Andy Plesser

Saturday night in Los Angeles was the first Streamy Awards, a program recognizing excellence in online video.  Felicia Day won for best actress in a comedy for her work in The Guild.

The OVGuide.com is an extremely well organized and informative listing of thousands of online video sources. 

We were delighted to hear about Michelle Obama's  plans for an organic vegetable garden on the White House grounds. But were dismayed, along with  many foodie bloggers,  to learn that beets are not a among the 55 varieties of vegetables planned for the garden. 

Intel is seeking the same universal platform for rich media consumption on consumer electronic devices as exists on the Web.  Recently the company announced an electronic "widget" which connects  television sets to Yahoo! content.  Some of these widget-powered TV's went on sale last weekend, PC Week reports.

Charles Simonyi, former top Microsoft software engineer, who now heads his own software company, is on his second trip to outerspace.  He was lifted off yesterday aboard a a Russian space craft,  the Associated Press reports. More details from the Seattle P.I. Simonyi and fellow crew members will doc with the International Space Station tomorrow, […]

Visible Measures, the Boston company which provides independent, third-party measurement firm for online video, has raised a new round of $10 million, the company announced today.  Last summer at Stanford at the AlwaysOn conference, I interviewed CEO Brian Shin.  I have reposted that interview today. — Andy Plesser,

HOLLYWOOD — Demand Studios, a Los Angeles-based producer and distributor of Web video programming, is the largest single content contributor to YouTube,

HOLLYWOOD –  comScore, which closely tracks the online viewing and shopping of 2 million individuals, has found extraordinary "lift" in online video advertising on consumer behavior.

HOLLYWOOD — Brightcove, the Boston-based video services company which has established itself as leading video solution for U.S. publishers, has built a considerable presence in Japan, the company will announce Tuesday. 

Not a content company or aggregator of content, YuMe is an online video advertising network which serves some 500 publishers with the collective potential to reach 46 million unique video viewers. That's second only to YouTube, according to the latest report by comScore Video Metrix.

The Republican National Committee has tapped Todd Herman, veteran Microsoft executive, to head its new media operation. 

AUSTIN — David Gale, Executive VP of MTV Networks, who heads up online operations, tells Beet.TV that even a giant media enterprise like MTV needs to seek partners to reach an audience which has become defuse in a maze of social networks.

AUSTIN –  Original content for the Web can provide unique opportunities for marketers, according to Christine Beardsell,

AUSTIN — Earlier this week at SXSW we caught up with Irene Au, who heads up Google's user interface design and user research operations.

Today we launched BeetMedicine.TV, a new videoblog about women's health. 

AUSTIN — Hulu plans to premiere its third national prime-time ad this week on Thursday on Fox and NBC, said Eric Feng, senior VP and chief technical officer in this interview on Monday.

Advertisers who were previously nervous about Web video are starting to get religion thanks to the return on investment in the medium, said Web star Alex Albrecht in an interview with Beet.TV at SXSW.

AUSTIN — We caught up with Blip.tv CEO and co-founder Mike Hudack at SXSW to learn about the integration of Blip.tv onto Boxee. 

AUSTIN — Zadi Diaz has established herself as one of the pioneers in original Web video, known for several shows including Epic Fu.  She has recently linked up with NextNewNetworks for series about Hollywood called, Hacking Hollywood, as reported earlier this month.

Kosmix, the up and coming search company has a made a great deal of progress, creating a taxonomy of 5 million categories, according to a report in The New York Times.