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Yahoo expectedly disappoints, Google misses. Everyone blames a soft economy. But when the advertising industry goes into belt-tightening mode, will buyers smarten up or continue to do business as usual?

Online has been looking for that spark that signals our arrival. The sign from above that finally gives us our rightful seat at the table with mainstream media. Its hard for me to believe that we aren’t considered mainstream enough yet to stop calling those ‘other’ media “mainstream.” Same goes for rich media. Is Web 2.0 “richer” media? But I digress.…

Facial recognition video search startup Viewdle today launched two products designed to help users find additional content on people they’re looking for.

The first, a name widget that allows online publishers to link to additional video content on a person from the Viewdle-indexed Reuters video library, say, for the sake of traffic
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The other, a flash based election coverage tracker that counts number of media appearances and minutes of airtime candidate has had over the past day, week, month and year. In the future this type of technology should make it a…

CDN BitGravity today launched its BG LiveBroadcast technology and will stream the DEMO 08 conference live Tuesday and Wednesday of this week.

BitGravity, which uses advanced technology to deliver on-demand content for more than 50 companies including Vimeo and Revision 3 promises their flash based live streaming technology will make live video on the net ubiquitous through a simplified and more efficient means of live content delivery.

DEMO 08 will showcase more than 70 products/technologies. Watch it here.

This year as world leaders gathered in Davos at the World Economic Forum, they also gathered around computers in the YouTube Room to answer the Davos Question.

“What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?”

Bono: “Don’t change your light bulbs change your leaders”

Hamid Karzai “Be kind to each other…as human beings”

Henry Kissinger: “Focus on the long range questions”

Shimon Peres: “To handle two dangers; the warming of the earth and the spread of terrorism”

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Why go out when you can stay in and catch the electronic, rock, punk and heavy metal grooves (if that’s your thing) from DUB TRIO’S new album, “Another Sound is Dying.” WoozyFly.com will present exclusive online video of Dub Trio’s show at New York City’s Luna Lounge, as the band gets ready to launch its new album “Another Sound is Dying” on January 29th. The concert can be viewed at www.woozyfly.com/dubtrio.

NYC locals can catch Dub Trio’s next Luna Lounge gig live for their record release party next Thursday, Jan 31.…

Billionaire mogul Sam Zell, new owner of Tribune has removed the content filter blocking newsroom writers from the “dangers of YouTube and Facebook.” At least there’s still a few management folks left in the newspaper business with some common sense.

From: Talk to Sam Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 11:03 AM Subject: Censorship, the First Amendment and the Fourth Estate

Everyone,
I learned on the first leg of our tour of Tribune’s business units that some of them were filtering Internet content. I do not see how a member of the Fourth Estate,…

On Monday (sorry, been busy), Daisy Whitney dove into a new ad strategy for online video producers - product placement.

Ad revenue is in short supply for content producers without the scale of portals, premium brand websites and ad networks. Its been no secret that producing your own online web show doesn’t mean you can quit your day job, even if you do earn some popularity. So savvy producers have begun to explore higher paying alternatives than pre-roll, overlays and standard partner programs. Product placement and show sponsorships can ring up…

While our stock ticker looks generally positive today, the AP called it a bad day for web video stocks.

Interesting who they look at for web video indicators.