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Click To Play I was in San Francisco last night for the first annual vlogggies awards.  Here’s a comprehensive report from Robert Scoble. It was a terrific turnout.  Some great vlogs and services were honored.  The best vlog went to Alive in Baghdad.  I caught up with Brian Conley who has established a network of […]

[Download video to your computer | Upload to iPod, PSP] I had the extraordinary opportunity to interview William "Will" Randolph Hearst III at his office in downtown San Francisco on Friday. Mr. Hearst is a former newspaper man one of the world’s most influential venture capitalists, long associated with Kleiner Perkins.  No longer a partner […]

Click To Play OK, so it’s incredibly easy and free to upload and share video to several video sharing sites.  On most sites, you simply browse your files, select one and hit upload.  Most video sharing sites accept a range of file formats and sizes. After you hit upload, the companies compress clips to become […]

In September, Andrew Bourland launched a video blog of interviews with technology innovators called ZBIZ.TV  — around the same time the ScobleShow was launched.  Bourland laments the lack of traffic to his and Scoble’s vlogs, citing blog traffic metrics.  He demonstrates that Beet.TV is more popular than the ScobleShow.  Bourland calls Beet.TV "my favorite videoblog"  […]

Click To Play At the Streaming Media West Conference on Tuesday, I had the good fortune to chat with keynote speaker Tim Tuttle, a pioneer in online video search. Tim founded the San Francisco-based Truveo and sold it to AOL earlier this year.  He now heads video search for AOL and is a Vice President. […]

What can I say except to say THANK YOU to Virginia Heffernan, television critic for the New York Times and blogger of Screens.  In her post today, she refers to Beet.TV as "superb."  Wow, how thrilling. Thank you so much. Timeswoman extraordinaire Virginia Heffernan  Photo from the amazing Mediashift — Andy Plesser Screens, New York […]

[Download video to your computer | Upload to iPod, PSP] Flash Video, a program developed by Macromedia in San Francisco, has become a ubiquitous program for online video. Forrester Research recently reported that Flash video players are in 95 percent of Web browsers. It’s become the platform of the online video explosion. Some viewers of Beet.TV […]

[Download video to your computer | Upload to iPod, PSP] Here’s my second interview with Robert Scoble from the Streaming Media West Conference. There’s been lots of talk here about video blogs and advertising and what will work. Robert says that "engagement" factor is key to a blog’s influence and success. He cites the Ze Frank […]

[Download video to your computer | Upload to iPod, PSP] The tech world has  been buzzing about Google’s acquistion yesterday of JotSpot, the three-year old company that provides a hosted service mainly to corporate customers for building wikis.  No doubt about it:  Wiki’s are ready for the corporate world and the masses. I spoke with Robert […]

  OK, whether you think the new "Chain Reaction"  video is funny or not, or it becomes as popular as the first exploding Diet Coke/Mentos video, it doesn’t matter: Google has placed a Diet Coke post-roll advertisement after the 3-minute clip. This is a big development in the monetization of independently created video content. There […]

Click To Play We had a chat with Jeremy Allaire, founder and CEO of Brightcove –  the fash-growing Cambridge company that’s been in the forefront of empowering big and small publishers to put their video content online. Brightcove uses Flash to publish video. And Jeremey knows a thing or two about the software platform.  He […]

Click To Play Here’s our second installment of our interview with pioneering video blogger Andrew Baron, founder of Rocketboom. It’s facinating to get Andrew’s reflections on the creative process that has lead to the success of the vlog. — Andy Plesser PANDO Rolls Out New Product The NY-based company has vastly improved its platform for […]

Rocketboom has become so incredibly successful as a result of creativity and hard work. There 300,000 downloads of the show every day. It’s astonishing how they come up with such interesting and diverse shows.  Last week they posted their 500th episode. Well, those creative folks are putting wits into creating special advertising for  in the […]

Click To Play Here’s the second part of our interview with Steven Levy, chief technology writer for Newsweek and longtime Apple watcher. Steven talks about the inevitable evolution of the iPod, particularly in light of the introduction of Microsoft’s Zune later this year. He sees a future iPod as phone and wireless device and speculates […]

Click To Play We are always grateful to have time with Newsweek’s Steven Levy.  Kate and I were delighted that he came down to the Beet.TV studios on Friday to talk with us about about Apple, Steve Jobs (who he first met in 1983 when writing a piece for Rolling Stone) and, of course, the […]

[Download video to your computer | Upload to iPod, PSP] Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron is a visionary — the show is always so interesting and fresh.  Last week, it hit the milestone of 500 episodes. Amazing. We think Joanne Colan is really brilliant and witty. It’s astonishing to see the scope of creative work they consistantly […]

Click To Play Here’s my second interview with Chas Edwards, VP at Federated Media, the new company started by John Battelle that links advertisers with bloggers and community sites. Lots of vloggers are trying to figure out a viable ad model. Robert Scoble has been wondering about this topic this week and his musings have […]

Click To Play Here’s our second interview with Suranga Chandratillake, the Cambridge-trained computer scientist and co-founder of Blinkx, the San Francisco-based start-up which is doing pioneering work in video search. Suranga speaks about the different set of skills need to solve the search on the Web.  He says the technology is not purely numbers – […]

Click To Play Here’s the second part of my chat with David Rittenhouse, a senior executive at Ogilvy who is spearheading advertising on new media platforms for agency clients including IBM.    David is keen on CNET’s approach to online video as an effective platform for advertisers, notably IBM’s sponsorship of the CIO Vision Series […]

I was just "invited" to join Microsoft’s new Soapbox, the long anticipated video portal.  It’s in Beta and not widely available to the public just yet. We just checked out the site and there are very few clips up.  The user interface is very nice and the quality of the Flash is very good and […]