Edmonton-based Smibs today at the TechCrunch Real-time CrunchUp released a set of tools to package webcasts called VideoLobby. The service integrates Twitter and Facebook chatter, as well as a form to ask questions of a host that’s powered by a backend comment moderation system. Today, anyone who wants to produce a live show can sign up to host it on VideoLobby for free.

Instead of competing with the myriad live-streaming vendors in the world, VideoLobby builds on top of them, allowing a publisher to use live video powered by Qik, Justin.tv, Ustream and Stickam’s StreamAPI and format each stream as an episode of a show. The service seems somewhat superfluous, given those companies already integrate comments and social media themselves.

Notional, IAC’s new video production company headed by former CollegeHumor-er, Ricky Van Veen, introduced its initial lineup of programming yesterday (via Variety). In addition to the shows Chopped and Don’t Sweat It, which are already on-air and were inherited when Notional absorbed the City Lights TV crew; Notional is also working on:

-Ready, Set, Dance: people who post dance moves online are forced to dance on the spot for a cash prize.

-You vs. America: a web-based game show.

-Chase the Money: reality game show combing pratfalls and tag.

-Love Taxi: a dating show that takes place in a cab.

Looks like Notional is sticking true to its promise of bridging the TV and Internet worlds with this mix of online and on-air concepts, though the ideas seem decidedly low-budge and low-brow. Probably why they called the company Notional and not “Innovational” (bah-dum-bum). Notional is also looking to partner with Ben Silverman’s branded entertainment company (and IAC sibling), Electus.

Pardon the dated reference, but EveryZing is the P. Diddy of the online video world, as the company announced today that it is changing its name to RAMP. The company was originally known as Podzinger, but changed its moniker to EveryZing, and then must have realized what a horrible, horrible name that was and changed it to RAMP today to align itself with its RAMP content optimization product.

RAMP was initially spun out of military research firm BBN Technologies as a speech-to-text podcast search engine. The company has since expanded its product to enable media publishers to make content discoverable and optimized through parsing of data from video, text, audio and images.

RAMP (the company) has raised $22 million in funding from investors like NBC, which is also a customer. Other clients include FOX properties FOXNews.com, FOXBusiness.com and FOXSports.com.

Lately we’ve checked out sites such as Clicker, Yidio and SetJam, and that’s only the video aggregators that have launched or sent us previews in the last week. But perhaps their pretty interfaces, organized channels and personalized recommendation systems turn you off. Maybe all you want is a simple database query of what movies are available online and how much they cost.

Enter Movie Monitor, a New York-based startup which just launched. Search for movies by title or genre, and you get a simple list of links to where they’re available to stream or download on Amazon On Demand, Blockbuster, Hulu, iTunes, Netflix, and Vudu. The company says YouTube is coming; I also wouldn’t mind if it indexed libraries from sites and devices like EpixHD and ZillionTV, even if they’re a little harder to access (though not if you use one of the trials Epix gave our readers). But then, this is a no-frills service, and that’s the charm.

Yidio, an 18-month-old startup that has acquired 4 million unique visitors and 32 million page views per month through word-of-mouth, is making a splash today at our NewTeeVee Live conference with the announcement it’s raised an angel round. The company aggregates premium web content to help viewers find TV shows and movies online. Clearly a lot of people are feeling a need to find an clean and well-organized place for web video so strong they want to create companies around it; Clicker is also launching today at our conference.

The funding, which was led by Appolicious’ Alan Warms, was “in the 500,000 range,” he said. Yidio founder Adam Eatros said the key to the site’s early success has been its self-explanatory episode guides. The company sees itself as a search engine, so it doesn’t shut out unauthorized content, which has probably helped with its traffic as well. After a recent refresh for the site, next up is introducing a discovery engine that uses collaborative filtering to make recommendations, said Eatros.

Clicker, a young company we’ve already written about a few times, is launching to the public today only a couple months after it started giving out beta invites. CEO Jim Lanzone is planning to take the lid off the site later this morning at our NewTeeVee Live conference.

Clicker is shaping up to become a significant brand in web TV, with the promise that it will shepherd and expose people to content they want to watch and help them organize it into a familiar playlist format. The site is building a massive index of video content available online: 400,000 episodes from more than 1,2000 sources, including online originals, and more than 30,000 from Netflix and Amazon. During the beta period, it added features like Facebook Connect logins, better recommendations and user comments. Clicker has a number of competitors, including giants like TV Guide and also a bunch of startups like SetJam, Yidio and CastTV. It has raised $8 million from Redpoint Ventures and Benchmark Capital and recently added Sling founder Blake Krikorian to its board and investor list.

AdWeek today, in a story about digital distribution, mentions the existence of a startup called Digiboo, a new (but oh so cute!) name for us. Looks like Google is largely unaware of Digiboo, bringing up only this weird landing page, though LinkedIn tracks down a CEO, COO, product manager, CMO, head of operations.

AdWeek describes the company as a Redbox competitor; it wants to put touch-screen kiosks in airports and other venues for users to plug in flash drives and to download movies and other content. Another competitor is MOD Systems, which is backed by Toshiba and NCR and moves around content using SD cards.

Digiboo thinks it’s a good alternative to digital downloads because content being stored in each kiosk makes transmissions almost instantaneous. CEO Richard Cohen says “Digiboo’s technology has taken portability and convenience to another level entirely. We think this is exactly what the consumer wants and exactly what’s been missing from other models.” Well yeah, but you have to be in the vicinity of a kiosk first!

The company is apparently angel-funded, and aiming for a nationwide rollout. It will be interesting to see what kind of deals and pricing it can get considering how divisive Redbox’s success has been with dollar-a-night rentals. If you know more or are affiliated with Digiboo, drop us a note.

Motionbox announced today that it is making its video hosting service available as a commercial product called Motionbox Pro for customers such as real estate agents and outlets such as Gawker Media and Reuters (who have both already signed on as customers).

Motionbox powers personal video uploads for Shutterfly and AOL, so it’s got the ease-of-use thing down. What the company offers commercial users is a simple way to upload and show HD video in an unbranded player. It’s easy enough for non-technical users but still looks professional.

The product is pretty darn cheap, with a $50 setup fee then $25 per user per month with 25 GB storage and 25 GB streaming. New York City-based Motionbox says it’s still focused on the consumer business (for which it also charges some users), but with at least 60 customers already using Motionbox commercially it decided to formalize a professional product.

Here are examples of Gawker and Reuters videos in Motionbox players. Like we whined about yesterday, Gawker is being lame and choosing to use a Motionbox Pro feature that disables embeds, so you’ll have to click through for that one.

Motionbox, which has raised $17.2 million, recently acquired Viddyou, another personal video-sharing startup.