SAN FRANCISCO -- We caught up with Sarah Milstein, Web strategist and author, who explains how businesses can use Twitter effectively.  We interviewed her at the Web 2.0 Expo last week.In February, she wrote about how Twitter can increase sales. You can follow Sarah on Twitter.  You can follow me here.-- Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

One of the fastest growing media sites is Glam, a site for women that is quickly expanding globally.  Today, the company announced new venture capital investment for expansion into Japan. David Kaplan at paidContent has the story of the super-hot media start-up.I interviewed Steve Jurvetson, managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson and an early investor in Glam last summer at Stanford.  He [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- API, the code which allows content to be used widely in varying formats, is essential to content creators, says Robin Sloan of VP of strategy for CurrentTV In the interview (3:12), Robin speaks about the opportunity for emerging news organizations during this period of turmoil in the media industry.  He says: "If you can be a news organization that does [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Video, which is already a part of Facebook through the use of embeddable players and a few applications, will become more extensive and "social" with the release of the first Adobe Flash toolbox for developers, according to Josh Elman, Facebook platform manager. Beet.TV caught up with him at the Web 2.0 Expo conference earlier this week.Josh told us that Showtime's [...]

China has been increasing its censorship of online video, according to published reports.  I spoke with Rebecca Fannin, a China watcher and author of the Silicon Dragon, last summer at Stanford. In this interview, she explains how video censorship works in China. Video sharing sites employ in-house censors.-- Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

SAN FRANCISCO, CA --  NPR has a comprehensive API offering that allows other web sites, blogs and social media to host content from the radio network. Earlier this week in San Francisco at the Web 2.0 Expo, we interviewed Zach Brand, who heads up digital strategy and operations for NPR.  He spoke about the API from NPR and the opportunity [...]

The future of streaming video is in live events, according to Ustream CEO John Ham, who says that whereas on-demand video services separate viewers, live events bring them together. Ham spoke with Andy about the company’s growth, its new suite for businesses, and the future. He said that producers of live events should leverage them and bring them to a broader audience via live streaming video. Last [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Rich media on Facebook, exemplified by the CNN/Facebook Inauguration collaboration and simple games made by companies like Playfish, have made Facebook an increasingly multimedia experience.  Adobe and Facebook announced the alliance earlier this week. The two companies are collaborating on tools to make the social site more media-rich.Yesterday at Web 2.0 Expo Eric Eldon of Venture Beat [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- We caught up with Charlene Li earlier today at the Web 2.0 Expo show.  Charlene is one of the most respected visionaries in social media.  She shares the basics in how to build the impact for online video.She says while online video is a powerful new medium, its exacting metrics is "a curse.'  She explains that  video [...]

Video RSS feeds, made publicly available by many video publishers, lead to high levels of consumption by subscribers, according to Sean Doherty, founder and CEO of Channels.com. Doherty says in this interview that viewership by RSS subscription leads to greatly increased video views, by a factor as high as 10X versus casual site visitors.  He says effective video RSS provides a [...]

TubeMogul, the video distribution and measurement company based in Emeryville, has raise a $3 million venture round, according to a report by Liz Gannes on NewTeeVee Last spring in Madison Park near our offices  I interviewed TubeMogul founder and CEO Brett Wilson.  I republished it tonight.Beet.TV uses TubeMogul to upload and track our videos across 15 sites and networks.  It's a [...]

"SeeqPod, the popular 'playable media' search service that many music sites use as the foundation for their core offering, has filed a petition for Chapter 11 yesterday.... with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Northern District of California," reports Robin Wauters at TechCrunch. Seems like the Bay Area start-up has been crushed by record companies who have launched major lawsuits.  Last April, [...]

As video consumption becomes increasingly less destination based, video publishers are embracing a strategy to get their content out to where consumers are -- notably in social networks.  Today, Revision3, the producer of Diggnation and several other original online video shows, has announced a deal with iWidgets to bring Diggnation clips to Facebook.Earlier this month in San Francisco at the [...]

HOLLYWOOD -- We couldn't get to the Streamy Awards in LA on Saturday night, but Lon Harris of Mahalo Daily was on the "red carpet" and filed this report.    Great round-up of the creative community involved with original video. Here's a round-up on Mediabistro's FishbowlLA Congrats to all the winners and all the smart, tenacious innovators in our space.-- Andy Plesser, [...]

Saturday night in Los Angeles was the first Streamy Awards, a program recognizing excellence in online video.  Felicia Day won for best actress in a comedy for her work in The Guild. You can find the full report on the awards on NewTeeVee. We caught up with Felicia at last year's SXSW and republished our interview today.  Congrats on all the [...]

The OVGuide.com is an extremely well organized and informative listing of thousands of online video sources.  More that just another aggregator, the site is managed by human editors who discover, review and index an extraordinary range of Web videos and sources.For publishers, the OVGuide.com is driving 100 million video views per month, Chad Cooper told me earlier this month at [...]

We were delighted to hear about Michelle Obama's  plans for an organic vegetable garden on the White House grounds. But were dismayed, along with  many foodie bloggers,  to learn that beets are not a among the 55 varieties of vegetables planned for the garden.  Tara Parker-Pope reported on this in The New York Times reported earlier this week.Not sure if [...]

Intel is seeking the same universal platform for rich media consumption on consumer electronic devices as exists on the Web.  Recently the company announced an electronic "widget" which connects  television sets to Yahoo! content.  Some of these widget-powered TV's went on sale last weekend, PC Week reports. At the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable in San Francisco earlier this month, I spoke [...]

Charles Simonyi, former top Microsoft software engineer, who now heads his own software company, is on his second trip to outerspace.  He was lifted off yesterday aboard a a Russian space craft,  the Associated Press reports. More details from the Seattle P.I. Simonyi and fellow crew members will doc with the International Space Station tomorrow, CBS News reports. Simonyi is founder [...]

Visible Measures, the Boston company which provides independent, third-party measurement firm for online video, has raised a new round of $10 million, the company announced today.  Last summer at Stanford at the AlwaysOn conference, I interviewed CEO Brian Shin.  I have reposted that interview today.-- Andy Plesser,