1Cast Launches News Clipping Service
News video clip site 1Cast formally launched today, adding content deals with E! Entertainment and Style along with distribution on Boxee and Clearwire. 1Cast users can search, set up personal queues, and share short videos from sources including BBC World News, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business News, Reuters, Dow Jones, AFP and Al Jazeera. The service already has apps for the iPhone and Android.
Though its beta was open to the public, Kirkland, Wash.-based 1Cast is not disclosing how many people are already using the service. However, it said it now has 3.2 million monthly video views, with traffic increasing at a compound monthly growth rate of 130 percent over the last six months and users staying for significant portions of time, especially on mobile phones. 1Cast competes with a variety of companies such as RedLasso (which just relaunched last week after surviving lawsuits from content owners it didn’t have deals with at the time), Veveo, ClipSyndicate and Grab Networks (formerly Voxant) and Mochila. It is backed by Clearwire founder Craig McCaw’s Eagle River Holdings. We started tracking the company when it was in stealth last summer.
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Of course none of this works if you are in the downtroddden outback of the Web TV world, no I am not talking about the continent of Africa I am talking about Little old England.
The 1cast site here, handsome as the 3mm of the frame looks, appears as black knight on a dark night on a dark horse in a dark place (does that sound like Shakespeare?) i.e it’s completely black, zero nothing inside it, it’s a black hole!
It’s not just you david. Seeing the same thing here in the U.S.
Moving on.
After trying this a couple times I’m calling it “1Crash”
Semantic Wire ( http://www.semanticwire.com ) lunched news clipping service this week.
It is free, has alerts, analysis, action extraction, advanced filtering and more unique features.
To see it in action go: http://www.semanticwire.com