Andy Plesser

Click To Play Owen Thomas, editor of Valleywag, is making some waves today with his brazen posting of a Facebook photo of founder Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend.  A similar use of a Facebook shot got his boss Nick Denton, head of Gawker Media, banned from the social network earlier this week. Owen challenges Facebook […]

Click To Play The mortgage crisis and credit squeeze are serious albeit short term problems, but are not the most critical, says Andrew Bernard, an economics professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. The big issue is the lack of productivity in the U.S. which is growing at a meager 1 percent.  Professor […]

Click To Play Robert Scoble, who pioneered tech videoblogging at Microsoft with Channel 9 and produced hundreds of segments during his tenure at PodTech, is launching a new business television network for Fast Company. Some details of Robert’s new work were reported a few weeks ago on TechCrunch. (Update 2:30 EST 1/16:  We just uploaded […]

Click To Play Gawker Media chief Nick Denton is "profoundly talented….kind of bitchy"….and gets by with things he shouldn’t.  But he does it in a sufficiently Oxonian way so "you don’t feel too dirty," says Jason Pontin, editor and chief of Technology Review and New York Times business columnist. Pontin is a former writer for […]

Click To Play Video widgets, the thin applications which display "pushed"  videos onto the desktop, blogs and social networks, are getting attention from video producers and site publishers and bloggers.  Last week at CES, ClipBlast’s Gary Baker announced that ClipBlast! will provide an API that is compatible with Google’s OpenSocial standard. Last month, Gary came […]

Bloomberg News has launched CEO Spotlight, a new Web video series of CEO interviews produced in Bloomberg bureaus around the globe.  It is the first step by the media behemoth to bring a vast amount of business news video clips to the public Internet. Day and night, through almost every timezone, Bloomberg creates a massive […]

Click To Play Launched earlier this week, Big Think is a site with short video clips of leading thinkers in business and society.  The New York based start-up, founded by former Charlie Rose producers Victoria Brown and Peter Hopkins, has been getting plenty of buzz this week from The New York Times, the Telegraph and […]

"Seesmic, which expects to go live in March, plans in February to start testing a service for letting people post "short-form" videos using cell phones and other wireless devices, says company founder Loïc Le Meur," writes Alain Sherter in a story just published in The  Deal. Beet.TV has learned that Le Meur will attend the […]

Click To Play Larry Dignan over at ZDNet has been following the impact fo the mortgage industry meltdown and writes that the acquisition of Countrywide by Bank of America, could elminate one of the Internet’s biggest advertisers, which spends around $50 million a month in online advertising. This mortgage meltdown is scary business and its […]

Click To Play An increasing number consumers are creating collections of videos and dynamic feeds of videos which are organized as "widgets" and displayed on web pages, blogs, social networking sites and desktops. For bloggers and web publishers, having relevant video dynamically is valuable.  Vodpod provides a free solution.  Talking Points Memo, the influential political […]

Results from a year-long study on high-tech electricity meters in the Seattle area has found smart grid technology performed as intended, saving consumers about 10 percent on their bills while easing strain on the power grid, reports Martin LaMonica on CNET News.com Here in Manhattan, the networked lighting and shades in the new New York […]

(Update 8 pm EST:  Above is a video provided by Mogulus of my interview streamed live earlier today with Mark Lukasiewicz, Vice President of Digital Media at NBC News) I couldn’t physically be in Las Vegas at CES, but thanks to the folks at Mogulus, I have video crew who will be streaming a live […]

With its move to the new Renzo Piano-designed offices on Eighth Avenue, The New York Times Company has become partially energy independent with an in-house, natural gas-powered co-generation plant that provides as much as 40 percent of its electricity.   It also provides a substantial amount of heat for the building  — and air conditioning for […]

msnbc.com has just made available for the first time the embed code of all its video.  This marks the first time a major network news organization has provided clips which can be shared and used by anyone, much like YouTube. We reported this development yesterday.  News of the activation of the embed code, which we […]

Mogulus, the New York based-start-up, which is  one of the cool new companies providing the tools for  individuals and publishers to  stream live video, has  raised an additional  $1.5, Beet.TV has learned.  This brings the total to $2.7 million, all from private angel investors who the company has declined to identify. Above is an image […]

Click To Play Last year, Microsoft introduced Silverlight, a new multi-media browser based application to present video and other rich media.  It is direct competition to Adobe’s Flash, the ubiquitous program that dominates video distribution and viewing. A few moments ago in Las Vegas, at the sprawling CES show, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced that […]

Wednesday will mark a milestone in broadcast journalism and in video on the Web as msnbc.com will offer clips from NBC Nightly News and other NBC news programs as sharable embed codes, Beet.TV has learned. Taking a cue from YouTube, which pioneered sharable codes and built massive traffic, NBC News segments will be free to […]

Click To Play As big media continues to transform in the face of a revolution in digital media, it will continue to buy smaller companies who have nimbly established new business models, says Blaise Zerega of Portfolio magazine. The Conde Nast veteran, who  was managing editor of Wired then moved to New York to launch […]

Click To Play Live video streaming, within the reach of publishers large and small,  will become more widespread in 2008 thanks to services that are inexpensive and work with a simple camera and Internet connection. Justin.TV, Veodia, uStream, and others have established the viability of live streaming. Pioneering video blogger Robert Scoble will use Mogulus […]

Click To Play Moving big video files around the net is an expensive proposition for online video publishers.  Some giants like Google and Microsoft have their own network of servers around the globe.  Most publishers of online video buy services from companies called Content Delivery Networks (CDN’s) including Akamai and Limelight. BitTorrent, the San Francisco-based […]