Friday, December 21, 2007

Livestreaming Rakes in Big VC Bucks

It was a big Money week for Livestreaming companies. Blogger Robert Scoble gushed on his blog yesterday, "it's amazing how much money is flowing in right now..."

Indeed, Kyte TV (a mobile streaming outfit) announced today it has raised $15m. Earlier this wk, UStream announced that it has raised $2m. And, last but not least, Mogulus has finalized its $1.2m in financing. Not bad for a NY based startup that just launched its Mogulus TV (www.mogulus.com) a little over a month ago.

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Collaboration in Romance, Video and Meetup



Collaboration was the theme at last night's fine NY Tech Meetup at IAC corporate headquarters in Chelsea.

Kaltura's Shay David pitched this hot new "Wiki meets Video editing" tool that enables multiple users to edit videos and graphics. Kaltura won rave reviews at the recent Tech Crunch conference. It's a really cool group video editing product that deserves more attention from the press.

Pete Kamali pitched the IgNighter site, which enables "group dating". And, Scott, our organizer and leader, pitched a new Meetup feature called the Meetup Alliance that will allow Meetups to organize among themselves (and beyond geographic borders). A Tech Meetup Nation, you bet.