Web television is growing at a fast pace, but that incredible growth means that television networks and cable providers will have to move fast to keep up.

Many of the big networks such as ABC, NBC, Fox, etc. have already started uploading television content directly to the Internet for users who don’t mind watching programming on their computers.

Of course, that puts cable providers in a bit of a pickle; if users can go directly to the source on the internet and cut out the middle men, what good will cable providers be?

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The popularity of Web video is now no longer in question. YouTube is massive, and growing all the time, and services such as Hulu and the BBC iPlayer have proved to be massively successful.

However, an ongoing problem which has yet to be fully explored, let alone solved, is how to successfully monetize the business of online videos.

Sure, Google saw fit to pay $1.65 billion for YouTube, but that worth was all potential. So far it has yet to make so much as a bean from the site.

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Redlasso is a website which offers bloggers and site administrators the chance to embed video clips from TV shows, news programmes and sports events minutes or hours after they air on network television.

The site is currently in beta, and only open to about 18,000 users, but that hasn’t stopped the shit hitting the fan as the company today received a cease and desist letter from NBC, CBS and Fox over the copyrighted clips it is offering.

The letter, leaked by Silicon Alley Insider, claims that Redlasso has broken state and federal laws while causing the companies “serious and irreparable harm.” The companies are demanding an immediate ceasing of all the copyright infringements.

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Social bookmarking has been around for a few years now, with Digg and Reddit probably the two biggest sites around.

Digg users can watch Kevin Rose and his chums discuss the latest stories doing the rounds on Diggnation but Reddit users haven’t had that opportunity. Until now.

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Here on WebTVWire we’ve explored how YouTube is being used as a new playing field for many different things, from cries for help, to a place for gamers to show off.

And now, it’s being used a weapon of politicians to prove they are tech savvy and more down with the digital age of youngsters and technophiles.

Gordon Brown’s YouTube Question Time

10 Downing Street, the home of the British Prime Minister has had a YouTube channel for over a year, but Gordon Brown has now launched a new venture, a kind of YouTube version of Prime Minister’s question time.

He has pledged, in a video embedded below, to respond to questions posed through the official site, in what is being promised as a regular event.

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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 the UK, allowing TV to be delivered to your home over IP.

By the simple use of a set-top box, you can currently use the service to grab high quality HDTV that is of a much better quality than you would get using a Cable service.

Current Features

It currently also offers features such as quick channel changing, multi-room viewing, and picture-in-picture, but according to an article on Gizmodo, a lot more is coming soon.

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Back in March, YouTube announced the release of new improved APIs to allow external websites to integrate YouTube videos more easily and in a more flexible, user-friendly way.

But it wasn’t just websites being targeted, and with the unveiling of a deal with Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. which sees the Playstation 3 have the new YouTube API integrated proves that point.

In-Game Footage On YouTube

According to the YouTube API Blog, what the integration does is allow games developers to create games which enable the direct uploading of in-game footage from the PS3 to YouTube.

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