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The conventional wisdom out there on Web video advertising is that most advertisers don’t want to risk being associated with user-generated videos (i.e., the vast bulk of videos on YouTube). It is only the professionally-produced stuff on portions of YouTube and Hulu and Blip.tv where the advertising dollars are going. This is the conventional wisdom [...]

Everything comes around full circle. First we had Joost, Babelgum, Veoh, and others create standalone client software for watching online videos, but the ease and ubiquity of watching directly in the browser trumped whatever technical benefits a standalone client provided. The rise of YouTube, and more recently Hulu, proved that. But now that watching videos [...]

PlayOn’s media server software — capable of streaming Internet video from YouTube, Hulu, CBS, Netflix, CNN, ESPN and others to your PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 or other DLNA compliant hardware via a PC — is finally out of beta. Going official means the trial period resets to 14 days for all users, keeping it after [...]

Radus is a Flash-based web browser that’s based inside your… well, your web browser. Basically, when you go to Radus.com you’ll be presented with a two pane window. On the left is your media window, and on the right is your navigation bar. You can browser content like blogs, online video, music, sports, entertainment, or [...]

Free streaming media capture tool TubeMaster is a great all-in-one solution for grabbing and converting audio and video from nearly any web site that can stream it to you. The no-install app launches as its own application with a built-in, tabbed browser—simply launch it, head to Last.fm, YouTube, a site with proprietary Flash video, or [...]

Web application Oosah hosts a whopping one terabyte (that’s 1,024 gigabytes) of media online for free. In addition to hosting videos, photos, and music you upload directly to the site, Oosah also integrates with Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, and YouTube.

What do you have installed? Do you even know what Microsoft Silverlight is? For that matter do you know what Adobe Flash is? or what they are used for? For the most part I think people in general don’t know the differece or even care, but you may neeed one or the other to view [...]

Hulu and Joost are great, but they still aren’t up to par. What if you want to watch your shows offline? Or in HD? You’ll need something like Miro and tv-rss.net. Take control of your TV-watching. If you’re really fancy, you can plug your laptop into your TV. Your roommate will never know the difference.

Google’s foray into the online video market has been criticized by many. In fact, some believe that Google’s decision to acquire YouTube was one of the worst it has ever made, thanks to the confluence of massive copyright violations and Google’s financial backing, which gave copyright holders the impetus they needed to sue the popular [...]