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Five Million for 5min?; rumors is that the Israeli video started pulled in new cash from Spark Capital. (TechCrunch)
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The thing that pisses me off about some of these new ventures, they potentially lead to less coverage in other areas. For example. look at ESPN.com, you will not see NFL game footage on their site. This makes me bypass ESPN.com for updates.
THen you go to the NFL’s player, and it just doesn’t have the proper functionality. Not to mention the NFl channel is no longer free.
I guess time will tell how this goes. ESPN360 is a similar example, although their business model is very interesting.
5 mins has a very good presentation and product. They have some competitors they have to kill off or absorb – but they have a great modified flash video player.
It’s funny that some lines of flash code that anyone can do is called “technology” :)