DeliTV is a Yahoo Pipe created by Tony Hirst, a lecturer at The Open University in the UK.

This pipe allows anyone to program their own online TV channel from Boxee by bookmarking pages on Delicious with the tag “delitv”.

• Yahoo Pipes is a tool that aggregates and manipulates all sorts of content from the web.
• Boxee is free software that streams content from sites like MLB, Netflix, Pandora, Last.fm, and Flickr on a laptop or connected to a TV.

DeliTV supports:

• BBC iPlayer category feeds
• podcast feeds
• Youtube videos
• Youtube Playlists
• Youtube channels
• another DeliTV playlist
• an MP3 file

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Google has had to get tough on copyright violations on YouTube. Fair enough. But surely removing a video clip featuring footage shot live by someone on their own camera is going a little too far.

YouTube Copyright Infringement

Copyright-infringement has always been a problem on YouTube. The early days of the site (pre-Google) saw YouTube filled with clips which very obviously infringed on many content owners copyrights. Which is why Viacom chose to file a $1 billion lawsuit against the company.

The situation has improved in recent years. Once Google acquired the site for $1.65 billion in November, 2006, it knew something serious had to be done in order to stop the flagrant abuse. Hence the introduction of the much-maligned Video Identification System, an anti-piracy tool which allows content owners to quickly and easily identify on of their clips.

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2008 has now seamlessly morphed into 2009 and we’re all a year older, and maybe even a year wiser. But what happened in the world of Internet television over the past 12 months?

Here are my highlights of 2008 in the world of Web TV, with the two or three most fascinating or biggest stories from each month of the year. I wonder if 2009 will hold equal delights?

January

The year began with speculation as to whether Joost would survive the year. And despite a dodgy economy and bumps along the way, it has managed it. Meanwhile, there was an intriguing story concerning how BitTorrent wasn’t being used just by pirates to swap illegal wares.

February

Blu-ray finally won the battle of the high-definition formats but would it really matter in the end when digital downloads were surely the future? Quarterlife made its NBC TV debut and unfortunately didn’t do very well, proving Web video still has a way to go before mainstream acceptance is guaranteed.

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Ubuket is a new Web application which allows you to compile music, video and photos in to playlists.

Following on from the successes of MuxTape and Grooveshark, it gives users an easy way of pulling these various media from places online and on your PC, including video sites such as YouTube.

Ubuket is quite easy to use. Once you sign up you can grab songs or videos from a variety of places, including your computer, and turn them into playlists for sharing with your friends, co-workers, blog readers or site visitors. 

When Flickr introduced the ability to share videos as well as photos last week, some were keen on the move, and some were not so keen. Now, some in the latter are vehemently voicing their opinions over the move to rival YouTube.

It seems your average Flickr user sees themselves as a little bit different to the bods who populate YouTube, and leave dumb comments all over the place. Some would say they’re stuck, some would use the word purist.

Either way, the stuck up purists aren’t happy with the people in charge of Flickr, not liking the direction the site is going in, or the way the new video option was implemented.

Last month saw rumours circulating (not for the first time) of Flickr adding video to their already massively popular photo sharing service.

Unlike every other time however, these proved to be true, and the new video elements were rolled out on the site yesterday.

Now, just one day later there seems to already be a rapidly growing group among Flickr users, who are against the move and want the site to remain dedicated to photography.

A Flickr video service to compliment and work alongside the brilliant photo sharing service has been rumoured for what seems like years now.

Indeed it actually is years, with CNet’s Dan Farber claiming to have first heard talk of it way back in December 2005. In May 2007, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield said users would be able to upload videos soon.

So it’s about time the service actually got up and running, which according to the latest whispers, it’s finally going to in April. I assume they mean 2008, but we can’t be sure.