Engadget:
Hope you weren't enjoying watching YouTube on the television screen, Popcorn Hour and other set-top box manufacturers have been given notice by the newly 1080p and network TV-friendly website that they are no longer welcome to access its content. The new Hulu-ish Terms of Service (section II, item 10) restricts API clients (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Rippol, the video discovery site that combines both complex algorithms with user suggestions to surface interesting content, has launched to the public at today’s RealTime CrunchUp. We recently took an in-depth look at the service, but for those who haven’t seen it yet, here’s a recap: Rippol looks at your video watching a (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider: Mobile:
One of the iPhone apps we're craving the most is still missing in action: An app from Hulu, the Web video company owned by NBC, Fox, and Disney. It's one of the things that readers ask us about the most, so we thought we'd revisit it.In April, we were the first to write about the app, after a plugged-in industry executive t (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Music videos from Sony and Universal on YouTube have more advertising sold against them than any other group, according to analysis from TubeMogul.Below is an approximation of the daily share of YouTube's monetized views based on the number of videos that carry ads in YouTube's daily top 100 most-viewed.This is why Sony, Un (Read More)
Engadget:
Well, well, looks like Cloud Engines, Inc. is doing what it can to poise Pogoplug as a much more consumer-friendly device, both in hardware design and expanded web interface. The second generation Pogoplug solves one of our chief complaints of the first -- namely, four USB ports instead of just one -- while at the same time (Read More)
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MyFit has raised $1 million in a round led by VC firm New Enterprise Associates. The site takes the information a student enters (like GPA or SAT scores) and returns a student’s chances of getting in—and fitting in—at various colleges (It cross references the data with information gathered from graduates at more than 3,500 (Read More)
GigaOM:
Text messages and banners on the mobile web are the most noticeable kinds of wireless ads, according to new research from Parks Associates, but mobile video and click-to-call campaigns draw the best response from consumers. Such contradictions underscore why advertisers need to use a variety of tools as they deploy their mo (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Microsoft launched Xbox Live as an online gaming service in 2002 amid great skepticism. It didn’t really take off until Halo 2 launched in 2004, but now the service is huge. There are more than 20 million active Xbox Live subscribers (both free users and those who pay $50 a year for multiplayer gaming). That means that more (Read More)
SF Gate:
Think of it as closed captioning for the new media world. Google Inc. said Thursday it is beginning to add automatic, machine-generated captions for videos on its YouTube site. The new service is intended to make online videos accessible to the deaf and... Google - YouTube - Video clip - Closed captioning - Searchin (Read More)
Engadget:
Google had a low-key event today to preview Chrome OS, its new operating system based on Linux and the Chrome browser. Things are still pretty early -- it's not even in beta yet, let alone on shipping products -- but that's the first official screen shot right there, and the big features are all roughed out. The entire sys (Read More)
SF Gate:
Media mogul John Malone said Thursday that Comcast Corp.'s plan to buy a controlling stake in NBC Universal would give it too much market power and force competitors to consider similar acquisitions. Comcast Corp. _ the nation's largest cable TV provider _ is... NbcUniversal - Comcast - Cable television - Television (Read More)
feeds.reuters.com:
With media titans GE and Vivendi still negotiating a deal to bring cable operator Comcast into a mega-media joint venture, a management move at DirecTV is giving dealwatchers a fresh programming alternative.Yinka Adegoke and Sinead Carew report the appointment of PepsiCo veteran Michael White (pictured below), who has no ex (Read More)
GigaOM:
Qi _newteevee While The Googlebot'S Youtube Is A Web Video Behemoth Mark Zuckerberg And His Facebook Nation Have Become An Online ...
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GigaOM:
Vevo, the premium music video site developed by major labels Universal and Sony in conjunction with Google, said this afternoon that it will launch its service on Dec. 8th. The news comes less than a day after another major label, EMI, began using Hulu as a distribution channel for high-quality videos. Neither EMI nor Warne (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Netflix isn't the only reason Blockbuster has had to close so many of its stores, but it's a big one.As the DVDs-by-mail service has grown to 12 million subscribers, Blockbuster has been reduced to 4,000 stores. Chart via a note from Collins Stewart analyst Sandeep Aggarwal.Read the rest of this story »See Also:CHART OF THE (Read More)