Andy Plesser

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.

NEW YORK, NY — TIME.com relaunched its video pages today, with a larger/HD player, integration with social media, and video sorting under "most popular," "this week," and other categories.

Market7, a San Francisco-based start-up that offers video project management as a software solution, is providing its services to Google, the company announced today.

REDMOND, WA — Microsoft Silverlight, the new Web multimedia platform, is "one of the fastest Web plug-in's," with one third of the world's PC's having the program installed, said Chris Swenson, Senior Strategy Officer in this interview with Beet.TV at Microsoft headquarters.

NPR has expanded its mobile offering with a new iPhone application including audio and text transcriptions, paidContent reported last night.

It was forty years ago this weekend that Jimi Hendrix closed the Woodstock festival with one of his greatest performances.  

Staci Kramer at paidContent reports that Journalism Online, a new company which manages subscription and paid transactions for online publishers, has "letters of intent" from over 500 newspapers.

Nielsen's report on video traffic showed more astounding growth for YouTube, with 7 billion videos streamed to 100 million unique visitors. For us, the big news is the arrival of Blinkx to number 10 site with 85 milllion video streams. (See table below)

Big jump in traffic in July for ABCNews.com.  According to Nielsen, the site has passed the NYTimes.com and FoxNews.com in traffic with over 16 million unique visitors.

SEATTLE, WA — There has been much talk about the emergence of "TV Anywhere," an initiative from Comcast and Time Warner which allows cable TV subscribers to log into their cable menu on their PC's, regardless of where a subscriber may be.

SAN JOSE, Calif — Cisco and Warner Music Group have expanded the use of Eos, Cisco's content management system, to power a number of Warner artist web sites and their branded media and social networks.