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OneRiot, one of the real-time search engines whose name we keep hearing again and again has secured $7 million in Series C funding from Appian Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, and Spark Capital, the company’s existing venture capital firms.
"This commitment from our existing investors is a big vote of confidence in the realtime search market, OneRiot’s product offering, and our team’s ability to execute," said Kimbal Musk, OneRiot’s CEO.
Online video continues to make gains in the U.S. with Internet users viewing 14.8 billion videos during the month of January, representing an increase of 4 percent over December, according to comScore.
YouTube was the most popular property, accounting for 91 percent of the incremental gain in the number of videos viewed versus December, as it exceeded 100 million viewers for the first time.
eBay is certainly no stranger to controversy. They even catch hell when they’re giving away items (well technically, they’re charging a buck….for things like sports cars, jet skis, etc.). The auction site is hosting a contest called "Holiday Doorbusters," which is basically summed up here:
You won’t get to see the video; it was taken down faster than a…well, let’s not answer possibly offensive with possibly also offensive. (But you have to admit, the list of French things that could be taken down quickly is virtually limitless, and most likely very funny to everybody but the French.)
By all accounts, Radiohead’s name-your-own-price album was downloaded millions of times. No one’s sure how much people paid, however. And although the Wikimedia Foundation has apparently received over 14,000 donations, the dollar value of those gifts remains unknown.
Social networks and video-sharing sites are two of the most popular things out there. So it makes sense that Mesmo.TV, a social video site, would be well-regarded, and it is – Mesmo.TV just raised $900,000 in funding.
I setup A LOT of blogs (5 so far this week) and many times it’s difficult for customers to get or understand is that one of the key components in a successful blog search marketing campaign is shaping a blog so that it attracts links automatically from other on-topic blogs and sites.
Video search engine blinxk and online film company AtomFilms spliced together an agreement putting over 1000 AtomFilms short film and animation titles into blinkx search. This will much to blinkx, including some of AtomFilm’s award winning fare.
