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Venture Beat (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Fora.tv , a video site that some have called the “C-Span of the Web” for its intellectual video archive of conferences and symposiums, has raised a $4 million first round of funding . The site has relatively little traffic, compared to the big, more general video sites, but its serious approach — and presumably educated audience — is likely what attracted the investors, who include William...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Fora.TV , a distributor of online video for a discerning audience, has raised a $4 million first round from Adobe ( NSDQ: ADBE ), William Randolph Hearst III (affiliated with Kleiner Perkins) and other investors, reports Beet.TV . The SF-based site previously raised a $2 million from Adobe, for a total raise of around $6 million. Distribution partners include C-SPAN and various political think...
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back-report.com (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Web video for intellectuals is a hard sell. The videos on Fora.TV come from speeches given by intellectuals and business people. It competes with Big Think, which has a slightly different format. Will Hearst and Adobe Ventures believe in it enough to put another $2 million into Fora.TV, along with some other unnamed investors. [...]
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NewTeeVee (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Fora.TV Raises $4 Million; high-brow video aggregator closes Series A from William Randolph Hearst III, Adobe Ventures and others. (Beet.tv) Blinkx Starts Content Management Service; the Advanced Media Platform automates content discovery, indexing, distribution and presentation on a publisher’s site. (MediaPost) Congressional Panel Split on Net Neutrality; debate over the necessity of regulation...
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Sources And Methods (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Fora has changed its format a bit, making it easier to watch full programs or just interesting snippets. The items below are taken from Fora's offerings over the last week. Parag Khanna on Middle East Dynamics Parag Khanna, author of The Second World , divides the Middle East into three distinct regions with unique political issues and highlights the rise of arabism and islamism, which permeates all...
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New Appeal to Reason (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
Just came across this interesting lecture on Fora.tv, which looks like You Tube for intellectuals. View Stephen Marglin on the Future of Capitalism on FORA.tv "The Future of Capitalism: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community with Stephen Marglin. This was the third annual Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture at the New School in New York. Heilbroner wrote, "Capitalism's uniqueness...
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The Situationist (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Two weeks ago at the World Affairs Council of Northern California, Situaitonist contributor Philip Zimbardo gave a 71-minute lecture discussing the situational sources of evil (available from FORA.tv). Warning: This Program Contains Graphic Imagery. from fora.tv posted with vodpod * * * For a collection [...]
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EducationPR (Free subscription) | 01/31/2008
Intellectual content can be difficult to find on YouTube, even in its ‘education’ section, says Dan Colman at Openculture. So he saves us some time by presenting 10 YouTube video collections worth exploring, including UC Berkeley, @GoogleTalks, The Nobel Prize channel, TED Talks, and FORA.tv, among others.
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NoisyRoom.net (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
You really need to visit FORA.tv – it is a great new site and we are linking to them… Incredible content. Here at FORA.tv we are passionate about bringing the best political, social and cultural content from the world's leading forums. The video is “The EU and Iran's Nuclear File” Following the release of the National Intelligence Estimate [...]
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Right Truth (Free subscription) | 12/28/2007
A Conversation With Benazir Bhutto, from FORA.tv, Bhutto at CFR Bhutto at the Oxonian Society, from FORA.tv Future of Democracy in Pakistan, Bhutto at IISS, from FORA.tv
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 12/06/2007
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FORA.tv, widely regarded as “the thinking-man's YouTube,” today
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Coffee With Amee (Free subscription) | 12/02/2007
William of the fora.tv website took time out to email me that there was a recent video of Anthony Bourdain's talk in San Francisco. I ‘m glad that he did because listening to Anthony's hour-long talk made my otherwise drab Saturday night (after an action-packed Saturday, more on that in upcoming posts). One thing led to another [...]
