Consuming Video on Mobile is an “Impromtu Experience” Says Veveo’s Murali Aravamudan

Click To Play Monday, we reported on the launch of vTap, the video search engine for mobile devices from Veveo.  This is a very cool new development. Here is our second interview with Murali  Aravamudan, CEO and founder of the company.  Murali sees wider consumption of video on mobile devices in the U.S. following the […]

 
 

uStream’s Chris Yeh, Kevin Rose Makes Tech Confidential’s Top 5 List

Click To Play uStream’s been getting some nice notices from Robert Scoble, the New York Times and others. The company provides an easy and free platform to share high quality live video.  Users just connect a webcam to a PC or Mac and  can generate a  pretty nice live stream.  Using a  camcorder and external […]

 
 

Breaking: The “Walled Garden” of Video on Mobile Phones is Smashed: Tens of Millions of Videos Play on Mobile Phones as vTap Goes Live

Click To Play Tens of millions of video clips, organized by one of the Web’s "most comprehensive" video search engines, are now available on the Apple iPhone and on Microsoft Mobile-powered phones, through a thin application downloaded to a mobile browser. vTap is an offering of Veveo, a Boston-area mobile that has received some $28 […]

 
 

Microsoft’s Silverlight Will Power Live Video Streaming

Click To Play Here’s the second of two interviews with Microsoft’s Brian Goldfarb, who heads product development for Silverlight. Beet.TV was in Redmond last week for a series of interviews about the Silverlight launch and its implications.  Brian outlines the two fundamental implementations of Silverlight: as a media platform for streaming video — and as […]

 
 

Joost’s VC Danny Rimer Makes Tech Confidential’s Top 5 “Young” VC List

Click To Play Danny Rimer, the 36-year-old ex-pat, London-based VC has "colonized" Europe with hugely successful investments in Skype and the much anticipated Joost. He was recently crowned the "Venture Capital King of Europe."  Along with his three brothers, he runs Index Ventures, a VC fund that focuses on European technology companies.  Danny is known […]

 
 

The Financial Times Chooses Maven to Power its Online Video

Click To Play Major newspapers have been getting into the online video space at a furious pace. The New York Times, the Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and the News Corp papers have beefed up their online video operations.  These news organizations have turned to video management service companies including Brightcove, Roo and the […]

 
 

Microsoft’s New Silverlight as “Mash-up” — Beet.TV Gets the Inside Scoop on Entertainment Tonight Site

Click To Play Earlier today, Microsoft released the final version of Silverlight 1.0, the new cross-browser, cross platform plug-in for viewing rich media including games and video.  One of the most significant uses of Silverlight is its implementation on the Entertainment Tonight site.  ET moved to Silverlight this afternoon.  Last week, our video producer David […]

 
 

Breaking: Microsoft Makes “Flashy” Hollywood Debut with Silverlight……and Extends Support to Linux

Click To Play Microsoft just released Silverlight 1.0, the cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in for streaming video, games and other multi-media content. The company has a number of content partners who will use Silverlight including Entertainment Tonight, HSN, World Wrestling Entertainment. Entertainment Tonight launches today in Silverlight.  (As reported on Beet.TV Major League Baseball launched in an […]

 
 

Failure Works: Just Make Sure to Take it the Right Way

Click To Play As we seek success in the digital revolution, we need to understand failure.  For budding entrepreneurs and senior corporate executive, dealing with failure properly is essential. I was up in Hanover, New Hampshire at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, last week to interview Sydney Finkelstein, a leading management expert and […]

 
 

Video Search is More Akin to Browsing, Truveo’s Tim Tuttle Says

Click To Play Video search is different than search, it’s more akin to browsing and finding interesting content:  It’s largely a process of discovery.  Key to an solution is the user interface, and Truveo, the AOL search unit, has set the standard with its recent relaunch. I was in San Francisco earlier this month to […]

 
 

Mortgage Mess Means Headache for Online Media…..and Disaster for Millions of Homeowners

Click To Play Richard Waters in the FT writes about the looming impact of the mortgage crisis on online advertising.  It’s not a pretty picture for online publishers who rely on mortgage companies for a good chunk of their revenue. Louise Story and Vikas Bajaj over at The New York Times writes how online marketers […]

 
 

Businesses Will Take the Social Media Plunge, Forrester’s Brian Haven, Writes

The increasing participation in Facebook and other social networks by business people is part of an inevitable trend.  For marketing executives, it is essential.  Forrester’s Brian Haven wrote in his new report Marketing’s New Key Metric: Engagement (by purchase): "B2B marketers slow adoption of social technologies will be accelerated when when community sites emerge discussing […]

 
 

Is Joost Over Hyped? Liz Gannes Weighs In

Click To Play NewTeeVee is a highly influential and successful spin-off of the GigaOM empire.  If you don’t already, you should subscribe to the feed.  I caught up with Liz Gannes, editor, on the Stanford campus earlier this month. We spoke the inevitable trend towards higher quality video on the PC and on the television. […]

 
 

The Secrets of Searchable Video Revealed by Dr. Tim: RSS/XML Feeds and Rich Text Annotation Do the Trick

Click To Play Timothy Tuttle, who is the founder of Truveo, now a unti of AOL, is one of the pioneers of video search.  He recieved his doctorate at MIT while working in the Artifical Intelligence Lab. Truveo picked a pretty nice review today in the Wall Street Journal in a column penned by Walt […]

 
 

Sub-Prime Mess Means Digital Woes

Click To Play The sub-prime mortgage mess has many implications:  new barriers to getting a mortgage, the tumbling stock market, and yes, maybe trouble getting investment dollars for that cool start-up. In the digital economy, the  shake-out in the  mortgage industry could make a big hit on online advertising with troubled marketers in the home […]

 
 

High Def Video in Focus as Adobe and On2 Encode Files to H.264 Standard

Click To Play Adobe’s announcement today that it will encode video, not just to the Web video "standard" of Flash, but will also provide encoding to the conventional broadcast standard of H.264, means that video created by small and large content developers will look great on many devices, notably on television sets.  Here’s a report […]

 
 

VIDEO IS GREEN! Ethernet Inventor Robert Metcalfe Tells the Purple Channel

Click To Play Robert Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, the standard for connecting computers in a network, says that the promise of video is to limit the need of physical meeting which means less travel and greater energy conservation.  He told me that this could be a "huge benefit to all mankind." I taped this […]

 
 

Exclusive: Adobe Media Player Launch Delayed Until Next Year

Click To Play The introduction of the much anticipated Adobe Media Player (AMP), the desktop application that allows users to download and save Flash files, will launch in Beta this year but won’t have a full introduction until next year.  A spokesperson from Adobe told Beet.TV late last week: "Adobe Media Player is planned to […]

 
 

“Money is the Sex of Silicon Valley,” Declares Valleywag’s Owen Thomas

Kara Swisher is having lots of fun these days with her video camera.  She just posted this interview with Valleywag’s new editor Owen Thomas.  Owen talks about the power of gossip in the Valley and what is "sexy."  Well, it’s money natch.  No surprise — but it’s an interesting interview with a guy who understands […]

 
 

Joost’s Debut Singed by Firewalls

Click To Play Beet.TV has learned from a high-level industry source that the deployment of Joost has been delayed in large part by issues related to firewalls that block access. The problem with firewalls is not new, it’s been discussed for sometime on Joost forums, but the roadblock highlights concerns about accessing P2P networks.  This […]

 
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