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ClipBlast! took the wraps off this new Playbox, “a detached, cross-platform viewer frame that can play video from sources across the Video Web. This patent-pending technology gives viewers a universal way to search, discover, watch and interact with video, while offering content providers new audiences and new revenue opportunities.”
Major television producers like CBS, ESPN, BBC, HBO, Comedy Central, AMC, PBS, Turner Classic Movies, IFC and National Geographic stand to benefit from Playbox by gaining broader distribution of their programming, as do video hosting platforms such as YouTube, Blip.tv, Metacafe, Veoh, Daily Motion and ClipSyndicate. These and thousands of other video content providers are automatically Playbox-compliant.
Apparently the widget Playbox is launched so users can watch, save and send videos; expand to full screen; see other video recommendations; and continue to scroll through web page content while the video plays — without ever leaving the site. Meanwhile, if you’re searching for video from Lonely Planet TV.. here’s a bunch.
Selling real estate with web video. Real estate agents and brokers are teaming up with video producers on WellcomeMat.com to demonstrate the most dynamic means for showcasing a property online. Whereas slideshows and photos are limited in their ability to capture the emotions of buyers and renters, web video enables viewers to get a much more comprehensive and inviting peek into a potential home. WellcomeMat.com highlights the top five new videos of the week to support the many agents, brokers and video producers helping to re-define the real estate buying and selling experience.
Enhancing the experience of the live blogTV platform is now available with a set of new features and improvements. BlogTV’s new personal profile pages enable users to style their own backgrounds, add photos, customize their own show banner and embed widgets. This means that our growing community of musicians, for example, can package up their live performances, recorded shows, personal style and display and sell their own music via mp3 widgets, all in one place.
Among the new web-celebrity personas you will be able to see the famous iJUSTINE. Justine “iJustine” Ezarik made global headlines last summer when she received a 100-page phone bill as a result of using her iPhone to send more than 30,000 text messages. Ezarik’s video of the event was seen by millions online and on television, leading to a change in the way iPhone customers are billed. An additional talent in the new season is Christine Gambito (aka HappySlip). HappySlip is one of the Web’s biggest and brightest stars. She currently ranks as Youtube’s #5 Most Subscribed to Artist of All-Time. In peak months, Christine’s website HappySlip.com has attracted 306,600 unique visits with 758,908 page views.
Huh.. we didn’t know there was such a thing as web video ’seasons’..?!?
The maniaTV Network has announced an extensive partnership with Guerilla Hollywood, a full service production company whose television credits include work for Warner Bros. Records, MTV, Fuse TV, as well as dozens of top musical acts and movie studios. Under the terms of the agreement, Guerilla Hollywood founders Devin Boddie (Producer) and Michael Mihail (Director), along with Mike Jones (Director of Photography) and Craig Wenaweser (Editor), have joined the fulltime staff at maniaTV’s new LA Studio. They will direct and produce maniaTV’s existing web TV hits such as Dave Navarro’s Spread Entertainment and Arcade, as well as jointly develop new television shows for maniaTV’s monthly audience of eight million 13-34 year olds.
Go Daddy’s CEO and founder recently unveiled his latest venture, not your average corporate communication, or a typical canned PR message. Nope, www.BobParsons.tv is an in-your-face, tell-it-like-it-is video blog used to speak directly to customers, employees and even the media. It’s blunt, it’s unvarnished, even irreverent – and it’s out there for anyone to see.
Few business leaders provide transparent messages or understand the importance of embracing new technology. Some critics have questioned the wisdom of letting an executive speak off the cuff and PR professionals might scoff at publishing an unfiltered message – but Parsons sees true value in putting his views ‘on the record.’
ummm.. Yikes!
SchoolTube provides students and educators a safe, world class, and free media sharing website that is nationally endorsed by premier education associations. All student created materials on SchoolTube must be approved by registered teachers, follow local school guidelines, and adhere to our high standards. SchoolTube’s partnership with The Student Television Network leverages a nationwide network of broadcast journalism teachers and students who share their expertise with each other in an effort to create quality student videos of all types. Through this innovative private/public partnership, SchoolTube provides up-to-date information to SchoolTube members at the click of a mouse.
Google says.. “damn.. we can’t exactly order them to cease & desist”
Ustreamtv tapped into more $ according to ‘always-on’ Caroline McCarthy:
There are seemingly more “livestreaming” services out there than people actually using them, but that hasn’t stopped Ustream.tv from raising $11.1 million in Series A funding. The cash comes from venture firm DCM, as well as existing investors Labrador Ventures and The Band of Angels. To be fair, Ustream has pulled away from the pack a bit: it’s the streaming service of choice for some high-profile live Web events like the Digg Town Hall.
With the new cash, Ustream will focus on product development and “meet(ing) growing market demand for an interactive-broadcasting platform.” In other words, it’s to better compete as the space grows tighter.
Adding fuel to burn the fire from their last round in December.
The Alley Insider is asking if you have ever heard of MeeVee? This coming on the heels of a recent company statement:
Due to accelerated development of the online entertainment market, the Board of Directors at MeeVee has determined that combining with an established player will maximize the potential for the community, technology and content relationships the Company has built. Accordingly, MeeVee is engaged in multiple discussions with potential acquirers that provide the greatest long term upside and synergy. Interested parties should contact Steve Hughey (shughey@meevee.com) for more information.
Apparently, MeeVee has content deals with CBS and Viacom, and mixes a guide to offline TV with Web video. It’s been around since 2000, and its raised $24 mllion since then, but the press release says they’re down to seven full-time employees “all in product and engineering.”
Wildscreen.TV lets video creators cash in, not sell out and offers 100% Ad Revenue to their users if they place their own ads on their custom channel. The new source for watching and sharing videos in HD-Quality - about music, theatre, dance, art and creative shortfilm. It is, as its slogan states, “fresh films by demanding directors for hungry consumers”. It provides a forum for those in search of quality, as contrast to the “everything goes” attitude of other sites. With Wildscreen.tv, the makers are aware of the major problem of the independent creative scene - the continual lack of financial resources.
Consequently, they offer their users the opportunity to support their own channel with advertising of their choice. 100% of the proceeds go directly to the operator of the channel. Quality applies not only to content, but also to the technical. The video resolution of wildscreen.tv is double that of other video portals (640 x 480 pixels) and the videos are streamed without interruption. There is also no limit on film length and data size.
Whoa.. whicked logo dudes.. 
Youku.com announced that data released by the China Internet Society underpins its leadership position in the Chinese online video destination. According to the DCCI report released in March, over the past six months Youku has increased market reach measured in terms of Internet users visiting the site as a proportion of all Internet users (34.8 percent, as of January, 2008), and registered an increase in the time viewers spent on its site — now averaging over 3 hours per month — and surpassing top competitors while also narrowing the gap with established Internet portals. Over one third of all Chinese Internet users, now totaling approximately 210 million, visited Youku.com in January 2008.
Via: XPRN
