NBA Town Hall Streaming Tonight on Watchitoo!

Joining the notable people like President Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey, the NBA is hosting a live Town Hall on Facebook.

In preparation for the BIG NBA Christmas Tip-Off this Sunday, the NBA is bringing together fans and players to talk on Facebook, in a Town Hall moderated by David Aldridge. The event, which will take place tonight at 5pm PT/ 8pm ET will feature special guests including Amar’e Stoudemire, Kevin Durant, and Stephon Curry.

You’ll be able to Tweet in your questions with hashtag #NBATownhall and select questions will be addressed during the live event.

To join the show, RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/219435678135013 or tune in live at http://www.nba.com/townhall.

Enjoy the show!

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Staying in? Watchitoo will change your Thanksgiving!

With an estimated 23 million people traveling today alone, Thanksgiving weekend makes for the busiest travel day of the year. Many people take planes, trains, buses and cars to visit their family members across the country, but there are always those who can’t make it to their festivities whether they’re delayed, snowed in, too much traffic, or just don’t want to face the crowds.

If you’re one of the many who isn’t traveling this holiday, or you know someone who you’d like to connect with that you aren’t able to see in person – try using Watchitoo to join in your family traditions. You don’t actually have to miss out on the family, friends, and turkey, because Watchitoo will give you that in-the-same-room feeling without having to be there. Just flip on your webcam, and in seconds you’ll be at the dinner table. You can even invite other family member’s from around the world, and have up to 25 people all hanging out, without having to step out your door.

Leave a comment or tweet @watchitoo to let us know how you’re going to use Watchitoo for your Thanksgiving!

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Messaging To Remember Conference Streaming Live

Bringing together leading international scholars to look at the past sixty years of Holocaust education in Europe and the US, the Messaging to Remember conference aims not only to offer a critical understanding of how the world’s youth are taught about traumatic events, but also to develop new methods, media and tools for teaching future generations.
Watchitoo will be live streaming the Messaging to Remember: The Past and Future of Holocaust and Genocide Education conference today until 8pm.
You can catch the live stream at either of the links below:
  1. NYU Center on Violence and Recovery Conference Website
  2. Bronfman NYU Student Center Facebook
Viewers have the opportunity to engage, live chat, tweet/facebook, and submit live questions to the speakers during the Q & A segments.
The conference is sponsored with special thanks to: Cardozo School of Law, The Museum of Jewish Heritage, The Law and Humanities Institute, NYU Center on Violence and Recovery, NYU Silver School of Social Work, and The Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU.
You can also tune into the Messaging to Remember Conference on tablets and mobile devices with this direct link: http://bit.ly/tXcdcL

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Watch The Social TV Summit Tomorrow!

The Social TV Summit in NYC is a conference focused on the effect that social media is having on viewing TV content through the Internet and mobile devices.  Social Television is very important to Watchitoo because we are the first television-streaming platform that actually enables a social viewing experience.  We believe that there are 3 dimensions to social televisions: communication through text chatting and social networks, audio communication through speech, and a visual aspect where viewers see and speak with each other while they view content. Viewers actually see each each other and their facial expressions while they watch TV content, as well as being able to interact live with a show host or actor.

Watchitoo sponsored the first Social TV Summit in Beverly Hills last July, and we’re pleased to announce that we’re sponsoring the second Social TV Summit tomorrow in New York and will be live streaming the event as well.  Catch the live video feed at socialtvsummit.com from 9-6pmET.

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Ugandan Little League Team Given a Chance to Bat on Watchitoo!

The Rev. John Foundation Little League team from Kampala, Uganda was the very first team in African history to qualify for the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, PA. Although, last July, the team was denied visas for travel to the US and the poor kids’ hopes of making history and competing in their first ever Little League World Series were dashed.

Yesterday Jay Shapiro and Ruth Hoffman of British Columbia, in conjunction with the Vancouver Sun, came on Watchitoo to make an amazing announcement. Because the Ugandan team were unable to play the World Series, Shapiro and Hoffman announced that they’re bringing the World Series to Uganda! $155,000 is being raised by mid-December to send the Langley, BC team from Canada all the way to Uganda to play baseball against the African team they should have played in Pennsylvania. Donations are being accepted via the web at here. At Watchitoo, we were thrilled with the opportunity to be able to help out these kids and spread the word about the fundraising efforts.

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Tune into Live Coverage from Social TV Summit!

Watchitoo is live streaming the Social TV Summit in LA today.

We’ve successfully syndicated the stream to 5 different websites where you can tune in to watch the live coverage:

http://socialtvsummit.com/watch-live/

http://blog.snappytv.com/

http://www.lostremote.com/social-tv-summit-live-stream

http://www.mediabizbloggers.com/

The show begins 8:30 am PST and the keynote will be at 8:45 am PST.

You can  post comments and questions to twitter and facebook.

Feel free to tune in, watch, and engage!

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ACCESSNOW.org LIVE Web Symposium June 27th noon EST

Our Partners at ACCESSnow.org, an organization that is mobilizing for Global Digital Freedom is hosting  a LIVE web Symposium today from 12 pm EST – 1:15 pm EST.

Watch the live feed at www.accessnow.org/live

If you have trouble streaming the live video feed, click HERE to get the AUDIO ONLY feed.

Tweet and submit questions using Hashtag: #QforAccess


Panelists Include:

• Marietje Schaake (Member of the European Parliament, The Netherlands)

• Susan Crawford (Former ICANN Board Member, Professor at Cardozo Law School)

• Chuck Cosson (Senior Policy Counsel, Microsoft)

• Arthit Suriyawongkul (Coordinator, Thai Netizen Network)

• Joe McNamee (Advocacy Coordinator, European Digital Rights (EDRi))

• Alberto Cerda (Derechos Digitales, Professor in Law at the University of Chile Law School)

Overview
For the first time, the G8 Heads of State explicitly discussed internet policy last month; the OECD is holding a High-Level Meeting to discuss “The Internet Economy” next week; nearly a dozen countries are negotiating a Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement with real implications for online intermediary liability; and this week the Dutch became the first country in Europe to make net neutrality law.

This ACCESS LIVE event, an online live-streamed symposium, will give an overview of recent developments in internet policy, discuss the implications that regulation has had and will likely have on users in the future, and debate what a roadmap to smart and user-centric governance of the net might look like.

Watchitoo is happy to partner and provide hosting to Accessnow.org for the Live Web Symposium.

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Tonight: Watchitoo CEO to Speak on Digital Flash Panel

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Tonight, Our CEO Rony Zarom will be speaking on an Internet Week panel sponsored by our partners at Digital Flash.

The event, which can be watched here, will begin tonight June 9th, at 6:30pm.

The title of the panel is, “The Revolution Will be Streaming, and panelists will be discussing how video content online is changing. From live streaming, multi streaming, monetization, and distribution, this event promises to be a very interesting discussion.

We hope you tune in and watch at 6:30!

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NY Enterprise Report Featuring Watchitoo

Watchitoo was just featured in the NY Enterprise Report as one of 10 Great Entrepreneurial Places to Work in New York! Check out the article here: http://www.nyreport.com/great_places_to_work_2011
In addition to our democratic decision-making process, the article cites our CEO Rony Zarom, and the philanthropic attitude of the company as other great reasons to work here.
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Watchitoo In the News! TMCnet

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Watchitoo Team wants to share some exciting news with our Watchitoo community.

TMCnet  featured Watchitoo in two great profile pieces in their Business Video section!

In the story, editor Carrie Schmelkin calls Watchitoo the “‘perfect solution’ for anyone with a website who wants their communities engaged in a completely new and dynamic way.” The story gives a great outline of our best features and discusses some of the great ways that Watchitoo has been used to revolutionize online video. Schmelkin identified Watchitoo as a platform that can “benefit education institutions, enterprises, entertainment companies and those in the conference space” among others.

Another separate story about Watchitoo titled “Watchitoo Enhances its Online Meeting and Collaboration Platform” posted several hours later on TMCnet. The second story gives a great recap of new features that we just launched including the Layout Manager and our new support for uploaded files up to 2GB.

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