Andy Plesser

Late last month, the Amsterdam-based museum Ann Frank House launched a channel on YouTube.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt doesn’t accept that his company is a sort of “vampire,” sucking blood out of our newspapers. He says that because Google plays such a central role in the Internet, “we’ve been somewhat used to being blamed for everything.”

We are publishing the live streaming of the Online News Association meeting here.  Evan Williams, Twitter co-founder is live now (12:45 p.m. ET)

BigThink, the video site featuring stylized video clips of leading thinkers in culture, politics, the economy, and academia, is expanding its scope in the academic world, Victoria Brown, co-founder and CEO told me.

Cisco is greatly expanding its capabilities in the video conferencing business with the acquisition of Norway's Tandberg for $3 billion in cash, in a deal announced earlier today.

NEW YORK — In the fast-changing landscape of digital book publishing there is now something called a vook, a product and company which is a hybrid of text and video, delivered on the Web and as an iPhone download .

About.com, the online network of special interest communities, enjoys "unbelievable margins" from Google AdSense, said Martin Nisenholtz, who heads digital operations at The New York Times Company, which owns About.com.

On Monday, veteran media executive Greg Coleman will get to work at the Huffington Post as President and Chief Revenue Officer.  His joining is part of an expansion the site's business operation, Eric Hippeau, CEO,  told me earlier this week.

So, its official, Twitter has raised $100 million in venture funding.  It will be interesting to see how funding will change the company. 

Online video will comprise 90 percent of the world's Internet traffic by 2013, Intel's Justin Rattner told the BBC's Maggie Shields. 

Syndicating online video to different Web sites is not an easy task, with sites running numerous different video players and formats. 

The Google book deal is on hold, according The New York Times reports, citing a decision by a Federal court judge. 

After five years in gestation and much anticipation, online video advertising is reaching a “tipping point,” of becoming a major part of the media mix, writes Temor Media CEO Jason Glickman in a guest column on Fortune’s Brainstorm blog.

NEW YORK, NY — Video is an essential part of Yahoo's business, CEO Carol Bartz told me yesterday at the company's news conference here.

NEW YORK — Despite the gloom around the advertising and media world, we found Advertising Week and its many events upbeat. I caught up with AOL CEO Tim Armstrong on Monday evening outside the tent AOL erected in Times Square for a  big advertiser event.        

Online ad inventory company the Rubicon Project, has raised a new round of $9 million from NBCU and other earlier investors, paidContent's David Kaplan reports.

In the view of Huffington Post technology editor Jose Antonio Vargas, if technology were a solar system, the core of the systems around which most technology revolves is Apple, Facebook and Google.

Particle, the San Francisco based start-up funded by Justin Timberlake, launched a product called Robo.to in May, which is a Web application that allows users to upload a four second video created on a mobile device or Web cam and share it on various social network sites .

The Huffington Post, the Web's most influential blog, is launching a technology section today edited by Jose Antonio Vargas, former Washington Post reporter. 

Earlier this summer, the Verizon FiOS, the Internet/television/phone service, integrated Facebook and Twitter into its platform, allowing subscribers to initiate Twitter alongside their favorite shows. Here's the story by CNET's Maggie Reardon.