Andy Plesser

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Asked what he would have done differently in creating the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, says in this video that the double slash, the “//” after the colon in Web addresses, was unnecessary.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been on a quest for several years for the adoption of something he has coined the semantic Web — a data-rich, interconnected Web. 

NBC Local, the network of 10 regional U.S. Web sites created around television stations, is expanding its microblogging platform called SoMyCity to the iPhone with a new app which launched this week.

MediaVest, the big media buying firm, is making a “multi-million dollar” ad buy on Hulu, it was reported on ClickZ and on MediaPost yesterday.

5min, a company that produces and distributes how-to videos, has evolved as a sort of video-ad network, inserting relevant videos and advertising into over 320 different sites with some 250,000 unique monthly visitors.

Flash, the pervasive rich media application, will finally be available on a range of mobile devices with the release of Flash Player 10.1, the company has announced.

Late last month, the Amsterdam-based museum Ann Frank House launched a channel on YouTube.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt doesn’t accept that his company is a sort of “vampire,” sucking blood out of our newspapers. He says that because Google plays such a central role in the Internet, “we’ve been somewhat used to being blamed for everything.”

We are publishing the live streaming of the Online News Association meeting here.  Evan Williams, Twitter co-founder is live now (12:45 p.m. ET)

BigThink, the video site featuring stylized video clips of leading thinkers in culture, politics, the economy, and academia, is expanding its scope in the academic world, Victoria Brown, co-founder and CEO told me.

Cisco is greatly expanding its capabilities in the video conferencing business with the acquisition of Norway's Tandberg for $3 billion in cash, in a deal announced earlier today.

NEW YORK — In the fast-changing landscape of digital book publishing there is now something called a vook, a product and company which is a hybrid of text and video, delivered on the Web and as an iPhone download .

About.com, the online network of special interest communities, enjoys "unbelievable margins" from Google AdSense, said Martin Nisenholtz, who heads digital operations at The New York Times Company, which owns About.com.

On Monday, veteran media executive Greg Coleman will get to work at the Huffington Post as President and Chief Revenue Officer.  His joining is part of an expansion the site's business operation, Eric Hippeau, CEO,  told me earlier this week.

So, its official, Twitter has raised $100 million in venture funding.  It will be interesting to see how funding will change the company. 

Online video will comprise 90 percent of the world's Internet traffic by 2013, Intel's Justin Rattner told the BBC's Maggie Shields. 

Syndicating online video to different Web sites is not an easy task, with sites running numerous different video players and formats. 

The Google book deal is on hold, according The New York Times reports, citing a decision by a Federal court judge. 

After five years in gestation and much anticipation, online video advertising is reaching a “tipping point,” of becoming a major part of the media mix, writes Temor Media CEO Jason Glickman in a guest column on Fortune’s Brainstorm blog.

NEW YORK, NY — Video is an essential part of Yahoo's business, CEO Carol Bartz told me yesterday at the company's news conference here.