The internet has truly made global business and global communication phenomenally easier. The growth in video conferencing services has meant that people all over the world can meet up to discuss business and ideas, without even having to leave their chair.

However, one thing the internet can’t really solve is language barriers. That’s why a number of global conferencing companies have added translation to their list of video conferencing services.

Intercall teams with IAL Services

One such video conferencing company to do this is Intercall which has recently partnered with the translation company, IAL Services.

According to WebProNews InterCall and IAL have been testing their multilingual video conferencing services for the past year, and officially made it public last month.

• Intercall
• IAL Services
• WebProNews Article

I’ve been continually disappointed with video search engines not finding what I want. They all seem to be highly inaccurate and poorly designed. My favorite so far has been PureVideo, but it’s been by no means perfect.

But I recently stumbled across uLinkx, a video search engine which is apparently being self funded by a small team of 3 people and receiving approximately 10,000 visitors a day.

For such a young start-up this site is doing amazingly well. The results are relevant and plentiful and the design is very clean and full of features.

Friend of WebTVWire.com, Gilbert Hammer of IPTV Evangelist, has been very busy interviewing a selection of people working in and around the online video industry.

Interviews include:

• Sibley Verbeck - CEO of The Electric Sheep Company
• Jerry Paffendorf - Resident Futurist of The Electric Sheep Company
• John C. Martin - Director of Product Marketing at Reallusion
• Ashley Heather - CEO Entertainment Media Works
• Jim Funk - Co-founder and VP of marketing at Akimbo
• Robert Petty - CEO of RooTV

There’s over 2 hours of interviews with these people and more over at the IPTV Evangelist interview section (elegantly powered by Brightcove).

Interview with Jim Funk of Akimbo

To give you a taste of all the interviews here is the interview with Jim Funk, the VP of marketing over at Akimbo.

IPTV Evangelist interviews

Blinkx has announced a new tool called Blinkx remote to help you find free and paid TV shows online.

Read about it on our sister site, Web TV Hub. Press release follows:

Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, has stated that YouTube is almost ready to implement a copyright detection system that will filter out pirate videos as they are uploaded to the video sharing website.

The new system is being called Claim Your Content and Schmidt said that YouTube is very close to turning this on.

When it comes to the internet men are always out there in front spending wasted hours sitting in front of the PC screen while the women catch up on their favorite soaps. It’s no surprise to me then that women lag behind when it comes to watching online video.

A study be eMarketer shows that 78% of male internet users will watch video online video this year, while only 66% of women will.

Joost has just announced that it will be adding independent films to its lineup of channels, but when I looked closer at the press release I noticed that Joost made this statement:

“Content creators and owners of all sizes are utilizing Joost’s high-quality, piracy-proof Internet platform.”

That is one heck of a bold claim to make. If Joost thinks that it won’t be possible for someone to record the videos broadcast on Joost, cut out the adverts, and distribute them illegally over the net then it is extremely misguided.