Roo Group, an entrant in the online hosted video space, said Tuesday it would purchase an online video startup called MyVideoDaily in a deal mostly meant to obtain MVD’s personnel and software technology. If nothing else, the terms of the deal — $350,000 and a half-million […] Read more »
Last weekend we caught up on the adventures of Lonelygirl15, where the plot has thickened, to say the least. Crazy cult stuff, a murder, hooking up with Daniel, and lots of interactive mystery clues. The team is doing its best to keep the gag going, and […] Read more »
In a staggeringly transparent piece of linkbait, Forbes has foisted the moniker ‘Internet Famous’ on 25 unsuspecting internerds. I fully intend to rib Om “Blogfather” Malik mercilessly about his inclusion at number 24, especially since he forwarded me the link. But in an indication of what […] Read more »
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The popular comic book and pop culture podcasters at iFanboy.com have gone from audio to video. The new show (with the familiar name) is available on the Revision3 network, known for other popular shows like Ctrl-Alt-Chicken and Diggnation. In the first episode, hosts Josh Flanagan, Conor […] Read more »
The U.S. President’s State of the Union address is always a television event, with multiple networks broadcasting live and much of the world watching. C-Span’s live feed is where I’ve been catching George W. Bush’s act evolve over the last few years. But they’re slow to […] Read more »
Walking a very, very fine line here, I just thought I’d point out a video from ‘Donnie Davies’ called “The Bible Says” that’s catching buzz. Why? Because the vast majority of people are going to find it either highly offensive or highly hilarious. But they’ll all […] Read more »
It had been popping up in my feeds every day for a week. I didn’t even watch it — I assumed it was that old instructional video they showed in health class, comparing the webs of spiders administered psychoactives. And by day three or four, it […] Read more »
If the Associated Press were to start its first videoblog, what do you think the subject matter would be? Real-life newsroom tales? Leftovers from interviews with famous people that didn’t make it into the wire story? Nope. The AP’s first videoblog, airing this Thursday, is a […] Read more »
Startup vSocial, which sells white-label video-sharing solutions, also has a destination site where it plays with new features. Today, the company launched something kind of cool — a way for users to clip and “quote” pieces of video, adding tags and inline comments. Far more robust […] Read more »
Peyton Manning may be the latest darling of TV commercials, but for the next two weeks brace yourself for the Bears Bandwagon, as real and ersatz fans everywhere clamor for Bears, Bears and more Bears. Who are we to disappoint? Read more »
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I wrote about ZonTube earlier today, but that’s just one of the many great web video mashups to be found at ProgrammableWeb. Other mashups that have appeared on NewTeeVee include SofaTube and Vidmeter. These kinds of new applications built on existing sites are made possible by […] Read more »
Stuff from ’round the web today: Dailymotion, everyone’s favorite source for content that’s been removed from YouTube, is cleaning itself up and cutting its first licensing deals. Today it announced an ad-share agreement with Warner Music Group, everyone’s favorite dealmaker. Google is expanding its Adsense testing […] Read more »
For all our wonderment about NewTeeVee, old TV is still a pretty good business, especially for cable giant Comcast. A required-reading profile of the company in Sunday’s New York Times notes that Wall Street believes in Comcast. Institutional bidders have made their move, sending its stock […] Read more »
Reader Will tipped us to Fox now offering the first four episodes of 24 on the Myspace TV portal, with the fifth available tonight. You have to download their media player, but the quality is pretty good in full-screen mode. Fox already made the first four […] Read more »
A Paris-based startup called Advestigo has packaged its digital video fingerprinting technology in a $15,900 (and up) appliance to be hooked up to video networks (warning: link is to PDF). The company claims each box would be able to handle 3,000 uploads per day. Video fingerprinting […] Read more »
LifeHacker has found a great site which matches up Amazon’s music listings with music video listings from YouTube. Search ZonTube for an artist, album or song, click on a result, and then click ‘Play’ under the album art. The page will load with the results of […] Read more »
I don’t know about you, but my plans tonight are being organized around the new episode of NBC’s breakout hit “Heroes” at nine — after all, “a new hero makes a shocking debut!” Also making their debut are a bunch of new features on the official […] Read more »
Kiptronic, a San Francisco-based startup that coordinates dynamic ad insertion for audio and video podcasts, will announce today or tomorrow that it has raised $4 million in venture capital funding. The Series A round was led by Blueprint Ventures and Prism VentureWorks, and included existing angel […] Read more »
Last week, we saw a pretty exciting demo of a brand-new “AdSense for video“-enabling technology from speech recognition firm Nexidia. Sure, the demo depended on canned examples, but the product had only been available for three days at the point Drew Lanham, senior vice president of […] Read more »
Dear readers, We here at NewTeeVee Virtual HQ want to drop a note to apologize for any hiccups on the site. Over the weekend we moved NewTeeVee to be hosted on WordPress.com, and encountered a few unexpected issues. Most notably, for those of you wondering about […] Read more »
Put this in the category – VCs say the strangest things. Tim Draper, doesn’t believe much there is much of a future for the fine art of writing amongst kids. During his opening keynote at Wharton Private Equity Conference, he argued that writing became popular because […] Read more »
Andrew Michael Baron, sometimes overly open about his personal business, posted an interesting disclosure on his blog this morning: his raw revenue numbers. Rocketboom brought in $247,412 in 2006 (well, the working was unclear so this could be his personal take, but since he’s the business […] Read more »
Showdown at the Walled Corral: Since people watch one because they love it and the other because they hate it, Bill O’Reilly and Stephen Colbert appearing on each other’s shows last night was a very clever exploitation of what I think people in ‘the biz’ like […] Read more »
As Farkers worldwide are well aware, Fark’s distinctive raunch flavor is now available in video form with the launch of FarkTV on the Super Deluxe network. With the “reading news off of computers while drinking beers” concept all tied up, FarkTV features a number of original […] Read more »
Executions of dictators aside, there seems to be a growing, disturbing trend of violent kid-on-kid video finding its way to places like YouTube and MySpace. On the wild Internet, it’s hardly surprising to occasionally surf across something explicit or graphic. That’s part of the price you […] Read more »
Ever since the story broke that a detachment of SWAT cops decended on an Atlanta recording studio to arrest mixtape legends DJ Drama and Don Cannon on piracy charges, I’ve been looking for an angle appropriate for NewTeeVee — besides the obvious implications for anyone who’s […] Read more »
Apple’s stock may have taken a digger today based on its disappointing outlook, but there were still a couple bright pieces of news relating to digital media. While there are no actual Apple TVs to ship or stock on shelves, that hasn’t stopped it from being […] Read more »
It’s not the kind of news that is going to help Chris Anderson sell books, but it does make sense: Big TV shows from the big networks are piling up big online viewer numbers, which at some point could become a big business. According to a […] Read more »
Can’t make it to this year’s Sundance Film Festival? Well, thanks to the Internet, there’s no need to actually travel to Utah. Between cell phone bloggers, YouTube, Second Life and iTunes, you’re virtually there already. The festival has its own channel on YouTube, and has hired […] Read more »
As if there wasn’t already enough crap to buy on the Internet, home shopping network QVC is now streaming 24/7/365 on AOL Video. Soon, you’ll even be able to watch your favorite QVC ‘shows’ on-demand, just as you would with AOL Video’s existing offerings. According to […] Read more »
Pulitzer-prize winning humorist and columnist Art Buchwald died of kidney failure yesterday at the age of 81. In a twist on the old newspaper tradition of have obituaries prepared for notable figures in advance, The New York Times is using the occasion of Buchwald’s death to […] Read more »
Stephen Colbert explains how Ma Bell has evaded the antitrust police to put itself together again… (hat tip to Alec Saunders for the catch) Read more »
Everything you think you know about IPTV is wrong. That’s part of the message from Italy’s Fastweb, one of the world leaders in IPTV deployments. During a refreshingly honest conference call Wednesday hosted by RBC Capital Markets, Fastweb’s Paolo Agostinelli talked about what early-days lessons the […] Read more »
I was an early subscriber to Netflix back in the day, and recently signed back up. In the interest of confirming some details of their new ‘Watch Now’ service, like what client-side software they were using, I asked if they could hook up my account so […] Read more »
Mark Cuban has somewhat of a mixed record predicting BitTorrent’s future, having once suggested that nobody would ever download HD content over peer-to-peer networks. Obviously, he got that one wrong. But he does have a point when it comes to a growing obstacle to P2P becoming […] Read more »
Ze Frank, whose top-notch year-long videoblog ends in two months, has been busy making plans to go Hollywood. The New York Observer gives us the blow-by-blow on his signing with United Talent Agency and embarking on a slew of pitches. It’s funny, they treat Frank as […] Read more »
IsoHunt, one of the most popular tracker indexes, got shutdown by its ISP. Promises to be back up shortly. [Slashdot] The Pirate Bay now has multiple torrents of HD-DVD movies indexed, and rubbed it in the MPAA’s eye by announcing it on its blog. [Slyck News] […] Read more »
If politicians can use YouTube to announce their presidential plans, then why can’t an airline make its case using video? Virgin America, the company started by billionaire Richard Branson, has been denied permission to operate in the U.S. on local routes because of too much foreign […] Read more »
Yeah, you read that right. $59.5 million is the amount of online video startup Brightcove‘s Series C round. Om has the story over on the mother ship. He had previously gotten wind of the deal while it was still in the works in November. Brightcove is […] Read more »
Joost, nee The Venice Project, hasn’t even officially launched yet, so it would be premature to declare them the victors in bringing the television experience to an internet device near you. Plenty of other people are out there trying to figure out ways to use broadband […] Read more »
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