Andy Plesser

NEW YORK — CBS News is finding increased online video views with effective use of social media tools, Dan Farber, CBSNews.com Editor-in-Chief, told me this afternoon.

SplashCast has had considerable success with its Facebook app, a video player that allows users to chat around video content. 

Seattle-based Wetpaint, a Web publishing platform for smaller companies and individuals hopes that the recent announced shuttering of Yahoo's GeoCities will provide a big biz dev opportunity.

There's concern among publishers big and small about how to "monetize" online video, particularly in light of recent reports which have scaled backed ad growth forecasts.

Associated Content, a online publishing platform has raised an new $6 million venture round, TechCrunch is reporting tonight.  

YouTube will live stream its first news event, tomorrow's (4/29) prime time press conference by President Obama at 8:00 pm ET on the White House YouTube channel, we have learned. The White House had asked YouTube to integrate its live feed from the White House site to be embedded onto its YouTube channel, a spokesperson […]

Earlier this year, Conde Nast launched individual sites for its magazines, expanding beyond what had been a handful of topic-centric portals.  This was the transformation of CondeNet to Conde Nast Digital.

SeeqPod, the multi-media search engine which grew out of research at the Lawrence Livermore Labs as a biometric search engine,  which has raised the ire of the music business, is about to be sold to a "major media company," founder Kasian Franks tells Eliot Van Buskirk at Wired's Epicenter. 

Microsoft's Chief Research at Strategy Officer Craig Mundie, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and 20 others have been named to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the White House just announced.

LAS VEGAS — Avid, which has been the industry standard for television and film editing for some time, is becomingly increasingly agnostic. 

LAS VEGAS — We have heard really good things about Market7, a new San Francisco-based start-up that provides video collaboration and project management services via the Web.

National Pubic Radio has had the highest ratings period in its history, some 20.5 million weekly listeners for its news programming, according to a report by Arbitron published last month in the Washington Post. 

With 1000 videos in the archives and more than three million video streams viewed since Beet.TV launched three years ago, I am mighty proud of our progress. 

LAS VEGAS –  HD video is becoming a larger part of the online video ecosystem with nearly a third of computer users viewing HD content. 

Big trial gets underway on Friday (4.24) in San Francisco about the DVD-ripping program from RealNetworks called RealDVD.  Hollywood is not too pleased with the $30 program which allows you to rip and save unlimited number of DVD's to a PC.

LAS VEGAS — The integration of video production elements is becoming more important as publishers seek to increase productivity and save cost. 

LAS VEGAS  — Live television delivery to mobile devices is a big focus of working groups and exhibitors here at the annual NAB convention, according to Chris Brown, the NAB executive in charge of the show.

It's great to see that Zadi Diaz, co-creator of Epic Fu, has landed a sponsorship deal with Puma.

Robert Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, the standard for connecting computers in a network, says that the promise of video is to limit the need of physical meeting which means less travel and greater energy conservation.

Visitors to video sites now exceeds users of Web-based e-mail, according to a report released today by The Nielsen Company.  The study reports on monthly unique visits to various Web sites and online applications.