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Gaia Online

GaiaOnline is an anime-themed social networking and forums-based website. Originally named "Go-Gaia.com ??-02", it changed to gaiaonline.com on February 18, 2003 by Gaia Interactive. Gaia originally began as an anime linklist and eventually got itself a small community but after a statement by founder Derek Liu (username "Lanzer"), the website moved towards social gaming. It eventually became the forum-based website it is now. It has over a million posts made daily, over a billion posts total, and over 2.5 million unique users each month. Gaia also won the 2007 Webware 100 award in the Community category.

GoFish

GoFish (OTCBB: GOFH) is a free video sharing website, headquartered in San Francisco, California, allowing visitors to watch and upload video clips, similar to websites like YouTube and Google Video. It was started in May 2005.

Google Video

Google Video is a free video sharing website and also a video service from Google that allows anyone to upload video clips to Google's web servers as well as make their own media available free of charge; some videos are also offered for sale through the Google Video Store.

Heavy.com

Heavy.com is a broadband entertainment website founded in 1999 in New York City. The site was founded by David Carson and Simon Assaad in the wake of the popularity of their first series of video shorts, Behind the Music that Sucks. Heavy emerged intact from the burst of the dot-com bubble in 2001 and is still helmed by Carson and Assaad, both of whom also helped Cablevision found the Fuse Network in 2003.

Hulu

Hulu is a website that offers free, high-quality streaming video of TV shows and movies, primarily from NBC and FOX and their cable networks. Hulu has online social networking features, allowing users to clip videos, or parts of videos, from the site for posting in outside online communities. (Hulu has called this aspect video sharing, though users cannot upload content.) Hulu videos are currently offered only to users in the United States.

I-Mockery

I-Mockery is a pop culture humor site owned and operated by Roger Barr (aka: -RoG-) that has existed online in various forms since 1996. Before then, it was a printed periodical called Visionary Darkness. Free copies of Visionary Darkness were distributed in local high schools and record shops. It later became a web site on Geocities which housed a variety of humorous articles and rants. Barr also registered other sites on Geocities under several aliases and made them all a part of the Visionary Darkness web site. After a few years of building up the popularity of these sites, Barr registered the I-Mockery.com domain name in August of 1999 to house all of his humor sites under the same roof (and to avoid Geocities' increasingly slow performance). The I-Mockery name was created as a spoof of all the corporate web sites that started with "I" or "E" at the time. The name loosely translates to Internet-Mockery.

Icebox.com

icebox.com is an internet animation company founded in the late 1990s by Jonathan Collier, Howard Gordon, Rob LaZebnik, Scott Rupp and Tal Vigderson. The founders stated that the company was created to capitalize on the inherent "freedom of the medium" which they felt stifled creativity of writers due to the confining restrictions of the studio system and traditional media.

imeem

imeem is a social media service where users interact with each other by watching, posting, and sharing content of all media types, including blogs, photos, audio, and video. The company was founded by Dalton Caldwell (ex-VA Linux) and Jan Jannink (formerly of Napster) and many of the core engineers came from the original Napster file sharing service. Launched in October 2004, the service has both a social network structure as well as a content browsing/filtering structure similar to that of Flickr and YouTube. It works on an advertising based business model, and is therefore free to use.

Meez

Meez is a social entertainment website that allows users to create their own animated avatars, or "3D I.D." graphics, for the Web, games with their avatars, and use them in customizable Rooms on social networks like Facebook.

Metacafe

Metacafe is the largest independent video sharing web site, specializing in short-form original entertainment, where users upload, view and share video clips. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Tel Aviv and New York. Metacafe is privately held and its investors include Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures and Highland Capital Partners. Metacafe is similar to other top video vewing websites such as YouTube or Dailymotion, but with several key differences. Core differentiators include duplication elimination, Adult content filtering, an 80,000 community member reviewer panel, VideoRank, and Producer Rewards. Its VideoRank system gauges viewer reactions to videos in order to feature those that prove most popular to its viewers. Additionally, Metacafe pays video creators for original work that has exceeded a certain threshold of both total views and VideoRank score through its Producer Rewards Program.

mevio

mevio, formerly known as PodShow, is a digital media entertainment network whose properties include PodShow+, PodShow Podcast Network, PodShowPDN, Podcast Alley, CastBlaster, the Podsafe Music Network and, BT PodShow. The network acts as both an index for podcast listeners and as a tool for podcasters to publish their content, communicate with their listeners and legally access and play music within their shows. mevio.com, the main brand of PodShow Inc., is a social networking website, podcast directory, podcast delivery network, and music store.

MilkandCookies

MilkandCookies is an archive of internet memes from sarcastic, pop culture geeks about humor, video clips, independent media, music, technology, toilet humor, television, politics, risque behavior, bloopers, celebrities, cults and religions.

Music Nation

Music Nation is a self-described artist development company. It is holding an online music video competition in which the finalists will have a chance to sign recording contracts with Epic Records. Beginning January 29, 2007, users registered with musicnation.com and panels of "celebrity" judges will cast their votes and select music video finalists. The voting process will occur over twelve weeks with two finalists in three genre-based categories selected each week. Artists registering with Music Nation must submit their videos under one of these genre-based categories: "Pop", "Rock", or "Urban". The winners will be showcased on Clear Channel's radio program Stripped.

MyOutdoorTV.com

MyOutdoorTV.com is an Internet-based cable network that provides streaming TV shows and product demonstrations to hunters, shooting sports enthusiasts, anglers, campers, boaters, and hikers. When launched, it was the largest online video network catering for outdoor programming. MyOutdoorTV.com carries over 70 outdoor-related cable shows that air on networks such as Versus, The Outdoor Channel, and The Sportsman Channel via the online video channel. Programming is also syndicated through Joost.

Newsarama

Newsarama is an American website that publishes news, interviews and essays about the American comic book industry. In addition, the site hosts an Internet forum for comic-book fans.

Okayplayer.com

Okayplayer.com is an online hip-hop and alternative music website and community. The group was co-founded by The Roots' drummer Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson as a loose musical collective in 1987, and evolved into an online community in 1999. In 2004, ?uestlove launched Okayplayer Records as a spin-off of the community.

omg!

omg! is a celebrity news and gossip website, run by Yahoo! News's entertainment division. Originally a news aggregator of celebrity news and pictures, omg! has since partnered with celebrity news media outlets such as X17 and Access Hollywood to not only use their resources, but to also compile their own features and stories. The website's name comes from the internet slang abbreviation, meaning "Oh, my god!"

PopMatters

PopMatters is an international webzine of cultural criticism. Its scope is broadly cast on all things pop culture. PopMatters publishes reviews, interviews, and detailed essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports, theater, visual arts, travel, and the Internet.

RuTube

RuTube is a Russian online video sharing and transmitting service. It is currently visited by 300,000 people daily and plays over 35 million videos every month. Over 4 million unique users visit it every month (TNS Gallup Media). It currently transmits several dozen TV and radio channels online, and also gives its users the chance to create video-blogs and personal virtual channels.

TMZ.com

TMZ.com is a celebrity gossip and news website, the result of a collaboration between AOL and Telepictures Productions, a division of Warner Bros. Both AOL and Warner Bros. are units of Time Warner. TMZ's managing editor is Harvey Levin, and the site is powered by Blogsmith.

Truveo

Truveo is a search engine for Web video operated by Truveo, Inc., which based in San Francisco, California. Truveo was founded in 2004 by Timothy Tuttle and Adam Beguelin. Truveo launched its first commercial video search service in September 2005. Truveo was acquired by AOL in January 2006. The name Truveo is a combination of the modern French verb trouver (meaning "to find") and the latin term video (meaning "I see").

UGO Networks

UGO Networks, Incorporated (pronounced /ˌjuːˌʤiːˈoʊ/, as the individual letters) is a website providing coverage of online media in entertainment targeting males age 18-34. The company is currently based in New York City, New York, USA.On July 24, 2007 it was announced that Hearst Corporation would acquire UGO Networks.

VideoJug

VideoJug is a instructional video website, which aims to provide a how-to guide for many differing subjects such as "How to eat sushi" to "How to tie a tie" using windsor knots, a half windsor knot, or a four-in-hand knot. It launched as a beta online in 2006 and about a month later went gold.

WeShow

WeShow is an online video aggregator that delivers tailored video content to viewers around the world. Unlike video aggregators that rely purely on technology to identify and deliver content to viewers, WeShow employs a global team of editors to scour the Web for what it deems to be relevant, high-quality videos. The rationale behind the company's "human-powered" approach is that computers cannot subjectively determine whether video clips are funny, cool or entertaining. WeShow selects high-quality videos from repository sites such as YouTube, MySpace, Dailymotion, Metacafe (and many others) and organizes them into a 200-channel system. With a collection of video widgets – onSite, onDesktop and social networking applications – WeShow is a distributor of online videos.

Woophy

Woophy (World of photography) is a photo sharing website and an online community where members can put their photos on a world map. Founded in 2005 by Joris van Hoytema, Hoyte van Hoytema and Marcel Geenevasen, the site has more than 23,000 members and contains around 355,000 photos from 28,000 cities and villages in the world. Most of the uploaded pictures are from surroundings, buildings, nature and problems in the world. The website has different features, for example a monthly photo competition with a the end of the year a big finale. Woophy also has an active forum where photographers discuss their photo's in a critical way.

YouTube

YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in mid-February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. The San Bruno-based service uses Adobe Flash technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos. In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for US$1.65 billion in Google stock. The deal closed on November 13, 2006.