Webcastr.com is a new portal of Internet television programming covering the fields of news, sports, music, celebrity, politics and more with over 200 channel providers already on-board.

Contrary to popular video sites like YouTube which thrive in amateurish video clips, this new site believes “people are tired of sorting thru amateur clips just to find what they need.”

That’s why it positioned itself as “an outlet for the explosive new area of Internet TV as well as presenting the best in clip coverage from professional and pro-am sources.” Check out a sample of their video clip below.

Even though it is set to launch next month, Webcastr already encountered unexpected heavy traffic and technical problems when it featured the new Britney Spears video “Gimme More” prior to its official release this week.

“We were totally caught off guard by the global magnitude of the response. We had traffic from 93 countries in a little over six hours and had to immediately get more server capacity weeks before we anticipated needing it,” explains Webcastr founder Tim Devine.

Originally posted on October 11, 2007 @ 11:16 am

Aiming to make video messages as common as voice mails, startup Threemany.com offers free private video messages to all users with a web browser and any available webcam.

It provides a digital wall for families to leave messages in a private and password protected site and allows their loved ones to view the messages at their convenience and respond back with a video or text reply.

Privacy is at the core of the product. A family starts off with their own private wall. They can then invite their close friends and family to view their wall only after they have registered and been authenticated.

There are no “home pages” to be built, no websites to be created – a 30-second registration and authentication process is all that is needed to post the first video.

This new technology has proven its prowess in helping Military families communicate with their loved ones in Iraq and Afghanistan. It would be wonderful if Threemany.com can integrate this technology with smartphones (for free of course) to make it a lot easier and more entertaining to communicate with family members and friends.

Originally posted on October 11, 2007 @ 10:42 am

blinkx, the world’s largest video search engine, will use its unique technology to remunerate consumers who have embedded video clips into their blogs or webpages.

It will share 50 percent of the revenue generated from the ads with users, and payments will be facilitated through PayPal.

Based on blinkx’s ground-breaking AdHoc platform, the new widget places unobtrusive, highly-relevant text advertisements against embedded video from popular sharing sites such as YouTube, GoogleVideo and DailyMotion.

Just as Google’s AdSense transformed advertising on the Text Web, blinkx’s AdHoc platform will revolutionize video advertising by matching compelling, customized, TV-style ads to audiences on the Video Web.

The AdHoc platform is unique because it was built from the ground up to address rich media, resulting in more effective marketing for advertisers, higher monetization for content owners and distributors, and, most importantly, a useful, non-disruptive experience for users.

Originally posted on October 10, 2007 @ 9:21 am