Andy Plesser

Veveo, the Boston-area start-up video search company, which has been getting noticed for providing video search for mobile devices, is getting some traction as the video search engine in FiOS TV.  The the company announced that Veveo has powered 170 million searches for FiOS television customers. I’ve reposted my interview with CEO Murali Aravamudan. — […]

BitGravity, a start-up content delivery network (CDN) which has staked a claim to providing live video streaming services and counts Revision3 as one of its customers, has raised $2.5 million, its first funding round from Allen and Company and Blake Krikorian, founder of Sling Media.

Our friends down the block at the Silicon Alley Insider have a report out tonight that Daily Candy, the email newsletter company that’s been around for eight years, giving buying tips on fashion, has been sold to Comcast for $125 million.

Here at Beet.TV we eat beets whenever we can.  We’ve always loved to grill, boil and juice them.  Now, it seems that our little root vegetable is getting some press for their taste and super nutritional value.

Where is in the world is objective journalism in the Internet age and is it necessary?  Bambi Francisco, founder of Vator.tv, explores this topic in her post today with several leading journalists and media executives who are interviewed on the video above. "The whole notion of objectivity should be thrown out," said Phil Bronstein, editor […]

Brightcove, the Boston-based video publishing services company, has established a separately funded Japanese unit and has landed a splashy assignment as the the video solution for gorin.jp, the exclusive provider of online coverage of the Summer Olympics.  gorin.jp is backed by the major Japanese broadcasters. Here’s the company’s press release issued this evening. For an […]

PALO ALTO — The cost of Flash servers, Adobe’s proprietary software which publishers use to stream the majority of video around the globe, has dropped in cost by some 90 percent as Adobe moves to maximize its marketshare, says Jim Guerard, who heads up the Flash business at Adobe Systems.  The initiative, announce late last […]

Wow, great to read that our fellow video bloggers are gaining some attention as trend setters.  The  New York Times Style section’s front-page story, by Alan Salkin, features a feature about a big bash organized by IgniteNYC.   

It was striking to hear William Randolph Hearst III, grandson of the great media baron, say of traditional media at our Stanford roundtable last week: "I don’t think they should have a monopoly on how I surf for news." He went on to say that citizen journalism is "well underway," but that traditional media still […]

MG Siegler over at VentureBeat has the story this morning about Skyfire, a new browser for mobile devices.  VentureBeat is giving away 100 invitations to try the new browser in private beta trials, MG writes in his post.

Chinese video sharing sites like Tudou and Youku are proliferating and growing quickly. Recent data has shown that China now has 253 million Internet users–more than any other country. So, how are these sites kept from publishing what the government might see as inappropriate? They have internal censors, says veteran China watcher Rebecca Fannin, author […]

Whether or not the McCain campaign’s “Is He Ready to Lead” video will help or hurt his campaign is hard to say, but it is surely a hit.  Uploaded yesterday, the video has garnered about 1.1 million views as of 10 p.m. Eastern time on 7/31.

YouTube has introduced rich metadata into select videos, which will significantly impact how online video is discovered and consumed. Announced in June, we have found the technology is very useful.  Last week, we got an update on this from Steve Grove, head of news and politics at YouTube.

When it comes to online video innovation, "big media is the tail of the dog," says Rich Moran, a partner with Venrock, the venture investing fund of the Rockefeller family.

It’s not Adobe’s Flash, Apple’s QuickTime or Microsoft’s Silverlight. It’s a technology called adaptive streaming, developed by a small Utah start-up called Move Networks, and it’s revolutionizing the way that online video is being delivered and watched by millions. ABC Television implemented the technology as its primary video distribution platform.  Last month ABC reported a […]

While millions of individuals are uploading videos to YouTube, the integration of citizen journalism into mainstream media has not yet happened on a large scale, says Phil Bronstein, former Editor and current Editor at Large of the San Francisco Chronicle.  Phil was a panelist at the Beet.TV online video roundtable last week at Stanford. We […]

Google wants to index all the world’s information, and that includes finding PowerPoint presentations and PDF files, weather, flight information and currency conversions. Kelsey and I visited the Googleplex in Mountainview, California last Tuesday for a number of meetings and demonstrations.  In our first segment, we speak with Maile Ohye, Developer Programs Tech Lead.

Mogulus, the New York-based start-up which provides individuals and enterprises a platform to stream live quality Flash video, has raised $10 million in the form of a minority stake from Gannett.  The company had previously raised $2.7 in early seed funding.

  PALO ALTO — It’s back to the future for the business of Web video: Advertiser-sponsored programming from the early days of television, when Texaco, Geritol and Lucky Strike paid to develop or sponsor new programming, is the most viable business model now for episodic content created for the Web, says Jigar Thakarar, Director, Web […]

PALO ALTO — Wide distribution, or “deeplinking” to ABC online video programming is essential, says Albert Cheng, head of digital operations for Disney/ABC Television.  I interviewed him on Tuesday evening at Stanford after he opening night panel  of the AlwaysOn conference.