Video search site blinkx could pull online ad firm Miva into its corporate fold.

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Heck, I’m ready for any kind of football, even if it means having to hear about Brett Favre every single day for the rest of the summer.

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Cable’s rush to meter the Internet long after such metering means the cable companies that need content to make their broadband customers happy will damage the media companies trying to provide.

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First Ask.com stated an interest in being more female-focused. Yahoo followed that up with Shine, which formally launched today, and video site SheZoom announced its debut as the first video site for women.

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Provisions in the rules for a potential Writer’s Guild of America strike also cover writers working for web and mobile content productions.

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Yahoo has a distribution agreement in place with DivX that will offer the Yahoo Toolbar and a Yahoo-optimized version of Internet Explorer 7 to DivX downloaders. You’ll have to wait until November for that, though.
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I was unfortunately unable to attend the one day SEW: Live show in Columbus, but we were able to send a crew up to cover the show (and they did a great job I think). As we progress with the video coverage of events, we are always trying to learn and come up with ideas about to how best to publish or present the coverage.

In the past, we’d released a video or two per day each day after the show. For this show though, we blitzed the coverage in a major way and decided to try releasing it in big chunks. Go check out our SEW: Live Columbus collection of coverage and be sure to let me know what you think.

For example, would you prefer a steady flow of one or two per day or, do you (like me) think it’s a lot better to blast out as many of them as you can as fast as you possibly can?

Back in ancient times (circa 2002), we all dreamed of web TV. No, not that stupid Microsoft set top box… but the capacity for “real” video on the web.

We pined for low bandwidth, glossy video “goodness” delivered, on-demand, right to our PCs. Ladies and gentlemen, I’m not going to claim that golden time is now (that’d certainly be absurd)… but we’re on the right track.

Back before their titanic “fusion” into the super-mega-unstoppable-colossal-golem of creative software known as Adobe, Macromedia sparked this revolution. Which is not to say they’re completely responsible for the rise of web video… but more than anyone else, they’re driving the technology.

Leveraging codecs by Sorenson and On2, Macromedia introduced us to flv with Flash 6. In its own right, simply control over such media within Flash via Actionscript was revolutionary. Additionally, the quality was astonishing given its relatively small size. With its already vast the penetration into the web, one thing was clear: the porn industry was going to love this… oh, and that maybe web video had finally come of age. No more tinny whines and inconsistent audio, no more awkward, blocky compression blemishes.

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