GigaOM, VentureBeat and ReadWriteWeb will be part of expanded technology coverage at the NYTimes.com, the paper announced today.  The announcement is part of a redesign of business pages along with a major increase in coverage in a number of sectors including "green" tech and economic issues. The redesigned page goes live today. Yesterday I interviewed Vindu Goel, deputy technology editor at The [...]

Wow, so great to see Don Reisinger's post on TechCrunch about Beet.TV, highlighting our coverage of the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco earlier this month.  It was a huge task for our little crew, but we got up nearly 40 videos of the show. We are delighted with our association with TechCrunch, which involves the syndication of our videos onto CrunchBase. [...]

The Associated Press announced today that it has chosen the Seattle-based video management and publishing company thePlatform to bring broader coverage and higher-quality video to its Online Video Network. For the first time, the AP's 2,100 affiliate sites will be able to post AP videos to their destination pages using an embeddable player. Andy interviewed thePlatform CEO Ian Blaine in [...]

Adap.TV, the start-up which allows video producers to insert video advertising from multiple ad networks, has raised $13 million Series B funding, TechCrunch reported last night.  I interviewed founder and CEO Amir Ashkinazi in Hollywood in May. Here's the take by Liz Gannes at NewTeeVee. I've republished the interview today.  Congrats, Amir. Here's the company press release. -- Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

TimesPeople, the social network where registered users share their interests, will become fully integrated into the NYTimes.com tonight as it becomes part of the site's navigation.  Also, it will work with all browsers. Previously, it worked only as a Firefox plug-in. Here's an image of the soon to be updated Times toolbar with TimesPeople in the right on the navigation bar. [...]

As we watch the carnage on Wall Street, we wonder about how the venture capital community, the lifeblood of technology start-ups, is going to fare.  This afternoon I was over at the New York Times to interview Vikas Bajaj about the turmoil on Wall Street.  Vikas and Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote the story in today's paper about Goldman and Morgan [...]

PubMatic, an optimization service that helps publishers earn more ad dollars, announced the launch of AdFlex today, a targeted, on-demand publishing inventory for ad networks. Andy interviewed PubMatic President Rajeev Goel at the Omma Global conference last week. PubMatic yields a 30-70 percent revenue lift for the 4,000-plus publishers it works with, Goel says. The company decides with of the 25-30 [...]

LG15: The Resistance, the long-awaited follow-up to LonelyGirl15, premiered Saturday to positive reviews. In the new web series from EQAL, LonelyGirl15 characters Jonas and Sarah return to battle evil secret society The Order--and perhaps an even higher threat. I reposted my interview with EQAL CEO Miles Beckett about the series last month; click here to read my original post. The [...]

General Electric is currently evaluating which company's web applications to add to its 400,000 computers worldwide, and a start-up called Zoho has risen to become a serious contender against Microsoft and Google. Unconfirmed reports are circulating that GE already chose Zoho, but Oliver Marks at ZDNET set the record straight today about the claims:"For the record...no decision has been made [...]

Branded content is still a relatively new and developing advertising format, but Ogilvy & Mather is ahead of the curve: In June 2007, while many digital ad agencies were still experimenting, it launched the high-production 12-episode web series "In Search of Real Food" on Yahoo for Unilever's Hellmann's. The second season, Real Food Summer School with Bobby Flay, launched May [...]

OVGuide, the fast-growing and well-funded Los Angeles-based online video guide, has extended search capabilities on the site, it announced today.  Unlike a site like Truveo or Google Video which casts a global net, the OVGuide discovers, tracks and organizes online video sites which its editors find valuable. The site is backed by David Bohnett, founder of GeoCities. We are pleased that Beet.TV [...]

Greed and the expectation of the level of high returns enjoyed during the stock market boom of the late nineties has powered the excess in the credit markets which have lead to the current financial crisis, says Alan Murray, Deputy Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal. The pain is just being felt and will likely impact hedge private equity [...]

Diggnation, the popular weekly tech/geek/lifestyle show hosted by Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht, has landed a big one-year sponsorship with Anheuser-Busch's Michelob, NewTeeVee's Liz Gannes reported last night.  The two hosts drink beer during the show, favoring obscure and tasty microbrews.  Michelob?  Liz says they will be drinking the new micro's introduced by the beer giant. Looks like the commercialization of online video [...]

On Tuesday, the WSJ.com unveiled a long anticipated site redesign. It launched to record  traffic, thanks to upheaval in the financial markets.  Yesterday, I sat down with Wall Street Journal Deputy Managing Editor Alan Murray to talk about the redesign. One of the most significant new developments is the "social" aspect of the site.  Registered users, using their real names, comment [...]

The technology boom of the late nineties, and its subsequent bust in 2000, led institutions to create exotic financial instruments to duplicate the steep gains enjoyed during the boom, says professor John H. Vogel Jr, a real estate expert at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Earlier this month I sat down with Professor Vogel at the Tuck School in [...]

Yesterday at at Web 2.0 conference, my colleague Mary Kathleen Flynn over at The Deal's TechConfidential caught up with Fred Wilson, Tim O'Reilly, the EQAL guys and others over at the show.  Fred has sobering comments about the impact of the financial meltdown on the funding of start-ups.  Although money is tougher to get, burnrates are much more reasonable, so [...]

ABC Television has just introduced a sharable video player for short-form segments from its entertainment line-up. I've posted the player here on Beet.TV. Later tonight the company will introduce a revamped video player, with a greatly enhanced user interface. Earlier today in New York at the OMMA conference, I interviewed Albert Cheng, Executive Vice President of Digital Media for Disney-ABC Television Group. The [...]

Michael Learmonth, who has been covering the the online video space for Silicon Alley Insider for the past several months, and has been beating the pants off many of his colleagues with numerous scoops, is leaving the Insider to join Advertising Age, Beet.TV has learned. Michael is one of the best reporters on digital media we know, having cut his teeth at [...]

  Not only was this past Saturday Night Live's broadcast a big hit on television, with its biggest season premiere audience since 2001, it has created the most popular online video clip ever published by NBC, a network spokesperson has told Beet.TV.  The opening Sarah Palin/Hilary Clinton skit performed by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler has been streamed 5 million times. While [...]

  The New York Times broke its record for daily visits to its Website with close to 9 million yesterday (9/16), a spokesperson has told Beet.TV, citing internal numbers.  The upheaval on Wall Street, coupled with the presidential campaign and hurricanes have added to to the record numbers, a spokesperson told me late this afternoon. Traffic has been building for sometime at [...]