LOS ANGELES -- With 300,000 downloads, NPR is one of the most popular Apps for news and is demonstrating the popularity of radio on the iPad.  With some 2 million sold, we reckon that 15 percent of users have National Public Radio on the new Apple device. The latest numbers were shared with Beet.TV in this interview by Vivian Schiller, President [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The Huffington Post, one of the first publishers to integrate Facebook Connect and the first to publish a Twitter edition, will soon integrate with LinkedIn, says the HuffPo's CEO Eric Hippeau in this video interview. I spoke Eric on Wednesday morning at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference.  On the ad sales front, he says [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Crowd-sourced journalism at the Washington Post, which has taken a Wiki form around amateur sports and Washington politics, will expand into several verticals, with community members increasing their presence on the newspaper's site, says Vijay Ravindran, Chief Digital Officer. I spoke with him on Wednesday at the Wall Street Journal's All ThingsDigital conference.He says that in [...]

With Apple's booming sales from devices, software, and digital content, Steve Jobs hasn't had to think much about advertising revenue. The consumer comes first (his mantra), and advertising must fit their experiences. On Tuesday night at the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference, he minimized the absence of Flash on the iPad, quipping that the only (Flash-less) holes in the [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Vinod Khosla, one of the world's most powerful venture capitalist, says in this video interview that the oil spill in the Gulf will spur innovation in clean energy development. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has just joined Khosla Ventures as an adviser.  In this interview, Khosla speaks the former PM's role. While a majority of investments of [...]

LOS ANGELES -- Despite the explicit denial by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on plans to build a search engine, the company is doing exactly that, says John Battelle. On Tuesday night, during his on-stage dialogue with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg at the All Things Digital conference, Jobs talked about the explosion of iPhone and iPad apps, which have passed 200,000 [...]

LOS ANGELES - Despite relentless speculation about the imminent support of the iPhone and iPad in the U.S., there is no plan for Verizon to support the Apple mobile devices in the "immediate future," John Johnson, a Verizon Wireless spokesperson told Beet.TV in this video interview. The company is keen on the Android device and will introduce several new models this [...]

LOS ANGELES -- The Wall Street Journal has just published the first excerpt of Steve Jobs on stage with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg at All Things Digital. You can find the story here.  We have grabbed the embed code of this 5 minute clip which discusses the issue of Flash. Andy Plesser

Rob Davis, who heads the online video practice at adverting giant Ogilvy, says that his agency is working on branded content channels on YouTube.   More than just publishing videos, the branded channels are becoming destinations with some functioning as direct marketing platforms. We spoke earlier this month at the Streaming Media East conference. Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

Alloy Entertainment plans to launch four to six digital series a year and is also inking international distribution deals too for those shows. Alloy's efforts are part of a growing trend to sell foreign rights for Web series. Daisy Whitney reports in this week's New Media Minute that Disney-owned Take180 also expects to announce international deals shortly. Mondo Media, and Break [...]

RAMP,  a white label video search engine for a number of leading publishers, has a system to allow publishers to post rich metadata in the form of text on customers'  Facebook walls. For an explanation, we spoke with RAMP CEO Tom Wilde at the Streaming Media East conference. The Facebook integration was announced in April. Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

Spectacular line-up for the Wall Street Journal's All Things Digital conference kicking off on Tuesday (6/1) night in Rancho Palos Verdes, the seaside town near LA. James Cameron, Steve Ballmer, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Armstrong, Comcast's Steve Burke, and many other luminaries are schedule to speak. Things get started on Tuesday night with an on-stage interview of Steve Jobs.    We are delighted [...]

Glam Media, the big site for women that recently became one of the ten biggest Web sites in the U.S. according to comScore, has a significant video production and syndication operation.  The site has about 100,000 videos in its archives.  It has turned to Ooyala, the Mountain View-based online video platform company for its video solution. Speaking about the value of [...]

Microsoft's Xbox LIVE has some 23 million subscribers with two million watching concurrently.  With such a big, engaged audience, Microsoft has created a hybrid media environment for advertisers seeking to reach 18-34 year-old males. Company executives say the fast growing service has reached a sort of critical mass, on par with a major cable network, and is charging advertisers rates on [...]

Whether you liked the ending of "Lost" or not, the just-ended TV show has generated more buzz than any other show in the social media sphere.  It has averaged more posts and tweets than "American Idol," second among TV shows for online chatter, according to social media monitoring firm Networked Insights. The firm just introduced a TV tracking tool last week [...]

Television stations are aiming to offer new Internet ad opportunities this year, especially surrounding search and hyper-local opportunities, said David Lebow, CEO of Internet Broadcasting, during a recent interview. IBS powers the Web sites for a number of prominent TV station groups such as Hearst, Post-Newsweek, McGraw-Hill, and Meredith. He talked to us about the efforts local broadcasters are focused [...]

One of the most exciting uses of video as performance art can be seen in the current Broadway production of Sondheim on Sondheim. The show is a mix of documentary video footage of theater legend Stephen Sondheim, 80, shown on moving video monitors interspersed with performances of a live cast. We spoke with video artist Peter Flaherty who created the documentary footage [...]

Foursquare, the fast growing location-based social media platform, which now has 1 million active users and is adding about 15,000 per day, is dealing with problems in scaling the service to keep up with demand. To keep up with demand and stay ahead of the small and big players who are targeting the space, Dennis Crowley, founder, is looking for additional [...]

SecondMarket, a new New York-based electronic market place for shares of privately-owned companies and other illiquid assets, has recorded $100 million in sales of Facebook shares over the past 12 months. In this video interview, SecondMarket chief strategy officer Jeremy Smith says that there has been $250 million in transactions over the company's electronic trading system over the past 12 months [...]

David Kirkpatrick, longtime Fortune staffer and author of a much anticipated book about Facebook, says that TechCrunch Disrupt is the "best tech conference ever" in New York.  I caught up with him at the conference yesterday for this video interview. He is speaking today, the last day of the show.David released some news of his own yesterday, plans for new [...]