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We firstwroteaboutVideoBeeback in July, the platform that lets users manage, save, watch and share their favourite online videos across multiple screens and devices from one centralized location. Users can arrange the videos into playlists, which can be accessed and viewed on any device, anywhere. We wrote at the time that VideoBee would shortly be announcing a partnership with a major set-top box (STB) manufacturer, and details of this have now emerged....

If you’re hooked to the Web, there’s a good chance you’re hooked to online video too. Whether it’s YouTube, Vimeo, iPlayer or any of the countless other video hosting websites out there, choosing what you watch – and when & where you watch it – is one of the liberties we perhaps now take for granted on the open Web. But wait a minute – do we have complete control over our online viewing experience?...

While it’s easy for anyone to publish videos online these days, making money from them can be tough if you’re not an established name drawing in a large audience. That’s where Swedish startupVideofyMeaims to help out. The Stockholm-based service has already signed up 42,000 independent bloggers in Sweden, allowing them to monetize through preroll ads inserted into every video they publish on the platform. Now the service has opened up worldwide, hoping to attract video bloggers from around the globe....

If you spend a fair amount of time using YouTube’s official app for the iPad, you already know it lacks the ability to design and personalize your video feeds. EnterVideoHuntersfor iPad. VideoHunters changes how we view and discover YouTube videos by providing users with a customizable themes that can be built around specific topics of interest. There are a variety of ways that users can browse through videos including most discussed, featured, most viewed, top favourited and top rated....

How do you go from designing toilets to building a company that hosts video? Well, the story is twisty, but that’s exactly what makes Michael Litt, the 3 other founders and their product calledVidyarda tale you should read. To start, we have to go back in time and take a trip up to Canada. Litt was, indeed, designing toilets. His eventual co-founder, Devon Galloway worked at BlackBerry makerResearch In Motion(RIM) and the two of them found that their corporate jobs left them quite a bit of time on their hands....