4 posts and columns on Rocketboom

Know Your Meme Lands at Cheezburger

in Social on March 28, 2011 at 1:26 pm PT

Know Your Meme, the wiki and Web show that documents viral phenomena, has been sold by creator Rocketboom to Cheezburger Network in a “seven-figure” deal.

News Byte

YouTube Dips Its Toe into Live Streaming

in News on September 13, 2010 at 12:54 am PT

Google’s YouTube is starting its long-awaited move into live video streaming this morning with a limited test of its new platform: Two days of scheduled live programs from four partner channels–Howcast, Next New Networks, Rocketboom and Young Hollywood. The results of the test will help determine when the live-streaming capability will be rolled out to additional partners. Watching closely will be current players in the space, including Livestream and Ustream.

Voices

Getting Web Video Beyond the Web

in News on July 28, 2009 at 1:26 pm PT

Blip.tv announced a slew of distribution deals with both new-media and old-media companies, including NBC and YouTube, that it hopes will expand the reach of its online programming.

Amanda Congdon Returns!

in News on May 3, 2008 at 12:09 am PT

Here’s the promo video for the latest project from Amanda Congdon, the former once-rocketing host of Rocketboom and later a video blogger for ABC (she is pictured below at that job). This time, it’s a video show called, “Sometimesdaily with Amanda Congdon,” which is in beta now. Sometimes daily, Amanda? Hey, try sometimes all night, [...]