Posts Tagged with ‘Revver’

It's starting to seem like another Web 2.0 company is either failing or on its last legs every time my news feeds refresh. Today's victim appears to be video-sharing site Revver, which updated the site's layout and added new features a mere three months ago. The fire sale price is a mere $300,000 to $500,000, unless you count the company's debt, which is rumored to be in the $1 million range.
Revver's business model was a bit dicey to begin with; [...]

Visitors of online video sharing service Revver will notice some major changes now active on the site.
Now, with its new layout and features, Revver is looking more like the most popular video site, YouTube (but with less bold colors), which is currently in the process of being redesigned.
Making much better use of space, the Revver website manages to pack more videos and more information onto the homepage while maintaining a simple and uncluttered arrangement.
"We just launched the newest version [...]

The explosive growth of video on the internet has brought with it an increasing strain on servers and the need for more storage space.
With video iPods, PSPs, iPhones and many other mobile devices offering video playback, it has become necessary to offer videos in multiple different formats which takes up more space and eats up more bandwidth requirements.
To provide a solution for this growing dilemma, RipCode has been hard at work for the past 18 months developing an appliance-based [...]

Beginning Friday, August 3 at 8 a.m., LonelyGirl15 will begin showing its season finale on MySpaceTV every hour for 12 hours in a row. The “12 in 12″ final episodes will follow the cast as they try to find their missing friend. Each episode is usually between 1 to 4 minutes long. Expect the second season of LonelyGirl15 to start next week, on August 6th.
“We're thrilled to give LonelyGirl15 the global platform it deserves via MySpaceTV,” said Greg Goodfried, co-creator [...]

More Google news here, and yet again the good and the bad. The company is ramping up its advertising business to work more closely with the theme of YouTube. That is, video.
The Google subsidiary is placing a shuffle of text ads along the bottom of viewers’ video windows. (If viewer shows enough interest to actively click, will expand to a video spot.) Presumably, Google wishes to have its ad model presented on YouTube befit the site as a whole, [...]

More news from video sharing services - this time about money. Today I got a scoop from a credible source in the financial industry that gofish.com has hired JMP Securities of San Francisco effectively to attempt to buy WeWin - the incentive based video sharing community. The source told me that WeWin's rewards program fills a void that exists in gofish's current platform. Details of the deal are sketchy, but the deal is reported to be between $15 to $25 million dollars. My source [...]

We have all grown to believe after many people saying so before, that community and user generated content is the king, and evidently the start of the treacherous path forward. But what on earth were Break thinking, when they announced that they’d pay up to $2,000 for a short video clip? The site, formerly Big-Boys, is indeed offering to pay users incredible sums of money, just to upload simple shorts. No experience needed!
Having paid out over $300,000 dollars already, the site [...]

A new start-up in Beijing has created a service which many have been waiting for a long time - Mojiti.?? This video services will take any video presently on YouTube, Google Video, Dailymotion,??Revver and a list of other familiar hosts and allow you to easily add annotations or translation to the video as an overlay.?? This overlay can then be put on your blog or website as easily as the original video.
I tried the service out with the following video.?? [...]

How does a business grow its revenues? The two most common routes are either charging more per customer or growing the number of customers. Typically, charging more works better when the market reaches saturation – there are not many more new customers who can be enticed profitably. For a startup, growing the number of users becomes a no-brainer.
That makes all the more sense for a web 2.0 startup. Except, replace the “customer” with “user” – any member in a social [...]