Monday Morning Vid-Biz Headlines
Republican YouTube Debate Postponed? As we wrote last week, leading GOP candidates haven’t been enthusiastic about participating in September’s planned CNN-YouTube debate. Only John McCain and Ron Paul have committed, and Paul’s blog says the event is being postponed. (Washington Post, Ron Paul’s blog)
BuddyTV Raises $2.8 Million; so says peHUB. We’ve asked the company for confirmation and haven’t heard back yet. BuddyTV CEO Andy Liu confirmed the round. Interestingly, the funding for the television discussion and news site was led by Gemstar-TV Guide International. The company had received seed funding from Charles River Ventures. (peHUB)
Buzzwire Launches; mobile audio- and video-sharing site with backing from Matrix Partners and Spark Capital. (release, site)
Microsoft Ships Silverlight Release Candidate; would-be Flash killer is getting closer to the light of day. (PC World, Tim Sneath)
Click.tv Acquired? TechCrunch, after declaring the company dead last month, now floats an unconfirmed rumor that the video annotation service may have been acquired by Cisco. (TechCrunch)
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I don’t see Silverlight killing Flash (the way it is).
One of the reasons why Flash became so popular, was because it was easy for artists to create things. (I.e., the usability of the Flash tools was designed with artists in mind.)
As far as I know, Silverlight is geared towards developers only. And will likely have a very difficult time displacing Flash because of this. (Because they won’t get artist using Silverlight.)
– Charles Iliya Krempeaux
http://changelog.ca/