January 23rd, 2013

Twitter Is Preparing Vine For Sharing Video Within Your Tweets

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In October, Twitter acquired a company called Vine, which made a video-sharing app which not many people had the chance to use. AllThingsD reported that Jack Dorsey was pushing heavily to get the deal done, believing that video could be a huge part of Twitter’s future success and adoption. Dorsey also reportedly pushed Twitter heavily to acquire Instagram, which didn’t happen. Today… → Read More

January 23rd, 2013

Before The Launch Of Netflix Spin-Off Roku, CEO Reed Hastings Decided It Would Be Cute To Make Fun Of Foxconn Assembly Line Workers

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Fast Company unearthed a 2007 parody video of Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, and the Griffin team – a group of designers and programmers who were making a “Netflix box” that later spun off into Roku. The box was to be made at Foxconn and, in the style of the then-popular Lost, Hastings and the team made a silly video featuring productivity tips they learned from Foxconn workers – namely sleeping… → Read More

January 18th, 2013

We Chat With The 4Moms Founders About Robotic Strollers, Creativity, And Baby Exoskeletons

Building hardware is hard and breaking into entrenched markets is even harder. However, the founders of 4Moms, Rob Daley and Henry Thorne, managed to do both. 4Moms is a baby products company that aims to change the way we think about traditional products like play yards, strollers, and sleepy-time swings. Their products are beautifully-engineered pieces of machinery and the company recently… → Read More

January 11th, 2013

Streamweaver Nabs $1.3M From Former Facebook Chief & Others To Bring The Split-Screen Experience To Mobile Video

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As Peter Csathy wrote recently, mobile video does indeed present a huge market opportunity, but it’s one that few (if any) startups have gotten right, and it’s a much harder nut to crack than many seem to realize. Streamweaver, a Nashville-based startup that launched back in September, hopes to stand out from the crowd by making the whole mobile video experience more social and collaborative. For… → Read More

December 20th, 2012

With $5.6M From Floodgate & Others, PixelFish Relaunches As Sightly To Bring Mobile Video To Local Advertising

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When people want local information, more often than not, they turn to the nearest mobile device. In fact, Google reportedly announced in October that 50 percent of mobile search queries are for local information. Mobile devices are integral to how interface with the world, especially when it comes to searching for and discovering local businesses and services while on-the-go. While consumers are… → Read More

December 19th, 2012

Redbox Instant By Verizon Launches Into Beta As App Goes Live On Android And iOS

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Redbox Instant by Verizon, the up-and-coming joint venture that’s preparing to take on Netflix, is now live in Google Play. The service won’t be publicly launching until early 2013, according to a recent report from The Hollywood Reporter, however. But Redbox recently told GigaOm that a beta test would begin in December – and, apparently, it’s beginning today. → Read More

December 17th, 2012

A Very Makers Gift Guide

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It’s been a weird year for hardware: the biggest, most news-worthy launches haven’t come out of Cupertino or Tokyo but out of small Kickstarter campaigns that have, in the end, raised millions of dollars. Makers, in other words, are finally getting their due. → Read More

December 15th, 2012

Ahead Of Bowl Season, ESPN Teams Up With Twitter To Provide College Football Video Highlights In Stream

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As second, third and fourth screens become increasingly popular among sports fans, Twitter has been among those platforms to see a significant increase in sports-related chatter. Social media and Twitter in particular have become popular destinations for fans looking to share their thoughts and engage in conversation during the action.

For the holidays this year, Twitter and ESPN have teamed up… → Read More

December 14th, 2012

SublimeVideo Launches Horizon, A Customizable, Branded HTML5 Video Player For Mobile And Web

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Jilion, the company behind the cloud-based HTML5 video player SublimeVideo, is today announcing SublimeVideo Horizon, a new video application framework for video publishers and brands. This framework allows SublimeVideo’s customers to create their own player interface, with the colors, fonts, features and buttons they prefer, while also allowing them to integrate with popular sites like YouTube… → Read More

December 13th, 2012

Google Brings YouTube And Google+ Closer Together With YouTube Tab, Easier Sharing Of Uploaded Videos

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Google continues to integrate its Google+ social network deeper into its wide range of other products. YouTube already has an extensive Google+ integration, but now the two services are getting even closer. Google just expanded the connection between the two by making it easier to share new public videos to Google+ after they are uploaded and by highlighting users’ public YouTube videos on their… → Read More

November 28th, 2012

Khan Academy Brings Its 3,500+ Educational Videos To The iPhone

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Whether or not one believes Khan Academy is helping to reinvent education, it’s hard to dispute the fact that Khan (and now his team) are an educational video-producing machine, or that the platform continues to diversify. In part, that started with the release of its iPad app in March. This week, Khan Academy brought its 3,600 videos to the iPhone. → Read More

November 22nd, 2012

Hands On With The Verizon FiOS Mobile App

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Verizon updated its FiOS Mobile application for iPad, which now streams 75 channels of live TV. Unlike some of the mobile experiences Verizon has released in the past, the new application doesn’t require you to install software on your Mac or PC to act as the intermediary – instead, everything streams directly from the Verizon router in your home. → Read More

November 14th, 2012

Social Video App Vodio Lets You Build Channels For People & Brands Using YouTube, Facebook & Twitter Profiles

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Social video app Vodio is out with a new version today that takes advantage of the app’s ability to connect with a user’s social accounts, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. In the updated app, you can now automatically turn any Facebook Page or Twitter profile into a video channel, as well as add channels directly from YouTube. → Read More

November 12th, 2012

Here’s Why Cheap Cameras Are So Bad

This Khan Academy Project video by Karl R.C. Wendt shows you what’s exactly inside a cheap digital camera. Wendt explains a bit about what’s inside a camera and, more important, why this camera in particular is so bad. → Read More

November 12th, 2012

LiveU Picks Up Another $27M Led By Lightspeed For Its B2B Mobile Video Transmission Tech

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LiveU, a provider of video transmission technology that works over cellular and WiFi networks, and is used by media companies (including TechCrunch, but also the BBC and NBC) that need to record and transmit video on the go, has raised another $27 million in funding. This round was led by new investor Lightspeed Venture Partners, and also included participation from existing investors Canaan… → Read More

November 7th, 2012

VC Runa Capital Invests $2.5M Series A In ‘Pinterest For Video Clips’ Startup ClipClock

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Russian video sharing startup, ClipClock — which is being billed as a ‘Pinterest for video clips’ — has snagged a $2.5 million investment from VC firm Runa Capital. The startup, which was founded in January and launched its website and mobile app at the DEMO Fall 2012 Conference last month, allows users to collect their favourite video clips and share them through social media. → Read More

November 3rd, 2012

Qik Founder’s Story: Taking Mobile Video Out Of The Garage And Putting It Into The Hands Of Skype

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Editor’s note: Bernard Moon is co-founder and CEO of Vidquik, a new web conferencing and sales solutions platform, and co-founder of SparkLabs, a recently launched startup accelerator in Seoul, Korea.

Qik co-founder Ramu Sunkara discusses the company’s voyage from its founding in 2006 in his garage to being acquired by Skype in January 2011 for $150 million. → Read More

November 2nd, 2012

Video: 4th Generation And 3rd Generation iPad Performance Compared

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Apple’s 4th generation iPad boasts a faster processor, the new A6X chip, which makes it twice as fast as the 3rd generation iPad, based on benchmark tests, in terms of raw processing power and graphics. That sounds good, but what does it mean in practice? Well, there’s a noticeable boost all around, but we’ve got a hands-on video with three scenarios where you can see the differences. → Read More

October 29th, 2012

Conan Takes On The iPad Mini And Apple’s Increasingly Crowded Tablet Lineup

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Apple introduced the iPad mini last week, which hits shelves this Friday. In a video airing later tonight on his show, Conan O’Brien takes a look at Apple’s ever-expanding range of tablet iOS devices, and provides some suggestions for where we might be headed next. Best part? The slogan at the end, which Cupertino might want to consider officially adopting. → Read More

October 20th, 2012

Endearing “How’s Your News?” Goes The ECommerce Route With $5 Downloads

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How’s Your News began 15 years ago when a set of developmentally disabled adults hopped on a bus and travelled around the country interviewing folks on the street. The mixture of charm, astuteness, and fascination with the little things that these reporters exhibited has always been great fun and their work is a real tonic in this age of blowhards blowing hard at each other. → Read More

October 17th, 2012

Udemy Rolls Out New Publishing Platform To Help Teachers Create Quality Online Courses

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Online video education is a hot space right now, thanks to the likes of Khan Academy, Coursera, Udacity, StraighterLine, Lynda.com, CreativeLIVE (and many more), which are collectively on a mission to democratize education and bring affordable, online learning tools and courses to a global audience.

While the rising tide of video-based learning has lifted all boats, it’s also led to some… → Read More

October 9th, 2012

If Twitter Gets Into The Video-Hosting Game, It Could Be A Wonderful, And Horrible, Thing

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According to AllThingsD, Twitter has decided to get into the business of hosting video by acquiring NYC startup Vine. We’ve reached out to Twitter but haven’t been able to confirm this as of yet.

If true, this marks an important milestone for Twitter, which is in complete attack mode when it comes to turning into a media powerhouse. As it stands now, you can upload photos to attach to your… → Read More

October 9th, 2012

CreativeLIVE Lands $7.5M From Greylock For Its Free, Online Classroom For Creative Entrepreneurs

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With the rise of massive online open course platforms (a.k.a. “MOOCs”) like Khan Academy and Coursera, a new model of online learning has emerged, promising quality, affordable education at scale. This new generation of educational platforms offer alternatives to expensive degrees programs and physical classrooms in the hopes of ushering in Education 2.0 by emphasizing interactive, personalized… → Read More

October 3rd, 2012

TC Makers: A Visit To The Brooklyn Factory Where They Make The Ultracool Blink Steady Bike Light

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It’s rare to see the creation of a product from idea to implementation but Blink Steady, a unique, multi-sensor bike light, allowed us to do just that. Created by Benjamin Cohen, Stuart Heys, and Mark Sibenac, the Blink Steady launched in April on Kickstarter and shipped last month. → Read More

October 3rd, 2012

Mogreet Releases APIs To Let Developers Quickly Add SMS, Video, Rich Media Messaging To Apps

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Mogreet, the Los Angeles-based startup that provides brands and marketers with a distribution platform for mobile video messaging, today announced the release of its API developer portal, which allows third party-developers to easily integrate MMS, SMS, video and in-app messaging into their applications. → Read More

September 26th, 2012

Boxee’s Video-Sharing Service Cloudee Goes Public With Desktop Software, iPhone 5 Support & More

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The service operates in a crowded space, where dozens upon dozens of apps offer ways to stream, record, broadcast, and/or share video recorded on mobile, but Cloudee’s niche was in the emerging “private sharing” space. That trend has more recently taken root as companies try to find new ways to engage in a social networking arena dominated by the likes of Facebook. Cloudee, then, put its focus on… → Read More

September 20th, 2012

Magnify Teams Up With AOL To Bring Curated, Premium Video Content To Publishers

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Many sites want to offer video, but they can’t afford their own studio or a quality video production team. Magnify entered the picture in 2007 to give publishers and brands the opportunity to offer curated video experiences, along with providing them with the tech to upload and share videos, create playlists, offer commenting, reviewing, content controls, analytics and monetization options.

Of… → Read More

September 19th, 2012

Your Online Ivy: Coursera Now Hosts 200 Courses From 33 Schools & Reaches 1.3M Students

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For decades, the door to America’s top-tier universities has been closing, and today your chances of being admitted to these prestigious institutions is slimmer than ever. This year, the acceptance rate at four of the eight Ivy League schools hit record lows. Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng launched Coursera earlier this year to fling that door wide open. → Read More

September 17th, 2012

Video Mashup Pro ReelSurfer Lands $880K From YC, Executive Producer Of The Hangover

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ReelSurfer, which graduated from Y Combinator’s most recent batch of startups, is a “tl;dr” for video. In other words, ReelSurfer was borne out of the frustration of trying to find quotes and scenes from their favorite movies on YouTube. Usually, these searches are fruitless. If you’re lucky enough to find a video that contains the quote or clip you’re looking for, you then have to download the… → Read More

September 10th, 2012

Happy International Creepy Boston Dynamics Robotic Horse Day!

I know you guys might have forgotten to get your favorite robotic horse a gift today, but this is International Creepy Robotic Boston Dynamics Robotic Horse Day, and it’s important to get out there and celebrate the magic of the creepy robotic horse. → Read More