisco, a former tech reporter with MarketWatch, has taken the wraps off her new startup, Vator.tv. The name is a play on the words 'elevator' and 'innovator', as the site aims to be a social network / marketplace for startup ideas. Central to Vator.tv is the ability for startups...
- Tags: Video Sharing, Social Networks
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- YouTube starts paying 'top' users
- After it was announced that YouTube had plans to share revenue with its indie content producers, over three months later, its finally happening. Only the ad-revenue sharing scheme wont be open to everybody who creates YouTube content. Instead YouTube have handpicked only the most successful indie content producers to be...
- Tags: YouTube, Video Sharing
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- YouTube spotlights presidential candidates; CBS excludes YouTube/MySpace from content deals; Can YouTube Hear Me? (update); and more
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…YouTube invites presidential candidates into the spotlight. YouTube is putting each of the US presidential hopefuls into the Spotlight; a weekly event on the video sharing site where each candidate...
- Tags: YouTube, Widgets, Video Sharing, Social Networks, Politics 2.0, MySpace, Joost, Friendster
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- Google Maps goes social; Copyright infringement on YouTube exaggerated? Washingtonpost.com to embrace UGC; Facebook Diaries goes live
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… Google Maps goes social. Google Maps has launched a new feature called MyMaps which the company says "makes it quick and easy to create your own custom Google Maps...
- Tags: YouTube, The Social Web weekly, Google, Facebook, Video Sharing, Social Networks
- Blog posts 2007-04-06
- Can YouTube hear me? User's campaign to get featured on the homepage
- YouTube user Brandon Fletcher is on a mission. He wants the company to feature his "incredible show" idea on the sites homepage. But YouTube isnt listening. As a result, Brandon is leaving his home in New York (tomorrow at 5:30pm EST) and heading to the video sharing sites headquarters in...
- Tags: YouTube, Video Sharing
- Blog posts 2007-04-02
- Viacom sues GooTube for $1Billion
- In what could be described as throwing its toys out of the pram, Viacom has slapped Google with a $1Billion law suit, accusing Google-owned YouTube of "massive intentional copyright infringement". In addition to compensation, Viacom has asked the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for an...
- Tags: Google, Video Sharing, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Fox News on Second Life; YouTube presidential campaign; Explode adds new features; and more
- The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week…Fox News does a hit job on Second Life and John Edwards unofficial virtual campaign. Kirsten Powers in her first video blog for the news channel reports on Second Life,...
- Tags: Politics 2.0, Second Life, The Social Web weekly, Video Sharing, Widgets, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- Official: BBC jumps into bed with YouTube
- After it was reported that the BBC was in talks with YouTube, today the UK public service broadcaster announced that it had signed on the dotted line.Under the terms of the deal -- which is non-exclusive and will run for several years -- the Beeb will launch three channels on...
- Tags: Google, YouTube, Video Sharing
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- MySpace offers filtering software ahead of YouTube
- With pressure mounting on Google-owned YouTube to make available the copyright filtering software its long promised, MySpace has upped the anti by delivering first. The News Corp-owned social networking site has licensed audio fingerprinting technology developed by Audible Magic, which is able to help identify the origins of a videos...
- Tags: MySpace, Video Sharing, YouTube, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Viacom to YouTube: show us the money (and those filtering tools you promised)
- Viacom has finally run out of patience with Google-owned YouTube and demanded that the video-sharing site remove more than 100,000 video clips from properties including MTV Networks and BET after the two companies failed to reach a distribution agreement. Viacom claim that material they own which has been illegally...
- Tags: Video Sharing, YouTube, Google, Viacom Inc., YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- YouTube on the campaign trail
- Theres no doubt that much of the 2008 US presidential election is going to be fought out on the Internet -- and specifically through online video. For example, Democrat potential candidate Barack Obama has a channel on Brightcove, along with Republican Sam Brownback, while others such as Chris Dodd Democrat...
- Tags: video, YouTube Inc., voter
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
- YouTube to pay for User Generated Content
- Speaking at the World Economic Forum, YouTube CEO Chad Hurley has revealed that the company plans to financially compensate users who produce and upload their content. Other sites such as Revver and Brightcove have long offered a revenue-share to content creators, where YouTube has sought to only do deals with...
- Tags: Video Sharing, YouTube, YouTube Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-01-27
- YouTube's most wanted
- Could YouTube become a useful tool in the fight against crime? A police officer in Canada thinks so, and has posted a surveillance video onto the site in an appeal for information.The New York Times reports:When Detective Sergeant Jorge Lasso of Hamilton, Ontario, wanted to circulate a surveillance video while...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Hamilton
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Dare Junkies: Jackass meets YouTube
- Dare Junkies, which will launch a public beta on Tuesday, combines the video sharing and social networking aspects of YouTube/MySpace, with the challenge-based formula of reality TV. Users submit challenges or dares, and those who choose to accept, respond by capturing their efforts on video. The top ten videos (as...
- Tags: Dare Junkies, Social Networks, Video Sharing
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
- Revver jumps into bed with Verizon and gives YouTube a headache
- A day after the news that a crippled version of YouTube would be available to subscribers of Verizon Wireless vCast service, its emerged that the video sharing site Revver has cut a similar deal. As with the YouTube offering, it will be a limited version of the site with only...
- Tags: video, Revver, YouTube Inc., YouTube, Video Sharing
- Blog posts 2006-11-30
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- Cisco's Chambers sees collaboration fueling productivity gains; Web 2.0 as new enterprise engine?
- Cisco CEO John Chambers said Tuesday that there will be an "instant replay" in technology-led productivity gains in the current downturn just like the U.S. saw in the mid-1990s. The difference this time around: In the mid-90s those productivity gains were based on big enterprise resource planning...
- Tags: John Chambers, Web, Collaboration, Cisco Systems Inc., Web 2.0, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Lessig: Five proposals for ending copyright wars
- The Wall Street Journal is running an excerpt from Larry Lessig's upcoming book, Remix (book party in SF, Oct. 29.) In this excerpt, Lessig tells the story of Stephanie Lenz, who taped her infant child with some Prince song playing in the background and uploaded the...
- Tags: Larry Lessig, Copyright Law, Regulation, Lenz, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Brightcove overhauls UI with Brightcove 3
- Today Brightcove is rolling out a new application as part of their web platform for content creators (Update: here's a post by one of the Flex developers who worked on it). The new user interface and features are some of the coolest things that I've seen in the ever popular...
- Tags: Brightcove, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- Nikon D90 Reviewed: Great image quality and performance. Video mode? Not so hot
- DPReview and PhotographyBlog both posted full, hands-on reviews of the Nikon D90 yesterday. The general consensus among the reviewers (including our sister site CNET's Lori Grunin who posted her review earlier in the month) is that the D90 is an excellent and highly recommended enthusiast's dSLR. by Janice Chen
- Tags: Nikon Corp., Performance, CNET Networks Inc., Lens, Video, Camera, DPReview, PhotographyBlog, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Janice Chen
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
- News to know: IT turbulence, Windows 7, Facebook, Apple HDTV
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IT warning: Turbulence ahead CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad Sean...
- Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Open Source, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
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