Andy Plesser

In Las Vegas last week at the NATPE convention, Daisy caught up with Ross Levinsohn, former digital chief at News Corp and now a venture capitalist at Fuse Capital.

Robin Sloan, formerly a top online strategist at Current TV is headed to Twitter to manage media partnerships, he announced on his blog.

Ooyala, the two-year old online video services company, is putting a big effort around its live streaming platform.  It will get considerable  exposure with the live streaming of the Grammy Awards pre-show, the "red carpet" and back stage activity.

LAS VEGAS, FreeWheel, the video advertising platform, is off to a strong start, with new customers in Turner and and VEVO, the company announced earlier this week at the NAPTE convention. 

Break.com, the Los Angeles-based video portal for young men, has expanded into social games, the company announced earlier this week.

Howcast, the two year-old producer and distributor of how-to short form videos, is on track to reach profitability this year, co-founder and COO Daniel Blackman said in this interview.

Kyte, the video services platform, has announced significant improvement to its user interface and range of services.

Justin.tv has changed its user interface which it hopes will be easier for users to users.  The company made the announced earlier today.

Recent moves by YouTube and Vimeo to preliminarily embrace HTM5, a technology for publishing video directly onto Web pages, using an open source code, has been generating a lot of excitement, but not from the Mozilla Foundation which manages the Firefox browser.

Brightcove, the big online video services company, has announced an initiative to enable its customers to participate in the much anticipated initiative known as "TV Everywhere."

Ustream, one of the big live streaming video sites, announced on Friday that it is beginning a pay-per-view scheme on some of the sites channels. 

Google co-founder Sergey Brin conceded in an interview that Google’s management lacks "emotional intelligence," said the New Yorker's Ken Auletta, author of the best-selling book "Googled: The End of the World as We Know it."

This is no joke:  JibJab, the video site which got its name from funny political video cartoons, is the second fastest growing media property on the Web, according to a report just released by comScore.

Earlier today, Brightcove, a providers of video publishing and distribution services, debuted its live platform in streaming a news-making speech by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the topic of Internet Freedom.

Significant news today that YouTube is experimenting with HTML5, a web-based, non-player platform to watch video.  Whether this open-source movement will be broadly embraced is too early to say.

Ooyala, the Mount View,California based video services company, started in 2007 by former Googlers, has landed its first big newspaper publisher, the Telegraph Media Group of the U.K., which includes the Telegraph newspaper.

Vook, a company which publishes books in a multimedia mix of text and video for the iPhone and on the browser, is quickly ramping-up production with 250 new titles planned for this year, according to founder and CEO Brad Inman.

Users of Verizon FiOS now have the opportunity to upgrade to a symmetrical connection speed of 35mps up and down, the company has announced.  The previous offering was 35 up and 20 down. 

As newsrooms shrink, newspapers are looking to a new crop of outside reporting organizations for specialized content. These new outlets might have their own agenda and bias, reports Richard Perez-Pena in The New York Times. 

CNN.com's iReport, the news organization's site for the public to upload video and photos of news, has become a database and clearing house to connect survivors  of the earthquake.