YouView: You’re delayed – Sugar

The YouView set-top box won’t be on sale in time for the Olympics, according to a report. Baron Sugar of Clapton, aka Alan Sugar, the chairman of the consortium, doesn’t deem the technology ready for prime time...

from The Register

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See, the problem with putting all your eggs in the B2B basket is that if projects over which you have no control get delayed or change direction you're f**ked (see also: Miniweb, Woomi, Samsung...). Now if Blinx had been pursuing a hybrid B2B/B2C strategy, as I've been saying for years that they should...

Providence Gets Out of Hulu. What About Jason Kilar?

Five years after investing in Hulu, Providence Equity is getting its return and going home. The private equity group is striking a deal with the rest of Hulu’s owners — Comcast, Disney and News Corp. — that will let it cash out its 10 percent stake...

All Things Digital

You Really Can Blame the Web for Shrinking TV Ratings — But You Have to Credit It for Boosting TV, Too

Why are lots of TV networks’ ratings down? The most obvious answer is that people are watching stuff on the Web instead.
But people are still watching a whole lot of TV — perhaps as much as ever. So the more nuanced answer is that some people are swapping out the Web for TV, some of the time. And other times Web video consumption may end up leading to more TV-watching...

All Things Digital

Blinkx eyes YouView as better bet than Google TV and Microsoft

As it endeavours to address all of the elements of the video infrastructure required to make its imminent launch a success, YouView has received a boost from video search-engine technology provider Blinkx who has revealed a clear intention to be on the OTT platform...

from RapidTVNews

TalkTalk seeks agency for YouView task

TalkTalk is looking for an agency to support its involvement in the YouView IPTV service, which is scheduled to launch in the autumn...

from Campaign

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The Autumn? Thought this was launching in May? Guess it can't be, if they're just starting to put a tender out to agencies...

Can Yahoo Turn Itself Around?

Yahoo, which is hemorrhaging senior execs, just laid off 2,000 employees and underwent a massive restructuring under CEO Scott Thompson. Meanwhile, it’s embroiled in a questionable patent lawsuit/countersuit with Facebook. What is the one major thing you think it needs to do to turn itself around?

from All Things Digital

New Fronts: AOL to Create Video Destination for Ad Dollars

If the goal of Internet companies' “New Front” presentations is to convince advertisers that it’s easy to buy online video ads, AOL’s presentation aims to show that it’s creating an online complement to TV ads.

In a speech to hundreds of advertisers, CEO Tim Armstrong announced that AOL [AOL  24.61    -0.14  (-0.57%)   ] is launching the “AOL On Network” to bring all of AOL’s videos under one umbrella. It’s 14 content channels that reach nearly 57 million viewers on various brand sites. AOL is clearly chasing the $7 billion in online video spending expected in the U.S. by 2015, according to eMarketer..

from CNBC

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Presumably this is AOL equivalents of the content channel strategy allegedly being implemented on Burst.

On the face of it looks very promising -but hey, this is Blinkx we're talking about. If it can possibly be screwed up and defeat snatched from the jaws of victory, Chandratillake is just the man to do it...