KateModern, an interactive Web television series, created by EQAL exclusively for the social networking site Bebo is set to end on June 28th.

That will signal the end of series 2, and the makers have decided to leave it there although they haven’t ruled out reprising the drama at sometime in the future.

The series was the follow up to the viral hit LonelyGirl15, which fooled many in to thinking it was a real video diary rather than a carefully written and produced show.

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Lycos Cinema launched over a year ago, in an effort to compete with YouTube and Joost. It actually has more in common with Hulu, though that site hadn’t even been conceived when Lycos Cinema launched.

The big difference with Lycos Cinema is the chance to watch streaming content with other viewers simultaneously using the company’s patented Simulstream technology.

TV As A Social Activity

The main thrust of the site is the idea that rather than television being a solitary hobby, the fun is derived from watching with other people, and sharing the moment with those around you.

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Strutta takes the old concept of bragging rights and ombines it with online video to create a fun social media website which could keep you entertained for hours.

If you constantly brag that you are the best at handstands in three counties, Strutta gives you a place to prove it. 

If you have an obnoxious friend or co-worker who won’t shut up about how great they are at, well, anything - put it on video and use Strutta to prove them wrong (or right).

Entertainment For Hours

Strutta is a fun website with little purpose beyond having bragging rights to any task you can dream up and put on video, or proving obnoxious people wrong. 

Even so, I managed to waste an hour on the site watching various people make complete idiots of themselves at various tasks, and voting for or against them as they came up against similar videos. 

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Last year saw YouTube integrated in to Google Earth, allowing surfers to watch videos tagged with the locations they are viewing on the Google application.

Now, YouTube has also been integrated in to Google Maps, and this has a much more commercial side to it, not on Google’s part, but for businesses in the US.

The feature was announced on the official Google Maps blog, and the example they used to showcase the new integration is a small bakery in San Francisco (as seen below).

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You may think the world already has enough Web TV applications to be going on with.

But the likes of Joost, Hulu, Vuze, Babelgum and more, now have a new competitor.

Blinkx already offer a video search engine, which enables users to browse their way through streaming videos from Google, YouTube, Metacafe and more.

Blinkx BBTV Launched

Now it has decided to try and compete in the already overcrowded online television sector, and today launched Blinkx BBTV (BroadBand TV) on to the masses.

The service offers the usual bells and whistles that you’d expect it to, with high quality video streaming, full screen viewing, and a choice of channels over many genres.

So far, so samey.

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Justin.tv, the lifecasting network which enables the most ordinary of people to become the star of their own Web TV shows, has reached its first birthday.

To celebrate, the company has published its first year statistics, and they make for impressive reading, with 87,331,037 page views in the last twelve months.

But, are they telling the full story, or giving a skewed vision of how well the network, and web television companies other than YouTube are doing?

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For the last few days there has been speculation over what big announcement YouTube were about to make: A deal with Hulu? High definition video? They’ve taken over the world?

None of these turned out to be true but it could just be that the truth is more interesting anyway, as it means YouTube will now be more user friendly, and irresistible than ever before.

Let’s face it, YouTube was already pretty open, with embedded videos everywhere you look on the Web, but the freshly announced APIs mean we’ll be seeing even more YouTube video related widgets around the Internet.

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