Andy Plesser

Since it evolved into a news site in 2006, NYmag.com has been building a sizable national audience.  Fashion has been a big traffic driver and Fashion Week in New York and brought historic traffic to the site, according to a report in Mediabistro's WebNewser.

In what is probably the first time a presidential speech has been automatically transcribed by a software program, msnbc.com used a voice-to-text solution from Nexidia to transcribe last night's address to Congress by President Barack Obama. The online news site got the Obama transcription up in 15 minutes after the conclusion of  the speech, we […]

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Tuesday’s speech to Congress by President  Barack Obama made for a big news day at msnbc.com with some 54 million page views and 2.5 million video views, according Omniture SiteCatalyst numbers provided by msnbc.com.  (The numbers for viewing the speech are expected to […]

Watching a remarkable online video documentary by Dai Sugano, a gifted multimedia editor at the San Jose Mercury News, the slums of Mumbai are as bad as they appear in Slumdog Millionaire, the highly acclaimed film which is favored for winning Best Film award at the Oscars tonight.   

Kaltura is the New York-based company which has developed an open source video publishing platform which allows users to collaborate on video and other forms of rich media.  Much of the company's development team is in Israel. 

Wetpaint, the Seattle-based provider of social publishing platforms, is powering over 1 million sites from small grassroots organizations to big media brands including HBO, Discovery and others.

New York based Tremor Media, an online video advertising network and technology platform, has raised $18 million in additional venture funding, the company announced today. 

The U.S. college basketball championships, know as March Madness, has been one of the 10 biggest Internet events, according traffic tracked by Akamai.

Kelsey caught up with Anupam Gupta, CEO of Mixpo, at the AlwaysOn conference earlier this month.  The company has raised $4 million in venture funding, as Eric Eldon at VentureBeat reported on February 3.

We read with interest comments by Google's Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf in ReadWriteWeb about the prospects for the "cloud" to be a distribution system for the Web. Lidja Davis reports that Cerf says that while cloud computing offers opportunities, it is fraught with privacy issues.

Seeking to expand global innovation and the utilization of Microsoft products and services, Microsoft has an ambitious program to support start-ups, not with capital, but with technical and consulting support. 

The new HD camcorders are inexpensive, easy to use and provide lots of storage, but they can be a big hassle to edit and convert files for the Web.

Blip.tv has been paying emerging video producers as as much as $40,000 in advertising revenue, according to the story in USA Today by Jefferson Graham. 

Paid subscriptions to online video is not a business model for most publishers, save the porno biz, but it is working out well for Major League Baseball, Brad Stone of The New York Times reports today.  Brad has the scoop on the new video player and subscription service unveiled by Major League Baseball.

Adaptive streaming, the technology which allows high quality streaming video to play properly over Internet connections of ranging connection speeds, has been a part of the big success of Move Networks, a Utah company which provides the online video platform for ABC Television and others.  The quality is stunning.  Here's my interview with Move CEO […]

Tumblr is the fast-growing, multimedia micro-blogging platform which has gotten lots of  attention from the downtown hipsters and big users including the Presidential Inauguration Committee.  The New York start-up is  is reading a subscription service, founder David Karp, 22, told The Deal's Mary Kathleen Flynn in this interview published last night.

In keeping up with the unprecedented demand for bandwidth for streaming the Inauguration of Barack Obama, CNN.com relied on a peer-to-peer program in a substantial way, according to a report by Janko Roettgers at NewTeeVee.

With news of a dramatic write-down and loss at News Corp, one academic says that the company's poor performance and reception on Wall Street can be laid at the feet of founder Rupert Murdoch who operates with "emotional bias." 

Blinkx has introduced a new set of buttons to its interface, allowing users to customize their video selection, Stephen Shankland of CNET News.com reports and has a review.  Here's the company's press release on the news.

Cloud computing is certainly one of the big buzz words in the technology space — but what does it mean and where does Microsoft fit into this movement?  Last week in New York at the Microsoft offices, I interviewed Dan'l Lewin, Corporate Vice President for Strategy and Emerging Business Development at Microsoft.