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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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Rumors are flying around the internet that Yahoo is going to offer a “lifecasting” service. It is reported that the service is only open to Yahoo employees for the moment. The url for the new service looks like it will be http://live.yahoo.com/. It is currently giving a 403 forbidden error when you go to that address so we are all blocked out. I’m hoping Yahoo will make a formal announcement about the service. We need more details.

One thing that is kind of annoying me is everyone using the term “lifecasting”. This new service will have very little lifecasting going on. My predictions are that this new Yahoo service will be just another chatcasting site. What I mean by chatcasting is users will be sitting in front of their computer with the web cam on them and they will be chatting with viewers. This is not lifecasting! Lifecasting to me is broadcasting your everyday events. It is about being mobile and letting others peek in to what you are doing for the day. This is going to be just another web cam site where 15 year old girls fire up their cam and dance around while a bunch of horny guys say immature and stupid comments. We will have to wait and see but I don’t think anything new or innovative will be coming from Yahoo’s new service. What do you think about it?

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