Andy Plesser

Here is my sit down with Blip.tv co-founders Mike Hudack and Dina Kaplan.  We caught up last week, after there news event at their company's downtown Manhattan office.

Boston-based Bain Capital Venture Partners, an investor in Blip.tv, is bullish on online video investment.

For all of us missing Owen Thomas, former Valleywag editor, from writing tech blogging scene, he’s back, but a bit kindler and gentler way, and it’s not his full time gig.

Google has acquired ON2, a New York company which provides encoding software which allows videos to be compressed into Flash and other software formats.  Here's a report on TechCrunch.

REDMOND, WA  — Stefan Weitz, Director of Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft, says that internal research has found that users develop a “habit” with their search engine of choice.

YouTube's "News Near You," a recent addition to the YouTube news page, organizes local news sources as a strip of thumbnail images.  YouTube has organized hundreds of news sources into news "portals" in 100 U.S. cities, we have learned.

Yesterday, Google announced a significant enhancement to its image search enhancement by allowing users to search by various colors and categories.

FreeWheel, a software service provider which allows online video publishers to manage their own ads, has made big news this week. On Monday, YouTube announced that some content partners will be be able manage their own ad management with the company's tools.

NBCLocal, a network of 10 regional websites created with content from local NBC television stations, other local sources and a dedicated staff, has launched today

NEW YORK, NY — Blip.tv, the fast-growing video sharing site which leads the industry in hosting and distributing episodic Web video programs, now allows its show producers to upload directly to YouTube, the company announced earlier today.

We are here at the Blip.tv news event and demo of the new web site, Mike Hudack, CEO and co-founder, said that producers on Blip.tv can syndicate videos directly to YouTube with Blip.tv managing advertising sales of these syndicated shows.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — NPR has revised its Web site, according to a story by Elizabeth Jensen in today's New York Times.

Another edgy hire for NBCLocal, with Steve Bryant, who is editor of New York's Thrillist.  He is heading to Chicago as managing editor of the Windy City's NBCLocal.

Ning, the social network software company, has raised a venture round of $15 million, putting the company's private valuation at $750 million, Kara Swisher reports tonight.

Powerhouse venture capitalist Vinod Kholsa is about to close on $1 billion in new capital for his green-oriented venture capital firm, Becky Buckman at Forbes reports.

The  Adobe text layout framework environment TLF, which powers the new, elegant The New York Times Reader, is  being released for free as part of a big "open source" move from Adobe.

We read with interest a point by point "myth busting" blog post on YouTube's blog today penned by corporate spokespersons Chris Dale and Aaron Zamost.

Longtime news anchor Walter Cronkite has died at the age of 92 after a long illness.   

Although video has been on Wikipedia in a limited way for the past two years, it is poised to take-off with the recent introduction of Firefox 3.5 along with other imminent developments, we have learned.

As part of the 40 year commemoration of the Apollo 11 mission, the first moon landing, NASA has restored the historic videos of the flight.   The videos were released today.