The UK should create a Council For Child Internet Safety that would monitor user-generated content sites for offensive material, according to a wide-ranging paper from the House Of Commons media…

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Four Google (NSDQ: GOOG) executives may be standing trial over failing to adequately monitor third-party content posted to their Italian language site. Italian prosecutors are preparing to file charges in…

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You have to admire Faceparty’s cheek—even if it probably isn’t the most lucrative way to run a business. Back in April, the eight year old adult-oriented social net—often described as…

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The France-based online video site Dailymotion says it is not in talks with anyone for a sale, and the CEO Mark Zaleski also denied French media group Lagardere had ever…

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Video how-to site VideoJug has inked a deal to license its videos to Polish publisher Agora. The site will translate “several hundred” of its 40,000-strong video library (eg. How To…

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I’m at our EconSM social media conference in Los Angeles. You can find the team’s rolling coverage from our speaker-laden panel-fest at paidContent.org. I caught up with Loic Le Meur,…

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And yet, the funding keeps flowing in: EQAL, the new name of the production company behind the pioneering online video series Lonelygirl15, has received $5 million in funding from various…

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The media division of Russia’s gas giant Gazprom is buying a majority stake in RuTube, valuing the video upload site at $15 million, business paper Kommersant reports, citing a “source…

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Paris-based video upload site Dailymotion has hired ex Google (NSDQ: GOOG) UK director Kate Burns as its first UK MD. The site is looking to set aside UK video and…

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London-based Bragster, a site for people to make proposition bets with each other, has raised a £1.8 million ($3.5 million) first round from Intel (NSDQ: INTC) capital. The site lets…

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O2 and 3 UK are combining their user generated video services--O2’s LookAtMe! and 3UK’s SeeMeTV--to launch EyeVibe, to create what they claim is UK’s largest open access mobile video community.…

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Current TV and The Guardian have gone live with their vlog partnership, which we reported on in December. Every day, one of the paper’s reporters shoots a webcam opinion piece…

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TV producer Endemol has got a new online commission - it’s making Buzzed, a TV-style quiz show that will show on Metacafe twice a week in two-minute episodes from this…

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Ofcom today ruled against two user-generated video clips shown last July on Sky Digital channel Sumo.tv, stating they had breached the regulator’s code of standards for broadcasters. The Guardian reports…

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MySpace and BBC Worldwide are partnering to deliver new and archived short-form BBC content through MySpaceTV. The deal is described as the first global agreement between MySpace and a major…

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Music video portal startup Audiotube has bought up web video technologies from CineFX as it looks to bring its inventory of pop vids in-house. The price wasn’t disclosed. Founded 12…

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- OhMyNews targets Europe: South Korean citizen journalism site OhMyNews is to launch a European version. Founder Oh Yeon Ho: “I hope I can keep introducing our model to other…

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- WorldSpace: Italian radio pioneer Robert Zaino has been appointed content director for WorldSpace Italia, a subsidiary of WorldSpace Satellite Radio, which is trying to introduce mobile satellite radio primarily…

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Associated Newspapers’ Metro freesheet is trialling a user video sharing site from which contributors can earn an advertising revenue share. MEview lets readers get a whole £1 for every 1,000…

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Last week in Los Angeles, we had our Year-End Review panel and ContentNext Mixer. The one -hour panel on digital video/entertainment in 2008 touched on a lot of points, and…

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The world may not need another user-generated video portal, but it may raise an eyebrow to the one launched in alpha mode this week by the Israelis who gave the…

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- Current TV: The Al Gore-owned progressive video website and TV channel is doing a Bebo. Where the social network this month launched Open Media, a “platform” play to entice…

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It wasn’t in on the original announcement, but Sumo.tv, a web-based video-sharing platform that also has a 24/7 channel on Sky channel 144, has now signed up to Bebo’s OpenMedia…

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WorldTV, an online TV startup letting users mix clips from video sharing sites as well as from their webcam, launches next Wednesday, aiming to let folk make their own internet…

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Wimbledon-based web video host Mydeo is from today powering a new premium user-generated video portal for US retail chain Best Buy. Best Buy also took a minority equity stake in…

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