VideoCrawler: AT&T’s video aggregation site officially launches

VideoCrawler: AT&T’s video aggregation site officially launches

Can AT&T be more than a “dumb pipe” — can it go beyond providing infrastructure for phones, cable television and Internet services? Its forays into content continue today, with its official launch of its video aggregator site VideoCrawler.com.

The site, which has been live for a few months, aggregates user-generated videos from YouTube and other sites around the web, using a white-label service provided by a startup called Divvio. You can watch videos, or create your… Continue Reading

Divvio, latest effort to find Web content matching your tastes

Divvio, latest effort to find Web content matching your tastes

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Divvio is the latest start-up to try to deliver you multi-media content each morning, gathered from crawling the Web for material matching your tastes.

Run by a former AT&T technologist, Hossein Eslambolchi, it will find audio, video and other material, to create channels that are updated each time you sign on, according to BusinessWeek. It picks out material based on past requests you’ve made. It is backed by more than $2 million $3 million-plus raised from… Continue Reading