Month: April 2007

Click To Play Here’s my interview with Eric Ameres, CTO of On2 Technologies. While Flash video has become the ubiquitous program for streaming video clips onto computers around the globe, indeed, the universal adoption of Flash has been central to the online video revolution, there has been a problem for content owners:  The Flash, or […]

Click To Play CNN, which has been streaming video clips for several years on its site, has significantly expanded its downloadable offerings by providing daily twenty minute podcasts of top stories from the two hour Anderson Cooper 360 program. This is the first time that the network has "time shifted" a daily news program. The […]

The GooTube team is not inserting advertising into YouTube clips as post or pre-rolls.  That might happen, but not quite yet.  Chad Hurley has said that in-clip ads would not be appreciated by the YouTube user base.  He may be right.    So, to the monetize the extraordinary traffic on YouTube, the Google folks are […]

Click To Play Jeff Jarvis, the noted blogger and fast-rising vlogging star, has jumped into the world of presidential campaign video in a big way. He recently launched something called PrezConference, a Web site and YouTube channel designed to engage voters and the candidates by submitting videos. We blogged about this recently. I caught up […]

Click To Play The New York Times maintained impressive traffic in February, according to a report in Editor & Publisher. It remains the most popular U.S. newspaper site. "The New York Times site (which has some articles behind the TimesSelect pay wall) attracted a unique audience of 12,960,000 users in February, who combined for 455,527,000 […]

        If you live in the Bay Area, or can get out there for a long weekend, don’t miss this Earth Day celebration on April 22 at the glorious Iron Horse Vineyards in Sebastopol, just 90 minutes north of San Francisco. Eight of the best wineries in the Russian Valley will provide […]

Click To Play View a transcript of this interview I was in Cambridge a few weeks ago to visit the headquarters of Brightcove where I met Sanjay Desai who heads product marketing for the fast-growing online video services company. Sanjay is proud of the picture quality and efficiency of the stream. Brightcove provides both a […]

Click To Play I spoke with the BuzzMachine himself Jeff Jarvis (that’s not him in the image above but he’s on the clip) the other day about his latest online venture, PrezVid, a site and YouTube channel that provides a forum for citizens to upload questions for the presidential candidates to answer.    He told […]

Click To Play View a transcript of this interview Mainstream media is fighting for the attention of its readers on a quickly changing playing field these. Big publishers, including The Washington Post are trying to figure out how to reinvent themselves and their news operations.  Here is the second installment of my two interviews with […]

Click To Play View a transcript of this interview Since 1999, The Washington Post has been in the forefront  of the newspaper industry in integrating video. Last week, I sat down with Jim Brady, Executive Editor in the newsroom of washingtonpost.com, the online division of the newspaper, to talk about the Post and online video. […]

Communique from San Bruno: Unidentified YouTube Spokesperson (above) explains Site Updates Beet.TV reported first on Wednesday that YouTube was set to revise the site later that night. Regretably, we didn’t get our information quite right, but there were indeed a number of updates made to the enormously popular site that night. Well, YouTube staffers have […]