AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

The Los Angeles Times
I wrote a post last month about the dearth of truly useful guides to the growing mass of video available online. Magnify.net is one of the companies responsible for creating that mass; its platform is home to 37,000 channels of niche online programming, including the Flavor Flav Video Network (”Return of the [...]

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Magnify Wants to Turn Video Channels Into Social Networks. Good Luck. - Tech Crunch
Does everything need to be a social network? Apparently it does. Magnify.net, a video-hosting and sharing platform that raised $1 million in February, is adding social networking features to its video channels.
Magnify lets Web publishers assemble videos from across the Web—YouTube, AOL, [...]

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Online Video Tools Platform Magnify Closes $1 Million Funding - paidContent.org
Online video tools firm Magnify.net has raised $1 million in its second round from existing investors Next Stage Capital, New York Angels, Rose Tech Ventures, Active Angel Investors, Chris Anderson and other individual investors. Joining this round were new investors Ogden Capital and Gideon Gartner, [...]

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Magnify.net Releases Video Blogging Platform, Seesmic Competitor? - Tech Crunch
Magnify.net, hitherto a platform intended primarily for collecting and sharing videos found around the web, is broadening its focus with the release of a service that lets you record video clips directly into the browser using a webcam.
While such functionality is nothing groundbreaking, Magnify.net is apparently [...]

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