Andy Plesser

V-me, the Spanish language U.S. television network, has selected Kyte as its new online video solution, both companies announced today.

YuMe, the Redwood City-based online video advertising technology company announced today that it will integrate its ad platform with Microsoft Silverlight.

SAN FRANCISCO — Comcast's TV Everywhere, an online service for its cable subscribers, is providing DVR-type functionality that is driving consumption of video on its Fancast by a factor 2X, according to Karin GIlford, Senior VP.

London –The BBC has been surfacing an increasing amount of Web-specific videos and television packages to its giant portal.

SAN FRANCISCO — The future of television may be pervasively three dimensional, but the technology could be a passing fascination, says CNET senior editor John Falcone.  It is just too early to say. 

Kit Digital, the Prague-based video services company, has over 1100 customers around the world. It recently reported $47 million in annual revenue and is growing organically and through acquisitions including the Feedroom and last month’s $18 million purchase of Multicast.

Boxee, the developer of software that allows users to connect PC's to television to watch Web video, has just announced a new application for MLB.TV.   Separately, Kyte announced that its videos are integrated into the Boxee system.

Los Angeles-based Break Media, the fast growing network of young man-oriented Web sites, announced today the launch of its proprietary online video ad server called Apex.

Silverlight, Microsoft's rich media Web plug-in, will will soon be available on the Ooyala and Kaltura video players.  To our understanding, this the first time an online video platform company has offered Silverlight.

LONDON — Video news reporting for the Web, different than conventional television news, is quickly evolving and the BBC is innovating in a variety of forms including one which the newsroom calls a "show and tell."

Way back in September of 2008, newly appointed Newsweek tech columnist Dan "Fake Steve Jobs" Lyons confided in me that he was "uncomfortable" covering Apple after having skewered its CEO in his blog.

While the iPad may be a marvelous and elegant new kind of computing device, and our show looks very nice on it indeed, the inconsistent WiFi connection and subsequent buffering is insufferable for consuming streaming video.

SAN JOSE, Calif — The Flip, the pocket-sized HD video camera that is popular with high-profile video bloggers and a growing number of consumers, is finding its way into the corporates suites of Proctor & Gamble, Cisco, and other big companies as a new, easy-to-use communications tool.

Brightcove, the Cambridge-based online video platform company has raised a "final" round of venture funding of $12 million from a group of venture capital firms and media companies and expects to go public next year, the Wall Street Journal's Jessica Vascellaro reported this afternoon (sub.).

New York-based Canoe Ventures has created a technology for cable subscribers where they can interact with programs and commercials in a more Web-like experience. 

LONDON – The Financial Times, which serves and an increasingly mobile audience, is finalizing efforts around a non-Flash solution to deliver video to Apple and other mobile devices based on H.264, according Stephen Pinches, Lead Product Development Manager for the FT.com.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The amount of data associated with video consumption per user in the United States has reached 12 gibabytes per month — globally it is about 4 GB.  

Walt Mossberg, technology columnist for the Wall Street has one of the first reviews up of the iPad. He says it has the potential to challenge the whole user interface of personal computing.

SAN FRANCISCO — Kyte, the San Francisco-based online video platform that has been a front-runner of video distribution for customers, including MTV to mobile devices, will soon release a software developer kit (SDK) for the iPhone and the iPad.

The New York Times, long an innovator in creating unique news video for the Web, is now allowing anyone to copy videos from the site and embed them onto blogs, social media, and Web sites.