Andy Plesser

LONDON –  The BBC has found a growing audience for online news in the U.K., with some 5 million unique visitors watching 28 million videos in January, up 25 percent over the previous four months, according to the latest numbers from comScore.

An alliance between Adobe and Google has taken significant step with today's announcement of Flash being integrated directly into the Chrome browser. 

3-D Teleconferencing, long the communications tool of choice for characters in sci-fi movies, will be part of mainstream teleconferencing in the future, according to Charles Stucki, VP and GM of Cisco’s TelePresence division.

The imminent introduction of the iPad, which does not use Adobe's Flash to play video, has accelerated the the creation of HTLM5 solutions by video services companies and sharing sites, including Ooyala, YouTube, Vimeo, and now Brightcove.

Blip.tv, the New York based video sharing and services company that publishes episodic Web video shows had 85 million video views in February, according to report by Will Richmond in VideoNuze.

NEW YORK — Cisco Systems, which has a big* video teleconference business with a product called TelePresence, is entering the broadcast world with the MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, who is using the system to conduct remote interviews.

The historically private daily deliberations of New York Times editors in their Page One meeting, which sets the day's coverage and has a big impact on the global news cycle, are now being shared in a daily video program called TimesCast.

Today, Fox is expected to announce a Hulu-like service for mobile devices that will offer a range of content from Fox, NBC Universal, and Discovery, according to a report in GigaOM

SAN FRANCISCO — In a hopeful sign of the recovery in the technology industry, Adobe released its Q1 results and registered a 9 percent increase in sales over the same period last year and beat analysts’ earnings estimates.

Justin.tv, the big live webcasting service, has launched an iPhone application, allowing viewers to watch, share and interact with all the thousands of live streaming channels on the site.

LONDON –  The  lack of a by-line for  Economist writers provides a high degree of access, which is a big benefit in the reporting process, says Executive Editor Daniel Franklin in this interview with Beet.TV at The Economist's headquarters. 

SAN FRANCISCO — Los Angeles-based Break Media has found a growing business around Web videos targeting males 18-34. 

LONDON — LIvestation, the small London-based start-up that organizes real-time feeds of 20 of the world's leading video news sources, had 5 million video views with 65 million minutes of video watched in January, according to founder and CEO Matteo Berlucci.

LONDON — As publishers seek to maximize revenue around online video, many are studying consumer attitude towards the number of in-stream ads they will accept.  

LONDON — The Guardian newspaper has been innovating with online video since 2006, has invested heavily in video operations in its new headquarters, and is finding traction with its own brand of journalistic video.

AUSTIN — Justine "iJustine" Ezarik, a Web video celebrity and producer, has leveraged her skills and enormous network of followers into a cottage industry of branded content for major companies, including GE, Intel, and Nikon, she told Beet.TV at SXSW last weekend.

Chris Hughes, one of the three founders of Facebook who left the social media giant to manage social media operations for the Obama presidential campaign, is launching "Jumo" a site to help charitable organizations in fundraising and outreach.

Kaltura, the open source online video services company, has launched a site to provide resources around HTML5.  The site is supported by Mozilla, the Open Video Alliance, and the Wikimedia Foundation, Kaltura announced this morning.

AUSTIN — We caught up with digital entrepreneur Mark Cuban at SXSW this weekend to get his take on the whole "free" movement around content.  He tells us that "free everything is a fantasy."

LONDON — VideoPlaza, the Stockholm/London-based online video advertising platform, has raised $5 million in its first venture round, the company announced today.