Andy Plesser

Click To Play Here’s our chat with Angus Logan of the Microsoft Windows Live team.  He shares a very cool demo of how a bike tour around London is integrated with Microsoft Virtual Earth to give a tour and live mapping.  Angus also shows how great the new trailers for Halo 3 look in Silverlight.  […]

Kara Swisher has been following the introduction of Joost.  Today, Joost is available without an invitation.  Kara wonders how the interface will improve.   Here’s what she writes in her post today: Those who were invited in and already using it now get a better interface and a way to find shows that seems more intuitive […]

In uploading files to YouTube, there has been very little control over the selection of the opening still image, which is also the thumbnail image used in indexes on YouTube and various search engines.  It is a critical picture. The selection of this important image is automated. Now, uploaders can select from three different images […]

Click To Play As Web designers decide whether to use authoring tools from Microsoft’s new Silverlight multi-media platform to build web pages, some will wonder whether Google’s AdSense, the automated advertising program,  will work. From the AdSense Help forum, the answer can be found and it is yes. Beet.TV was up in Redmond last month […]

Click To Play Yesterday on the MIT campus at the Technology Review summit, I caught up with Digg founder Kevin Rose.  Kevin was on a panel with Netvibes’ Tariq Krim and StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp.  The three innovators were recognized as the Tech Review’s top 35 innovators under 35.    Kevin’s Diggnation video show is […]

Click To Play Yesterday at the Technology Review’s annual summit on the MIT campus, Charles Simonyi, former chief architect Microsoft where, he lead the creation of Excel and Word, made the keynote speech.  He outlined a new approach to creating software, which is the business of his company Intentional Software. The system integrates "domain experts" […]

Click To Play Sometime next month, Microsoft will release a new video conferencing camera called RoundTable. It has five little camera, six microphones and works with Live Meeting.  It looks like a droid out a sci-fi film — and seems to be quite "smart" in following speakers and their movements, as you’ll see in our […]

Click To Play I caught up with Mike Hudack last night at the NewTeeVee screening event in New York.   Mike was proud as could be with the day’s news that Rocketboom would use Blip.TV to host and distribute its video files in a number of formats. Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron blogged about this yesterday. In […]

A total deconstruction and analysis of the Apple iPhone has been published in MIT’s Technology Review.  The article features an elegant Flash slide show, demonstrating the various components and their functions.  The final image is shown above. The authors don’t provide instructions on how unlock the phone to change settings and carriers, a concern raised […]

Rocketboom, the pioneering online video show, has moved its video distribution to Blip.TV according to a report on NewTeeVee. Marshall Kirkpatrick give an overview of the space. In addition to handling video distribution, Blip.TV will sell advertising sponsorship and manage advertising overlay insertions into the video stream.  Rocketboom has a sponsorship promoting the Sarah Silverman […]

Click To Play One of the first applications of Silverlight, the new plug-in multimedia program from Microsoft, will be a "software plus Web services" platform called Popfly.  It allows consumers to create multimedia mash-ups without needing to know code.   Users integrate a thin desktop application with various Microsoft web services and other sources including Flickr, […]

Click To Play Earlier this week, the San Francisco-based TeeBeeDee, a new community site for folks over 40, launched.  It blends commentary, features and social networking tools for its members.  Matt Richtel over at the New York Times reported last week on the "graying of the Web"  —  how sites and social networking hubs, including […]

Click To Play Earlier this week, I caught up with Shelly Palmer, president of the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the organization that awards the Emmy’s.  Shelly was attending the Convergence 2.0  summit at the Museum of Broadcasting. Shelly is a fan of the purple channel.  He told […]

Click To Play Edgar Bronfman, Jr. heads Warner Music, one of the world’s four major record labels. Beet.TV was at the Convergence 2.0 summit at the Museum of Broadcasting in Manhattan on Monday where we taped Bronfman’s news-making speech on the opportunities for growth in the music industry.  The conference was organized The Deal and […]

Click To Play Andrew Cleland of Time Warner Investments, the venture arm of the world’s biggest media company.  Yesterday, I caught up with him along with my pal Mary Kathleen Flynn, senior editor at Tech Confidential.  We were at the "Convergence 2." conference in Manhattan. Beet.TV is collaborating up with Tech Confidential on video segments […]

Click To Play Edgar Bronfman Jr. is head of Warner Music, one of the world’s biggest labels which he bought from Time Warner in 2004. I was at The Deal’s Convergence 2.0 conference in Manhattan where Bronfman was one of the featured speakers.  He announced one deal – and outlined his vision for transforming music […]

Click To Play Mochila, the fast-growing online syndication company, which distributes text, photos and videos, has just expanded its offering with an agreement to syndicate video content from Reuters.  I caught up with CEO Keith McAllister who explained the company’s offering and the new deal with Reuters. Mochila provides a three way split of revenue, […]

Click To Play The Wall Street Journal just came out with its annual rankings of business schools and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth is ranked number one. The Tuck School is a client of my PR firm and we are delighted.  Not only is the school a client, but my son Benjamin, who […]

Click To Play Viacom, one of the world’s biggest media company, owner of MTV, Paramount Pictures, BET, Comedy Central and others, is ambitiously expanding its online video presence.  Like this new effort with Yahoo! Fortune magazine just published a story "Viacom’s Plan to Be Cool Again."  If Viacom is cool, it’s also tough when it […]

  Click To Play We’ve been talking about Microsoft’s Silverlight as a new technology for creating online video.  The other side of the technology is its use as a rich, interactive medium.  One of the more intriguing applications is its use as a graphical interface for search results. Developers have come up with some very […]