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Interactive TV & Video

12seconds.tv – Twitter For Online Video Fans

Twitter is growing at an incredible rate of knots, by allowing anyone with half a brain to become a blogger of...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube On PS3 and Wii | Is This ‘TV Website’ An Insight Into The Future Of Online Video?

People are increasingly obtaining the option to watch online video on their televisions thanks to Internet-connected TVs, set-top boxes, and video...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

TV.com Becomes Video Destination | CBS Tries To Do A Hulu With Ad-Supported Online Library

TV.com was part of the acquisition of CNet for $1.8 billion by CBS last year. The site with the valuable domain...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

CBS Social Viewing Rooms | Are Virtual Living Rooms The Future Of Web Television?

How important is the social side of watching TV to you? If very, then CBS thinks it has a solution to...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Joost Becomes Web Flash Site, Drops Plug-In Altogether | Can It Compete With Hulu?

The new Joost is now live, and offers users the chance to watch content in their Web browser using Flash. But...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Hulu Copies Joost By Adding Social Networking Features, Genre Searching, Recommendations

While Joost may have been first to launch, Hulu is the television service that has taken off while Joost has been...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Joost Mark II Launches | Joost Offering Browser-Based Video And Social Network

Joost Mark II has arrived. But will the additions of a browser based video viewer and social networking features help the...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Watch The Democratic Convention Online | How To Catch Live Coverage Of Barack Obama

The Democratic National Convention begins today in Denver, and unless you’re a delegate you won’t be able to attend. But that’s...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Stickam PayPerLive Video Streaming | Live Streaming Company Offers Pay-Per-View

Pay-Per-View is an idea which has been adopted by many traditional television companies, with satellite and cable providers, and certain networks...
Dave Parrack
50 sec read

YouTube Adds Geosearch – Find Video Tagged From Any Location | Google Search Expertise

Now that YouTube is owned by search expert Google, you’d think it would be easier than it is to find the...
Dave Parrack
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NBC Olympics Live Online Coverage To Be Used As Research Lab For Future Multimedia Events

We have already heard about NBC’s plans to show live video of the 2008 Beijing Olympics on the Web at NBCOlympics,...
Dave Parrack
2 min read

IpTV Evangelist Launches Video Production & Media Integration Service For Companies

We’ve been covering the activities of IpTV Evangelist for some time now. Company founder Gilbert Hammer has had many of his...
Dave Parrack
45 sec read

Wikipedia Video By End Of 2008 | Kaltura Launches Open Source Video Platform

Kaltura is going places. It just raised a second round of funding, and recently announced a joint collaboration with Wikipedia to...
Dave Parrack
43 sec read

YouTube Adds Annotations and a 1024Mb File Size Increase | High Res Here We Come

YouTube has just unveiled two new improvements to the service, an increase in file size from 100Mbs to 1024Mbs, and the...
Dave Parrack
46 sec read

TheWB.com Launches In Beta | Limited Number Of Episodes Currently Available

Back in April, it was announced that TheWB, the TV network from Warner Brothers which merged with UPN to form The...
Dave Parrack
57 sec read

Fancast from Comcast | Bridging The Gap Between The Web & Traditional TV?

Web television is growing at a fast pace, but that incredible growth means that television networks and cable providers will have...
Triston McIntyre
2 min read

Glam Media Offers Revenue Sharing Video Opportunities | GlamTV Platform Advertising

The popularity of Web video is now no longer in question. YouTube is massive, and growing all the time, and services...
Dave Parrack
50 sec read

Redlasso Receives Cease and Desist Letter From NBC, CBS, Fox Over Copyrighted Clips

Redlasso is a website which offers bloggers and site administrators the chance to embed video clips from TV shows, news programmes...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Meet ‘YourWeek’ – A Weekly Web TV Show Following The Latest Headlines At Reddit

Social bookmarking has been around for a few years now, with Digg and Reddit probably the two biggest sites around. Digg...
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
1 min read

Gordon Brown Launches YouTube PM’s Questions | More Tech Savvy Than Cameron?

Here on WebTVWire we’ve explored how YouTube is being used as a new playing field for many different things, from cries...
Dave Parrack
54 sec read

Microsoft Mediaroom New Features Coming Soon | Xbox 360 Support, New Applications

Microsoft’s Mediaroom is currently the company’s IPTV solution which is used by AT&T U-Verse in the States and BT Vision in...
Dave Parrack
51 sec read

Playstation 3 Integrates YouTube API | Allowing Gamers To Upload Videos Directly

Back in March, YouTube announced the release of new improved APIs to allow external websites to integrate YouTube videos more easily...
Dave Parrack
42 sec read

KateModern Final Episode In June | Bebo and EQAL End Interecative Show After Two Series

KateModern, an interactive Web television series, created by EQAL exclusively for the social networking site Bebo is set to end on...
Dave Parrack
43 sec read

Lycos Cinema Receives Social Upgrades | Can It Compete With Hulu, Joost, BBC iPlayer?

Lycos Cinema launched over a year ago, in an effort to compete with YouTube and Joost. It actually has more in...
Dave Parrack
52 sec read

Strutta – Bragging Rights With Web Video | Funniest Home Videos For YouTube Generation

Strutta takes the old concept of bragging rights and ombines it with online video to create a fun social media website...
Leslie Poston
1 min read

YouTube Video Integrated In To Google Maps | Allowing Companies To Advertise On The Web

Last year saw YouTube integrated in to Google Earth, allowing surfers to watch videos tagged with the locations they are viewing...
Dave Parrack
43 sec read

Blinkx Launch BBTV | Could The Speech Track Innovation Make This A Joost, Hulu Killer?

You may think the world already has enough Web TV applications to be going on with. But the likes of Joost,...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

Justin.tv Reaches First Anniversary | Impressive Stats For The Lifecasting Network

Justin.tv, the lifecasting network which enables the most ordinary of people to become the star of their own Web TV shows,...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YouTube Expands Developer Tools & APIs To Allow External Websites To Interact

For the last few days there has been speculation over what big announcement YouTube were about to make: A deal with...
Dave Parrack
1 min read

YourTrumanShow VideoMap Widget Arrives On Facebook | MySpace & Mobile To Follow

YourTrumanShow is a video blogging initiative which allows ordinary people like you and me distribute great stories via video diaries. In...
Leslie Poston
2 min read