Last week the NY Video 2.0 meetup was held. Unfortunately I was unable to make it but Andy Robson from 3rdRail Inc captured all of the presentations and the video is below. The presenting companies included: Animoto, Brightcove, Innovid, Gigya and Ooyala.

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This week at the NY Video 2.0 meeting, a variety of companies either demo’ed their service or provided a variety of business updates. If you are in the NYC tech or media scene, this might be the best monthly meetup to attend.

Here are the presenters:

1. Hulu - Kevin McGurn, VP National Sales (our coverage) — Michael has an article today about Hulu’s ad rates
2. Move Networks - Bob Bryson, SVP Sales & BD
3. Boxee - Avner Ronen, Co-founder & CEO
4. MediaMerx - Tejpaul Bhatia, Co-founder & CEO
5. Visible Measures - Matt Cutler, VP Marketing & Analytics (our coverage)

If you want to jump around in the video, click play, then pause and wait for the loading bar to finish, then you can jump, jump around.

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On Monday at the NY Video 2.0 meeting, after the demos concluded, three popular NY venture capital partners took the stage to critique the demos they just watched from a venture capitalist perspective. While they were certainly a bit nice in front of the crowd, I thought you might be interested in their feedback.

The demos came from Adotube, Magnify.net, Vusion, ekkoTV and BestTV.

The VC stars were: Chris Fralic from First Round Capital, Daniel Schultz from DFJ Gotham and a third who didn’t share his name.

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Last night at the NY Video 2.0 meeting, Adotube presented their brand new video advertising solution. While the volume isn’t great on this video, it’s worth watching, especially the second-half. Adotube actually does in-video lead gen and sales. Let’s say you are watching a video of Sting and he has a concert coming up. An ad can show a promo for tickets, click it and order tickets directly in the video. Once the sale has completed, go back to watching your Sting video. Not sure if anyone else is doing this.

While this works well for corporate and promotional videos, I am not sure if it will take off in the YouTube market. If the key is massive plays, using a stand-alone, non-social player won’t help you reach the goals set for the video. They do power a variety of popular video portal sites (mostly non-U.S.).

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Last night at the NY Video 2.0 meeting, Magnify.net presented their new Magnify Publisher tool. We wrote about the Magnify Publisher when it launched last week. I did notice that embedded videos are now using a customized Magnify.net player with Magnify branding. This wasn’t in the initial launch version last week.

Magnify Publisher offers a variety of video hosts to search from and you can filter to specific providers. Image search currently works with Flickr and more image providers are coming soon. There’s also the ability to upload a video (it’s stored on Magnify’s servers) or record a video directly using a webcam.

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Yesterday at the NY Video 2.0 meeting, Israeli-based BestTV presented their video portal application. The BestTV application is a middleware application — meaning agencies and companies can use the tool to create video portals on top of their current sites. They are currently in the Europe and Asian markets and are looking to expand into the U.S. They mainly work with Web shops.

One interesting note — presenter Oded Felled explained that the SaaS (software as a service) model works well in Europe but not in Asia. Asian companies want enterprise "one-time" cost models and not monthly plan services.

BestTV appears to compete in the same space with NY-based Magnify.net.

Last night at the NY Video 2.0 meeting, Magnify.net presented their new Magnify Publisher tool. We wrote about the Magnify Publisher when it launched last week. I did notice that embedded videos are now using a customized Magnify.net player with Magnify branding. This wasn’t in the initial launch version last week.

Magnify Publisher offers a variety of video hosts to search from and you can filter to specific providers. Image search currently works with Flickr and more image providers are coming soon. There’s also the ability to upload a video (it’s stored on Magnify’s servers) or record a video directly using a webcam.

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Wikipedia has announced today that at "Thursday, March 27, at 00:07 UTC" the worldwide article count for all Wikipedias hit 10 million. The 10 millionth article was posted on the Hungarian Wikipedia and is about Nicholas Hilliard, a 16th century English goldsmith and painter. Check out the Hilliard article in Hungarian and in English.

If you are a stats junkie, Wikipedia has an in-depth stats archive for each Wikipedia around the world. English and German are the two most popular languages Wikipedia offers.

Place your bets for the 100 millionth article. Maybe it will be about how we live on Mars.

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Last night at the NY Video Meetup, MobLogic presented their new daily online video show.  I noted that I was not going to post the demo as it was basically just showing the actual show which you could watch on MobLogic.tv. Presenter Scott Solary asked if I would post the video so please find it below. I cut out most of the actual video show - go watch it live - better than my Canon capture.

Lindsay is a talented video host and should have stuck to Wallstrip. She also seems to love Crest white strips! While CBS will probably throw a ton of money at this show, I find the "person on the street" interviews to be cute for the first 1-2 days. Rather than stick with one video host, they are placing the videos on every host. Blip is their featured partner, one of the presenters had a Blip wallet. On the technical side, there is a very good implementation of Wordpress that seems to be pushing the envelope.

Tonight was the March installment of the NY Video Meetup. The idea is to bring together people interested in online video. I found tonight boring at best. In any event, here are videos of each presentation with my Twitter recaps. Unfortunately due to the layout of Webster Hall, the videos will seem like you are sitting in the first row of a movie theater. 

SeeToo

Check out my discussion with founder Yoav Ilan from late 2007. View the SeeToo site.

Neovids

They are an Internet video production and distribution company - they showed some mock Web 2.0 company "Slikstr" they created an entire persona for — Web site, blog, YouTube page, etc. Would have rather had them speak about their company and capabilities than show videos.

ReviewBasics

ReviewBasics seems like an interesting tool - allows you to jointly markup a document with edits and needed changes. As the presenters noted, it works well for agencies as they review documents and prototypes with clients. There was a question about comparisons to ConceptShare. From what I can tell, ConceptShare is further ahead in innovation. RB did note that chat is in private beta and audio and video integration is coming soon.

PermissionTV

PermissionTV is Boston-based (couldn’t we find another NY company?). It’s a B2B video host that can customize their player for each client. Compares with Brightcove and Maven, presenter noted, "the big difference between us and Brightcove is that we are focused on innovation." Company has been around 3 years and is heavily funded.

MobLogic

I’ve decided not to post the Moblogic video of this demo as all they basically did was show a clip and explain that the site is built with Wordpress. I was excited to learn WAY more about how CBS views Internet video and their plans for expansion, monetization, etc, etc. Instead we got 3 minutes of Lindsay.

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Tonight was the last NY Video Meetup of 2007. There were major technical issues throughout the evening which forced one presenter to next month and kept us focused on the Wiffiti board for half of the time and doing individual intros for another piece of the evening. Frankly I was bored so my recaps below are short and blunt. Below are the videos for each presentation. I will allow this as normally the Video Meetups are quite good.

ModMyLife

I could swear I’ve seen this demo for ModMyLife before. The basic idea. They have actors who they don’t pay act out stunts in NYC that the audience decides on. It’s cute, not sure if it’s the next killer idea but it’s a good time waster. They won’t let the actors do anything illegal or "dumb" so not sure how far they will go. But they do have “digg-like” voting.

Redlasso

Redlasso lets you take clips from other sources and put them together and then save or upload the final clip. They also monitor stats on where the files are stored. Questions around copyright and monetization came up - he had no concrete answers on either.

OriginDigital

The sponsor of the event - they showed off their Odaptor product. You upload videos, it converts them, makes an xml, makes various formats and can send them to various providers. Didn’t really see anything unique or new - though it seemed very smooth in interface.

Sportsbone.tv

The only content creator of the evening, Sportsbone.tv creates video shows about football with a "funny" twist using lots of props it seems. A couple bits were funny. A woman in the audience suggested they do the shows live as the football game is in progress, I thought that was a nifty idea. Ten friends from college create this - each one focuses on another aspect of the business.