State of the NTV: TV Guide, the Onion

Here’s some fresh online video news to get your week started right:

TV Guide talking more about its online video search tool (previously mentioned here), due next month.

“Everybody says, `Who’s going to be the TV Guide of online video?’ and we say, why shouldn’t it be us?” said Richard Cusick, senior vice president of digital media at Gemstar-TV Guide. “We’re making a bet, but we think it’s a safe bet and consistent with our mission.”

vod:pod, which we’ve given a few shout-outs to recently due to its help with our redesign, launches its first version of a web-based feed reader for video today. This looks to be a welcome upgrade to YouTube’s subscriptions feature, bringing in any RSS feed with video enclosures (or at least that’s the idea; video feeds can apparently be quite finicky).

The tool includes what vod:pod nicknamed “the Scoble feature” — a.k.a keyboard shortcuts j and k for next and previous, respectively — named after the text and video blogger who is an outspokenly avid Google Reader user.

The Onion News Network (preview below) reportedly debuts Tuesday. Can’t wait.

Also, Acceptable.TV aired its premiere on VH1 Friday. Did you see it? What did you think?

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