Month: August 2009

REDMOND, WA — Adoption of Microsoft Silverlight streaming tools are on the rise, including use by France TV, Microsoft’s Senior Director Tom Honeybone told Beet.TV during an interview at Microsoft headquarters.

Rafat Ali, over at paidContent. reports that tech media impresario Alan Meckler, is selling his tech media business, including Internet.com for $18 million.

While the monetization models for online news are emerging, there will an upside for  highly valued, niche content, says Josh Tyrangiel, Managing editor of TIME.com

MTV Networks is currently selling ad inventory for the format it officially declared the best for online video, and the media company expects other Web publishers to follow suit, said Jason Witt, SVP and GM of MTV's digital advertising unit in an interview with Andy last week in Manhattan.

Here is my sit down with Blip.tv co-founders Mike Hudack and Dina Kaplan.  We caught up last week, after there news event at their company's downtown Manhattan office.

Boston-based Bain Capital Venture Partners, an investor in Blip.tv, is bullish on online video investment.

For all of us missing Owen Thomas, former Valleywag editor, from writing tech blogging scene, he’s back, but a bit kindler and gentler way, and it’s not his full time gig.

Web-to-TV hardware maker Roku struck a deal with Blip.tv last week to bring independent Web content to Roku boxes connected to TVs.

SEATTLE, WA — Internet TV provider thePlatform has an advantage over its competition because it's owned by Comcast. 

Google has acquired ON2, a New York company which provides encoding software which allows videos to be compressed into Flash and other software formats.  Here's a report on TechCrunch.

NEW YORK, NY — Blip.tv's content creators could land on-air on NBC in New York thanks to a slew of new distribution deals the video-sharing service struck last week, including one with NBC Local Media.

The consumer packaged goods giant Kimberly-Clark recently launched a 10-episode Web series on green home improvement tips sponsored by Scott's Natural.

REDMOND, WA  — Stefan Weitz, Director of Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft, says that internal research has found that users develop a “habit” with their search engine of choice.

Extend Media is aiming to capitalize on the buzz surrounding TV Everywhere with the launch of a new platform to help multichannel providers deliver TV programming online, the company announced today.

A media company needs at least a three-year runway before it can take off for profitability, and that’s the goal for the new video destination Take180.com, the site’s general manager Chris Williams told Beet.TV at the NATPE LA TV Fest in early July.

YouTube's "News Near You," a recent addition to the YouTube news page, organizes local news sources as a strip of thumbnail images.  YouTube has organized hundreds of news sources into news "portals" in 100 U.S. cities, we have learned.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif — There’s more money to be made in creating communities for programming online than making the content itself, Sarah Szalavitz of social design agency 7 Robot told Beet.TV at the NATPE LA TV Fest.

Yesterday, Google announced a significant enhancement to its image search enhancement by allowing users to search by various colors and categories.