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17 September, 2011 by James McBride

Publishers Can Now Sell And Rent Video On Facebook Using Ooyala

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Video publishing platform Ooyala recently launched Ooyala Social, a new HD-quality Social TV experience that brings video sharing and and viewing to Facebook.

The service specializes in hosting videos for corporate and media entities such as Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Dell, General Mills and ESPN. Content owners can now use Ooyala Social to make premium on-demand and live video available on Facebook via rentals, subscriptions, purchases, and and more. (more…)

8 June, 2009 by James McBride · 1 Comment

SuperChirp Lets Twitterers Get Paid For Twits

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TechCrunch is reporting on a new Twitter service called called Super Chirp that lets Twitter users get paid for their content. According to the blog, Super Chirp uses Twitter’s private message system allowing publishers to leverage their existing Twitter accounts to promote their paid streams. Users can subscribe via the Super Chirp site, pay with Paypal, and then get messages via DM. They can also just visit Super Chirp to see all those paid messages, and sort them by publisher. (more…)