Click To Play play_blip_movie_303126(); Despite a driving rain storm, Michael Arrington drew quite a crowd to his TechCrunch mixer last night in Manhattan. I caught up with him at the party and got him to wiggle his new Arrington bobble head doll for Beet.TV! Not sure this is the launch…
Calcanis is Leaving AOL but World’s Number One-Ranked Blogger Peter Rojas Remains
As you may already know, Jason Calcanis resigned from AOL today. Jason runs a network of bloggers at AOL. The story was first posted on TechCrunch and Jason spoke with Saul Hansell of The New York Times for tomorrow’s paper. If AOL is smarting from Jason’s departure, they still have…
“Imagineering” Danny Hillis Set to Unleash Artificial Intelligence on the Video World
William Randolph Hearst III on Applied Minds and the Future of Media [Download video to your computer | Upload to iPod, PSP] Danny Hillis is one of the most important pioneers of computing and artificial intelligence. He founded Thinking Machines as a student at MIT in 1982. Although the company…
Oh Wow! Blinkx Creates “Chattering Video Wall” Through Search
Please be patient while the wall loads – it’s worth the wait! This is quite amazing. I was just sent this code from Suranga Chandratillake, founder of Blinkx, the San Francisco-based pioneering firm in the video search world. In an earlier interview on Beet.TV, Suranga told us about the search…
YouTube Lawyers Smackdown High-Flying Tech Blogger over Download “Crack”
Michael Arrington of the increasingly influential TechCrunch, has been served with a very harsh demand letter to cease and desist from YouTube’s powerhouse attorneys Wilson Sonsini. Michael posted a "crack" earlier this week: advice on how to download YouTube video clips as files to be saved on a computer or…
Attention Content Creators: To Monetize, You Need to “Adify”…..MIT’s Technology Review: MySpace is a “Marketing Madhouse”
Click To Play play_blip_movie_303141(); Larry Braitman, who created a hugely innovative advertising platform in the last boom called Flycast, has just launched a new company, an advertising management solution for content developers of various sizes. It’s called Adify and it’s sort of a "store front" solution that provides the tools…
Video via Mobile Phone Cameras Unleashed by Veeker……Microsoft’s New Zune to Could Allow Video Sharing, Ballmer Tells Bloomberg…New Tivo Net Box Coming!
Click To Play play_blip_movie_303146(); One of the most intriguing companies I’ve had the opportunity to meet recently is Veeker, a San Francisco-based start-up which has been under the radar until recently. The company has created a technology and public portal to share video uploaded by mobile phones. Unlike YouTube, the…
Update on Google Video: Ads To Run on User Generated Content, “Secrets” of Video Search Revealed (sort of)… and Andy Takes Jazzy Googleplex Tour!
Click To Play play_blip_movie_312896(); I caught up with Hunter Walk, a key executive at Google Video who had previously run Google’s AdSense. My visit coincided with the launch of the new EepyBird exploding Diet Coke bottles. Fun clip and quite popular with 1.6 million views, but what does it mean? …
It’s a Whole New Media Universe: What are the Implications of Video Blogs? Blip.TV’s Mike Hudack Explains…and Says Net Video will Hit the TV Set Soon — Watch Akimbo!
Click To Play play_blip_movie_303152(); The video blogging world is something of an alternative universe. It sure seemed that way last Saturday night at the Vloggies where I met the very influential Laughing Squid, the TreeHugger and some crazed Ninja dude from LA who threatened to "kill Beet.TV" — it was…
Shameless Self-Promotion: Beet.TV’s Founder on CNBC….and Andy Shares Stage with Robert Scoble and Molly Wood at Streaming Media West
OK, sure, it might appear like shameless self-promotion, but these are actually very informative clips. Above is a very good segment that aired on CNBC tonight about the online video explosion. I get to say a few words, along with Brian Cooley of CNET and Paul Kedrosky, blogger and columnist…