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Military Bans YouTube, Launches TroopTube
Geeknews — ... in 3rd Brigade 133 Cavalry. ( MSNBC ) The U.S. military, with help from Seattle startup Delve Networks, has launched a video-sharing Web site for troops, their families and supporters, a year and a half after restricting access to YouTube and other video sites.

Army Replaces YouTube With Censored TroopTube [Army]
Gizmodo — ... Say what you will about the clips being effectively censored, it says something that the Army—which is mostly concerned with essentials, not luxuries—saw fit to invest in a video sharing site just for soldiers. It's not as good as YouTube (can they get Hulu?), but I'm sure they'd agree it's better than nothing. [MSNBC] ...

A year after YouTube ban, Pentagon launches TroopTube
ZDNet Government — ... , in which “Sarge tells the boys about there deployment…or does he???” AP reports that the site is developed by Delve Networks, which includes technology for optimizing the video served up based on the service member’s Internet speed. They supposedly also have a supercharged search engine. It pares unimportant words like “this” and “that,” then compares what’s left against a massive database of words commonly uttered in proximity to each other, collected from crawling hundreds of millions of Web pages. Content is vetted by a Pentagon officials for national security and ...