Layoff Tracker. Today, CBS Interactive is laying off people across several of its properties, I’ve confirmed with the company. CBS is not saying which divisions or how many people are affected. It is positioning the layoffs as part of the integration process it began six months ago when it bought CNET for $1.8 billion. But it is not just the CNET businesses that are being cut. I’ve also confirmed that earlier today employees at social music site Last.FM were let go. Overlay.TV (via techcrunch) Overlay.TV, a startup that lets users augment streaming videos with customized text, audio, images, and links, has launched to the public.
The service overlays videos from a number of video sharing sites with a new layer containing this customized content, which can be used for entertainment purposes or as an easy (and potentially effective) means of monetizing video. To use Overlay.TV, you first give the site the source URL of the video you’d like to modify.