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"If you're hooked to the Web, there's a good chance you're hooked to  online video too.\r\n\r\nWhether it's YouTube, Vimeo, iPlayer or any of the  countless other video hosting websites out there, choosing what you  watch - and when &amp;amp;amp; where you watch it - is one of the liberties we  perhaps now take for granted on the open Web.\r\n\r\nBut wait a minute - do we have complete control over our online  viewing experience?\r\n\r\nWith smartphones, tablets, computers and smart TVs,  we have so many different platforms to watch content across, keeping  tabs on our favorite videos isn't easy. You start watching one video on  your smartphone, but you want to continue watching at home on your  computer, then you have to search for it all over again.  Multiple platforms and millions of videos...quite the dilemma.\r\n\r\nThis is where VideoBee aims to change the rules of video interaction online.\r\nWhat is VideoBee\r\nIt's often the case that a problem doesn't exist until something  comes along and provides a solution. And all of a sudden, your life is  made so much easier and you wonder how you managed without it. Can you  imagine life now without a mobile phone?\r\n\r\nOkay, VideoBee isn't game-changing in the same sense as the mobile  phone, but it will make your life easier if you watch a lot of online  video.\r\n\r\nVideoBee provides a single, centralized platform to manage and watch  bookmarked videos across multiple screens. And you can even continue  watching a video at the same point that you stopped it - on a different  device, in a different room...heck, even in a different city.\r\n\r\nVideoBee is a browser-based application, compatible with PCs, Macs,  tablets, smartphones and TVs through set-top boxes. The technology also  allows users to watch videos full-screen, share videos with  friends and easily add videos to their VideoBee account.\r\nHow it works\r\nVideoBee goes live to the public from today, and you can sign-up for a free account at VideoBee.TV.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWhen you see a video you want to store on your VideoBee account, you click the 'Buzz It' bookmarklet in your browser:\r\nThis  adds the video to your VideoBee playlist, which is then accessible from  any Web-enabled device. You can also personalize your video description  at the point of bookmarking it.\r\nAs  you can see from the screenshot above, when you highlight a video, you  are also presented with the option of sharing the video through email,  Facebook or Twitter. And for your own benefit, you can insert PlaySpots  which reference\r\nspecific points in the video, enabling you to continue watching from a specific point from any other device.\r\nYou can also  add video links into your account by emailing  watch@videobee.tv,  putting the title of the video in the subject line,  and including the  web link in the  body of the email. The YouTube app on  iOS devices  creates emails like this when you're looking to add a video:\r\n\r\n\r\nWhen you visit a particular video in your playlist, you can click 'Play from PlaySpot: ['time stamp']', if you've set one, or you can simply click 'Play from start'.\r\n\r\nVideoBee has a  BigScreen feature that displays the videos in a view that's optimized  for TV. You send videos to your Playlist with any device and they will  appear on your TV screen for viewing, though it will be limited to some  Set Top Boxes (STBs) initially.\r\nFounder and CEO Ben Hookway tells me that they have just done a deal  to embed the technology with a major STB manufacturer, news of this  will be announced shortly. And  more STBs and Smart TVs will be added to  its repertoire eventually, with some mobile apps are in the pipeline  too.\r\nVideoBee was developed by Vidiactive,  a company founded in Sheffield, England, in January 2009 by Ben Hookway  (CEO), Ken Tindell (CTO) and Jerry Ennis (NXD). &amp;quot;We wanted to create an  elegant consumer experience&amp;quot;, says Hookway. &amp;quot;We also wanted to make it  easier for people to find and share content among people with mutual  interests. This is what the VideoBee.tv service provides.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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