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AdaptiveBlue Finds New Funds
AdaptiveBlue’s name may imply change, but Union Square Ventures likes the company the way it is. That’s what I infer, anyway, from the venture capital firm’s decision to fund AdaptiveBlue. But the amount of money involved remains unknown, so it’s hard to say exactly how fond Union Square Ventures is of its new friend.
Video Analytics with Vidmeter Tracker
Vidmeter is a site I’ve found useful lately as the best way to find good/hot videos on the web as it tracks videos across all the major video sites and shows interesting data about them as well.
Larry Page Talks AI
Larry Page talked about artificial intelligence [Video] at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (keep in mind that Google wants to build the world's top AI lab, according to their internal goals):
The New Frontier: YouTube Optimization
Search engines have been around long enough for traffic-minded marketers to whittle down SEO and SEM to a near science – okay, an exact science sans the key algorithm variable. But what is known about optimizing video content on YouTube? Next to nothing, that's what. That doesn't stop the especially enterprising from trying to figure it out before the traditional advertising companies do, though. As…
Joost Takes On YouTube in Viacom Deal
According to a story in the Wall Street Journal this morning (reg. required), entertainment colossus Viacom has signed a distribution deal with Joost, the peer-to-peer streaming television service that Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom started up with the billions they made selling Skype.
