Web/Tech

The online television listing serving Clicker launched last week, entering the crowded business of online television listings.

How far has the online video business expanded beyond its entertainment roots? So far that the secretary general of NATO is keeping a video blog to stay connected with member countries…

For content providers, metrics are vital to success or failure. Metrics help providers know when their videos are capturing a viewer's attention and when they're not.

Internet startup Cooliris just lost its chief revenue officer to AOL, but the company that developed a 3-D wall for browsing video and images expects to announce several new product and partnership deals later this month and into early November.

SAN FRANCISCO — Because a comment has become currency in the social media world, a company that's built out commenting technology for the Web is now profitable. 

It's one of the most natural habits when online — hitting the back button or clicking over to Google. But the Web services company Apture wants to help publishers avoid that "flight to Google" ……

The video production and matchmaking sector of the online video business is heating up. One of the newest entrants is video production marketplace MediaMobz, a company that joined the Brightcove partner program earlier this month. At the recent Brightcove Alliance event in San Francisco I talked to MediaMobz CEO Dave Toole about competition in the […]

Everyone's searching for a business model that works in the new media world. Well, how about this one? Getting paid.

Partnerships are all the rage in the new media business. Online video technology companies, in fact, are betting on alliances with other like-minded firms to help grow business and win new customers.

SAN FRANCISCO — The idea of clicking on a sweater your favorite TV character is wearing has long been held out as a promised land of interactivity.

Despite the high-profile loss of Hulu content earlier this year, Boxee users are still tuning in: the average Boxee user watches six to seven TV shows and three movies on the Web-to-TV service each week, Boxee CEO Avner Ronen told Beet.TV in an interview earlier this month.

Media executives at News Corp., Disney, and NBC are talking about paid content models online being all the rage, but a new eMarketer report says that’s just not going to happen.

SEATTLE, WA — Internet TV provider thePlatform has an advantage over its competition because it's owned by Comcast. 

As the book business struggles to adjust to the digital age, some publishers are testing multimedia books and Web sites for popular authors.

Firefox 3.5 has been released to the public.   What does it mean and specifically, what could it mean for open standards for Web video? 

I interviewed Alex Castro, founder and CEO of Delve Media, at the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable earlier this month.  Alex explains the value of Delve in a field filled with big, established competitors. 

LOS ANGELES — TMZ, the extremely successful celebrity gossip site and syndicated television show owned by Time Warner, is getting traction with online live streaming. A live streaming video of a parking lot, where Britney Spears was expected, grabbed thousands of viewers for nearly two hours. A recent courthouse appearance by Hulk Hogan’s  son captivated […]

Guy Maddin, the celebrated Canadian film director received a glowing review by A. O. Scott in today’s New York Times for the opening of his "My Winnepeg."  The reviewer writes today: "My Winnipeg” — is as real as any work of art can be." Beet.TV sat down with the filmmaker last week in New York […]

Adobe’s newly introduced desktop application for video, Adobe Media Player, features content from mostly big publishers like CBS.  But it’s a platform for long tail producers too, Beet.TV has learned.  The platform allows consumption of videos from any show that has media RSS feed, according to Deeje Cooley, Adobe’s Internet TV Evangelist and co-creator of […]

NBC Direct, the platform to deliver downloads of high quality programming, is opening its beta testing, according to a report in NewTeeVee.  This is different from Hulu, the joint venture of NBC and News Corp. Hulu streams flash video.  NBC Direct provides a downloaded file  to save and watch in "true" 720 HD. As HD […]