Posts Tagged with ‘web-TV’

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 [...]

Jewish TV Network Taps Into Web Power For Yom Kippur

Leslie Poston

One of the deepest aspects of religion and spirituality is a sense of community. If you are lucky enough to live in a city like Los Angeles, chances are you have easy access to others of your faith and a place of worship to gather in. If you live in more rural areas, or if you are housebound, you may be missing that sense of community and the fellowship with other people who share your faith.
One CEO saw that [...]

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 [...]

Joost Finally Fails Miserably - Not!

Phil Butler

Sometimes I feel like the official reporter of Internet TV leader Joost because their news always seems to gravitate in my direction. Today Joost announced former Cisco Systems executive and expert deal maker Mike Volpi as their CEO.
Volpi was the senior VP and General Manager of Cisco's routing and service provider group, and he helped acquire more than 70 companies for the Cisco system during his tenure there. Volpi will replace founding CEO Fredrik de Wahl and will assume the helm of Joost [...]

Next New Networks and Joost Team Up

Phil Butler

Next New Networks, a micro television network we reported on previously, has just partnered up with everyone's favorite broadcast quality Internet television service Joost. We received the news today that Next New Networks will air Pulp Secret, Threadbanger and Channel Frederator on the world's first Internet TV service and NNN expects to follow up with other networks on Joost very soon.
NNN has also added a new network to their lineup called Total MMO, which is a fantastic online gaming community [...]

Indy Cars Get Joost as Web 2.0 Speeds Up

Phil Butler

News today from the Indy 500 is that our buddies at Joost are going faster than ever before, now that the JoostTM logo screamed around the Brickyard at over 222 mph and placed 7th. The #2 Vision Racing/Honda/Firestone car driven by Tomas Scheckter finished just over 11 seconds behind Dario Franchitti, the winner of the 91st edition of one of the world's greatest sporting events. Joost users were treated to Web 2.0's first broadcast of “big time” Indy racing in the house [...]

Veoh and Facebook Team Up

Phil Butler

Veoh continues its steady ascent to the top of online television and video ladder. Today at the Facebook f8 event Veoh announced the Veoh Favorites Player which is an application built on the Facebook Platform. Veoh CEO Dmitry Shapiro and his developers continue to incrementally add one excellent aspect after another in an obvious quest to become one, if not the premier Internet television network.
The new Veoh Favorites Player will allow Facebook members to view their favorite videos on their [...]

Joost is Rolling to the Finish Line

Phil Butler

Joost keeps hitting the content jackpot prior to their wildly anticipated launch late this month. The latest news is that Joost has just signed deals with Turner Broadcasting and Sony Pictures adding still more quality content for their online TV network.
We have tested and covered Joost from the beginning and still get requests for test tokens even though the public launch is around the corner. Joost is probably the most anticipated startup launch of 2007 and given the innovation [...]

Blinkx IPO News and A Look At AI

Phil Butler

Blinkx video search appears to be going public next month. The decision emanates from the Autonomy Group, which intends to exercise an option over their shares in Blinkx. Blinkx just announced the other day a partnership with National Geographic to index their acclaimed documentaries. Blinkx is currently the world's largest video search engine. Their service has endeavored to solve the problem of accessing the vast amount of video on the Web via their unique search capability.
According to this news via Yahoo! the company will be [...]

Kyte Takes Off On Schedule

Phil Butler

Kyte.tv went live Monday the 23rd as promised by Daniel Graf the founder. Kyte is a Splashcast type startup that allows users to broadcast content, display photos, music and other favorite media on their sites. Channels on Kyte.tv can be enabled with live chat and are viewable via a scroll menu below the player. Kyte is the most feature laden service of its type by far.  
This broadcast station for the people of Web 2.0 can be embedded in personal spaces, pages or blogs [...]