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Social networking sites are media portals

by Chris Caceres, November 20, 2009 | Comments

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Time spent viewing video on social networking destinations up 98% year-over-year, reports Nielsen

One of the things I love about Facebook is how simple it is to view videos on your live feed. For the most part, videos from sites like YouTube, Vimeo, or those uploaded directly to Facebook play right in the feed without ever having to stray away to another destination. It just works. It makes sense that this ease of ...

YouTube launches automatic captions

by Chris Caceres, November 19, 2009 | Comments

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Feature will grant online video viewing access to hearing impaired and translate to 51 languages

YouTube is taking initiatives today to help the hearing impaired by announcing a new automatic captioning feature across its millions of videos.This isn't your traditional hand written captioning either. Google is combing its automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions. So basically, the machines understand what is being said in the video and ...

GettingHired gets $3 million

by Chris Caceres, November 19, 2009 | Comments

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Career site focused on serving disabled, raises funds for its audience of 22 million

GettingHired, an organization focused on careers and community for people with disabilities, announced on Thursday it secured $3 million of additional investment from Zenith Insurance Company, Kamine Development Corp and Fisher Capital. Launched back in November of 2008, GettingHired.com serves as an online career center with social networking features for people with disabilities. People looking for jobs can use the ...

EveryZing RAMPS up

by Chris Caceres, November 18, 2009 | Comments

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Content optimization platform announces rebranding to RAMP and upgraded product

EveryZing announced on Wednesday it has re-branded and is now called RAMP. The Woburn, MA-based startup offers universal search and publishing solutions for dynamic Web publishers. The re-branding was, "largely driven by the completion of our solution to a business-to-business SaaS provider to media companies. Everyzing was an older consumer destination name and we didn't feel it was reflective of ...

Salesforce launches Chatter

by Chris Caceres, November 18, 2009 | Comments

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Cloud computing giant stepping into social networking, launches a "Facebook for the enterprise"

With Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference kicking off this week in San Francisco comes a major announcement from the company. It's launching a product called Salesforce Chatter, which the cloud computing giant describes as a "Facebook for the Enterprise."Salesforce is stepping into a market already touched on, social networking for enterprises. Some startups playing in the space include CubeTree, a freemium enterprise ...

Zynga raises $15.18 million

by Chris Caceres, November 17, 2009 | Comments

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Social gaming giant raking in more cash

Popular social gaming startup, Zynga raised $15.18 million on Tuesday, according to a regulatory filing. No new investors were listed, but the company now has raised $54 million in total. Previous investors include Kleiner Perkins, Avalon Ventures, Foundry Group, Union Square Ventures and Institutional Venture Partners. Zynga is the maker of a very popular game called FarmVille, in which users ...

Voxeo raises $9 million

by Chris Caceres, November 13, 2009 | Comments

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Acquired three companies in the past 14 months and looking for more

Voxeo, a company which provides Internet and VoIP communication services, announced a $9 million minority investment by North Atlantic Capital and the Florida Growth Fund. The Florida-based company previously raised $48 million from Crosspoint Venture Partners and the Mayfield Fund.Founded around 10 years ago, Voxeo is definitely seeing growth. Jonathan Taylor, CEO of Voxeo said, "Over the last five years ...

YouTube announces 1080p video on the way

by Chris Caceres, November 12, 2009 | Comments

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NewTeeVee Live: Hunter Walk of YouTube talks the future of the online video giant

So how's YouTube going to make money? Apparel of course, see the new line of socks? All kidding aside, YouTube's Director of Product Management, Hunter Walk took the stage at NewTeeVee Live in San Francisco to discuss what the company is working on. For starters, Walk announced that very soon, YouTube would enable all its users to upload and view videos ...

Ryan Higa, YouTube star just a normal dude

by Chris Caceres, November 12, 2009 | Comments

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NewTeeVee Live: Some advice from Higa on how to get millions of views for your YouTube videos

More proof that content is king. Ryan Higa, a young YouTube star humbly took the stage at the NewTeeVee conference to share his story of online success. A little background on Higa: he's a YouTube phenom ranked as the "Number #1 Most Subscribed YouTube" user of all time. His videos are wacky comedy skits that he makes at home out ...

Clicker, the TV Guide of the Internet

by Chris Caceres, November 12, 2009 | Comments

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NewTeeVee Live: Clicker comes out of private beta to help us find what videos are playing online

There's a lot of television shows being viewed online these days. From Hulu, to CBS, to NBC, to YouTube, and plenty more, you can find TV shows all over the Web. But besides doing a Google search, it's a little difficult to find what is playing exactly where and when. Before the Internet, TV Guide organized and listed what was ...

How the Internet is changing TV

by Chris Caceres, November 12, 2009 | Comments

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NewTeeVee Live: Emerging players in the online video space share what they're working on

Online video consumption is growing rapidly. But when will it overtake traditional television consumption? Over at GigaOm's NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco, some key players in the Internet television space shared what they're working on as well as predictions about emerging television trends.Elemental Technologies, a company that creates hi-quality video solutions by harnessing massively parallel off the shelf hardware, ...

Vidly betting on mobile video

by Chris Caceres, November 12, 2009 | Comments

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Startup Sessions talks mobile video and plays pinball with Chrys Bader, founder of Vidly

There certainly isn't a shortage in services to upload videos on the Web. But there is a shortage in simplicity. That's where San Francisco-based startup Vidly comes in. Vidly is a video sharing site focused solely on Twitter at the moment. The site started off with the idea of being a Twitpic for video. Basically enabling users to quickly upload ...

Kyte on its way to Android and Nokia

by Chris Caceres, November 11, 2009 | Comments

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Online video provider making a smart move in the mobile video space

With mobile video consumption on the rise, Kyte is making some moves to keep everyone happy.The online and mobile video platform, announced Wednesday it will be extending its reach to the Android and Nokia phones. It's a good move for the company, given that Google just launched its mobile OS on the Droid, which is being reviewed as an excellent ...

AppNexus secures $5 million

by Chris Caceres, November 10, 2009 | Comments

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Real-time online advertising platform looking to expand business and hire top talent

AppNexus, a provider of a platform for buying real-time online advertising, announced it secured $5 million in funding from Kodiak Venture Partners with particpation from other current investors Venrock and First Round Capital. The New York-based startup said it provides buyers of online ads with a proprietary gateway to leading ad exchanges and ad inventory aggregators. So it isn't exactly ...

Eventbrite raises $6.5 million

by Chris Caceres, November 9, 2009 | Comments

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San Francisco ticketing startup seeing success by letting anyone sell tickets to their own event

Eventbrite, an online event organization and ticketing service, announced it has raised $6.5 million. The Series C round comes from Sequoia Capital. Previous investors include Bebo co-founders Michael & Xochi Birch, Jeff Clavier, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim, former PayPal founding executives, David Sacks and Keith Rabois, prolific Silicon Valley angel, Ron Conway, and Flixster co-founders Saran Chari and Joe Greenstein. ...

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