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A Wiki on "Web 2.0" has just launched.  The project is called  We Are Smarter Than Me.  It’s being organized by the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, along with global powerhouse Pearson Publishing. Students and alumni from the schools will receive messages inviting them to collectively […]

Click To Play Earlier this week I visited the busy editorial offices of Wired Magazine in San Francisco.  I caught up with Chris Anderson, editor in chief, whose The Long Tail has been a runaway non-fiction book.  Amazon has ranked it the number one Business Book of the Year. The book has just one chapter […]

Click To Play Peter Rojas has blogged like crazy for the past five years, launching Gizmodo, the first gadget blog, then Engadget.  Engadget is the first or second most influential blogs on the Technorati influential list. He talks about the passion, honesty and hard work that is necessary for success. Thanks Pete, you are an […]

Click To Play Sure, there’s been a lot said about XBox 360 as the "Trojan Horse" in the living room, providing Internet TV in the form of a spiffy game console. Peter Rojas, editor in chief of Engadget, sees this development as part of a Microsoft plan to dominate video downloads to the home to […]

The entire scope and definition of community generated content is about to be transformed as major publishers integrate video upload tools to their pages. Simple-to-use video upload utilities from Brightcove and VideoEgg are being deployed on The Boston Globe and other New York Times regional newspapers, as well as integrated into Conde Nast sites.  Both […]

We’ve been talking about Flash, the application found in nearly all browsers to view video and other rich media.  There’s no doubt that without Flash, YouTube and virtually all consumer-generated video sites or professional publishers would not be streaming millions of clips every day. Microsoft is about to introduce Microsoft Expression Blend, which some industry […]

Click To Play eMarketer senior analyst David Hallerman is skeptical of the pre-deal statements from YouTube executives that the site will not insert videos into the clips.  Right now, advertising on YouTube is banner and text advertising.  Whether video ads will be inserted remains to be seen, but David believes that Google made the acquisition […]

Click To Play OK, we’ve been reading and blogging and watching this whole video revolution.  Why is it happening? Is it the cheap digital devices for capturing video or the simple video sharing sites of "Web 2.0"?  Sure, but that’s just part of it. Here’s what I think:  We trust what we see in video. […]

Click To Play Earlier this month eMarketer released a report by senior analyst David Hallerman on the the future of online advertising.  Last week, David sat down with Beet.TV’s Kate Lyon. He explained the promise and power of video advertising. He says that while paid search will be the biggest growth sector next year, the […]

Click To Play I was really pleased to see that "Naked Conversation" has been such a big hit this year.  So cool to see that Amazon named it one of the top-ten technology books for the year.  It’s a really good book for anyone interested in the future of media and communications, and it’s great […]

Click To Play Pete Rojas, editor in chief of Engadget, one of the world’s most influential blogs, ranked number one or two, by Technorati, visited the Beet.TV studios last night to talk about a wide range of topics. The gadget guru longs for extensive video on mobile devices.  He says that it’s eventually going to […]

Click To Play Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron is a pioneering video blogger who has always been on the cutting technical edge of vlogging, including advanced syndication strategies and the distribution of file formats for multiple platforms. Andrew has tackled one of the biggest challenges facing video bloggers — how to make video content searchable. To […]

Click To Play Guba has built a successful platform to download full-length films, as noted in our first post with Bart Myers. The company enjoys the cooperation of major film studios.  And, it appears to have figured out digital rights management issues. Bart also told me that the company is very far along with monetizing […]

[Download video to your computer | Upload to iPod, PSP] How is video found? Well, metadata, peer rankings, audio search, phonetics analysis and more.  But video can found through satellite photography. Yes, my friends, this is true! Google Earth has been providing a link from its satellite images of Northern California to video clips about […]

Click To Play Despite a driving rain storm, Michael Arrington drew quite a crowd to his TechCrunch mixer last night in Manhattan.  I caught up with him at the party and got him to wiggle his new Arrington bobble head doll for Beet.TV!  Not sure this is the launch of new product line for the […]

As you may already know, Jason Calcanis resigned from AOL today. Jason runs a network of bloggers at AOL.  The story was first posted on TechCrunch and Jason spoke with Saul Hansell of The New York Times for tomorrow’s paper. If AOL is smarting from Jason’s departure, they still have their superstar blogger Peter Rojas, […]

William Randolph Hearst III on Applied Minds and the Future of Media [Download video to your computer | Upload to iPod, PSP] Danny Hillis is one of the most important pioneers of computing and artificial intelligence.  He founded Thinking Machines as a student at MIT in 1982.  Although the company failed, the technology has had […]

Michael Arrington of the increasingly influential TechCrunch, has been served with a very harsh demand letter to cease and desist from YouTube’s powerhouse attorneys Wilson Sonsini. Michael posted a "crack" earlier this week: advice on how to download YouTube video clips as files to be saved on a computer or iPod.  Seems like his post […]

Click To Play Larry Braitman, who created a hugely innovative advertising platform in the last boom called Flycast, has just launched a new company, an advertising management solution for content developers of various sizes. It’s called Adify and it’s sort of a "store front" solution that provides the tools to publishers to manage the many […]

Click To Play One of the most intriguing companies I’ve had the opportunity to meet recently is Veeker, a San Francisco-based start-up which has been under the radar until recently.   The company has created a technology and public portal to share video uploaded by mobile phones.  Unlike YouTube, the clips are seen by authorized viewers […]