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VideoSift, a smallish user-curated aggregation engine with some 1 million visitors per month, has introduced a larger service still, called ScrapeUp. Simply put, the new item brings together clips from an array of seven unique sites, including Digg, reddit, College Humor, LiveLeak, Fark, GameTrailers, and of course, VideoSift. The key word to note here is simple. ScrapeUp [...]

It (kind of) worked for the American presidential primaries. Will it be a hit with the New Zealander crowd? New Zealand TV, or TVNZ for short, will be following the semi-Web-enabled model originally set by CNN in the United States in 2007. According to Tom Pullar-Strecker of The Dominion Post, the television network of the South [...]

The Weather Channel has over the years turned into a peculiarly popular attraction. Whether by viewer habit or by the simple fact that its name describes precisely what it is, it has become the preeminent source for weather readings and forecasts. And NBC Universal evidently likes what it sees in TWC, because it, along with [...]

Video producers naturally want to spread their content far and wide in order to reach the largest audience possible. And right now there are several services on the Web that help make that happen. TubeMogul is perhaps the most oft referenced of them all. Hey!Spread is another. First launched in July 2007, Hey!Spread has evolved quite [...]