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Webcam broadcasting provider blogTV has announced the launch of an embeddable player, enabling users to host live shows on their own web sites. Previously, blogTV broadcasts were only available through the company’s web site. blogTV targets video bloggers, allowing anyone with a webcam to hook up and broadcast live through the site. Once a [...]

Video search engine Blinkx is soon to launch a contextual video advertising network that will match ads based on speech recognition. The service, dubbed Blinkx AdHoc, will function much like Google AdSense, enabling advertisers to bid on keywords and have their ads appear when those words are spoken in a video or show up [...]

Event discovery service Eventful has extended its Demands feature to the Facebook Platform, enabling users to request that musicians, comedians, and other performers visit their hometown. If you have an Eventful account, the application will show the entertainers you are requesting and enable your friends to “demand it” when viewing your profile. When you make [...]

While we long ago exposed the Lonelygirl15 phenomenon as the work of professionals and not a 16-year old in her bedroom, the latest twist in the Web drama takes selling out to a whole new level. We’ve received word that LG15 will soon be getting a new friend on the show – a scientist [...]

The latest widget developer to get a shot at the Bebo audience: virtual pet provider BunnyHeroLabs, which was added to the Bebo Widgets lineup today. Mashable first spotted that BunnyHeroLabs was becoming a grassroots success in November 2006, calling it the “The Massive MySpace Phenomenon You’ve Never Heard Of”. At that time, BunnyHeroLabs [...]

Apple’s highly anticipated iPhone, which debuts later this month, will include an application for wirelessly streaming YouTube videos, the companies announced today. Additionally, YouTube announced they will be encoding their videos in H.264 format, which will make iPhone the first mobile device to offer the high quality format. Initially 10,000 videos will be [...]

Photo licensor Getty Images has acquired online music rights company Pump Audio for $42 million. Pump Audio does for independent musicians what Getty already does for photographers – license music to movie studios, TV networks, and Web companies for usage in their respective productions. Pump’s catalog includes more than 100,000 songs, and the [...]

Prosper, the service that makes it easy for users to lend and borrow money from each other, has secured a third round of financing, raising $20 million. Companies that participated in the financing were DAG Ventures Meritech Capital Partners, as well as previous investors: Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital. On Prosper, users bid for loans [...]

Veoh’s $40 million in funding (most recently, a massive $26 million round) isn’t going to waste: this week the company is making its boldest move yet by launching VeohTV, a downloadable application that lets you watch videos pulled from feeds around the web. Unlike Joost or Babelgum, Veoh doesn’t need to strike partnerships with [...]

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