Reality Digital, a white-label video service, gets funding to expand

Reality Digital, a white-label video service, gets funding to expand

Reality Digital provides software that web publishers can use to host their own collections of videos. The company was founded in 2004, before the latest wave of online video startups appeared, and has done well enough for itself, winning MTV, The Travel Channel and other large media companies as partners. And now it has also raised $6.3 million from OpenView Venture Partners.

Reality Digital lets a third party use its software to host an entire interface… Continue Reading

Web 2.0 week: IM-email integration trend, Google GPS, Google Ventures, Reality Digital & more

Web 2.0 week: IM-email integration trend, Google GPS, Google Ventures, Reality Digital & more

Roundup of a busy week:

Instant messaging and email are merging, Yahoo kicks it off — Yahoo will be integrating IM through its email, Yahoo executive Brad Garlinghouse revealed during the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. In retrospect, we’re wondering why this trend hasn’t happened earlier.

Email is limiting, providing no way to see whether the person on the other end is present or not (that person may not want to show you they are present,… Continue Reading