Watch TWiST News Roundtable with Cyan Banister and Erik Lanigan Live at 1pm

Today on This Week in Startups, tune in for a special News Roundtable live from CNET in San Francisco with Cyan Banister of Zivity, and Erik Lanigan, journalist and former This Week in Tech host.

Cyan is the founder and CEO of Zivity, a subscription and voting based artist-fan interaction platform for models, photographers and artists. She is also a confirmed judge at the upcoming LAUNCH Festival in March.

Erik, formerly of TWiT, left the company in December after "wrongful termination...and subsequent...

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Demo Pit Tables @ LAUNCH

[ GreenGoose was in the Demo Pit at LAUNCH '11 when a Grand Jury member selected it to present at the end of day one. While on stage, founder Brian Krejcarek had a number of people commit to invest a total of $100K (more here and here). ]

This year at the LAUNCH Festival we're trying to get as many amazing startups involved as possible. This means 40 killer brand-new startups and products on stage as part of our 1.0 and 2.0 competitions (read more here to understand the difference).

Additionally, on each of the two days, our Grand Jury will select a couple of companies from the Demo Pit area to come on stage and show their products.

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Chill Gets More Social but Ditches Live Rooms Feature

Chill just launched a new version to make watching videos more social and provide an easier way to find the content you want. Even though the live rooms -- the feature that let you watch videos with friends -- is gone, Chill now offers more discovery options and sharing capabilities like comments, reposts and thoughts. 

The new homepage is now a grid of videos shared by friends and the new popular section shows you what's "cool" at the moment in the Chill community. 

"More and more, the things that are important to us -- music, images, interests -- are being networked," Chill Director of Growth Andrew Skotzko tells LAUNCH. "Why hasn't video been? It's the richest medium of expression we have, but for whatever reason the social tools in video are still pretty weak. Sure, the vast majority of video sharing happens on Facebook & Twitter, but neither of those sites are optimized for consuming video—they're pretty noisy platforms."

While Chill's focus is no longer on watching videos with friends, Andrew says they will still...

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Watch TWiST #224 with Box Co-founder Aaron Levie at 1pm PT

[ Box Co-founder Aaron Levie. ]

Today on This Week in Startups at 1pm PT, Jason sat down at Waze headquarters in Palo Alto to speak with Box's co-founder Aaron Levie.

Levie, at just 27 years old, has seen his company grow from startup to major player in the cloud storage space, raising a series D round of venture funding for $81M in 2011. Levie created Box.net as a project while studying at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

Listen in as Jason and Aaron talk scaling...

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Watch TWiST News Roundtable with Sean Percival and James Altucher Live at 1pm PT

Today on This Week in Startups, Sean Percival, Entrepreneur in Residence at the incubator Science, and writer and entrepreneur James Altucher will join Host Jason Calacanis for the News Roundtable live at 1pm PT.

Before joining Science in Nov. 2011, Sean served as vice president of online marketing at Myspace for nearly two years and previously worked at Mahalo as a content manager.

James Altucher is a contributing writer for The Wall Street Journal, Managing Partner at Formula Capital and author of seven books. His most recent book, How to Be The Luckiest Person Alive, describes...

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