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Source:CenterNetworks

IAC (Nasdaq:IACI) is announcing a partnership today with Brightcove to "giving IAC businesses the opportunity to launch comprehensive high quality Internet video initiatives". The first IAC brands to utilize the new partnership are: Ticketmaster, Citysearch and 23/6.

Now I get why they did this — it’s about distribution. IAC Chairman Barry Diller even notes at this with his comment on the deal, "By making this platform available across IAC we can continue to deepen engagement with our online audiences, expand the reach of our brands, and open powerful new revenue streams through online video advertising across our sites."

But where’s IAC-owned Vimeo in all of this? While I know Vimeo is a community-based video sharing site, couldn’t Barry have created a white-labeled version of the system and monetized it using the IAC advertising network? While I don’t think this means Vimeo is doomed by any means, it sure is interesting that they selected to go outside before thinking about their own properties and how to leverage them for growth.

Source:CenterNetworks

Last night down at the NYC Pourhouse bar was the 2nd MashMeet combined with the Web2.0/Social Networking Meetup. I’ve got to say, I had a good time. The place was packed - probably too packed - but I was able to camp out in a small nook with a bunch of friends and met a whole lot of new people as well. I was able to convert 112 people from loyal Mashable readers to loyal CN readers so I consider it a good night.

Head Masher Pete Cashmore was unable to make it as he was receiving his award from Forbes as a top web celeb. (get well soon Pete!)

The evening’s festivities were chaperoned by Mashable’s Adam Hirsch and Adam Ostrow along with Brett "I need a date" Petersel. In all seriousness, it was a lot of fun and it seemed everyone else had fun as well. For Your Imagination was shooting video as well - looking forward to seeing the results.

I got a chance to meet two of Digg’s power users, a variety of followers of my twitter feed, VentureBeat’s NYC reporter (I forgot her name again and can’t find her on the site!) and even Nicholas Carlson from Valleywag. The weirdest thing is when someone comes up to you and says, "I follow your Twitter" - wtf is this world coming to!

Here are some photos from the evening (view all photos):

Nicholas from Valleywag and Alisa Leonard

Two Top Diggers - identity concealed to protect them

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