Andy Plesser

David Payne, former chief of CNN.com, has been working his start-up called ShortTail Media, which aims to help publishers increase revenue by integrating television advertising the online experience.

Comcast's much anticipated launch of its its "TV Everywhere" service, which allows subscribers to Comcast to watch selected video on their computers, has gone live in beta, today.

WASHINGTON, DC — Creating quality, enduring online video news content doesn't need to be expensive, but it has to be done with skill and credibility.

SAN JOSE, CA — Loomia provides recommended links and videos to visitors of big publishing sites for text content as well as links to video.  The company claims its recommendation engine boosts consumption by 24 percent for video publishers. 

SAN JOSE, CA — Portland-based Elemental Technologies, a producer of video encoding hardware, sees a big opportunity in the industry's move to adaptive streaming, meaning the delivery of video to users with varying connection speeds in consistent, high quality.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA  — For the most part, the advertising model for online video is not working  The ecosystem for premium content  is going to be a paid-model/subscription model and Cisco is planning to be a big part of this, according to Murali Nemani.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Whether user generated  video from the new YouTube Direct will create valuable content for its launch partners including the Washington Post, NPR, Politico and the Huffington Post is too early to say.

WASHINGTON, DC –  To succeed with monetizing online video, media companies need to better understand their audiences –  but they don't, said Caroline Little, former CEO of Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive who is now CEO of the Guardian News & Media, North America.

Saul Hansell, the veteran technology reporter and columnist for The York Times has left the paper to join AOL's new "Seed" unit, a mostly automated news site. 

TubeMogul, the Emeryville-based video syndication and analytics company, has entered into an agreement with Brightcove to provide analytics tools to the big Boston-area video services company.

Livestream, the New York-based live video services company, is getting traction with its premium service, booking some $350,000 per month in revenue from 1,000 premium customers who pay $350 each.

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Stung from  the 2008 election losses, Republican members of Congress are uploading videos to YouTube in much greater numbers than Democrats.

SAN JOSE, CA — Software giant Adobe Systems is using its new open source media framework player on Adobe.TV, the company’s new video site.  The site launched in September.

SAN JOSE, CA — Some of the most innovative uses of online video have been pioneered by technology companies, notably Microsoft’s Channel 9,  the videoblog for customers and developers.  

Facebook's introduction of Ajax and an e-mail importer functionality were among key factors in Facebook's ascent over MySpace as the preeminent social network, according to this big feature published in the Financial Times,  entitled "The Rise and Fall of MySpace."

Reuters, a longtime powerhouse in providing content to the online world, is making a push as a destination site with its redesign, which went live last night.

Tom Brokaw, in one of his first comments on the just announced Comcast/NBC merger, says the prospective merger would be "a good thing."

In a deal just announced, Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator, will buy a controlling stake in NBC.  The deal will take a year to close and will surely be subject to strenuous regulatory review, notably from the FTC.

Vizu, a San Francisco-based start-up that has developed a means to measure the value of online video advertising, has raised an addition round of $6.8 million in venture funding.

MSNBC.com today introduced a new embeddable player in a move to increase consumption of news video to other locations, notably on Facebook.