Hey, sorry we can't be in Paris to attend the Le Web conference now getting underway.  But thanks to Ustream, we can watch and interact.  Cest bonne!  Lots of coverage of the conference on TechCrunch.  Also reporting from Paris is AllThingsD's Kara Swisher. Check out Michael Arrington's story from Paris today about French company Netvibes. --Andy Plesser, Executive Producer 

EveryZing, a leader in video search optimization technology, has landed FoxSports.com on MSN as a client, the company announced today. EveryZing is a part of the new Brightcove Alliance, which you can read more about in our previous post. EveryZing's technology will create rich metadata from the FoxSports video clips with speech-to-text technology and then turn the text into easily [...]

Brightcove, the Cambridge-based video publishing platform innovator, has moved to a leadership position among Web video distributors with the creation of a network of companies using its API's as part of their distribution platforms.  This includes, AOL, Yahoo!, Slide, Veoh, Meebo, Metacafe and others.  Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch reports on the announcement of the industry alliance this morning and its [...]

Here at Beet.TV, we have a keen interest in the business opportunity for small online video producers to create large numbers of quality of videos, at low cost -- and make a profit.  That's a business model we at the purple channel aspire to. Seems that some of our colleagues are making substantial progress. According to Tim Shey, co-founder of NextNewNetworks, [...]

Only large publishers with mainstream content--like CNN and Disney--should expect to make significant money from video ad revenue online, according to Benjamin Wayne, CEO of white-label plug-and-play video solution Fliqz. "It really doesn't get interesting from a revenue perspective unless you can get to 20 or 30 million impressions a month. And when you consider that the top ten consumer [...]

Social entertainment center Boxee has been one of Beet's favorite start-ups since its alpha launch this summer. It's been improving steadily since then, and today it announced that Netflix subscribers can now stream movies through the site's Watch Instantly feature and that is has expanded its television content to include thewb.com shows like Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Boxee already streams [...]

Bloggrunner, a mostly automatic news aggregator owned by The New York Times Company, has been surfacing up related stories from many blogs and news sources (including Beet.TV) to its technology and other pages since last November. In a big step forward in the integration with The Times, links organized by Bloggrunner are now on a new sort of the home [...]

Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera today announced the introduction of human editors to the automated news aggregator.  Gabe lays out his reasons on the site today.  TechCrunch's Michael Arrington wonders if it will spoil the system;  TechCrunch is the single most popular news source on Techmeme, so I can see why Michael might have some concerns. We'll see how this all [...]

On-demand web video service Joost's new (and free) iPhone application, launched Monday, streams its entire online library of 45,000-plus videos to users on WiFi networks, according to CEO Mike Volpi. A large portion of the library will be available on 3G within a month: "The technology is basically ready," he says. Volpi spoke to me about the launch from London [...]

Video search works, particularly around professionally-produced content.  Suranga Chandratillake, CEO of  Blinkx, the London/San Francisco-based video search engine, told TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld in this segment from the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable that his company is serving ads on 80-90 percent of professionally produced content and on 10-20 percent on user-generated content.  The ads are both display and in-stream. Here is [...]

ExtendMedia has raised an additional venture round of $10 million, Liz Gannes of NewTeeVee confirms tonight. News of the funding was first reported by peHUB. In October of 2007, I interviewed CEO Keith Kocho. He speaks about the ScanDisk project, which has since been canceled.   I've republished the interview here. -- Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

The Huffington Post has raised an additional $25 million in venture funding, according to a report this morning by Kara Swisher of AllThingsD.  In a subsequent post, she reports that the Huff Post has formally announced the news. In January, I interviewed Huff Post investor and board member Eric Hippeau of SoftBank about the value of the media property for venture [...]

CNN's live streaming channel has had continuous coverage of the attacks in Mumbai since the events first broke on Wednesday at just after 1 p.m. EST.  CNN's live coverage has gotten 1.4 million views as of 11:30 a.m. EST, a CNN spokeswoman told me. We have seen how live streaming of events has taken hold with the presidential election.  The tragedy [...]

As the world has tuned into to live coverage of breaking news on network news channels, others found videos on demand on most of the major news sites and on YouTube, which has uploads of coverage of Indian broadcasters.  I've posted the video below.  We haven't seen much in the way of user-generated video yet, although there many dramatic photos [...]

Consumers planning to buy a Wii Fit or Blackberry Storm this holiday season should act fast: Those are some of the gadgets that will disappear first this holiday season, according to the great Sold Out Guide on shopping blog Shefinds.com. Last month, I interviewed SheFinds.com founder Michelle Madhok about the Web 3.0 concept behind the site. "Web 2.0 was all [...]

Stephen Shankland has done a little research on adoption of Chrome, the recently introduced Web browser from Google. He finds that 3.6 percent of visitors to CNET used Chrome in October, up from just one percent in September. While CNET users are earlier adopters, the general population uses Chrome less one percent, he finds. In September, Kelsey interviewed Google Marissa Mayer [...]

Adobe has selected video at network YuMe to help serve advertising into its streaming and downloaded content, YuMe announced today. Andy interviewed Adobe's Craig Barberich last summer, when the Adobe Media Player originally launched, about inserting adveritising into the Adobe Media Player's downloadable video. I republished the interview above. Advertising can be served on Adobe Media Player videos even when [...]

Kyte has launched new monetization with major ad server integrations and mobile web apps, the company announced today.  Danial Graf, president and CEO of Kyte, spoke with Kelsey about these and others developments immediately after the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable last month in New York at MSNBC. For more on this development, check out these posts by  Josh Lowensohn at CNET and Erick [...]

Microsoft has gained exclusive rights to the second season of web series "The Guild," Chris Albrecht at NewTeeVee reports today. The show will be shown across the Xbox, MSN and Zune platforms, but creator Felicia Day, who TV Week's Daisy Whitney interviewed at SXWV 2008 with Beet, will retain intellectual property rights. So if the web series makes it to [...]

For some time, Beet.TV has been available on the iPod and the iPhone, in the form of a downloaded file via iTunes.  Now, those clever engineers at Blip.tv have a work around to allow iPhone owners watch videos streamed on demand.  Very cool development.  Meghan Keane over at Epicenter has the story along with comments from Mike Hudack, CEO of [...]