muvee, the pioneer and leader in Instant Personal Video, has released its new photoMemories stylePack, specifically designed for making muvees out of digital pictures. This plug-in stylePack for muvee autoProducer software features 6 new styles: Dynamic Colorplay, Geometry, Paper Frames, Photo Play, Reflections and
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Yahoo! acquired Jumpcut, a multimedia company at the forefront of video "remixing" and the creator of a Web property and application that offers a publishing tool and an interactive user community. The acquisition of Jumpcut complements Yahoo's multimedia strategy and includes assets such as a strong team, unique technologies, emerging brand, business partnerships and a growing community of users. To learn more, details are available in a post on the Yahoo! Search Blog, http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000358.html and http://blog.jumpcut.com/.

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Koral, a provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions for businesses, today announced the launch of its free-to-use Content Management solution at DEMOfall 2006. “Over the last 12 months we’ve seen a massive growth in Web 2.0 applications for consumers to help them manage their videos, photos, and blogs” said Mark Suster, CEO of Koral, “Koral is the first of a new breed of Web 2.0 solutions for businesses. Koral helps people store, share and search the business information that lives in documents, emails, web pages, and folders – while keeping everyone in sync.” more

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Atom Entertainment is launching a new NewsGames section on AddictingGames.com. All the games that will be on this channel will all be created around headlines in the news that will mock the most popular cultural topics of the day. Most of the games are expected to be all user generated as well so with the current technology anyone can become a game creator and it's almost as quick and easy as making the online videos. Atom is also putting its resources into getting additional content through a new business relationship with Persuasive Games, a leader in developing, producing and distributing electronic games for persuasion and instruction. more

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Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), today announced that its Consumer division, Pinnacle Systems, Inc., is unveiling several new products. The additions include the Pinnacle Studio MovieBox™ and Pinnacle Studio™ MovieBoard families, both of which allow consumers to preserve analog video content in digital format and easily create movies for sharing via DVD, the Web or Podcasting. The company has also introduced two new TV viewing products – Pinnacle PCTV™ HD Pro Stick and Pinnacle PCTV MCE Companion – for those who want to watch TV remotely on their personal computers or integrate their TV viewing experience with Microsoft® Windows® Media Center Edition (MCE). more

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The Webby Awards today launched its 11th Annual Call for Entries with the debut of major new awards in online film and video and interactive advertising.
Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times and "one of the most prestigious awards in the world" by the BBC, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. more


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Dovetail (www.dovetail.tv) is putting out a call for entries for a film competition to be judged by Dovetail users. The winning filmmaker will receive $1,000 cash and 10,000 shares of stock in the new company. Dovetail invites independent filmmakers to take their best films off the shelf and put them onto screens in the homes of Indie film fans everywhere via Dovetail. The call for entries in Dovetail's "Off the Shelf and Onto the Screen" film competition is now open through September 30, 2006. more

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Content delivery network VitalStream today announced it has been selected by MySTACK, the first online video site and social network for high school athletes, as its exclusive provider for Flash video streaming. more