Several announcements at CES this week show the online video networks edging into the world of Connected TV.

GetGlue – a US social TV startup, which is being seen as the leader in its field, has announced $12 million in new funding – partly via existing investors who include Time Warner.

… from The Business Insider IGNITION conference in New York last week, including an Angry Birds theme park, Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook COO)’s lack of ambition to enter the White House and the iPad limiting middle class population growth…

… from the Business Insider IGNITION conference in New York last week. YouTube, Facebook, social TV, Mediamath and the “brain-dead” metric that is CTR.

This years asi European TV Symposium held in Amsterdam opened the doors to Facebook and Google for the first time, recognising their growing significance in social TV and in TV research.

“Don’t be seduced by opportunistic solutions from the digital world,” RSMB managing director Steve Wilcox warned delegates at the asi 2011 European TV Symposium during the event’s main research session. “What sounds plausible on the surface may fall down in operation.”

O2 in the UK today announced that it is to appoint Claire Valoti as managing director of its media business effective January 2012.

The video-on-demand service, SeeSaw, which began its troubled existence a while back as Kangaroo, has closed after its new majority shareholder Criterion Capital Partners said other investors have failed to provide new funding.

Months after the company warned on its full-year results and said it would undertake a restructuring of its businesses, Future Plc announced today that CEO Stevie Spring and FD John Bowman would be stepping down
immediately.

Several hundred people will be gathering at Drapers’ Hall on Throgmorton Street (the street where the London Stock Exchange was once housed) tomorrow to remember one of the city’s most significant changes – the launch of electronic trading.