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For online video to be searchable in the way that text is indexed on the Web today, video will have to be transcribed and indexed in the form of transcripts or raw metadata. Not only is this critical for effective search, it will be essential in the years ahead when the Web evolves to a […]

Click To Play Move Networks, the little start-up in Utah, has impressed many in the industry with super high quality streaming technology that does not appear to hog too much bandwidth.  To see how great it looks, check out ABC.com — that’s the Move player on the videos. Last month, Microsoft announced an alliance with […]

Click To Play In the television news world, one of the most authoritative news sources is TVNewser, part of Mediabistro which is now owned by Jupitermedia. Editor Chris Ariens has a scoop about embattled anchor Katie Couric.  According to his report, CBS CEO Les Moonves told the CBS news staff in a meeting earlier today […]

Click to play Not sure if Segway’s slow growth will be accelerated by the company’s new plan for a social network which was announced this week, but a customized Segway for shooting video sure got a lot attention at NAB on the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center this week.  Not only does the […]

Click To Play Microsoft is readying the launch of its IPTV platform on the Xbox 360 in the U.K. later this year with British Telecom.  This development was first announced in January.  The console is doing extremely well in Europe, PC World reports tonight. I met Microsoft’s Jim Baldwin at the NAB conference in Las Vegas […]

Click To Play The big turning point in the adoption of Silverlight, the rich content, in-browser plug-in from Microsoft, could be this summer with the Beijing Olympics.  As previously reported, MSN will stream some three thousand hours of video on Silverlight.  (As we understand, this deal is for video casting in the United States only.) […]

Mogulus, the the New York-based start-up which is empowering live online video casting of small content creators, on Monday announced a "white label" solution so broadcasters and publishers can use the platform with their own branding and customized functionality.   Some other well known players in the field include Justin.tv and uStream.  Yahoo! Live will enter […]

  — Andy Plesser  

Yesterday in Las Vegas at the NAB convention, I interviewed Adobe’s Ashley Still about the platform.  She explained the novel monetization scheme that involves content creators sharing advertising revenue with Adobe. She also explained the issue of analytics.  With iTunes publisher know the numbers of downloads, but many find it difficult to track how many […]

Yesterday in Las Vegas at NAB conference, I caught up with John King, national correspondent at CNN.  We spoke about the impact of online video on the presidential campaign.  He says that the Obama campaign had an early start and is most aggressive but points to progress with the Clinton campaing and the clever video […]

l Here in Las Vegas, there is great deal of interest in creating and delivering HD video content to the home.  The world’s biggest content delivery network (CDN) which delivers video files around the world is Cambridge-based Akamai. They had a big presence at the show and brought out the big guns, including founder and […]

Way back in 1999, Lost Remote was created to cover the television industry by a group of television news executives who wanted to create and share news in a different form.  The blog has an influential following and has been getting advertising revenue. I caught up with one of the founders and current editor Cory […]

The future of effectively indexed online video is "key to the future of the Web," says Adobe’s Mark Randall, chief strategist at the Dynamic Media group.  Here in Las Vegas at NAB, Adobe made a big step in this direction with the announcement of a new text to speech functionality for its editing software.  While […]

CNN has been creating Web specific video for some time. Live streaming has greatly increased since the news organization took the subscription wall down around its paid streaming service known as Pipeline. I caught up with Sandy Malcolm, Executive Producer of CNN.com about how the Web has afforded her company with new ways to present […]

Click to play In our industry, there has been a great deal of discussion and angst around the viability of video advertising around clips.  How can we "monetize" all this?  Sure, that’s the primary solution for media companies and content creators who have based their business around advertising. But, the thing is that effective video […]

Click To Play The monetization of online video will happen when clips containing overlay ads are broadly distributed on Web sites, blogs, social networks and in downloaded media.  The big opportunity for video content producers are in these emerging syndication schemes, not "destination sites," says Dina Kaplan, co-founder of Blip.tv. Former YouTube executive Daniel Blackman […]

Click To Play Charlie Rose, the thinking person’s late night talk show host, has undertaken an ambitious plan to edit 4000 hours of archives into short Web videos under four minutes.  While many of the shows are available online, in the long form, the project will involve edited shows into smaller segments for sharing and […]

Venrock, the venture capital arm of the Rockefeller family, has been investing in online video start-ups, recently participating in a round with TurnHere, the Emeryville-based video services company. Yesterday at the AlwaysOn conference in Boston, Kara Swisher moderated a panel.  Luckily for us, she did some reporting and video news gathering, which we have posted […]

Click To Play Watching a video in a high quality, H.256-encoded Flash video looks pretty much the same whether it’s streamed in a browser or viewed in the new Adobe Media Player (AMP) For large, high quality files, streaming is not necessary practical, given common bandwidth and processing constraints.  For these files, downloading is often […]

As Adobe launches today its much-anticipated desktop application called the Adobe Media Player (AMP) with big content partners, the business model around the new technology is quite novel. The software giant is providing its platform to producers and is splitting advertising revenue.  Adobe isn’t selling advertising.  The new business is a hybrid of sorts:  Software […]