Amazon’s IMDB has launched free online videos including popular TV shows and hollywood movies. Over 6,000 full-length feature films and TV episodes can now be watched free on IMDb.com.
The announcement also introduces an easy to upload service for folks who own rights for TV shows and videos using Amazon’s withoutabox service. Withoutabox is a division [...]
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Amazon’s IMDB now lets you watch free movies!
Google puts competition to shame in online video usage
comScore, a leading digital analytics company, today released latest numbers for online video usage. The results? Well Google is leading the pack and is putting the rest of the competition to shame. In the month of July, Americans viewed more than 11.4 billion videos for a total duration of 558 million hours.
Google Sites once again [...]
Begining of the end of broadband as we know it
Our beloved communications company, Comcast, has posted an ammendment to it’s Network Management Policy stating that starting October 1st, it will be implementing broadband usage caps to 250GB per month.Yes that’s right, it’s like our cell phone plans now. Exceed your caps and pay more to Comcast. Well not quite!
If a customer surpasses 250 GB [...]
Free Olympic coverage on Windows Media Center
The Beijing Olympics opening ceremony starts at 8:08:08pm Beijing time on Friday 8/8/08 (just a few hours from the time of this post) and it will be available for viewing on your Windows Media Center PC (or on your TV, via a Media Center Extender) through the “NBC Olympics On The Go” [...]
August 8th, 2008 | qpeg | Comments | Continued
Internet Video platfrom Mogulus get $10 mil from Gannett
Internet video platform, Mogulus has received minority investment from Gannett, a leading international news and information company. In the United States, the company publishes 85 daily newspapers, including USA TODAY, and nearly 900 non-daily publications.
The $10 million investment extends and expands on Gannett’s three-month-old commercial agreement with Mogulus to provide broadcasting services on the company’s [...]
TIVO inks deal with Amazon, now also offers YouTube videos
TiVo and Amazon have signed an agreement to provide consumers with the ability to purchase physical products from Amazon.com on their TV sets, using their TiVo remote control. With this new Product Purchase feature, television advertisers will have the unique ability to market products sold through Amazon.com on any broadcast or cable network, any TV [...]
July 22nd, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued“Nude Anjelina Jolie” steals your password
I got an email 10 seconds ago with subject - “Anjelina Jolie XXX Video Free.” Obviously I am very enticed considering Angelina Jolie just gave birth to twins and people offering me her video are yet to learn how to spell her first name.
Digging around a bit I found the link to her nude video [...]
Amazon begins streaming movies, plans for TV
This is a good week for streaming. Earlier this week, Microsoft and Netflix announced a partnership to bring Netflix movies to your TV via XBOX 360 Live service. Now Amazon is moving from its Unbox, a download-first-watch-later store to a new streaming store called Amazon Video On Demand. The store boasts an impressive collection of [...]
July 18th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
Now Playing: Netflix on XBOX 360
Starting this fall, XBOX 360 will be able to stream movies from Netflix, according to an announcement made at E3 Media and Business summit in Los Angeles. Netflix has an impressive selection of over 10,000 movies ready to stream compared to XBOX Live’s half sized library of movies. This is definitely bad news for Roku [...]
July 14th, 2008 | supa | Comments | Continued
Online video company Mevio nets $15 mil Series C
Online video start-up Mevio Inc., formerly known as PodShow, has raised $15 million in Series C funding led by Crosslink Capital. The round also included funding from Venture industry heavyweights Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital, Sherpalo Ventures and DAG Ventures.
MEVIO plans to use the investment to continue expansion of its broadband entertainment offering [...]
Kaltura - YouTube meets Wiki, Enabling Social Element to Online Video
Dubbed as “YouTube” meets “Wiki”, Kaltura’s open source platform enables any site to integrate advanced interactive rich–media functionality. The platform aggregates content across its member sites into a repository of sharable and reusable rich-media content. This has the potential for new syndication opportunities, and access to third-party web services – such as DVD burning, professional [...]
July 8th, 2008 | rp | Comments | Continued
