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Comcast-owned video destination Fancast.com lured 11.3 million unique visitors in October, nearly double its 6.5 million count in September, according to comScore.

Taboola is not a Middle Eastern grain dish, but an Israeli start-up which provides a solution to surface recommended videos for visitors to CNN.com, HowCast, 5min, Demand Media the NBA and now on The New York New York Times.The company has placed cookies on some 50 million unique users and has built profiles around individual viewing interests. With this large database, the company can provide publishers with a highly targeted list of recommended videos.These recommended videos are displayed as a series of thumbnails, displayed horizontally or vertically on the page. The system was just implement on The New York Times video section. The videos are listed under the terms "Other Videos You May Like." Taboola provides its hosted service free of charge. It has various revenue sharing models with publishers. This mostly involved the insertion of intermittent text ads among the recommended videos.The company has raised $6 million and opened an office in the U.S. earlier this year. The most recent raise was last November, TechCrunch reported. Taboola was founded in 2007 by a team of veteran Israel National Security Agency researchers with experience in practical mathematics and large scale data-mining. The company recently announced an implementation with Brightcove for Brightcove customers. A simpler solution from Taboola is widget which is easily implement on most Web sites and blogs. I sat down with CEO Adam Singolda in the Beet.TV studios in Manhattan earlier this month.Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

Some media companies are spending in excess of 100 percent of digital revenue on site development, management and hosting, says Cisco's Scott Brown who spoke with Beet.TV.Cisco's aims to capitalize on this inefficiency and save publishers as much as 60 percent of technology costs with a hosted solution called Eos. Launched earlier this year, the company's biggest customer is Warner Music, which launched a series of artist sites this summer. The business around Eos is a departure for Cisco: Eos is provided to publishers for a modest licensing fee, with most revenue coming from a percentage of advertising sales on the site. The ads are sold by the publisher. For publishers struggling with their bottom line, this seems like an attractive opportunity to partner with Cisco. However, some news media companies will prefer to host their own content. We are told to expect more Eos customer announcements early next year.Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

SAN JOSE, CA -- Adding another notch to its cable customer belt, online video technology firm thePlatform inked a deal to power broadband video for Rogers Cable. The company's VP of marketing Marty Roberts told us thePlatform now delivers online video for five of the seven largest cable operators including Comcast, Time Warner, Cox and Cablevision. thePlatform is owned by Comcast. That type of exposure with North America's biggest cable companies may help thePlatform extend its reach as a TV Everywhere technology partner. It's already powering Comcast's launch of TV Everywhere, which kicks off next month, Amy Banse told us. In fact, the company also said it's added new capabilities to its TV Everywhere toolset. The new features are designed to streamline the process of authentication and authorization. Those issues in particular -- verifying who can watch which programs when -- have been cited as some of the biggest hurdles TV Everywhere faces. The company's new "authentication adapter" should help simplify the authentication process, Roberts said.In addition, thePlatform landed 20 new cable programmers as customers. Several Comcast-owned networks are in that crop including E!, G4 and Style, but the tech firm also nabbed deals with Fox Sports Network. What's most interesting about that partnership is Fox Sports will use thePlatform's Web tools to deliver clips and highlights from high school games and other sporting events that don't make it to the linear channel but do hold great interest for many fans, Roberts said.We caught up with him at the Streaming Media West conference in San Jose last week.

SAN JOSE, CA -- Streaming Media West, the annual industry gathering of broadband executives, drew a bigger crowd this year then last and the focus has changed from delivery and distribution to devices and content, says Dan Rayburn, head of the show.We caught up with Dan on Wednesday afternoon for a rundown on the show and industry trends. We were on the scene yesterday and have extensive coverage of the show. Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

Brightcove, the video platform services company, which has established a reputation for providing video services for big publishers and business enterprises, is launching a slimmed down version of its solution, which is priced at $99 per month

Boxee, a software program which allows users to connect Web video to a television set, created a lot of buzz last week when the company announced it was providing a consumer electronics device, the Boxee "Box." We caught up with CEO and founder Avner Rovner at the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco on Thursday. Avner gave us a rundown on progress. Andy Plesser, Executive Producer