NEW YORK -- Dana Perino, former White House Press Secretary to President George Bush, thinks that President Obama's use of online video for his weekly addresses is "great."  Perino, now a Fox News commentator and public relations executive with Burson-Marsteller, was in New York today as speaker in Federated Media's media and marketing conference.  She was interviewed onstage by John [...]

Gordon Crovitz, former longtime publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has partnered with Steven Brill and Leo Hindrey to create an e-commerce company for news publishers to charge for content.  Crovitz was an attendee last week in California at the Journal's D: All Things Digital conference. In this interview conducted with Beet.TV, he explains that news brands can charge an [...]

John Battelle, a pioneer in publishing who was the first publisher of WIRED and the Industry Standard, has been running an ad agency for blogs and other niche publishers called Federated Media. I caught up with him last week in Carlsbad, California at the Wall Street Journal's D:All Things Digital Conference.  John explains how his company provides value to marketers by [...]

Rainbow Media’s IFC.com plans to introduce an original Web series each month from July through November, the company told Beet.TV. In an interview at his New York office, Michael Depuy, director of product development, said the Web original slate is part of the media company’s expanding efforts in video across all platforms. “Video is the vital aspect of our Web strategy. [...]

One of the most striking aspects of Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft, is how it organizes video search results on a page of living thumbnails.  So, unlike other video search which organizes still thumbnails and must be clicked to a destination to view, Bing somehow makes its thumbnails live by rolling over the image.You can find a page [...]

Having dominated rich media design, Adobe is bringing its development and design tools to business applications.  Companies including SAP are using Flash to create apps. Today, the company released new tools.  Adobe's Dave Gruber came by Beet.TV to explain the importance of this development.  Anthony Ha at VentureBeat gives an overview on the news.  For a story on how this will [...]

Robert Levitan, chairman and founder of Pando Networks, a P2P distribution company with 30 million installs and major clients including NBC, says that P2P is an essential tool in video content delivery, and he says it can save publishers up to 75 percent of delivery costs. He says the inherent limits in the public Internet makes P2P adoption important and [...]

Earlier this month, Verizon introduced the Mi-Fi service, which allows for up to five Wi-Fi connections from pretty much anywhere the carrier has 3G coverage. The speeds average between 700 Kbps and 1.4 MBps, divided by the number of devices connected at any given time. New York Times technology columnist David Pogue called the service “amazing” in a recent review. Brooke [...]

The "metabolism of news production at the Wall Street Journal has gone way up," says Almar Latour, managing editor of the Wall Street Journal Online in this interview with Beet.TV I sat down with Almar on Tuesday afternoon in the press room of the D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California.He explained the paper's evolution to real time reporting and [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif -- One of the most talked about sessions here at D: All Things Digital was Wednesday's one-on-one on stage conversation between Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz and co-executive editor Kara Swisher.  The session was informative and very entertainment.  A video of the session can be seen below.Late Wednesday night I caught up with Kara for an interview about the [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif -- Bing, the new Microsoft search engine debuted here yesterday, is different. What impressed me most is how Bing creates rich, well organized environments to do research, find entertainment and buy things -- complete with toll free phone numbers.  For operators of e-commerce site or entertainment destination sites, particularly those who rely on display advertising, Bing is something to [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif --  Wireless giant Verizon is preparing its network to launch 4G technology in 20 to 30 markets in 2010, the company’s spokesman John Johnson told Beet.TV at the D: All Things Digital conference.  4G is the next-generation of wireless technology that should support better multimedia and video streaming on cell phones. Verizon’s goal is to generate more usage of [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif –  Bing, the new search engine unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today, has many extraordinary aspects.   Watching the demo in the ballroom of the Four Seasons this morning, I was blown away by how video search results are displayed. They appear on a page as thumbnail images, but somehow, as they are scrolled over, the thumbnail plays as [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif -- Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, told me that while Twitter "breaks" stories, it is not the whole picture and "journalists and reporters" are essential to make this work. I caught up with Biz and co-founder Evan Williams on Tuesday night after they kicked off the D: All Things Digital conference.Andy Plesser, Executive ProducerYou can find me blogging on [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif  -- Thomson Reuters today announced this morning here the All Things Digital conference,  that CBS Interactive has become the first corporate customer to integrate its semantic Web publishing platform.  Here is an extensive story on the technology from Steven Shankland at CNET News.com.  Here's the take by Richard MacMananus at Read Write Web.Yesterday, I interviewed Krista Thomas [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif --- Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is interviewed by Almar Latour about the iPhone's impact on the cellphone market.  Kallasvuo calls the introduction of the iPhone a "wake up call" to his company. They spoke about the introduction of a new multimedia mobile device, the N97 and the opening this week of an online app store from Nokia. Latour is [...]

Is "Prison Break's" Michael really dead?That's what Fox wanted viewers to wonder before the series finished its run on May 15. But the studio that created the show -- 20th Century Fox Television -- also relied on a well-timed social media strategy to generate interest in the character's fate, the final episode, and two never-before-seen episodes releasing on DVD in [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif -- Jill Sobuble, the singer-songwriter who had a hit back in 1995 with Clueless with the songs "I Kissed a Girl" and "Supermodel," was a hit as the opening act for the "D: All Things Digital" conference last night. "Rupert/ they took our picture/you gave me a warm hug/ it was really disconcerting. I've never been a big fan/ [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif -- After their on stage chat with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, Biz Stone and Evan Williams did this interview with MarketWatch's Therese Poletti.  The guys tell her that building the company from an operational standpoint is most important, but the company will have revenue by the end of this year.Brad Stone at The New York Times gave [...]

CARLSBAD, Calif -- Earlier tonight at the D: All Things Digital conference, co-hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher presented results of an independent survey, commissioned by the Wall Street Journal, that found limited acceptance or knowledge of Twitter by most Americans and limited use by its registered users. They presented the findings in the context of their on stage chat [...]