Andy Plesser

Powerhouse venture capitalist Vinod Kholsa is about to close on $1 billion in new capital for his green-oriented venture capital firm, Becky Buckman at Forbes reports.

The  Adobe text layout framework environment TLF, which powers the new, elegant The New York Times Reader, is  being released for free as part of a big "open source" move from Adobe.

We read with interest a point by point "myth busting" blog post on YouTube's blog today penned by corporate spokespersons Chris Dale and Aaron Zamost.

Longtime news anchor Walter Cronkite has died at the age of 92 after a long illness.   

Although video has been on Wikipedia in a limited way for the past two years, it is poised to take-off with the recent introduction of Firefox 3.5 along with other imminent developments, we have learned.

As part of the 40 year commemoration of the Apollo 11 mission, the first moon landing, NASA has restored the historic videos of the flight.   The videos were released today.

Digging deep into the online video strategy of the Barack Obama presidential campaign, video producer and strategist Max Harper, 27, explains that success cannot be measured in view count, but by targeted impact.

Hollywood, Calif. — Jordan Hoffner, who directs content partnership deals at YouTube, was the keynote speaker at the NAPTE LATV festival last week.

Brightcove, the big video services company has been making major inroads in Japan with several broadcasters, marketing partners and with investors.

Max Harper, a 27-year old community organizer and filmmaker was a key member of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama who created numerous campaign videos.

Howcast, the New York-based start-up that produces short instructional "how-to" videos, has moved away from an advertising based business to a video producer and syndicator business for a range of corporate and government clients.

Adobe seeks to unify the many flavors of video players with one universal framework, which it calls Strobe. 

A cheap camera, dogged determination, and a smart video blog strategy has created a national dialogue about election form in the United States.

One of the most anticipated developments in Web video will be the implementation of open source video into Wikipedia.

While the open video movement seeks an environment free of licensing fees for software, Adobe is supportive of the movement.

Now that Firefox 3.5 has been released, we will be seeing new sorts of programs for video including Ogg Theora, the open-source, non-Flash program for video.

NewsMarket, a New York based video services company which provides distribution for institutional and corporate video, has merged with the publicly-held MediaLink.

YouTube is broadly launching a program which allows video producers to insert their own promotional overlay ads into their clips.  They call it Call-to-Action overlays.

NEW YORK, NY — The White House has signed an agreement with TubeMogul, an Emeryville, California-based start-up to distribute and analyze web videos, said David Burch, a TubeMogul executive, in this video interview.

Firefox 3.5 has been released to the public.   What does it mean and specifically, what could it mean for open standards for Web video?