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YouTube's Super Bowl ads page is looking mighty fancy this year. They've created a new voting platform called Supervote. If anything, it's looking a little bit like Reddit with hot or not voting that moves each ad up or down based on user votes.

The page was set up as completely separate from the actual viewing gallery.

What interests me about this is whether or not this might become a permanent fixture on YouTube. There's already a star system for voting on YouTube videos, but having user-chosen list on the front page of YouTube as a … Read more

Geeky, oddball music videos have been all the rage since OK Go hit it big by dancing on treadmills for their song "Here It Goes Again." Well, here's the latest addition to that trend. A similarly-named band, Britain's The Go! Team, created a music video for their song "Junior Kickstart" in which they run around the streets of New York City playing live-action Pac-Man.

The video's cool. But "Pac-Manhattan" is nothing new; the concept first surfaced as a final project by students at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program a … Read more

Once we're done with the basic construction of our bunker, this could make an excellent finishing touch. GE's "SmartHome IntelliCorder" is touted as an "intelligent surveillance system," but we like Popgadget's description better--"a video peephole for your front door."

The IntelliCorder automatically records images of whoever comes calling, friend or foe, but its motion sensor ensures that the video runs only as long as the person is there so you don't end up with endless footage of your doormat and potted plants. And if any monkey business ensues, the … Read more

Maybe this will be a reassurance to the Anthrax guitarist who totally flubbed up his own song on Guitar Hero.

(Via Kotaku.)

Embeddable video is getting pretty cool. Static preview images seem to be a thing of the past. Blinkx, which is showcasing its service today at Demo 2007, is announcing a new widget called 'Blinkx It' that crawls your blog or Web site to deliver contextual video content. Think of it as Google Ad Sense with videos and no advertising. For example, clicking the 'Blinkx It' widget below will bring up videos related to News.com stories:

This is nice and unobtrusive, but the results aren't necessarily pertinent. In most cases, I was unable to get a smattering of relevant … Read more

Everybody's trying to ride the YouTube wave. At Demo 07, in addition to several video content publishing companies, there are two interesting companies that are working on video syndication and discovery.

First, ClipSyndicate. This site takes licensed videos from various professional sources and makes them available to Web publishers. Site managers can get very specific feeds. The Demo 07 example: a site for firefighters that gets an automatic feed of videos about fires. Looks like a useful service for bloggers and people running industry-specific news sites.

Magnify is similar, but focused on user-generated content (it pulls from YouTube, not … Read more

In my opinion, there's been a tad bit of a YouTube backlash recently, as evidenced by the number of video start-ups that have been stressing their commitment to professionally created content. In other words, no cat videos. (Isn't it funny how "cat videos" has become synonymous with "amateur YouTube content?") For example, there's MediaZone, which we wrote up earlier today. But here's another video start-up, Dave.tv, that's trying to help amateurs organize and present their video creations in a slicker way.

No, the CEO is not named Dave; rather, he … Read more

Instead of clogging up a MySpace page with multiple video boxes, Panjea.TV hopes users will opt to build their own channel.

The Panjea people are billing it as a kind of self-produced MTV, where you pick videos from your favorite artists and put them in a single window that you can update whenever and from wherever.

Depending on the awesomeness of your channel, other users could decide to embed your channel on their own site, or create a channel themselves.

It's similar in concept to SplashCast, which also debuted here at Demo 07. Panjea.TV is free and … Read more

Yesterday, I posted about the "Consumer-Generated Media" showcase at AlwaysOn's event in NYC. One of the products featured was ClipSync, which mashes online video with chat features to make it possible for you and your friends to discuss what you're watching in real-time. Another one of yesterday's featured products, part of a "Technology Enablers" series, is working with a similar concept. That company is MediaZone.

Thus far, MediaZone has made a name for itself by hosting pay-to-watch TV content. The company has inked deals with major sporting events like Wimbledon to make coverage … Read more