Posts Tagged with ‘veohtv’

Learning from Hulu’s Example

Michael Garrett

Since its launch at the end of October, Hulu has changed the opinions of many of its negative critics with outstanding features implemented into a clean and easy-to-navigate interface.
Not only that, but the private beta testing phase that the service has been under since going live also appears to be receiving all of the attention and updates necessary to provide a successful public launch, whenever that may be planned for. 
The way I see it, online video [...]

Powerset - Is It Man or Mouse?

Phil Butler

I received my much anticipated invitation to Powerset's Powerlabs the other day, and was excited to finally get an inside peek one of the years most interesting startups. I have covered Powerset many times since my first article back in January. The brainchild of Barney Pell, Steve Newcomb and Lorenzo Thione held great potential in providing natural language search relevance for the Web. Powerlabs does indicate some significant developments toward natural search, but the larger issue to me is: "Where [...]

Tubecast - Kicked Back TV Development

Phil Butler

On a slow news day I stumbled across a great find at the Museum of modern betas (MOMB). Tubecaset.tv is an Internet video/TV startup in alpha testing. This sexy little development essentially grabs content from other sites like YouTube and my old buddy Dmitry at Veoh and layers an user interface atop the content. The simplicity and elegance of the site are quite grabbing, and best of all anyone can enjoy it now.
From a writer's perspective I was excited [...]

Joost Goes Public: It’s Updated But Still Needs Help

Michael Garrett

It has been more than 5 months since I first began testing the invite-only beta of Joost. Today now officially marks the public launch of the online television service, and Joost proudly claims on their mildly redesigned homepage that they have accumulated 250+ channels and 15,000+ TV shows.
Although the Joost software has been updated now to version 1.0, the service makes sure to state that “Joost is still Beta software — there's a lot more work to be [...]

Facebook Users Get Custom Video Channels With Pyro.tv App

Michael Garrett

For those of you who don't know, Pyro.TV is a service that collects videos from around the web, and presents them to users as channels, similar to traditional television. In some ways, it is comparable to VeohTV.
The bread-and-butter of the service lies in the ability for each user to create their own channels of their favorite videos, which can then be shared amongst others.
Now, Vibe Solutions Group, the company behind the service, has announced that the Pyro.TV video channel service [...]

MyVeZoom - Extends Video Search

Phil Butler

MyVeZoom is a customizable extension of the VeZoom video search engine. VeZoom continuously monitors over 18 million hours of online video featured in over 60 online channels. From YouTube to the obscure, myVeZoom scours the Web for relevant UGC and professionally produced content. The straightforward UI and comprehensive nature of myVeZoom is promising. Drag-and-drop organization and other Web 2.0 tools make myVeZoom one of the cleanest video tool releases in some time. This early test of the main search utility and its [...]

VeohTV - The Joost Killer?

Phil Butler

One of my favorite Web 2.0 startups Veoh invited me to a webinar today to unveil what they termed a “Joost Killer”, their latest innovation VeohTV Beta. Dmitry Shapiro, CEO of Veoh has proved to be one of the most innovative and intelligent developers of this year and continues to add one excellent aspect after another to Veoh's service. VeohTV has been designed to provide users with an unparalleled Web TV experience and from Dmitry's demonstration of the new service's capabilities users [...]