Online video is both hugely different from television and brings more value to TV, CNNMoney.com Anchor Poppy Harlow told Beet.TV earlier this month. One of the main anchor's for the site and a rising journalism star, Ms. Harlow helms much of the site's daily video coverage. The more flexible medium of the Web has its advantages, she told us. "We put 20 [...]

Collaboration is the new watchword in the advertising, production and online video businesses, Daisy Whitney reports in this week's New Media Minute. She explains how agencies, production houses and creators are turning to tools from Adobe, Wiredrive, and Facebook to craft new projects, including "Mass Animation" in which animators from around the world contributed shots for the upcoming short film [...]

Wikipedia has only about 3000 scattered videos on its site, but that may change as the site will allow easier uploading and collaborative editing, Technology Reports. David Talbot pens the extensive cover story of the September/October issue which explores the development of the open video movement and where it may go.  A must read.Earlier this summer, I interviewed Erik Moller, Deputy [...]

Collaboration is the new watchword in the advertising, production and online video businesses. In this week's New Media Minute I explain how agencies, production houses, and creators are turning to tools from Adobe, Wiredrive, and Facebook to craft new projects. One of these is "Mass Animation" in which animators from around the world contributed shots for the upcoming short film Live [...]

NEW YORK, NY -- TIME.com relaunched its video pages today, with a larger/HD player, integration with social media, and video sorting under "most popular," "this week," and other categories. To get an overview on the new video functionality, we visited TIME.com managing editor Josh Tryangiel for this overview on the redesign.The site is powered by Brightcove, with much of the public [...]

Market7, a San Francisco-based start-up that offers video project management as a software solution, is providing its services to Google, the company announced today. We've been hearing good things about the company.  This is the first customer announcement.Google's in-house video team has used Market7 for the production of 120 videos this year.  These  include promotional and instructional videos.Earlier this year at [...]

REDMOND, WA -- Microsoft Silverlight, the new Web multimedia platform, is "one of the fastest Web plug-in's," with one third of the world's PC's having the program installed, said Chris Swenson, Senior Strategy Officer in this interview with Beet.TV at Microsoft headquarters. He say that there are 400,000 developers and designers using Silverlight tools.  Update: Silverlight goes open source with Novell's [...]

NPR has expanded its mobile offering with a new iPhone application including audio and text transcriptions, paidContent reported last night. In San Francisco in March, we spoke with NPR's digital strategist Zach Brand about the new open API and the ideas around this new move to multi-platform syndication.We have republished this today.Andy Plesser, Managing Editor

It was forty years ago this weekend that Jimi Hendrix closed the Woodstock festival with one of his greatest performances.   Great to grab this historic clip from Google Video.  It is nearly his entire set. The audio track is quite clean.  Enjoy.Below is video news story about Woodstock and its legacy by Travis Fox at the Washington Post.Andy Plesser

Staci Kramer at paidContent reports that Journalism Online, a new company which manages subscription and paid transactions for online publishers, has "letters of intent" from over 500 newspapers. In May at the Wall Street Journal's AllthingsD conference near San Diego, I interviewed Gordon Crovitz, a co-founder of Journalism Online a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal.I have republished the [...]

Nielsen's report on video traffic showed more astounding growth for YouTube, with 7 billion videos streamed to 100 million unique visitors. For us, the big news is the arrival of Blinkx to number 10 site with 85 milllion video streams. (See table below) Blinkx is not a video sharing site or a media company, but a video search engine.  While many [...]

Big jump in traffic in July for ABCNews.com.  According to Nielsen, the site has passed the NYTimes.com and FoxNews.com in traffic with over 16 million unique visitors. David Cohen at Mediabistro's WebNewser has the details and a memo from ABC News president David Weston.Earlier this year, I spoke with Paul Slavin who heads of digital operations at ABCNews.com. We have [...]

SEATTLE, WA -- There has been much talk about the emergence of "TV Anywhere," an initiative from Comcast and Time Warner which allows cable TV subscribers to log into their cable menu on their PC's, regardless of where a subscriber may be. As more and more young consumers watch television on a computer, the industry is taking this new strategy.  This [...]

SAN JOSE, Calif -- Cisco and Warner Music Group have expanded the use of Eos, Cisco's content management system, to power a number of Warner artist web sites and their branded media and social networks. Earlier this year we interviewed Cisco Sr VP Dan Scheinman who talks about Eos, a software as a solution product.  We have republished that interview today.Here [...]

Boxee, the maker of a software program that turns a computer into multimedia "box" for online video and other digital content, has raised a new round of funding, the company announced today. The B-round comes from General Catalyst Partners.  Here's a report by Caroline McCarthy at CNET News.com and by MG Siegler at TechCrunch.  And, here's Brad Stone's take. We spoke [...]

REDMOND, WA -- MSNBC.com,  the first major video news organization to provide sharable videos, has found booming usage of its videos off its site, notably on the Huffington Post. We interviewed Charles Tillinghast, president and publisher of MSNBC.com at the company's Redmond headquarters.Seeking to monetize this "off-the-site" consumption of video, the company will soon insert advertising into its embeddable player.  Managing [...]

Verizon customers have been upping their consumption of Blip.tv shows on Verizon's cable video-on-demand service and that's one of the reasons the telco is now offering shows from the video-sharing site to its DVR customers, Verizon's Garrett Rieman told Beet.TV at a Blip.tv event in New York recently. The news of the expanded partnership came as part of a slew of [...]

Today, Livestream, a live Web video services provider, announced an integration with Brightcove.  It also announced the availability of its API. This enables Brightcove customers to use Livestream to present live programming on the their Brightcove player. Very cool development. While "live" has value for some publishers, we think the greater opportunity for Brightcove customers is to build 24/7, continuous playing channels. [...]

The age old question in Web video is what type of ads work best. To reach a true consensus on the best ad formats, online video should learn from the cable business. Everyone wants to have their say on ads, from ESPN to MTV to YouTube to media agency Starcom. In this week's New Media Minute, I also suggest an end [...]

Roku, maker of the the $99 box that brings high quality broadband video to the television set, is now providing all Major League Baseball games as one part of the MLB.com premium subscription of  $34.95. While MLB.com has found success with its online subscription business and has recently added the iPhone and iPhone Touch to its live platforms, this is the [...]