Andy Plesser

Stewart Alsop, veteran venture capitalist, ex-tech journalist, and Apple watcher, says that Apple is developing a smart search architecture and is embedding its newly acquired Siri technology into all its devices and content.

Eric Feng, founding CTO of Hulu, is leaving the big online video company to join the Kleiner Perkins Kaufield & Byers as a partner, the company announced on its blog earlier today. 

Akamai, the world's largest operator of a network of computers, today is showing on its Web site that it is the busiest day for bandwidth demand for news sites.  There are some 11 million visitor requests per minute to its network, up 233 percent from the normal demand at this time.

An online campaign for Kraft's Philadelphia Cream Cheese, starring celebrity chef Paula Deen, has enlisted some 5,000 women to contribute their own homemade videos about using cream cheese.

It was four years ago today that this blog had its first big scoop:  Robert Scoble, the ground-breaking video blogger and social media evangelist at Microsoft, would leave to join a Silicon Valley start-up.

Firefly Video, a sister company of Tribal Fusion, has been getting traction with an interactive video takeover product for marketers, including Hyundai.  

LOS ANGELES –Hiring a small group of enterprising sports reporters four years ago, who grabbed headlines with scoops, was a clear indication of the value of original journalism in driving traffic and attracting advertising dollars.

The Huffington Post is entering a “deep partnership” with Yahoo! to produce original content, including both text and video for Shine, the women’s interest pages of of Yahoo!, co-founder and editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington says in this interview with Beet.TV.

TurnHere, the Emeryville, California-based Web video production and distribution company, has a deal with Yelp to create videos for Yelp advertisers, TechCrunch is reporting this morning.

LOS ANGELES — Despite public statements by Steve Jobs last week at the All Things Digital conference that Apple is not building a search engine or an Apple TV, both will happen and his statements are a deception, says Jason Caalcanis, who calls the CEO an "excellent liar."

Facebook is not in a rush to go public and is being careful about financial guidelines that could compel it to go public, says David Kirkpatrick, longtime Fortune writer and author of the just-released,  "The Facebook Effect."

LOS ANGELES — eBay sees a growing opportunity in mobile commerce and expects to record $1.5 billion in revenue via mobile devices this year, CEO John Donahoe told Beet.TV on Wednesday after his on-stage presentation at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference.

John Battelle, founder and CEO of Federated Media, says that his company has evolved from being a media buying firm for blogs to a "media company" which creates innovative media solutions for clients.

With half a million views in four days, John H. Johnson, a communications exec. for Verizon Wireless has become a Web video celeb for uttering these 10 words on camera: Verizon has "no plans to carry the iPhone in the immediate future."

LOS ANGELES — With 300,000 downloads, NPR is one of the most popular Apps for news and is demonstrating the popularity of radio on the iPad. 

LOS ANGELES — The Huffington Post, one of the first publishers to integrate Facebook Connect and the first to publish a Twitter edition, will soon integrate with LinkedIn, says the HuffPo's CEO Eric Hippeau in this video interview.

LOS ANGELES — Crowd-sourced journalism at the Washington Post, which has taken a Wiki form around amateur sports and Washington politics, will expand into several verticals, with community members increasing their presence on the newspaper's site, says Vijay Ravindran, Chief Digital Officer.

With Apple's booming sales from devices, software, and digital content, Steve Jobs hasn't had to think much about advertising revenue. The consumer comes first (his mantra), and advertising must fit their experiences.

LOS ANGELES — Vinod Khosla, one of the world's most powerful venture capitalist, says in this video interview that the oil spill in the Gulf will spur innovation in clean energy development.

LOS ANGELES — Despite the explicit denial by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on plans to build a search engine, the company is doing exactly that, says John Battelle.