Andy Plesser

OK, it might not be time to quit the day job, but cash is starting to flow to independent content creators through advertising splits with video sharing sites. Revver, one of the first sites to share revenue with with content creators has paid out $1 million over the past 12 months, the Los Angeles-based company […]

Click To Play Fora.TV, is a bit of an amalgam of C-SPAN and YouTube: a vast collection of authoritative academic, government, NGO and business conferences, speeches and summits from around the globe. Health care is a substantial channel on Fora, and Pfizer has just come on board as the channel sponsor.  It’s the first sponsor […]

Click To Play Monday, we reported on the launch of vTap, the video search engine for mobile devices from Veveo.  This is a very cool new development. Here is our second interview with Murali  Aravamudan, CEO and founder of the company.  Murali sees wider consumption of video on mobile devices in the U.S. following the […]

Click To Play uStream’s been getting some nice notices from Robert Scoble, the New York Times and others. The company provides an easy and free platform to share high quality live video.  Users just connect a webcam to a PC or Mac and  can generate a  pretty nice live stream.  Using a  camcorder and external […]

Click To Play Tens of millions of video clips, organized by one of the Web’s "most comprehensive" video search engines, are now available on the Apple iPhone and on Microsoft Mobile-powered phones, through a thin application downloaded to a mobile browser. vTap is an offering of Veveo, a Boston-area mobile that has received some $28 […]

Click To Play In Australia today, Paul Twomey, CEO of ICANN declared that virtual worlds are the future of global commerce.   Today’s New York Times reports how a "virtual" fashion world is taking  shape in Second Life. Above is my interview with professor Eric Johnson of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.  Dr. Johnson […]

Click To Play Here’s the second of two interviews with Microsoft’s Brian Goldfarb, who heads product development for Silverlight. Beet.TV was in Redmond last week for a series of interviews about the Silverlight launch and its implications.  Brian outlines the two fundamental implementations of Silverlight: as a media platform for streaming video — and as […]

Click To Play We just heard that NewTeeVee, the fast-growing and influential offshoot of GigaOM that covers the online video space, is coming to New York City for a screening/mixer event.  Sources tell Beet.TV it will be September 24 at a cool loft space on 10th Avenue.  Details to follow.  But, if you’re in the […]

Click To Play Danny Rimer, the 36-year-old ex-pat, London-based VC has "colonized" Europe with hugely successful investments in Skype and the much anticipated Joost. He was recently crowned the "Venture Capital King of Europe."  Along with his three brothers, he runs Index Ventures, a VC fund that focuses on European technology companies.  Danny is known […]

Click To Play Major newspapers have been getting into the online video space at a furious pace. The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and the News Corp papers have beefed up their online video operations.  These news organizations have turned to video management service companies including Brightcove, Roo and the […]

Click To Play Earlier today, Microsoft released the final version of Silverlight 1.0, the new cross-browser, cross platform plug-in for viewing rich media including games and video.  One of the most significant uses of Silverlight is its implementation on the Entertainment Tonight site.  ET moved to Silverlight this afternoon.  Last week, our video producer David […]

Click To Play Microsoft just released Silverlight 1.0, the cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in for streaming video, games and other multi-media content. The company has a number of content partners who will use Silverlight including Entertainment Tonight, HSN, World Wrestling Entertainment. Entertainment Tonight launches today in Silverlight.  (As reported on Beet.TV Major League Baseball launched in an […]

Click To Play As we seek success in the digital revolution, we need to understand failure.  For budding entrepreneurs and senior corporate executive, dealing with failure properly is essential. I was up in Hanover, New Hampshire at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, last week to interview Sydney Finkelstein, a leading management expert and […]

Click To Play Video search is different than search, it’s more akin to browsing and finding interesting content:  It’s largely a process of discovery.  Key to an solution is the user interface, and Truveo, the AOL search unit, has set the standard with its recent relaunch. I was in San Francisco earlier this month to […]

Click To Play Video on mobile handsets will take off with the upcoming initiatives from Adobe.  Called Adobe Flash Lite, Flash videos will be published and viewed on a number of mobile devices.  To further extend the reach of Flash viewing, phones will have chips that allow them show these files. On2 Technologies, whose encoding […]

Beet.TV’s star video producer David Kavanaugh is in Redmond this week to document what’s happening at Microsoft and what it all means to us.  Stay tuned for our video segments about Microsoft which will begin on Wednesday. I’m in Vieques, an island nine miles off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico.  Kathy and I have […]

Click To Play Richard Waters in the FT writes about the looming impact of the mortgage crisis on online advertising.  It’s not a pretty picture for online publishers who rely on mortgage companies for a good chunk of their revenue. Louise Story and Vikas Bajaj over at The New York Times writes how online marketers […]

The increasing participation in Facebook and other social networks by business people is part of an inevitable trend.  For marketing executives, it is essential.  Forrester’s Brian Haven wrote in his new report Marketing’s New Key Metric: Engagement (by purchase): "B2B marketers slow adoption of social technologies will be accelerated when when community sites emerge discussing […]

Click To Play NewTeeVee is a highly influential and successful spin-off of the GigaOM empire.  If you don’t already, you should subscribe to the feed.  I caught up with Liz Gannes, editor, on the Stanford campus earlier this month. We spoke the inevitable trend towards higher quality video on the PC and on the television. […]

Click To Play Timothy Tuttle, who is the founder of Truveo, now a unti of AOL, is one of the pioneers of video search.  He recieved his doctorate at MIT while working in the Artifical Intelligence Lab. Truveo picked a pretty nice review today in the Wall Street Journal in a column penned by Walt […]