| Date | Title | Description |
| 25.01.2011 | Mahalo Pivots to Focus on Video-Based Learning | Serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis has just announced Mahalo 4.0, the latest pivot for his company that has now moved from being a “human-powered search engine” to a Q&A site. The new Mahalo, unveiled at the Digital Life Conference tod... |
| 17.11.2010 | Top Trends of 2010: Content Farms | The Web has always rewarded quantity more than quality, but over 2010 this truism became even more pronounced with the growth of Content Farms. These are companies which create thousands of pieces of content per day. Much of it is in the fo... |
| 29.07.2010 | Video Content Farms: Howcast | Content farms have been in the spotlight over the past year. They’re companies that generate hundreds or thousands of new pieces of content on a daily basis. Much of their traffic comes from Google search, so the aim of content farms is to ... |
| 26.04.2010 | How To Use Hot Chicks To Spread Your Brand Message On YouTube | Brands are trying to figure out this whole social marketing thing, but the success stories are still few and far between. “I think everyone is grappling with how to use digital these days,” says Judy Hu, who is in charge of advertising and ... |
| 03.02.2010 | 5min Rules The How-To Video Space | We recently wrote about the traction that how-to video site and producer Howcast is seeing online. But there’s another information and how-to video startup that is dominating the space: 5min. The company is a syndication platform for instru... |
| 28.01.2010 | Two Years After Launch, Howcast Is Streaming 25 Million How-To Videos A Month | Two years ago, former Googlers Jason Liebman, Daniel Blackman and Sanjay Raman launched Howcast, a site filled with originally-produced how-to videos on everything from “How to Ice Skate” to “How To Deal With a Mean Boss.” Today, Howcast is... |
| 07.01.2010 | Boxee Beta Now Available To The Masses | Boxee fans, today’s your lucky day: the service has just released its Beta to the general public. You can download the new version of the streaming video hub here.
The new version is really a complete overhaul of the app — it’s received a n... |
| 13.10.2009 | Factual: Applied Semantics Co-Founder Launches A Repository For Open Data | Gil Elbaz wants people to make lots of spreadsheet tables filled with fun and important facts and share them across the Web. Later today, he will be launching Factual, which he describes as “a platform for anyone to share and mash open data... |
| 17.09.2009 | Rouxbe takes you to cooking school — online | Editor’s note: This is part of VentureBeat’s series “Startup Spotlight.” Every week, we’ll sift through the scores of companies applying to be promoted and profile the best one. Companies can sign up here at the Entrepreneur Corner, which i... |
| 23.07.2009 | How-to video site 5min scores $7.5M for wider syndication | 5min, a site that syndicates instructional videos to a host of other web sites reaching 200 million viewers a month, has raised $7.5 million in a second round of funding.
The 5min site itself has built a library of more than 100,000 short, ... |
| 23.07.2009 | How-to video site 5min scores $7.5M for wider syndication | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
5min, a site that syndicates instructional videos... |
| 29.05.2009 | HowCast for iPhone Hits 500k Downloads – It’s Awesome | How-to video aggregator HowCast announced today that it has hit 500,000 downloads of its iPhone app and a quick spin of the service shows why – it’s fabulous. Just six months after launching, HowCast is already the second most popular free ... |
| 28.04.2009 | Tagito launches to sell your expertise — in anything | New startup Tagito has launched its online knowledge marketplace, providing a platform for even laymen to turn a buck on their random expertise. Basically, the web site provides a searchable database of user-generated material (documents, s... |
| 13.03.2009 | Graspr sees learning as a social process | The end game is about helping monetize knowledge-based services
In part two of this two-part interview Graspr founder and CEO Teresa Phillips discusses how Graspr differentiates itself from other How-to sites and their recent Glam Media syn... |
| 06.03.2009 | Interview: Contrast – the guys behind Qwitter who have global ambitions | You may not have heard of Contrast, but if you are on Twitter – and a lot of people are these days – you may well have heard of Qwitter, the little app that ignited controversy when it allowed you to see when someone unfollowed you on Twitt... |
| 02.01.2009 | For Your Imagination's distribution play | FYI increases advertising and sponsorship revenue for Web video by 34%
Spring 2009 Upfront - For Your Imagination Reel - Nov2008
Digital media and web video studio For Your Imagination has been successful in defining itself as a leader in o... |
| 04.12.2008 | Facebook Connect, Friend Connect: Your online profile follows you | Article content
Facebook has announced the widespread availability of Facebook Connect, an extension of Facebook Platform that it first announced last summer.
You’ll start seeing prompts for Facebook Connect on Web sites. Hit the prompt and... |
| 02.12.2008 | 5min's VideoSeed Syndicates How-To Videos To Answers.com And Others | How-to site 5min is expanding beyond its roots as a video portal and has launched a syndication network for its videos called VideoSeed, which uses semantic matching to deliver relevant clips to participating sites. The platform matches key... |
| 19.11.2008 | Sony adds Slacker to BRAVIA Internet Video Link | Sony’s $300 Internet Video Link add-on box for BRAVIA-series TVs has recently added the Slacker streaming music service to the list of available channels. Also added was content from Howcast.com, a site that contains a series of user-genera... |
| 14.11.2008 | Howcast Brings Video Tutorials to the iPhone | Howcast, one of the leading video tutorial sites on the Internet, just released an iPhone application (iTunes link) that allows you to access their video content while on the go. Most of the videos on Howcasts have a very high production va... |
| 22.10.2008 | Howcast lands $2M more for how-to videos | Instructional video producer Howcast Media reeled in an additional $2 million in first-round financing from private individuals in the media industry, reports VentureWire. This bumps its total to $10 million, with some funding coming from T... |
| 13.08.2008 | WonderHowTo: How-To Videos in Your Sidebar | WonderHowTo aggregates and curates a large database of instructional videos from all over the Internet. It employs a number of editors who search the web for good how-to videos and then categorize them into 36 vertical categories. Thanks to... |
| 04.06.2008 | MindBites Gets iPhone Friendly For How-To's On The Go | MindBites, a paid-content instructional video site that launched earlier this year, has introduced a mobile version that allows users to stream guides to their iPhones. Users that access the standard site from their iPhones will automatical... |
| 22.05.2008 | Howcast Aligns With AOL, Metacafe, Bebo, and blip.tv | Howcast, the instructional video site founded by three ex-Googlers, today announced that it has formed distribution agreements with AOL, Metacafe, Bebo, and blip.tv.
Howcast provides professionally produced instructional videos that range f... |
| 22.04.2008 | 5min Releases Embeddable Player That Can Handle Text, Images, and Video | Instructional video site 5min has released a new beta version of their SmartPlayer, introducing support for text, video, and images that can be merged into a single embeddable flash widget. The site considers the player to be revolutionary,... |
| 06.02.2008 | Ex-Googlers Launch Instructional Video Site Howcast, Raise $8 Million A Round | A New York City startup called Howcast is launching today that wants to be the YouTube of instructional videos. In fact, the three founders—Jason Liebman, Daniel Blackman and Sanjay Raman—are ex-Google employees who worked on Google Video a... |
| 06.02.2008 | Especially well-designed how-to video site Howcast launches, gets funding | http://www.howcast.com/flash/howcast_player.swf?file=824-How-To-Fake-Being-Sick
We’ve covered quite a few companies that offer online collections of how-to videos, most recently WonderHowTo and 5min. Today, Howcast is the latest to join the... |
