Later today at CES, Cisco is expected to announce a sophisticated consumer teleconferencing product, a slimmer extension of the very pricey TelePresence system for big businesses and governments, according to a report by Maggie Reardon of CNET News.com. While live interactive video exists on video chat, on Skype and on platforms such as Paltalk, the developments from Cisco means that high [...]

LAS VEGAS--At CES, HP announced a new line of PC's and netbooks, their inexpensive and powerful mini PC's that come with storage drive mapped to an external "cloud."  The drive appears as physical drive in My Computer. HP provides 2 GB of capacity for free and can provide up to 500 GB on a payment basis.  The drive is accessible to [...]

At CES this week, Intel will unveil the new integrated GPU called Intel HD Graphics.   Last month in New York, we got preview of the new chips.  The image quality of gaming and video are striking.  And, the Intel chips are beginning to be used on consumer electronics, as we see in this video. Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

Now that the new decade has started, what new media trends should you be looking out for? In this first New Media Minute of the year, I share five trends and five companies that exemplify them. So keep an eye on data targeting provider Blue Kai, Web-to-TV technology firm Clearleap, location-based gaming platform SCVNGR, 3-D TV firm 3ality Digital, and online [...]

Twitter has become a useful reporting tool as well as a big driver of traffic to paidContent, the influential digital media blog. I spoke with editor and publisher Rafat Ali about how his company is using Twitter.  We caught up in his New York office.  This is the third of three interviews we have published.  You can follow him at @rafatali You [...]

For several years, digital executives in Hollywood have been developing a format to allow consumers to purchase digital files of films and watch them on various devices. The industry has lined up in a group called the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE). This week at CES, the group will unveil the new technology along with many technology and media partners including Microsoft, [...]

KickApps, social media platform provider, has begun to offer publishers a premium services tool for video publishing. The New York-based company is among the first companies to use Adobe's new open source media framework. KickApps has raised $32 million and has 90 employees in five offices.  I caught up with CEO Alex Blum to talk about the value of video in [...]

With a rich trove of demographic data and e-mail addresses, the Obama campaign leveraged the power of video by producing and distributing content to its targeted constituents.  At the Beet.TV Online Video Roundatable on December 1, 2010, former campaign video strategist and producer Max Harper explained how the Obama campaign used data to maximize results from its videos. Andy Plesser, [...]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- Google recently introduced real-time search functionality to Google searches on PC's, the iPhone, and Android devices.   Earlier this month, our Daisy Whitney visited with Google's Dylan Casey for an explanation of the value of real-time search and movement of Google Trends out of Google Labs.This is the second of two interviews with Casey on the topic of [...]

In 2010, online advertising will modestly recover, content "farms" will grow,  the IPO pipeline will open a crack and media M&A will increase as media companies look to buy and targets have "rational" valuations, says Rafat Ali, Editor & Publisher of paidContent. We caught up with Rafat earlier this month for an overview of the year ahead in digital media.Many of [...]

Our very own Daisy Whitney will be covering the NATPE annual B2B video platform event in Las Vegas from January 25-27, 2010.  In this video, Daisy talks about the show.Update:  NAPTE just announced the final show line-up.Hope to see you there.Andy Plesser, Executive Producer Disclosure:  Beet.TV is a media sponsor of the NATPE conference.

Getting site visitors to click on videos is a challenge for publishers.  Many, including the Atlantic Monthly, are finding better success when videos are embedded in stories, rather than in separate video sections. These are the comments of Scott Havens, who heads digital operations for the Atlantic.  He was previously at Portfolio and Yahoo.  He says that videos within some articles [...]

Just as Google Maps allows users to put images onto their sites, there will be an open API for Google's "Fast Flip," Google's Josh Cohen tells Beet.TV in this video interview. Fast Flip, which is still in beta in Google Labs, is a platform which allows news publishers to have their content cached and presented on a Google page.  Earlier [...]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- Do a Google search for your favorite (embattled) celebrity or hot news story and the results will likely include Web sites, articles, recent blog posts, and FriendFeed and Twitter updates. The search giant recently rolled out what it calls "real-time search" to deliver the most up-to-the-second Web content on a search topic, and Google product manager [...]

The fast-changing media landscape, topics spanning the emerging "content farms," payment schemes for online video, micro-payments for news content, and the impact of mobile and e-books, will be addressed at the paidContent media summit in New York on February 19. Last week, I spoke with paidContent editor and publisher Rafat Ali in his New York offices for an overview of the [...]

Earlier this year, Justin.tv, the San Francisco-based live video site, dialed back its relationship with Akamai to serve its enormous live video traffic in-house, Evan Solomon tells Beet.TV in this interview.  The company has 250 servers in four locations in the United States and a fifth planned for the U.K. The company continues to use Akamiai to host its static pages [...]

The NFL is finding growing viewership to its cable network and online site.  Saturday night's New Orleans Saints vs. Dallas Cowboys had 10.1 million views on television and over 1 million streams of the game online, both records, the NFL announced tonight. Last month we spoke with the NFL's Laura Goldberg about the league's digital strategy.  We have republished the interview [...]

Justin.tv, the big live Web video site that says it has 35 million monthly views, will launch a pay-per-view platform next month for a few content creators and then roll it out across the entire network in Q2. This would mark the first time that one of the big live Web streaming sites have launched a paid service.  Channel creators can [...]

Live Web video around events is the fastest growing sector for Livestream, says founder and CEO Max Haot. Max told the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable in Washington earlier this month that live video would comprise as much as half of the video watched in five years.His comments came after Stokes Young, Multimedia Editor for MSNBC.com, explained how live programming around big [...]

Authors and publishers have been using online video to build engagement with readers and to find new ones.   With traditional book publicity opportunities and store signings on the wane, having an online strategy is a necessity. These videos reside on destination sites, on publisher sites, on author pages, and on social networks.At the Mediabistro eBook Summit this week, I caught up [...]