Andy Plesser

LOS ANGELES – Despite relentless speculation about the imminent support of the iPhone and iPad in the U.S., there is no plan for Verizon to support the Apple mobile devices in the "immediate future," John Johnson, a Verizon Wireless spokesperson told Beet.TV in this video interview.

LOS ANGELES — The Wall Street Journal has just published the first excerpt of Steve Jobs on stage with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg at All Things Digital.

Rob Davis, who heads the online video practice at adverting giant Ogilvy, says that his agency is working on branded content channels on YouTube.  

RAMP,  a white label video search engine for a number of leading publishers, has a system to allow publishers to post rich metadata in the form of text on customers'  Facebook walls.

Spectacular line-up for the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital conference kicking off on Tuesday (6/1) night in Rancho Palos Verdes, the seaside town near LA.

Glam Media, the big site for women that recently became one of the ten biggest Web sites in the U.S. according to comScore, has a significant video production and syndication operation. 

Microsoft's Xbox LIVE has some 23 million subscribers with two million watching concurrently.  With such a big, engaged audience, Microsoft has created a hybrid media environment for advertisers seeking to reach 18-34 year-old males.

One of the most exciting uses of video as performance art can be seen in the current Broadway production of Sondheim on Sondheim.

Foursquare, the fast growing location-based social media platform, which now has 1 million active users and is adding about 15,000 per day, is dealing with problems in scaling the service to keep up with demand.

SecondMarket, a new New York-based electronic market place for shares of privately-owned companies and other illiquid assets, has recorded $100 million in sales of Facebook shares over the past 12 months.

David Kirkpatrick, longtime Fortune staffer and author of a much anticipated book about Facebook, says that TechCrunch Disrupt is the "best tech conference ever" in New York. 

"Video is not boring," it is dynamic and useful as social medium, says seventeen year-old Andrey Ternovskiy, the creator of the international phenomenon Chatroulette.

The problem with the media business is not the result of technology, it's about quality of content, said Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a press briefing today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference.

Metacafe, one of the earliest UGC video sites, has expanded its operations to premium content with the launch of a movie channel.  

Not many gadgets were on display at Streaming Media East earlier this month, but this was my favorite:  a portable, battery-powered video encoder, which we understand to be the world's first.

Facebook is inevitably moving towards becoming a major e-commerce destination, says Leena Rao, a reporter with TechCrunch.

MG Siegler, a reporter for TechCrunch who follows Facebook closely, says that sources tell him that Facebook's much anticipated location-based function has been put on hold for now, a result of the recent uproar over breaches of privacy protocol at the giant social site.

Ooyala, the Mountain View-based online video services company founded by several ex-Googlers, is providing customers the ability to publish YouTube clips into the publishing system and on an Ooyala player.

LAS VEGAS – The tools for creating 3-D programming will soon become available to "mid-tail" video producers with the imminent introduction of a new camera from Panasonic.

Two tech blog powerhouses, TechCrunch and GigaOM, are readying ambitious original online video programming.