Web Video News Coming in Waves

Mike Arrington at Tech Crunch always has some great digs on the web 2.0 space and with streaming video (finally) blazing into the mainstream he has posted a few good pointers there over the last few days.
+ PalTalk is set to go live with a new social networking service designed to be a proof of concept for the inclusion of video chat in social networks.
+ Wurld Media announced that it has signed deals with three major TV and movie studios to offer episodes of popular television programs for download through its peer-to-peer client.
+ ShopWiki will announce today another step to expand their service’s offerings. The company will pay users $50 per video for the first 500 submitted product review videos selected for inclusion on the site.
+ Guba.com through its deal with Warner, Guba will initially sell almost 200 movie and television titles ranging from new releases to classic television content like The Jetsons.
Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion also had a cool vlog tip for a new site called Sixty Second View that will feature brief interviews on media, PR, marketing and more with the content all shot using a mobile phone.
Meanwhile, the folks over at Cnet must have been smoking something warming up in their offices for 4th of July festivities a bit early to run this Is YouTube a flash in the pan? story based on views from IDC research analyst Josh Martin. Considering the recent article in The Economist about Rocket Boom** and noting the massive difference in traffic when we compare their 300,000 daily unique visitors to You Tubes 6 Million unique it would seem quite obvious there is potential for some ad revenue there.
**Has Amanda really become UnBoomed..?!?
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Onion News Network Web Video
We've been loyal fans for years, and wondered when they'd make the leap.. finally seems the Onion News Network of internet video will be coming online soon.. Ya!
Via: Steve Garfield
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Yahoo!Tube Coming Soon..
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Pixelodeon 1st Annual Web Video Festival
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The Web site to sign up its 500,000,000th member this week. NBC's Chris Clackum reports. (NBC News Channel)
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