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A lot has been going on in the world of video these days. Yahoo and Livevideo.com both came out with services to broadcast yourself live to the world. Another big rumor going around was that Revver was looking to sell. Reportedly they were trying to sell for between 300k to 500k. Well those reports were way off in terms of the selling amount.

5 million is the amount of dollars that Live Universe paid for Revver. If you are not familiar with Live Universe they also own Live Video. Personally 5 million seems a bit high but it is great for the people at Revver who were basically in debt. The Revver employees are expected to continue working under the new management. I’ve been a fan of Revver for a while and upload all my videos to it. My Revver page is at revver.com/u/smojo. They have a very strict policy on using copyrighted media which is sometimes annoying but I think it is a good policy for them to have. We will have to wait and see if they try and integrate Revver and LiveVideo in some way.

Yahoo! Video got a major update yesterday. It currently holds the number 3 spot in the video site market when it comes to amount of viewers. Obviously Youtube/Google is the leader in the market with Fox Interactive Media in the second position. It was really in need of an update and they have finally done it. Some of the major differences you will see are a 16:9 player, capacity increases and also featured sections for different topics. You are also able to use JumpCut to edit your video now which is a nice feature. My Yahoo! Video page is at HERE.

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Twitta Twitta Twitta, it is something I’m constantly checking all day long. One of the most popular things on Twitter and something I love about the site is the use of the term Overheard. You are able to track words on twitter but overheard is not one of them. My thinking is that it is so popular that they had to stop letting people track it.

So what exactly is an overheard tweet? Well to put it plain and simple when you hear someone say something strange, funny or crazy you send it to twitter with the message starting with overheard or OH. My favorite kind of OH tweets are when you overhear someone say a really dumb statement like this tweet.Overheard: “So who are you rooting for? The Yankees, or the Patriots?” . That one was sent in to twitter by Jim Mitchell

There is a great website dedicated to all the overheard tweets and it is Overheard.it. Every overheard twitter message shows up on the site so it has pages and pages of overheard tweets. If you are looking for a good laugh I would suggest browsing through a few pages and you will find some gems.

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