NY-based Magnify.net has announced three new search partners for their video search product. The partners include NY-based 5min, ViewDo and Expert Village. 5min provides how-to videos and they will now be included in the video search available to Magnify.net publishers. Magnify.net self reports 35,000 publishers in their network.

It will be interesting to see if Magnify follows a Blinkx strategy with regards to partnerships. In fact, maybe there’s value in both companies working together as Blinkx appears to have a strong video search network. 

Check out our look at the NYC online video market which includes 5min and Magnify.net.

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Today the Startonomics workshop is underway, and Mashable friend and occasional contributor Muhammad Saleem is presenting a session on social media and word of mouth marketing for startups:

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This is something he’s imminently qualified to speak on as a social media consultant and one of the most visible individual presences across just about every social media platform there is.

Since UStream is graciously providing streaming services for the event, we figured we’d take the opportunity to liveblog his speech.

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Company

Clivir

20-Word description

Clivir is a free tutorial-based learning community where you can be both the teacher and the student.

100 word description

Come hither to Clivir. Clivir features tutorial style lessons that can be created by combining text with Web-based resources from sites like YouTube, photobucket, flickr and scribd, etc.

These lessons are grouped within member created classrooms that provide informal learning environments for discussions and member interactions.

- Don’t let tutorials get lost in your community forums again.

- Showcase your skills by teaching others what you can do.

- Promote your service or product.

- Add further value to your face to face study or teaching.

So put the i back into clever and check out clivir.com.

Mashable’s Take

Clivir provides a social online tutorial service where all members can become both teachers and students. There are many how-to sites out there that provide instructional videos such as 5Min and VideoJug, but this one’s a little bit different. You don’t just share lessons you’ve created, like on other sites, but also virtual classrooms that other members can join and attend. For example, here’s a Clivir classroom for the Apple iPhone along with the lessons they offer.

At the heart of Clivir and all its classrooms are lessons which can contain a wide variety of elements from the Web such as images from Flickr, videos from YouTube, manuals and other documents from Scribd and more. All this content can be added to your lessons to enhance the text that you compose for your subject matter.

There’s also an area just for questions which presumably will work much like Yahoo Answers. Members can post any question they have and others can provide answers. Because the site just recently launched there isn’t a great deal of questions or answers in there right now.

Members can click the “Me too” link of any existing question to let everyone know how many people would like to know the answer. This becomes an adhoc type of rating system indicating which question the community wants answered the most. Missing from this area is a true rating system as found on Yahoo Answers where questions and answers are rated as well as those that ask and answer them. There’s no doubt that Clivir will eventually implement such a useful system for ranking teachers and students.

There’s a member’s area called “Clivirirs” but it’s rather bland and not anywhere near as informative or as useful as it should be, especially for a site dedicated to sharing knowledge and information. The members are just listed alphabetically without any indication as to what each member has to offer. Going forward, I think they need to add the ability to filter/list members according to their areas of specialty. For example, who provides lessons on social media or grammar or playing the piano? Each member just needs to fill out their profile and this information could be used as meta data for searches in the members area and elsewhere. For example, in the Questions area as well.

Even though Clivir’s classrooms are a little sparse these days because they only recently opened their school doors, I think they can become a very active community where each and every member can contribute something. All of us have the ability to be a teacher as well as a student. Clivir could be the place that allows us to do just that.

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Earlier this week was the NY Video Meetup. Somewhere around 250 NY’ers attended and viewed a variety of demos and a healthy video discussion. One thing rang true throughout – online video is HOT here in the city. So many companies, so many ideas and a amazing level of excitement/passion around online video.

Here are just a few of the companies in the online video space in the NYC area. I certainly forgot a bunch, so please leave them in the comments.

• Blip.tv - a leader in episodic content (CN Coverage)
• 5min - moving offices to NYC next month - knowledge sharing (CN Coverage)
• Rocketboom - daily video show about anything with host Joanne Colan (CN Coverage)
• Sarah Meyers - lifecaster and podcaster
• For Your Imagination - creating a variety of online-only video shows
• WallStrip - filming in NYC about stocks with host Lindsay Cambell
• Vimeo - video hoster and community creator (CN Coverage)
• ExpoTV - video reviews (CN Coverage)
• Kaltura - video collaboration (CN Coverage)
• Joost - NYC office is North American HQ - television replacement (CN Coverage)
• SavoryNY - restaurants video reviews (CN Coverage)
• WineLibraryTV - ok, he’s in Jersey but we will allow it since he lives in the city - daily wine video show

While other areas of the country and the world are creating online video, NY is where it’s at. Innovation, technology, people, community, it’s all here. And Madison Avenue and Google are here to monetize it all.

Tonight I attended what I believe is the 2nd largest NY (tech) Meetup group - the NY Video Meetup. The group continues to get larger month over month and I am guessing 200ish came out tonight. Tonight’s presenters were: HeyCosmo, Joost, 5min and blip.tv. I am assuming that the Ustream recorded show will be available later this evening.

Before I provide some comments on the demos, tonight I had the chance to meet one of the hottest video show hosts today, Gary Vaynerchuk. Gary runs a daily video show called WineLibrary.TV. I wrote about Gary on my Vimeo vs. Viddler post and Gary has been on mainstream tv (Tonight Show and Ellen) recently and his video shows continue to explode in visitors.

So many times when techies talk about video bloggers it’s always the same crowd. There are plenty of great video bloggers outside the tech market. If you plan to get into the video blogging space, check out WLTV. Gary has 50k+ viewers daily and what’s more important is that each day he has 300+ comments on his video. And what’s great is that even though Gary owns a large wine store, he never "forces" viewers to buy from him (yet I am sure they do!). Anyway it was great to meet him this evening.

And now on with the recap.

HeyCosmo

First up was HeyCosmo. The demo was pretty tough to sit through yet it worked, which means the product sells itself. The guy who presented (I didn’t catch his name) is the brother of the CEO who was unable to make it so I can’t be too negative about the presentation . He was hilarious. HeyCosmo offers a variety of applications on a community video platform. One of the demo’d apps was a live texas holdem app. I have to say, it’s hot. Each player uses a webcam and so it’s as close to sitting at the same table as possible. They are working on Sudoko which is in development currently. I am working on getting some invites for CN readers.

Joost

David Clark, North American VP presented Joost and if you haven’t tried Joost recently, I would suggest you give them another try. The app has lots of improvements from say early summer versions. David noted that they are a small company with big ambitions and they want to create a product that people love to use. Currently they host 15,000 shows and just launched a Facebook widget. I asked about their thoughts on Hulu and David responded, "We like Hulu - and we are looking to move to live and Web down the road as well".

The Joost advertising platform combines all of the current Inernet technologies serving approximately 1.5 minutes of video ads per hour along with other interactive ads. From a peer-to-peer standpoint, currently 70% of the bandwidth comes from p2p and 30% from their server farm.

5min

By now I am guessing most of the CN readers have seen the Israeli actor who discusses how to get VC funding - if not, I have embedded it at the end of this post. 5min is currently located in Israel but is planning to open a NY office in a month. They currently have one million unique visitors for October with 700-1000 uploaded videos per month. Their motto is "helping each other to share knowledge". The idea is simple - you are an expert at something. You create a video about that knowledge that’s less than 5 minutes in length and upload it to 5min.

Their business model is to get "sponsored knowledge" where say Absolut would sponsor videos on how to create a great martini or LA Fitness might sponsor videos on how to lose the freshman 15. It’s an innovative revenue model.

Blip.TV

Co-founder Justin Day presented Blip.tv. Blip has really picked up steam since their partnership with Rocketboom earlier this summer. Basically Blip is for show creators who create episodic content. Not much else to say here - though Alec from For Your Imagination noted that with Blip you can "replace" a video which is something you can’t do on most of the other services.

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Sometimes its worth taking a second look at a startup a few months after we cover their initial launch to see how things are going. We first covered Israeli startup 5min back in May. The site is a sort of YouTube for short user generated instructional videos. And there are some indications that it may […]