Andy Plesser

Here is Daisy Whitney, correspondent for TV Week interviewing Lindsay Campbell of Wallstrip fame on her new CBS Interactive show called Moblogic.  Great to have Whitney in at SXSW in Austin reporting for TV Week and for Beet.TV.  Thanks to the crew at Mogulus for providing us with this feed which was streamed live just […]

With editing suites sprouting up around town, global control rooms and newly created state-of-the-art soundstages, San Francisco is a booming video production and distribution center.  Beet.TV was in town a couple weeks back for tours of Current TV and Revision3 and I can report that there is quite a lot going on. Here is our […]

Dan Farber, the veteran tech editor who built the current incarnation of ZDNet into a successful blog network, takes over helm tomorrow of CNET’s News.com  News of Dan’s new post and the departure of Jai Singh, founding editor, has been previously reported. I caught up with Dan earlier this month in the San Francisco News.com […]

The iPlayer from the BBC, the new online video program service available in the U.K., has gone through a number of changes in its platform and distribution since its introduction last year. Launched initially for PC’s with viewing only on Microsoft Window Media Player, the video player has added Flash and can be viewed on […]

The ubiquitous Flash Video Player, the most widely used Web plug-in to watch online video, has finally landed on mobile phones in the United States, albeit with limited availability.  Some 450 million mobile devices around the globe have the Flash Player, but only a handful in the United States, which is woefully behind most of […]

Chris Albrecht is a staff reporter at NewTeeVee, the authoritative blog that covers the online video space.  He stopped by the Beet.TV a couple weeks back to chat about trends in content and consumption. He talked about the glut in online comedy channels and the challenge for independents to keep things funny in order to […]

Current TV, the global television network, which is distributed on cable and satellite, is very  different online.  Current.com, launched last October, is starting to get traction as a site built around user-generated videos, photos, text commentary and citizen reporting. According to numbers provided to Current by Omniture, the site had one million unique visitors in […]

This is astonishing: A tiny New York start-up, bootstrapped by two Brown grads who met in their dorm as freshmen, and $750K in angel money, have created a video platform that is streaming more video clips to women than many huge brands.  The ranking, which was released by Nielsen Online a few minutes ago, bundles […]

The acquisition of Yahoo! by Microsoft is inevitable, says Scott Kessler, the authoritative tech equity analyst at Standard & Poor’s, in this interview published this morning on the WSJ.com.  He says that only Microsoft has the resources to close the deal, despite published reports about possible a tie-up with Time Warner. Interviewing Kessler is M&A […]

Claude Lelouch, the celebrated French film director, who is best known for his 1966 Academy Award-winning/crossover hit "A Man and a Woman," tells Beet.TV he makes films in much the same way "an amateur would" — he writes, shoots and edits it all himself. For legions of independent film makers, the personal vision and execution […]

That little screen on your mobile device is about to look a lot better.  Today in Finland, Nokia is expected to announce it will make available Microsoft’s Silverlight to developers to be used in applications for the S60 platform, the broadly deployed mobile operating system for smart phones.  This is a milestone development in the […]

YouTube has made vast expansions overseas into 19 versions and now has most of its traffic from overseas, according to David Eun, who heads up content partnerships for Google.  Eun’s comments are in this interview with Mary Kathleen Flynn just posted on The Deal’s TechConfidential I’ve posted the interview here. YouTube Analytics are on the […]

FastCompany.tv debuted today featuring programming from Robert Scoble.   The Flash video player being used is from a small New York start-up, Twistage.  Twistage will soon implement a podcast of the FastCompany.tv videos.  The company provides a "white label" solution to video publishers, meaning the company provides the tools to create and manage video publishing and […]

Online Video consumption and participation in social networks will move increasingly to desktop applications with the release of AIR, says Adobe VP David Wadhwani. Earlier this week I was in San Francisco for the Adobe Engage,the industry introduction of AIR.  This is my final segment from the conference. David explains how the utility of Flash […]

While there’s been some head scratching about the need for Tech Ticker, another online tech/business show, it could be very big.  Its success may come as result of the sheer scale of the audience. The new show is on Yahoo! Finance which has an audience of 18 million unique monthly users, according to comScore. A […]

The annual New York French film festival got underway in New York last night and we had the extraordinary good fortune to catch up with the great French film director Claude Lelouch, best known for his 1966 Academy Award-winning "A Man and A Woman."  We found a short clip from the film on YouTube and […]

The ungating of NYTimes.com in September has lead to a dramatic increase in traffic from Google search, according an interview with David Eun, Google’s Vice President of Content Partnerships in next week’s edition of The Deal.  Eun tells tells the weekly that ungating at the Times and the Financial Times has greatly increased traffic from […]

Portfolio’s Lloyd Grove just published an extensive interview with TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington.  He holds no punches, calls Barry Diller a "wounded animal" and Gawker Media’s Nick Denton, "a total dick."  Here’s what else he says about Denton: "I think he’s amoral. I don’t think he has any sense of right and wrong, and he’ll do […]

There’s been a good bit of anticipation about the Adobe Media Player (AMP), the application that will allow users to download videos to a desktop environment.  Up until now, virtually all Flash video files are streamed and watched in a browser. Over the next few weeks, video publishers, including Beet.TV, will launch branded "channels" using […]

I caught up with Robert Scoble on Monday morning in San Francisco at the Adobe Engage conference.  Robert covered live with his Nokia and streamed it via his QIK connection.  I ask him about preparations for FastCompany.tv and its launch on March 3.  He explained that the show will have two production tracks:  a live […]