thePlatform will collect and publish video content for the site and provide its playback systems as well. HBO, CNN, and Showtime all feature material on Road Runner.

Just last week, thePlatform bought out social media company Chirp Interactive — creator of Chirpscreen, a utility that integrated Facebook and Twitter content into a screensaver. The company indicated it would use Chirp’s models to further develop its own products.

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Chirp Interactive built applications for social networks, namely its Chirpscreen utility that functioned as an interactive screensaver with content from Facebook and Twitter. thePlatform says it plans to discontinue all of Chirp’s past services and instead focus on using Chirp’s systems and staff to create new applications for its own products.

“Select personnel” will make the move over to thePlatform during the transition, with a series of new hires being planned as well.

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