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Blinkx Launches Blinkx Remote for Kids
Parents in search of on-demand, long-form videos for kids can now access them for free online using Blinkx Remote for Kids, which launched today. The search engine makes it easy to find kid-friendly TV offerings across the Internet, such as "Spider-Man" and "Dennis the Menace."
Newsvine Drives Online Video Consumption with Nightly Newsvine
People-powered news site Newsvine I interviewed CEO Mike Davidson at the Omma Global conference last month, where he spoke on a panel
EQAL Launches LonelyGirl15 Follow-up, LG15: The Resistance
LG15: The Resistance, the long-awaited follow-up to LonelyGirl15, premiered Saturday to positive reviews. In the new web series from EQAL, LonelyGirl15 characters Jonas and Sarah return to battle evil secret society The Order–and perhaps an even higher threat.
DotSpots Wows Google’s Marissa Mayer, Press at TechCrunch50
Universal annotation system DotSpots, created by BizRate and Shopzilla founder Farhad Mohit, made quite a splash at the TechCrunch50 conference last week. Wired’s Besty Schiffman blogged that she had it pegged as the probable TechCrunch50 winner.
TC50 Presenter Angstro Delivers News Alerts for Professional Networks
Google Alerts can’t distinguish people with common names, according to Angstro CEO Salim Ismael. His company, which presented at Techcrunch 50 Monday, uses an algorithmic solution to find news mentions of a user’s specific contacts and aggregate them into a personalized newspaper.
Iamnews Presents at TechCrunch50 after Getting Voted Out of Demo Pit
Conference attendees voted alternative newsroom iamnews the best of the 100-plus companies exhibiting in the TechCrunch50 demo pit, awarding the company People’s Choice and the opportunity to present onstage Wednesday as the conference’s 52nd start-up. Attendees received three TC50 poker chips when they checked in and could vote for one company in the Demo Pit […]
Nokia’s Ovi File Sharing Platform Expands
Ovi, Nokia’s online platform for sharing information from mobile devices, just expanded considerably, reports John Biggs over at CrunchGear. He writes: "The first and most important update is their file sharing system. After installing the Nokia Ovi Suite on your PC or laptop – it doesn’t work with Mac although there is some talk this […]
Last year’s TechCrunch Winner Raised $17 Million in Funding, Saw Swarm of Media Coverage
The success of leading personal finance Web site Mint.com since its win at TechCrunch40 last year gives some idea of what might be in store for this year’s winner, Yammer. The real prize, or course, isn’t the $50,000–it’s the publicity.
Breaking: Google Organizing All The World Newspapers
The anticipated news that will presented at the TechCrunch 50 conference in a couple of hours has just been released. Google is organizing archives and feeds of newspapers around the globle. This new data will be served up on Google News and Google News Archives. The first phase is U.S. newspapers which have been offline […]
YouTube Has Speech-to-Text Functionality…..and it Works
YouTube has introduced rich metadata into select videos, which will significantly impact how online video is discovered and consumed. Announced in June, we have found the technology is very useful. Last week, we got an update on this from Steve Grove, head of news and politics at YouTube.
Online Video Consumption Explodes with 12 Billion Videos Watched — MySpaceTV on the Rise….
comScore just came out with the stats for May and Americans watched 12 billion videos during the month, up 45 percent from last May. Fox Interactive, owner of MySpaceTV ranks number two with a market share of 6.4 percent, up 1.3 versus April. Last month I visited MySpaceTV in Los Angeles to interview Jason Kirk. […]
IBM’s Steve Abraham: Interoperability for Consumer Electronics Devices is Essential
The interoperability of consumer electronic devices is essential for the entertainment industry, but it is not yet a reality, says Steve Abraham, who is co-head of IBM’s global media and entertainment practice.
BlackArrow Seeks Bulls Eye with Advertising Insertion into Video on Demand
As time-shifting viewing habits of cable TV by consumers increases, there is a big challenge for the cable operators and advertisers to effectively insert relevant advertising. BlackArrow, a San Mateo-based company, apparently has a solution. The company has been heavily funded by some key strategic investors including Cisco, Comcast, Intel and top VC’s Mayfield and […]
JibJab Media Gets Serious with Paid Business Model…10 Million e-Cards Sold
LOS ANGELES–JibJab Media, widely known for its political parody This Land, created the first viral Web video way back in 2000. Having established a recognized online brand, the company has evolved into a subscription business with customized e-cards and other forms form branded mash-ups. Evidently people are willing to pay for the service. JibJab’s Sendables […]
Multimedia Search Engine Created in Lawrence Berkeley Labs Shows Dramatic Growth
LOS ANGELES–The multimedia "playable" search engine Seeqpod has attracted 5.5 million unique monthly users over the past year, according to internal numbers provided to Beet.TV. Through affiliates and an API, that number will likely double this year, a company spokesperson told us. The search engine technology was developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. It […]