Andy Plesser

Click To Play Popfly, the new mash-up tool built on the new Microsoft Silverlight platform, will be released in public beta today. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is set to make the announcement later today in a key note address at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Beet.TV was up in Redmond a few weeks […]

Click To Play Podzinger, the Cambridge-based speech-to-text search technology company, that has been heavily funded with national security money, was renamed EveryZing about 5 months ago. The company has been a leader in indexing podcasts and making them searchable.  Over the past several months, the company has focused on searching and indexing video.  Its business […]

Click To Play Craig Rubens over at NewTeeVee reports this morning that Next New Networks has made its first content acquisition deal in the purchase BarelyPolitical.com, the political satire site known mostly for the hit Obama Girl show. Star Amber Lee is pictured below. A couple of weeks back, I interviewed Tim Shey, co-founder of […]

Click To Play There’s been a lot of buzz today about news that Vimeo will publish user generated video in Flash, in a 1280 X 720 HD format. This is very cool. Of course, a huge amount of HD videos from content creators and big and small, from The Washington Post to Beet.TV, are being […]

Click To Play JumpTV, the Toronto-based company, provides live streams of some 300 ethnic television shows from 75 nations. Expats, immigrants and foreign language speakers subscribe to the programming which is delivered to the PC. It is also a huge distributor of online sports streaming, providing some 200 sports programs from 30 nations. With this […]

Click To Play If you ever wondered why Diggnation co-hosts Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht drink beer while co-hosting their show, maybe it’s all part of a business plan?  Not sure, but Beet.TV has learned that the popular technology program will soon capitalize on the hosts’ beer consumption with the launch of the Diggnation Beer […]

Click To Play In June I spoke with BitTorrent president Ashwin Navin about plans to provide a content distribution platform for producers to distribute content using his company’s P2P technology.  Back then, the product, called DNA, was in beta.  He give a great overview so I’ve republished the interview today timed to some big news. […]

Click To Play Last month at the NewTeeVee screening party in Manhattan, I caught up with Michelle Cox, head of marketing at MetaCafe, the Palo Alto-based video sharing site.  Michelle told me that the site now has 25 million visitors  per month.  She calls it a "video entertainment site" — and explains how quality clips […]

Click To Play There’s a big industry war over the two competing new formats for high definition DVD’s: HD DVD and Blu-ray.  In the fight, there is Microsoft,Toshiba and NBC Universal in the HD DVD camp and Sony and leading content providers on the Blue-ray side. It’s not just for the DVD format in your […]

Click To Play If you’re in Manhattan next Wednesday, I hope you will join me and Kathy and the Beet.TV crew for an evening of big band swing music and dancing with the Ron Sunshine at Connolly’s,  121 W 45th Street.  Music charge is just $10 and drinks are cheap.  Best deal in town.  Shows […]

Click To Play Blinkx, the London/San Francisco-based video search company has announced a new plan for content creators to monetize content as their clips are discovered through search. Here are basics: content providers send a feed to Blinkx, which indexes content.  If someone searches and finds the video, a text ad will be placed in […]

Click To Play I caught up with NewTeeVee’s Craig Rubens in New York recently at a party for his influential blog.  In our interview, Craig unearths one of the dark secrets of online video marketing. Here’s the scam: Since a thumbnail, the image from a video that appears on index and search pages can’t be […]

Click To Play Live video streaming technology, formerly the province of big expensive webcasters, is within the reach of many.  Here at Beet.TV we have been reporting on innovations at uStream and Justin.TV, start-ups who are empowering users with an easy and free way to stream live from a webcam and computer.  (We just learned […]

Click To Play Last week I was on the MIT campus where I interviewed Garrett Camp, the founder of StumbleUpon, the San Francisco-based company that allows users to organize and recommend online videos.  The company was sold to eBay in June for $75 million.  Garrett, 28, was honored by MIT’s Technology Review as one of […]

Click To Play Making a successful Web video for about business is not easy.  The medium is different. We’ve been working away at this for the past 18 months and some 400 clips.  We’ve tried to  find a balance between quality production without the hype and gloss of broadcast news.  We try to make the […]

Click To Play Level 3, a big  data backbone company, has quickly built a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that is competing with the big players including Akamai and Limelight.  These companies distribute large video and other rich media files around the globe through a network of giant servers  These networks are essential to the fast […]

Click To Play Brightcove, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based video services company, will announce today at a conference in London that it has won the contract to host and serve video clips for the Britain’s Guardian Newspaper.  This win follows recent agreements with The Telegraph to host its videos. In the United States, Brightcove manages videos for […]

Click To Play Video widgets are not new, but the monetization scheme surrounding this technology is still being sorted out.  Last month, Google announced a new widget that will work with video. One big development will occur later this months when Netvibes introduces video widgets with advertising for episodes of CBS, Beet.TV has learned. I […]

In August, YouTube announced it would insert overlay ads in the stream of clips.  These clips were to be implemented in only certain channels. Beet assumes these to be more professionally produced video from sources including Ford Models.  He’s one of the first reports on NewTeeVee. Beet.TV has found limited implementation of the overlay ads.  […]

Click To Play What is the recipe for success for Web video?  It’s about information, transparency and sometimes humor. Brad Inman heads the Emeryville-based Turnhere, a company that creates and distributes "web videos" for book publishers and authors, local directories and others.   The company has put together a network of videographers who contribute using a […]