Media

Natali Del Conti,  CNET Senior Editor and host of "Loaded," is finding some good exposure from the acquisition of CNET by CBS which closed this week. Natali has been doing several appearances on the CBS Early Show over the past few weeks.  Now CNET is returning the favor by publishing a video of Harry Smith […]

LOS ANGELES — Instead of the $10 million spent for network pilots, creative web producers are beginning to fill the critical role of program development, according Vince Manze, president at  NBC Universal Creative Services.  Although Quarterlife didn’t work out for NBC as had been hoped, it wasn’t a big financial loss.  There will more pioneering […]

Vint Cerf, a computer scientist who is most often called the "father of the Internet," says that the popularity and demand for online video will mean that the distribution will eventually be done "in download mode," not streaming, which is pervasive today.

HOLLYWOOD — Here on Wednesday night at the Henry Fonda Theater, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley kicked off YouTube’s debut of a new showcase for long and short-form films.   Beet.TV was on the scene. The YouTube Screening Room has attracted several highly regarded filmmakers — and not just for the online exposure of the mega video […]

HOLLYWOOD — I met up with Taz "TI$A" Arnold on Tuesday night at the AlwaysOn party.  Taz was a panelist with fellow urban music innovators moderated by Quincy "QD3" Jones III. (An interview with Jones is being cut.) It is extremely instructive to learn how artists are embracing digital media with great success.  Last week, […]

Beet.TV reported yesterday that Robert Scoble – the famed corporate blogger at Microsoft – would be leaving the company for a start-up, PodTech.net. Here founder John Furrier talks about the news of Robert’s company switch breaking at Vloggercon, and the official announcement to come later tonight.  He also explains what Robert will bring to PodTech.net. […]

Click To Play Intel gets it – We caught up with Becky Brown at Intel at Vloggercon – Intel was there to find out what vloggers want and to share their latest platform, Viiv Technology. Here Becky explains how Viiv will let the consumer have what they want, at home when they want it. — […]

A topic on everyone’s mind at the Vloggercon conference has been business models – is there a way to make money off of this hobby/tool/fad? The folks at Rocketboom were certainly asked about their model during their turn on the stage – apparently some of their ads go for upwards of $85,000 dollars a week! […]

One of the coolest things about Vloggercon is all the digital and video cameras.  Imagine 400 vloggers with everything from tiny digital cameras to professional camcorders. What a scene. Scoble is very proud of his Sony HD. (Beet.TV uses the Panasonic DVC 30) In his comments, he really frames the power and value of video […]

I caught up with vlogger’s most enthusiastic booster Peter Van Dijck, a founder of Vloggercon.  Peter is astonished by all the developments in video blogging over the last two years. He says it’s a very exciting time and we’re all pioneers.  Thanks to Peter and to everyone who has organized a fantastic conference. More updates […]

Robert W. Scoble, the pioneering video blogger, will leave Microsoft Corporation where he lead corporate blogging at Microsoft and paved the way for many other companies and individuals to do the same. Beet.TV has confirmed that he will be joining a Silicon Valley start-up, PodTech.Net, a company founded by John Furrier. The Palo Alto based […]

Robert Scoble has defined the role of blogging in the corporation. The long-time blogger for Microsoft is a trailblazer with his blog. What some of us didn’t realize is that he is an early adopter of the video blog idea. He’s been creating video for his blog since the beginning. His title is "Technical Evangelist" […]

Henry Jenkins, the leading academic thinker on media convergence, is perfectly clear about this point: the consumer is gaining control — and not merely by creating their own home-grown blogs and social networks, but in the emerging influence they exert over traditional media.  It’s an inexorable force, whose implications will have a profound impact over […]

It was great to catch up with Hunter Walk, a product manager in the Google Video group.  As you probably know, Google is still in Beta on its video platform. The company has recently initiated new ways to upload video that seems to be much easier.  We learned that uploaded video is immediately given a […]

Click To Play We caught up with Stuart Elliott outside the office of the New York Times this week. The longtime ad industry watcher sees this as a particularly exciting time in the advertising world. He sees a great deal of exploration happening on a variety of new media platforms. Stuart is fascinated with all […]

Click To Play Ken Auletta is certainly the most insightful, informed and connected media journalist working today. For all of us interested in understanding what is happening with the media, his articles in the New Yorker are a must read. I wanted to ask Ken how traditional media is making the transition to the “new.” […]

Click To Play David Carr, media columnist for The New York Times has been one of the most astute chroniclers of media transformation for quite a while. We have enjoyed reading his view on things since the good old days of Inside.com in the late ’90’s.  David is a Renaissance man; not only does he […]

Click To Play Looking at clips on YouTube, Google Video, video blogs and various video aggregation sites, we find lots of sophomoric humor and some just plain asinine behavior. Is the face of community content really going to be so silly? Are the young people being empowered with video and these new content sharing platforms […]

What are the social forces at work behind "Web 2.0"  — what’s with all this social networking, why are young people displaying the personal information and images in public — what does this mean to the future of society?  How can the mainstream media remain relevant?  These are many of the questions we try to […]

More business people are consuming video as part of their daily business intelligence diet. But I’ve often wondered if busy execs can sit through long video presentations and streaming conferences. Will people really have time to sit and watch video? Is it engaging? What works? Seeking a smart guy to ask, I went to the […]