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Since 2007, CEO and co-founder Jason Liebman has overseen tremendous growth at Howcast, one of the leading how-to providers online, which streams tens of millions of videos every month. Today, he dishes about “viral video,” the lack of standards and Howcast’s approaching profitability. Read More »

Comic-Con is a great gorgeous whale of pop culture, and if you approach the event as a microcosm of media today, then the way web content has squeezed itself into this five days of panels, exhibits, events and parties is mirrored accordingly. Read More »

 
 

SlingMedia CoFounder Joins Venture Firm

Jason Krikorian, one of the co-founders of SlingMedia left the place shifting start-up in January 2009 and since then has been taking it easy. But now he has now decided to go back to work. He is joining Doll Capital Management as a general partner. Read More »

On today’s investor relations call, Google CFO Patrick Pichette said that Google’s years-long legal battle with Viacom cost a total of $100 million in legal fees. And the case never even went to trial. Read More »

Snapfish by HP has acquired the video technology platform behind the personal video-sharing site Motionbox, according to an emailed release. The buy means that Snapfish.com users will be able to use the service to upload and share video in addition to still images. Read More »

In an interview, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar talks about the future of his three-year-old company, competition with Netflix and Apple, cooperating with content partners, broadband and his company’s newest offering — Hulu Plus, a subscription service that will help the company get content to connected devices. Read More »

The Pirate Bay, the file-sharing network based in Sweden, has apparently been hacked by a trio of Argentinian programmers. The group claims to have downloaded the site’s entire user database, including the names, IP addresses and email addresses of the network’s 4 million registered users. Read More »

Thirty-four percent of U.S. cell phone users surveyed in May said they use their phone for recording video, up from 19 percent the year before, according to a new study from Pew. And those users are likely to share their creations, with big implications for carriers. Read More »

Google, Netflix & The Power of Focus

Google and Netflix stocks are moving in opposite directions — down 29 percent for the search giant and up nearly 99 percent for the video company. Their stock trajectories speak volumes about their strategies and their ability to focus on their core strengths. Read More »

BBQ&A: Auditude CRO Gets Grilled (in a Fun Way)

Just in time for the Fourth, Auditude CRO Mike Gaffney shows us his recipe for homemade BBQ sauce and grills up chicken on the bone and three magic words: cheese, filled, sausage. Join us for some summer fun on our new GigaOM TV series BBQ&A. Read More »

How Netflix Shaped Skype’s Platform Strategy

Skype wants to push voice and video chat beyond the PC, and with SkypeKit, its new software development kit, it can. The VoIP leader is looking to mimic Netflix’s success in the connected TV and device space using its SDK. Here’s why it just might succeed. Read More »

uTorrent, known as one of the most popular and P2P file sharing clients for Windows, is coming to the Mac: A first 1.0 stable version is available now for download, and uTorrent maker BitTorrent Inc. is planing to soon offer feature parity between the two versions. Read More »

More Must Reads

The idea that 3-D content is going to become widespread within the next few years thanks to Hollywood and sporting events isn’t likely, according to Paul Sagan, the CEO of Akamai. He said he’s more concerned about mobile traffic than 3-D traffic at this point. Read More »

What do banks, soccer fans and smartphones have in common? They’re all part of what’s shaping Akamai Technologies’ business, according to CEO Paul Sagan, who joined Om for a fireside chat today at Structure 2010. Read More »

The GigaOM Network is at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco again today hosting our annual cloud computing-focused conference, Structure. Our live stream of the keynotes, panels and presentations starts at 8 a.m. Enjoy the show! Read More »

The GigaOM Network is at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco hosting our annual cloud computing-focused conference, Structure. Our live stream of the keynotes, panels and presentations starts at 8:30 a.m. So even if you weren’t able to make it to the show, enjoy! Read More »

Adobe announced availability of Flash Player 10.1 for mobile partners, barely meeting prior expectations for a mid-year delivery. But for most end users, Adobe hasn’t delivered anything today. The longer it takes to get Flash on phones, the more its fate is out of Adobe’s hands. Read More »

Apple’s move to ban Adobe Flash from its iOS has opened a huge window for any technology that can deliver a top-notch multimedia experience on the iPad and other Apple gadgets. And porn purveyors are starting to tilt the balance in favor of HTML5. Read More »

With the resignation of five of the eleven members of the IAWTV board of directors comes a special election to be held in July. And with the formation of an awards committee comes new progress towards determining the IAWTV’s relationship with the Streamy Awards. Read More »

The Mac Mini desktop sees a hardware upgrade today, along with a price boost. It’s still the cheapest Mac desktop at $699, but with new Nvidia graphics and HDMI output, might it be your next Apple TV while Boxee and Google sit on the sidelines? Read More »

Since launching a month ago, YouTube’s unlisted videos feature has experienced exponential growth since launching in May. But just because a video is unlisted doesn’t mean it can’t rack up views — Nike’s World Cup viral ad being the prime example. Read More »

The always exciting World Cup kicks off today and I’m using a free mobile application from Goal.com to keep track of it all. While I’d rather watch streaming video of the matches, this software gives me a quick fix and runs on most major mobile platforms. Read More »

Akamai has spent the last year building up its network capacity in anticipation of global Internet traffic hitting a record high during this year’s World Cup. The global audience and the higher quality video streams available — either HD or 3-D are to blame. Read More »

Steve Jobs demonstrated the new FaceTime video calling app on the iPhone 4 at WWDC, but had to ask the audience to turn off their Wi-Fi devices first. Why is that? The new video call feature is only supported on Wi-Fi connections for the time being. Read More »

Cisco is forecasting a fourfold increase in traffic traversing the Internet by 2014. At that time it estimates traffic on the web will reach 63.9 exabytes per month — or more than 3/4 of a Zettabyte — according to its annual Visual Networking Index. Read More »

In an interview with Fox Business Network, Eric Schmidt said Google TV is about “building a platform with millions of people using these technologies” and that thanks to the ability to target advertising, ads on the new Google service “should be worth a lot of money.” Read More »

Intel is trying to move into the living room with its WiDi, or Wireless Display, technology that streams computer content to a television using a point-to-point Wi-Fi connection. The technology could come to smartphones and that might add appeal to Intel’s Atom for powering future handsets. Read More »

Harmonic announced today that it has agreed to acquire video server and storage infrastructure company Omneon in a stock-and-cash deal worth $274 million, in a bid to boost its product portfolio for the production, management and distribution of digital media. The … Read More »

British musical artist M.I.A. has never shied away from tough topics in her music, but her latest music video has proven to be tough for many to take. Born Free is less of a video, though, and more a nine-minute short film that depicts American … Read More »

Entertainment industry insiders are increasingly seeking alternatives to lawsuits and legal threats, realizing it’s time to finally work with, instead of against, P2P network operators and their users. Here’s a look at three approaches . Read More »

Adobe still plans to release its Flash CS5 development tools in support of Apple’s iPhone, but in a blog post, Adobe’s product manager for Flash, Mike Chambers, writes: “[W]e are not currently planning any additional investments in that feature.” I read that as Adobe … Read More »

It’s the most wonderful time of the year for television nerds — pilot season, the time of year when we scan casting notices and search out focus group reports on pilots for next fall’s Hulu chart-toppers. And this year for web junkies, there’s fun beyond the … Read More »

Our posts about Google open sourcing its VP8 video codec have provoked a lot of discussion on NewTeeVee and across the web this week. There seem to be many different opinions out there on what this actually means. Will VP8 become the … Read More »

Hollywood is cramming 3-D movies down audiences’ throats, but the real driver of 3-D demand was on display during the Master’s golf tournament. Sports, not movies, will drive 3-D adoption, and in doing so, may also lead to a wave of upgrades in last-mile broadband infrastructure. Read More »

In terms of user and customer adoption, Microsoft Silverlight has been playing catch-up with Adobe Flash ever since it was released back in 2007. But there’s reason to believe that it’s catching on, with online video platforms Ooyala and Kaltura both adding support … Read More »

There are people who will stop and stare at a beautifully made car the same way that dog people fawn over a passing puppy and jerks pause at the sight of a young lady in Spandex. I am not any of those people. I … Read More »

A three-member panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today ruled that the Federal Communications Commission didn’t have the authority to censure Comcast for throttling peer-to-peer packets, and also called into question the FCC’s ability to regulate … Read More »

The man only known as Merton quickly shot to the top of the YouTube charts in March thanks to his slightly profane but charming musical interactions with Chatroulette users. So I talked with the creator of Chat Roulette Funny Piano Improv via … Read More »

When companies are dying, it’s rarely a quick and painless process. Even so, the demise of Blockbuster has felt like an especially drawn-out and painful one. The latest development came late Tuesday when the company submitted an SEC filing warning that it may file for … Read More »

It’s been a lonely day at the office for us at camp GigaOM, with multiple writers headed out to Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest where they’ll have all sorts of fun while we remain in rainy San Francisco. Luckily, you don’t … Read More »

SetJam launched a major redesign of its video aggregation site today and also announced a $275,000 bridge investment from the New York Angels and Hudson River Angels investment groups. The company is competing with aggregators like Clicker and Mefeedia, and directly targeted Clicker in its … Read More »

There’s no denying that NBC Universal, in attempting to cover the entire scope of the Winter Olympics on and offline, has a monumental task on its hands — there are simply so many events happening on a daily basis that it’s easy to feel … Read More »

Hulu clocked more than a billion video views in December, according to comScore data reported by USA Today this morning. The paper took this as an opportunity to look into Hulu’s future plans for premium pricing, but Hulu CEO Jason Kilar kept … Read More »

BrightRoll said today that it’s wrapped up a $10 million Series C round of financing — after reaching profitability. The video ad network, which claims to be “bigger than Hulu,” plans to use the funds to expand even further, adding to its technology platform and … Read More »

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