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Click To Play The Independent Comedy Network, a new online comedy show/community, launched today.  Last week at the AlwaysOn conference, I caught up with founder/comedian Marc Campbell.  For an in-depth look at the sector and how this might shake out, read Chris Albrecht’s take over at NewTeeVee and Kristin Nicole’s overview on Mashable. Grab the […]

Click To Play Late last year the Reuters news service began giving its journalists Nokia n82 phones to directly upload video reports to the news service’s  video pages.  The program is called "Mojo," standing for Reuters Mobile Journalism. Last month at the World Economic Forum, Reuters handed out the camera phones to a couple of […]

Click To Play CNN’s live streaming video of news events, previously kept behind a paid wall called CNN Pipeline, was ungated in July and traffic is surging.  We are told that CNN.com provided 5 million live streams in January.  Last Thursday’s debate in Los Angeles between Clinton and Obama generated 530,000 streams and the Republicans […]

Click To Play Keith Kocho is the founder of Extend Media, a company that manages online video assets for content owners.  Its closest competitor is the thePlatform, now owned by Comcast. Today, the company will announce that it will provide content management for NBC Direct, the new initiative which allows consumers to download NBC programs […]

Renzo Piano, the Italian architect who first attained international recognition in 1977 as co-creator of the Pompidou Center in Paris, designed the new 52-story New York Times headquarters on Eighth Avenue. Last fall, as the move was complete and the final touches were made, we toured the building and interviewed the architect and Michael Golden, […]

Click To Play Tammy Haddad, the veteran TV news producer who left MSNBC in November, where she was executive producer of Hardball with Chris Matthews to start her own consulting gig, has hit the campaign trail with her "TamCam," a $700 Sanyo camcorder.  She has been getting some great scoops including an exclusive interview with […]

Click To Play Dan Farber at ZDNet is reporting that Flickr, the hugely successful photo sharing site that is part of Yahoo! will soon launch with video contributions.  Here’s what Dan writes: "In this unstable atmosphere, Yahoo is getting ready to take on Google’s strongest property outside of search–YouTube–with a video version of Flickr. Yahoo […]

Click To Play The very shape of news is changing. Its becoming more collaborative, produced by experts as well as by a community of readers in a dynamic form, says Eric Hippeau, managing director of Softbank Capital and one of the principal investors in the Huffington Post.  Softbank is also an investor in Associated Content, […]

Click To Play Vator.tv, the online community of entrepreneurs who upload video pitches for venture capitalists to watch, founded by former Marketwatch columnist Bambi Francisco, has secured a second seed round of just over $1 million, sources tell Beet.TV Early investors Peter Thiel has doubled his stake and Richard Rosenblatt, Georges Harik are in the […]

Click To Play "This year at the biggest conference in syndication — where local affiliate stations fill their shopping carts with enough content to keep their schedules lively — the hottest topic was online syndication," writes New York Times reporter Brian Stelter from the NAPTE conference in Las Vegas. For some very cool video reports […]

Click To Play It’s not nearly as big as YouTube, but Blip.tv is growing four times faster in worldwide use, according to the latest comScore numbers.  Blip has the fastest growth among all the video sharing sites, the tracking company has found. The comScore numbers are published in a terrific round-up article on the state […]

Click To Play Jon Meacham, editor of Newsweek, will anchor a six-hour live webcast covering the Super Tuesday primaries on February 5.  The webcast will originate from the Washington Post Newsweek Interactive studios in Arlington, Virginia. The show will have a line-up of reporters and columnists from the Post and Newsweek including Jonathan Alter, Dan […]

The conventional thinking around monetizing video is through advertising. But paid subscription and pay-per-view will be viable, according to Saul Berman, who heads the global media and entertainment strategy practice for IBM.  He is based in Los Angeles. He told me that as much as half of U.S. consumers over 45 years of age are […]

Click To Play Tim Draper, one of the world’s most successful and influential venture capitalists who manages some $7 billion in VC funds, is bullish on content companies.  This is quite a shift for the big Sand Hill Road VC’s who have steered clear of content companies. He told my buddy AlwaysOn founder Tony Perkins […]

Click To Play Shel Israel, blogger, consultant and co-author of Naked Conversations with Robert Scoble, will join FastCompany.tv, the company announced today. Shel’s daily show launches on March 3.  Here’s a description of the show in a statement from Mansueto Ventures, publishers of Fast Company: Primarily a daily interview show, Israel’s program, GlobalNeighbourhoods TV (GNTV), […]

Click To Play One of the most successful and unique drivers of Fast Company magazine’s growth in the late nineties was a social network called Company of Friends.  Long before Facebook or MeetUp, Fast Company galvanized readers around the nation for live events and online forums.  The network was launched in 1997. David Carr of […]

Click To Play Newsweek has been ambitiously implementing an in-house video production operation since last fall when it separated from MSNBC, after 7 years.    A team of video producers at the Manhattan headquarters, and others on the campaign trail and around the globe, are creating around a dozen videos everyday.  For breaking news, the […]

Uber video blogger Robert Scoble is  making video blogging  history in Davos at the World Economic Forum right now.  With a Nokia 95, a WiFi connection and a QIK account, he is streaming an extraordinary number of interviews.  Sure, the quality is not great, but the access to so many leaders is extraordinary.  It also […]

YouTube has a big presence at the World Economic Forum in Davos.  Co-founder Chad Hurley and executives are on the scene.  The video sharing site has launched a channel for citizens around the globe to upload questions and comments.  Above is a Reuters video report about the YouTube efforts at the summit.  Jeff Jarvis has […]

The World Economic Forum in Davos has been the super exclusive gathering for the world’s leaders in government, business and academia. It’s been covered by a very small group of journalists including The New York Times John Markoff Markoff blogs about the big presence this year of Silicon Valley execs and its elite bloggers.    […]