LiveStation is a new IPTV service that lets you watch television online using Microsoft’s new Silverlight technology.

The service, which just debuted at IBC 2007 in Amsterdam is another addition to the growing list of IPTV services that allow broadband users to watch television programming through the Internet.

LiveStation has some key differences that make it unlike any of the other internet television services available, which actually make it more like traditional television. 

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With the past couple of years seeing such high investments and publicity around the broadband video industry, the bubble was bound to burst for some.

Instant Media (I’M) was a creation from Scott Blum, the man behind buy.com. The idea was to mix ecommerce with free digital media and give content owners an outlet to deliver their videos to a large audience.

Essentially Instant Media was an aggregator of vodcasts, online TV shows and podcasts – it was very similar to the more popular open source Miro.

You simply download the desktop application to subscribe to and download various shows within the Instant Media channel directory. It was much like iTunes but where anyone could get involved.

“Think of us like iTunes, except you can download and watch shows in HD or transfer them to your flat-panel TV," says Joe Raffetto

But Instant Media looks dead…

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Say you’re a devotee of the music-centric social Web creation MyStrands. Surely some of you in the WebTVWire readership can be categorized as such. 

Are you a devoted fan of the music centric social web creation site MyStrands? I’m sure some of the WebTVWire readership can categorize themselves as such.

Well, if so, you no doubt already like what you’re getting from the service, but as is generally the case, you might…kind of…maybe…want a bit more. More, at least, in visual terms. (Music vids, concert footage, etc.)

Well, fortunately for you, earlier this week MyStrands unveiled a website with the intention of addressing that very need.

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Remember when we told you all about how Listasaurus added the option to upload videos to its classified ads? We were slightly bemused by the fact that the likes of eBay hadn’t already made the same move and it looks like someone was listening (maybe).

A company called Vzaar launched a service yesterday that allows eBay users to upload videos to their listings for free. The company that is made up of ex-eBay employees is looking to leverage the existing user base that eBay has in order to help bolster its own service.

You can’t hold a good idea down so this was bound to happen eventually, though it is interesting that eBay are keeping it in the family so to speak. Will this put an end to misleading eBay ads? Probably not.

[Via NewTeeVee]

With YouTube sewing up pretty much everything to do with the whole user generated video phenomenon in one fell swoop right at the start of this cavalcade we call online video, the trend now seems to be for start-ups to offer the same service, but with a specialized focus.

The latest of these to come wafting into our inbox is MyStrands.tv (an extension of the MyStrands music service) which to all intents and purposes appears to be a music centric YouTube knock off.

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We’ve known for a while about the joint video venture between News Corporation and NBC Universal.

This coupling had earned a valuation of $1 billion, even though it had yet to be named since it was announced in March.

Well, now a decision has been reached. In news that is well overdue, NBC and News Corp. have now announced an official name for their joint venture.

Hulu

It’s four letters that took five months to create. It sounds a little funny, but I think that the goal was a short, easy-to-remember name.

Not, only does it have a name, but Hulu also now has a website, which is complete with the ability to sign up for an invite to the private beta (yes, they will be starting off Joost style).

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The uptake of online video by the advertising industry is a pretty logical progression. A picture as they say is worth a thousand words, so god only knows how many words a video is worth; come to think of it what is a single word’s economic worth in advertising dollars? I’m digressing here…

Up until now, VeryFunnyAds has enjoyed virtually no competition for its ad centred YouTube clone. It seems however, as we have reported before, that come 2008 a new kid on the block called Didja will be looking to claim some of the 63 million views that VeryFunnyAds clocked up over the last year.

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