Babelgum builds out its content
Babelgum, a company quickly adding independent content for its Internet TV service has added an area to their site highlighting some of their new offerings. Getting the premium treatment is “GONG” a network devoted to anime. Babelgum is certainly ambitious in their aim to “transform a thriving niche business to a mass-market.” [...]
New version of Babelgum tweaks its flavor
Earlier today Babelgum pushed out an updated version of their Internet TV application. Version 0.9.1 tweaks the user interface and addresses a few of the glaring problems that were mentioned in my Joost vs. Babelgum comparison. The automated update ability included in Babelgum was pretty smooth aside from adding an extra Windows desktop [...]
Babelgum’s New CEO and New Plans
The Internet TV service Babelgum announced the appointment of new CEO Valerio Zingarelli earlier today on their blog. Zingarelli, a former CTO of Italian mobile network provider Omnitel now part of Vodafone, will take over for co-founder Erik Lumer. This change marks Babelgum’s transition from building out their technical capabilities to focusing on content acquisition, [...]
Babble Babble Baeble Babelgum
In keeping with projections that Babelgum is going to position itself content-wise between the mainstream (Joost) and the torrent of questionable quality user-generated content (YouTube), yesterday the upstart Internet TV provider announced a partnership with Baeble Music. Baeble Music provides high-quality concert video of up-and-coming bands. Despite the similar names they’re two [...]
VeohTV vs. Joost Comparison
Today Veoh, an Internet video site, has announced its upcoming VeohTV application. VeohTV will be an Internet TV offering in competition with highly publicized Joost and challenger Babelgum. I’ve already compared Babelgum and Joost, with Joost clearly being more compelling right now. How does VeohTV compare? Right now very few people [...]
Babelgum snags more content
The largest complaint that has been raised about Babelgum, a new Internet TV service, is the lack of quality content. For more information check out the recent comparison of Babelgum and Joost. Until recently the selection of videos to watch has been extremely limited and not very exciting. Yesterday Babelgum [...]
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