Andy Plesser

CAMBRIDGE, Mass — In the midst of this extraordinary financial and political news cycle, online media consumption has been breaking traffic records.  As consumption is up, so is demand for bandwidth from big content delivery networks like Akamai.  Akamai, which carries Internet traffic for NBC, the BBC, Reuters and others, had a spike of 7 […]

Tina Brown, a titan of magazine publishing, has just launched her first online venture with the backing of Barry Diller’s IAC.  The Daily Beast is a site and daily email about cultural/business/political movers and shakers, a world she knows very well as past editor of Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Talk.

The Washington Post, the newspaper publisher which has lead the industry in integrating online video, has registered a record 1.4 million video views in September, up some 162 percent over last year, according to internal numbers released this morning.

LOS ANGELES, CA — TMZ, Time Warner’s hugely popular celebrity gossip site, is expanding its video syndication agreement with NewsCorp’s MySpace. Today, MySpace is launching a new branded entertainment hub.

StumbleUpon, the large referral system for discovering video and other online content, has moved to a Web-based platform, the company announced late yesterday.  Previously, it had only worked with a toolbar plug-in.    The new web strategy might work, posits Kara Swisher in her post. Here’s the take on this by MG Siegler in VentureBeat. […]

ABC’s highly regarded online video player will be available for developers outside of Disney’s ABC, the network’s online video chief Albert Cheng told the Streaming Media West conference last week. CNET’s Webware contributor Dorian Benkoil has the story.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The media-rich environment of the Web, along with desktop applications, will evolve to an even richer experience with HD video embedded into applications and content displayed in 3D, says Craig Mundie in this interview with Beet.TV.  Mundie is Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer. 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Views of video clips on Metacafe have increased by 55 percent resulting from a new accelerating technology from Akamai.  On Thursday,  I visited the headquarters of Akamai for a series of interviews with Suzanne Johnson, Senior Industry Marketing Manager.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — While cloud computing is bringing enormous power to large and small organizations, the hype around the trend is "over blown," says Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Frank Gillett.  I interviewed him on Wednesday afternoon on the MIT campus.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — As nearly a thousand technologists from around the world gathered this week on the MIT campus for Technology Review’s annual EmTech conference to learn about emerging technologies and to celebrate the young innovators, the mood was decidedly muted, with the precarious global financial situation clearly on the mind of many.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Dan Lyons, formerly known as the Fake Steve Jobs, and now a columnist for Newsweek,  showed up the Technology Review’s EmTech08 conference and wasn’t too taken with the panel on social media moderated by Robert Scoble.  Not one to mince words, the curmudgeonly Bostonian declared in his own blog: "It was like […]

BNET, the business information site of CBS Interactive, has just announced a content sharing agreement with Seeking Alpha, the influential financial site.  Earnings calls and other data from Seeking Alpha will surface on the BNET site, while company information from BNET will appear on the big finance site.

GigaOM, VentureBeat and ReadWriteWeb will be part of expanded technology coverage at the NYTimes.com, the paper announced today.  The announcement is part of a redesign of business pages along with a major increase in coverage in a number of sectors including "green" tech and economic issues. The redesigned page goes live today.

Adap.TV, the start-up which allows video producers to insert video advertising from multiple ad networks, has raised $13 million Series B funding, TechCrunch reported last night.  I interviewed founder and CEO Amir Ashkinazi in Hollywood in May. Here’s the take by Liz Gannes at NewTeeVee. I’ve republished the interview today.  Congrats, Amir. Here’s the company […]

TimesPeople, the social network where registered users share their interests, will become fully integrated into the NYTimes.com tonight as it becomes part of the site’s navigation.  Also, it will work with all browsers. Previously, it worked only as a Firefox plug-in.

As we watch the carnage on Wall Street, we wonder about how the venture capital community, the lifeblood of technology start-ups, is going to fare.  This afternoon I was over at the New York Times to interview Vikas Bajaj about the turmoil on Wall Street.  Vikas and Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote the story in today’s […]

OVGuide, the fast-growing and well-funded Los Angeles-based online video guide, has extended search capabilities on the site, it announced today.  Unlike a site like Truveo or Google Video which casts a global net, the OVGuide discovers, tracks and organizes online video sites which its editors find valuable.

Greed and the expectation of the level of high returns enjoyed during the stock market boom of the late nineties has powered the excess in the credit markets which have lead to the current financial crisis, says Alan Murray, Deputy Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal.

Diggnation, the popular weekly tech/geek/lifestyle show hosted by Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht, has landed a big one-year sponsorship with Anheuser-Busch’s Michelob, NewTeeVee’s Liz Gannes reported last night. 

On Tuesday, the WSJ.com unveiled a long anticipated site redesign. It launched to record  traffic, thanks to upheaval in the financial markets.  Yesterday, I sat down with Wall Street Journal Deputy Managing Editor Alan Murray to talk about the redesign.