Opinion: AOL acquires Truveo, Yahoo goes Gonze and Google limps in the video search arena.Editor's Note:
With this article, Publish.com begins its Online Media "Week in Review" column, to be published every Friday. We'll take a look at some of the more interesting events that occurred at the intersection of online video, television, blogs and social networking, so check back often, or grab our RSS feed. Thanks for reading!
Online Video
The big news this week was AOL's acquisition of Truveo, or what we like to call the M&A equivalent of flipping Google the bird. AOL has a huge video morgue at its disposal. And given Google's relatively poor video search debut, the market looks wide open to me.
AOL Acquires Truveo
Google Video Store Launches.
Related: Bloggers grumble about it.
Meanwhile, television channels continue their base jump into online content. Bravo announced more content for triotv.com, giving solace to pistil-bearing hipsters everywhere, while CBS plans to mollify its midday viewers by announcing plans for a mobile-phone soap opera.
Bravo to Launch Multiple Broadband Channels
CBS to Launch Original MobiSoap
E! Online to Launch Broadband Channel
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, NCIS, Survivor and The Amazing Race Now Available on VOD
Sky TV Launches Sky by Broadband Film Download Service
The online video space is getting crowded quickly, and it's becoming difficult to sort out the content producers from the middlemen. Even News Corp.'s wet dream of advertising, MySpace, will offer video downloads.
MySpace to Offer IM, Free Video Downloads (WSJ paid subscription)
MySpace Is the King Kong of Social Networking
Of course, the biggest winners in this space are bound to be the companies who enable video content through technology or advertising. Like my grandpa always said, during a gold rush, don't dig for gold. Just sell shovels.
ThePlatform Gets $8 Million in Second Round Funding
StreamerNet Gets $1 Million Funding
Blogs
So many good posts, so little time to read them. But no worries: Dateline NBC and CBS attempt to mitigate your time crunch (and in the process, redefine the meaning of "late to the party") by announcing blog roundup initiatives.
Technorati and Dateline Covering Top Blog Stories
CBS News Launches Blogophile
Posts were a bit short this week, though, perhaps because everyone was burned out from CES or attending Macworld. But two blogs that did catch my eye: The new Mobilecrunch and Ed Felten's trenchant commentary on the Digital Transition Content Security Act.
Techcrunch's Lil' Brother Mobilecrunch Launches — Two great tastes that taste great together
The Professional Device Hole — Congress to legislate against amateur content?
Google, the Bear Case — Trading at $100 by December '06?
Kottke on Digg vs. Slashdot — Traffic from Slashdot larger, longer lasting.
BBC: How Mobiles Changed the Face of News (video)
Personnel Moves
Yahoo loses one but gains two. Look for Yahoo to make serious strides in music and personals. I wonder if there's any synergy between the two? I bet there is.
Jeff Graham leaves Yahoo for Automatic
Susan Mernitt Joins Yahoo as Senior Director
Yahoo Hires Lucas Gonze — who created WebJay and the Lightnet meme.
Advertising
Local TV Site Ad Revenue Up
MSN Partners with Superpages.com for Local Ads
Google and Chicago Sun-Times Partner on Ads — following their move into magazines last year.
Steve Bryant is the editor of Publish.com. Questions, comments, concerns? Send them to stephen_bryant (at) ziffdavis (dot) com.
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