Video Services Web TV News: Skype Founders Going For Hat-Trick; Brightcove Launches Network As if we needed any further proof that the online video market is white hot right now, the founders of Skype have now set their sites on a Web TV service - according to this Yahoo News story. After creating the file-swapping service KaZaA and then VoIP software Skype, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom plan to launch an advertising-supported Internet… Richard MacManus View comments
Video Services Metacafe's Online Video Revenue Sharing Goes Live Metacafe, a YouTube-like video sharing site originally from Israel, has just gone live with a revenue sharing program called Producer Rewards. The payments are on a sliding scale and based on 'views'. Payments start at 20,000 views ($100) and go up from there - e.g. 2 million views is $10,000. Videos must also have a rating of 3.00 or higher… Richard MacManus View comments
Microsoft Microsoft's Live Search - Next Generation, or Competitive Bluster? "Why on earth does the world need another search engine?", asks the new Live Search promotional site. In addition to that website, as John Battelle's Searchblog reports, Microsoft has launched a campaign for Live Search with digital and print ads in major newspapers - New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Seattle Times/PI, SF Chronicle, USAPicture… Richard MacManus View comments
Weekly Wrap-ups Weekly Wrapup Dominating the Web Tech world this week was the release of the Firefox 2.0 browser. Read/WriteWeb covered the launch extensively - including an interview with Chris Beard (Mozilla Vice President of Products), a product review of the new browser, a review of the Firefox 2 Recommended Add-ons and a post on how Mozilla plans to market Firefox 2. We… Richard MacManus View comments
RSS Readers Pluck RSS Reader Shuts Down: Consumer RSS Readers a Dead Market Now The Pluck RSS Reader is shutting down, according to a message posted on the Pluck website: "All versions of Pluck's RSS readers for Internet Explorer, FireFox and Pluck's web edition will be discontinued on 1/5/2007. The RSS Readers have served our community of end users well for several years, but with Pluck's focus in other business areas… Richard MacManus View comments