Wal-Mart Provides Video Embeds of News & Information — Every Company Can be a Media Company — Believe It!

Click To Play Bart Feder is the President and CEO of the FeedRoom, a company that powers video platforms for media organizations including The New York Times and Conde Nast. The company is increasingly providing video distribution platforms for companies who want to provide videos to journalists, bloggers and the general public. After all, any […]

 
 

Akamai Makes Big Move Into Live Streaming Flash Video…and Beet.TV to Stream Live Tomorrow!

Click To Play Earlier today, Akamai announced a new initiative to offer live video support for Flash video playback. The giant content distribution network (CDN) company said the new initiative supports On2 Technologies VP6 Codec used in Adobe’s latest Flash Player. This is another indication of the imminent proliferation of live streaming Flash video. At […]

 
 

Adobe’s New Flash Video Player is Cool Advertising Platform and Brightcove, Maven, Blip.TV and others are Onboard

Click To Play Adobe’s Flash Video has huge penetration.  Its brower-based application is nearly everywhere.  So, why is Adobe launching a new player this summer?  Earlier today, I caught up with Adobe’s Craig Barberich at the Streaming Media East conference here in New York. Craig gave us a demo and it’s pretty impressive.  Unlike the […]

 
 

Streaming Media Summit Gets Underway in New York City as Beet.TV Readies Live Show!

Click To Play The very premise of the "Streaming Media" conference has tranformed from largely a broadcast-engineering expo to a must-attend summit where online video and its revolutionary effect on society is explored.  It’s a whole new ballgame.  Congratulations to Dan Rayburn for programming such a relevant and informative show. We are delighted to cover […]

 
 

WiMAX to Aid Bandwidth Demands of Streaming Video on Mobile Networks, Motorola’s CTO Tells Beet.TV

Click To Play More and more video will be available on mobile devices. Consumers will have choices and opportunities to download and stream short and long-form content. That’s cool but how can the wireless providers and their networks support this bandwidth demand? Part of the solution will come with the deployment of WiMAX, says Padmasree […]

 
 

Contextual Overlay Advertising in Online Video is Here: Metacafe to Debut Format Today — YouTube Appears to be Testing It

Click To Play Amir Ashkenazi, one of the founders of shopping.com which was sold to eBay, has just launched adap.tv  It is a new kind of advertising network that places advertising on video clips in the form of contextual overlay advertising.  These are not video ads inserted before of in the clips, but they are […]

 
 

Techmeme’s Gabe Rivera Reveals His Secret Sauce in Rare TV Interview…….Scoble Says Techmeme is “Less Noisy” than Digg

Click To Play Gabe Rivera, 34, working completely on his own in his home in the Bay Area, has created Techmeme, what many bloggers, reporters and editors consider the most important tech news aggregation site.  And, he is about to transform the news and blogging world with new aggregation sites for national politics, gossip and […]

 
 

Kyte.TV Puts Live Mobile Phone Video in Social Network Setting — Legendary Angel Investor Ron Conway is Bullish on Kyte and Booming Video Sector

Click To Play I caught up with legendary angel investor Ron Conway in Hollywood last week. Ron was an earlier investor in some of the Valley’s most successful companies, including Google. Ron is very enthusiastic about the opportunties for investment in a whole crop of new online video ventures including kyte.tv.  He is an investor […]

 
 

MySpace Ex-Chief Funds Bambi Francisco’s Vator.TV

Click To Play Sometimes hanging out at cool Hollywood parties, you can catch a scoop now and again. Well, I learned at a poolside shindig at the Roosevelt that Richard Rosenblatt, the former CEO of INTERMIX and MySpace, has made a private investment in Vator.TV, the new company headed up by former MarketWatch columnist Bambi […]

 
 

Justin.TV Readies Launch of New Live Video Platform Business…On2 Announces Live Flash Video Program for Web Users — We’re All Going Live!

Click To Play Here’s Justin Kan of Justin.TV, the dude wearing the live TV camera on his head. I hung out with him LA last week where he was live casting his experience at the AlwaysOn conference. Justin is streaming live Flash video through a wireless device. This is no publicity stunt, it’s about business. […]

 
 

HP Says Convergence is Here and Smart TV’s Are the Future

Click To Play Question: Who needs a set-top box if your TV is really smart?  I’m starting to wonder about that — particularly in light of today’s news that Akimbo is dropping its hardware altogether. HP believes that there is a big future in "smart" television that are connected wirelessly and through wires to various […]

 
 

Motorola CTO Tells Beet.TV: Mobile Devices are the New “Media Gateway”

Click To Play In Los Angeles last week, I had a chance to sit down with Padmasree Warrior, Executive VP and CTO of Motorola. She was a keynote speaker at the AlwaysOn Hollywood conference. Entertainment is moving to the "tiny screen," as Laura Holson wrote in today’s New York Times — and Motorola plans to […]

 
 

VMIX Builds Audience with Independent Content Creators and Studios — Ford Models Channel is Fabulous!

Click To Play Ford Models, NBC Television and Fox have channels on VMIX as do many independent musicians, filmmakers and video uploaders of deferent levels of skill. The site has over 1 million users and is growing. It is interesting to see VMIX as an alternative video sharing site to YouTube. My colleague David Kavanaugh […]

 
 

Unlike the Record Biz, Hollywood Could Prosper in Digital Era, AlwaysOn’s Tony Perkins Says

Click To Play Here’s my buddy Tony Perkins, founder of Upside, Red Herring and the AlwaysOn Network, a social network and conference business created around the digital elite of Silicon Valley, Hollywood and beyond. We spoke with him at the conclusion of his super successful conference in Hollywood on Thursday. Tony believes the film and […]

 
 

Former MySpace Chief Launches .TV Domain Registration Company with MySpace Social Networking Tools

Click To Play Richard Rosenblatt, who built MySpace and sold it to News Corp, has just launched a new business  to create a network of individuals who buy .tv domain registratrations.  The company is providing registrants rich social networking tools developed for MySpace. Although Rosenblatt sold INTERMIX, the parent of MySpace, to New Corp, he […]

 
 

Kara Swisher is Not Keen on News Corp Takeover of Dow Jones….And the Bancrofts Seem to Agree

Click To Play Kara Swisher, a longtime reporter and columnist at the Wall Street Journal, is one of the most influential technology journalists/author.  She has also built a hugely successful conference business "D" for the Dow Jones Company.  Just last week, she launched a blog with colleague Walt Mossberg. The new blog has lots of […]

 
 

Kevin Rose on the Sh**t Storm at Digg

Click To Play Dan Farber helped me out this morning at the AlwaysOn Conference in Hollywood.  I was on a panel and unable to do the interview so Dan, editor in chief at ZDNet, grabbed the mic to speak with Digg’s Kevin Rose about the storm over a decision to remove then put back up […]

 
 

Carson Daly Launches Online Channel with Rich Social Networking Tools

Click To Play Late night television host Carson Daly has a new show and it’s not on NBC. It’s a cool new site of video selections that he edits and organizes daily.  It’s a page on a new social networking site launched by Richard Rosenblatt, the founder and former chairman of MySpace.  His new venture […]

 
 

Microsoft’s Silverlight Poised to Gain Streaming Video Share, Dan Farber Reports

Click To Play I caught up with Dan Farber on Tuesday, poolside at the Roosevelt in Hollywood. Dan just came from the MIX conference in Las Vegas. Dan and I are attending the OnHollywood conference. Dan, editor-in-chief of ZDNet is impressed with the Silverlight, the new Microsoft platform for creating and sharing video and other […]

 
 

Believe in Your Peers: BitTorrent Becomes Powerhouse in Online Video Distribution….Joost Announces Content Distribution Deal with CNN, NHL and Sony

Click To Play Here’s the first of three interview with Ashwin Navin, president and co-founder of BitTorrent.  The company and its technology have come a long way since its early use free program to send around large open source software programs.  Today, BitTorrent.com has become a business largely focused on distributing video files through peer-to-peer […]

 
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