Click To Play play_blip_movie_350868(); The introduction of the much anticipated Adobe Media Player (AMP), the desktop application that allows users to download and save Flash files, will launch in Beta this year but won’t have a full introduction until next year. A spokesperson from Adobe told Beet.TV late last week:…
“Money is the Sex of Silicon Valley,” Declares Valleywag’s Owen Thomas
Kara Swisher is having lots of fun these days with her video camera. She just posted this interview with Valleywag’s new editor Owen Thomas. Owen talks about the power of gossip in the Valley and what is "sexy." Well, it’s money natch. No surprise — but it’s an interesting interview…
Is VOD DOA? New York Times Says Hollywood Won’t Provide Many Films to the “Cable Guy”
Cable companies have invested billions in creating an effective video on demand (VOD) but studios are balking at making much content available, at least right now, writes Randall Stross in today’s New York Times: According to Craig Moffett, vice president and senior analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, cable’s…
Joost’s Debut Singed by Firewalls
Click To Play play_blip_movie_351221(); Beet.TV has learned from a high-level industry source that the deployment of Joost has been delayed in large part by issues related to firewalls that block access. The problem with firewalls is not new, it’s been discussed for sometime on Joost forums, but the roadblock highlights…
New York Times Reports: Online Advertising as Entertainment!
Click To Play play_blip_movie_348198(); Amazing but true, folks are watching advertising on their PC’s as a form of entertainment, according to today’s advertising column by Stuart Elliott. Stuart’s article is about veryfunnyads.com and the emerging trend of consumer opting to watch ads and branded video on the web. Viewers will…
Could Topix “Kill Off American Newspapers?”
Click To Play play_blip_movie_348026(); Topix has grown to be a top-twenty news site. The platform facilitates interactivity in the form of comments, mostly around localized news. You simply type in your zip code and comment on local news. The company is generating content for its site and is a solution…
Awesome: AOL’s Truveo Launches New Video Destination Page for “All the Video on the Web”
Click To Play play_blip_movie_346919(); I was in San Francisco on Monday afternoon to meet with video search pioneer Timothy Tuttle to get a preview of a very impressive new video destination site from AOL’s Truveo unit. It’s based on the search and categorization platform developed Truveo a company founded by…
Overlay Ads Could be the “Holy Grail” of Online Video Advertising — And Adobe Has Some Cool “Bugs” .. but We’re Gonna Have to Wait a Bit
Click To Play play_blip_movie_345165(); There’s been quite a lot of talk lately about the the emergence of overlay ads in the form of "bugs" and "tickers," types of online video advertising which are inserted for a period of time into the video stream — mostly at the bottom. The…
Topix.net Drives News Comments to Established Media Sites
Click To Play play_blip_movie_343083(); In today’s New York Times, Brad Stone writes about the recent announcement Google to place comments around news stories from media organizations on the Google site. There’s been a lot of concern among major media that this constitutes a further cannibalization of original reporting by…