There have been a lot of people reporting about the Pirate Bay’s new video site, Techcrunch UK, Mashable and Boy Genius, but the story was broken by the leading site in the Torrent space, TorrentFreak.
The basics of the story are as follows, the Pirate Bay team has continued developing its video streaming site – which will open up to the public within 5 years. On The Video Bay users can share video clips without having to worry about getting them taken offline due to copyright violations, true Pirate Bay-style.
The Pirate Bay team themselves announced about 2 years ago that they were working on a video streaming site, but we had no idea when we would actually see something. Pirate Bay Spokesman Peter Sunde agreed that it might take a while before the site goes live and told us that “it will be done when it’s done, in the future, in like a year or five.”
Bing the new search engine from Microsoft launched on the 1st of June and since then they have been getting a lot of hype and even people moving over to use their service. I personally cant see the difference between Bing and Live.com in terms of results, if anyone can let me know how they are different that would be great.
Anyways, Microsoft has just launched the first advertisement for their new search engine Bing and here it is!
Reddit the content voting service that was purchased by Conde Naste has announced the launch of Reddit TV. Several other recommendation and voting services have already launch specific TV sections, but for Reddit this move was definitely needed and I think its a great move.
There are so many user generated video sites available on the internet these days, but sometimes you might not want to see user generated content. Thus, I thought I would put together a very quick list of the best places to view the news online as if you were watching it direct from your television at home.
Livestation – Livestation is a free downloadable video players that streams live news, events, shows from some of the world biggest media companies. Livestation includes services like the BBC, CNN, Fox, MTV, Al Jazeera and more. The service is easy to download and it great to use. The player itself can be changed to any size and you are able to add additional news and radio sources that can be found on the Livestation website.
BBC iPlayer – The BBC iPlayer has been around for quite some time now, and even though they got a lot of harsh press at launch they have been quitely improving the service and it actually now isnt that bad. The iPlayer is a great place to head when you are looking for what has been happening from around the world in the last few days. On the iPlayer they have a dedicated section to BBC News in which will keep you up to date with the major headlines.
Hulu – Hulu is a partnership between News Corp and NBC Universal. Hulu is for USA users only at the moment and it allows them to watch their favourite TV shows, movies and of course news programs all for free. Hulu was born when News Corp and NBC werent happy with the revenues they were receiving from YouTube, so they formed a strategic alliance and launched a free online television service that has been growing at a rapid pace. Hulu has a dedicated news section which allows users to view news from major USA sources as well as smaller sources like Cnet.
As Mashable has reported this morning, Joost has now moved to a web based version. If you don’t know what Joost is, it is basically a television streaming service but without the ads. There are hundred of channels to choose from and you are able to watch programs straight in your browser.
Joost has channels in a variety of sectors, old television programs, sports, news, music videos and more. It is totally free to watch and can be viewed from any country in the world, unlike Hulu.
When you head over to the site all you need to do is register and then download the plugin that launches the application within your browser, and thats it.
For the last few months I have been testing out a new online TV service called LiveStation. LiveStation is an interactive live TV platform, which allows users to watch tv stations in one simple platform and with perfect streaming quality.
Currently, Livestation is in private beta and has already signed content deals with Bloomberg, Euro News, France 24, Russia Today, Aljazeera and the BBC. The technology they have developed is world class. Due to the platform being straight forward it should also be possible to add a lot more content channels in a variety of genres and every across on to radio.
Currently we have 10 invites free to send to Crenk readers, so simply just leave a message and I will send out invites across.
Pitchfork TV is now live. What are my first thoughts! Well the site itself has a very simple design (as you can see from the image below), it has a main window on the left side to actually show the videos and then a scroll bar on the right for navigation. What does annoy me though is that the scroll bar size is limited on the page. At the moment the site is just like a basic YouTube channel. It doesnt have actual live shows or interviews, it is just basic recorded performances from selected artists and also recordings from live events. So nothing too special here.
Pitchfork,tv launches this Monday. Yesterday, the regular Pitchfork site offered a few behind-the-scenes segments as a primer, and it announced that Monday’s lineup will include an exclusive Radiohead performance. Listening Post got a preview and has a thorough post on the upcoming site.
It has been about 3 months since Revision3 launched the new version of their site and now they have been acquired. Techcrunch reports that in Episode 143 of Diggnation: Hosts Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht announce the sale of Revision3 to Fox News at about the 2:05 mark. Rose says “Well, ah, we basically have a big announcement for everyone. Revision3 has been acquired by a bigger company. We’ll be moving to Fox News.†He added “I’m thinking of getting a fox tattoo, its kinda part of my signing bonus, if i do it i get a little extra money.â€
It’s an early (very early) April Fool’s joke, of course. Jump to the 3:45 mark. They are clearly playing off a story from two weeks ago, spread quickly via a credulous Robert Scoble Twitter message, that CNET had acquired Revision3 for $58 million. Bloody April Fool’s jokes. I think the American companies take it a lot more serious than any others. Well it was a nice way to get publicity and damm it, i fell into the trap!
Fastcompany TV launched today with 2 new shows completely developed and produced by Robert Scoble and Rocky Barbanica. The first 2 shows are Scobleizer (basically the same show as was previously done by Podtech) and Fastcompany Live (filmed with Nokia cellphones). These are the first two shows of many which will be shown on Fastcompany TV and as Robert says in the video below, this is only the start of this company and he wants to try to get the users involved in the company as much as possible.
It was reported on Friday by Michael Arrington over at Techcrunch that in the deal with Robert Scoble and FastCompany, that Robert had to allow Fast Company to monetize his weblog and give it an overall makeover. I know for a long time now Scoble has always protested about putting advertisements on his personal weblog and with good reason. However, this being sad, his weblog has great potential and really does need a make over at the very least. Im sure that with the relationship between Robert and Fast Company, Robert wont want to put obtrusive advertisements on his weblog and in the long run he will still be in total control of that property. I know im just going to be happy to see a new layout!
Popular blog BoingBoing is launching its own web-based daily tv show. Much like the blog, BoingBoingTV will focus on odd bits from around the Web, but in daily 3-5 minute video segments, five days a week.
The show will be hosted by Xeni Jardin and BoingBoing co-creator Mark Frauenfelder, while other BoingBoing contributors will also host segments.
BoingBoing has inked a three month sponsorship deal with IBM to kick-off the show. You can see the first episode below.
