Lycos Mixes Up Social Video, Real-time Chat

Lycos said Thursday that it had launched Mix, a new tool that would allow its users to pull videos from several different sources across the Web and play them in a single playlist. The offering integrates the "watch and chat" experience first debuted with Lycos Cinema in November. Users would be able to chat about videos being viewed, as well as pause, play, rewind and fast-forward communally.

Mixes could either be public, where anyone would be able to add videos to the playlist, or private, where just the list owner may add videos. Videos could be added to playlists via a bookmark feature available for any browser, the company said. The Lycos Mix service is be compatible with both Windows and Mac OS X, and work on Internet Explorer, Safari and Firefox browsers.