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Briefs: 'Die Hard' Fan Vid, ManiaTV Drops UGC, Is YouTube the New AOL?
A quick look at some of today's top online video headlines:
Briefs: 'Die Hard' Fan Vid, ManiaTV Drops UGC, Is YouTube the New AOL?
Advertising Age: "Media Guy" Simon Dumenco thinks that YouTube is headed for irrelevance, as big media and marketers figure out that they can serve content on their own.
Mediaweek: Three-year-old ManiaTV.com, which produces live Web-video shows aimed at young adults, has begun phasing out user-generated content to focus solely on originals.
MediaPost: Blinkx is launching its AdHoc voice-recognition software today, which aims to create a way for advertisers to place contextual ads alongside online videos.
New York Times: A 'Die Hard' parody video, which was taken off of YouTube after a copyright claim, has returned to the site -- and the movie''s studio is paying the creators to repost the clip.
Social Computing: Brian looks at Justin.tv, and the growing phenomenon of "lifecasting."
Beet.tv: TMZ launching a television program that will also have a major online video presence.