Month: August 2009

Time.com has been building out its video library with a clear goal in mind: taking people to places they can't go without the video. That's what the site's managing editor Josh Tyrangiel told Beet.TV in an exclusive interview earlier this month about how he journalistically approaches online video.

Video Goes Open Source on Wikipedia: New Format, New Player, New Editing/Sharing Tools, 7/18/09 Blog post on “Neat things I find on the Web”, 7/19/09 CNET; Wikipedia’s controversial video player coming soon, 7/18/09 CNET News.com’s Webware: Web video round table sheds light on upcoming problems, 3/3/09 NewTeeVee: @Beet.TV: News Video is a Different Beast, 3/3/09 […]

Direct Syndication Sites: » Andy Plesser’s page on the Huffington Post » Crunchbase (this is an example of a page we post to—Adobe Systems)   Through TubeMogul we syndicate to: » YouTube » DailyMotion » Yahoo » MySpace » Metacafe » Revver » Blip.tv » Veoh » Viddler » Sclipo   Through RSS feeds and […]

REDMOND, WA — msnbc.com has grown ad revenues for the fiscal year that just ended in June and is attracting advertisers in a range of categories, the site’s President Charlie Tillinghast told Beet.TV in an exclusive interview earlier this month.

Despite the high-profile loss of Hulu content earlier this year, Boxee users are still tuning in: the average Boxee user watches six to seven TV shows and three movies on the Web-to-TV service each week, Boxee CEO Avner Ronen told Beet.TV in an interview earlier this month.

One of the last interviews with Ted Kennedy that was done is up on BigThink, the little New York-based start-up which creates and publishes interviews with thought leaders.

Magnify is growing dollars by migrating customers to a fee-based service, the company's CEO Steve Rosenbaum told Beet.TV in an interview earlier this month.

YouTube will stream the OutsideLand’s music festival from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park this weekend.  It is the first music festival streamed the big video sharing site.

Media executives at News Corp., Disney, and NBC are talking about paid content models online being all the rage, but a new eMarketer report says that’s just not going to happen.

Buoyed by the overall growth in video RSS feeds, Web video service Channels.com is releasing a new version of its service today that indexes four times as many Web shows as it did just four months ago, the company said. 

REDMOND, WA — The transcription of the voice track of video has proven to be a big value by making video more searchable. Now, it is making video editing more effective and scalable, explains Charles Tillinghast, President and Publisher of msnbc.com.

Congratulations to Blaise Zerega and the crew at Fora.tv for being named one of the 50 best Websites by TIME.com.

REDMOND, WA — Companies seeking to harness the power of videoblogging need to look at Channel 9, the pioneering site launched back in 2003. 

Long form journalism, a staple of  magazines like Time, is not working, says Josh Tyrangiel, Managing Editor of TIME.com.

Traffic to Newser, the news aggregator, has dramatically dropped from a peak of 1.6 million uniques to 565,000, reports Zach Steward in the Nieman Journalism Lab, siting Quancast numbers.

REDMOND, WA — Internet Explorer 8, the latest version of the Microsoft Web browser, provides users with the ability  to use a drop down menu of recent stories from a designated site.  Microsoft calls these "Web Slices." 

Seems like a bunch of guys like watching a video mix of humor, sports and and attractive women that Heavy.com is serving up.  comScore just reported that traffic to the site jumped 41 percent in July to 5.3 million uniques.

RealNetworks released RealPlayer SP today, a software application which allows users to sync videos to a number of mobile devices including the iPhone, BlackBerry, and Palm Pre.

Watching video on a BlackBerry right now is not the best experience — it involves a download then playback.  According to a post on the Boy Genius Report, support for Flash Video and Silverlight will be streaming to the BlackBerry in around 12 months.

Mixpo, the Seattle-based online video advertising management platform, is partnering with NCC, a big player in local cable television media buying, the two companies announced today.