Andy Plesser

Click To Play Adobe, the maker of Flash, the ubiquitous Web video program, is launching a major advertising campaign tomorrow with overlay ads served into the video streams of Beet.TV and Rocketboom.   Interactive banner ads will appear on numerous sites over the next few weeks. In a dramatic display of its software platform, Adobe will […]

Click To Play Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube says the time spent by visitors to YouTube makes it a highly valuable proposition for advertisers.  Today at the NewTeeVee conference he reflects on the meteoric rise of YouTube over the past 24 months and explains that ad monetization is going to happen, but will "take a […]

Incredible turnout here at the first NewTeeVee conference at the Mission Bay Conference center in San Francisco.  About 500 guests are registered for the one-day shindig. Above is a photo of the opening discussion with Om, Liz Gannes and MTV’s Mike Salmi. Om Malik, founder of GigaOM and its successful spinoff NewTeeVee about video convergence, […]

Motionbox, the New York-based video sharing site that has differentiated itself by offering users the ability to edit and view specific segments within long uploads, has a new, unique monetizaton scheme:  The company has just launched a subscription service that allows viewers to upload an unlimited amount of high quality files and share them with […]

Click To Play Here’s my second interview with Tom Wilde, CEO of the Boston-based EveryZing, the video search platform that uses speech-to-text to index and maximize the discoverability of online video.    The company provides a white label solution to media companies and various enterprises. Earlier today, Boston.com, the regional portal of the Boston Globe, […]

Click To Play Intel is expected to announce today a new family of microprocessor chips that will enchance HD video by compressing the video files.  The story was reported today by John Markoff in The New York Times. The new chips will first be in high-end desktops and servers. Presumably the new chips will make […]

Click To Play Phlippe Lourier is the French programmer who created the Annotated New York Times, an algorithm that indexes New York Times stories and related discussions.   It was cool, but unauthorized.  Lawyers at paper considered suing him, according to New York Times reporter Saul Hansell, but "cooler heads prevailed," he told me. Philippe and […]

Click To Play Video content might be king, but the telcos and cable companies will reign supreme in controlling the future of online video, says Dan Rayburn, organizer of Streaming Media, the key industry event for online video infrastructure. I interviewed Dan earlier this week in San Jose as the Streaming Media West show got […]

Keep an eye on Andrew Baron, the visionary video blogger and co-founder of Rocketboom.  He told Robert Scoble in this interview that he is set to launch a new live program. Scoble is getting good with his camera — but should he be doing interviews while driving?  Yipes! Andrew looks a bit tense — maybe […]

Click To Play At Streaming Media West this week, one of the big trends was the growing business alliance between content delivery companies (CDN) and innovative technology platform companies such as Move Networks and Pando Networks. Move Networks, the video distribution system that powers the beautiful ABC Television online player, signed up with Level3.  Pando, […]

Click To Play Blinkx, the video search engine/advertising network, is proving the high value proposition of in-stream advertising by charging "north of $60" per thousand views for overlay ads. The San Francisco/London-based company has found that video from certain creators, such as independent British television network ITN, can command these stratospheric prices. This is big […]

Click To Play Launched in June, Bits, the technology news blog from The New York Times has moved to the 14th spot in the Techmeme Leaderboard, an index of the most influential blogs indexed by Techmeme.  It’s something of an elite club for tech bloggers.  Here’s how Techmeme’s Gabe Rivera explains the methodology of the […]

Click To Play Microsoft’s new Silverlight will be one of the big developments in online video next year. The key event where news will happen will be at MIX08 in Las Vegas in March.  Steve Ballmer will keynote.  Ryan Stewart, the guru of rich media applications who has a column at ZDNet, just posted about […]

Click To Play Higher quality user generated video is inevitable, Forrester’s lead PC analyst told me a few weeks back when I was up in Cambridge.  Better cameras and editing tools will make this all possible, J.P. Gownder explains. Yesterday, I was in San Jose for the Streaming Media West conference.  The prospects for higher […]

Click To Play Blogrunner, the semi-automated blog aggregation engine owned by The New York Times Company,  has just gone live on many of the technology pages of the NYTimes.com. Visitors can find relevant links to blog and news sources in the Related Stories from Around the Web section, located just below articles.  Here at the […]

Click To Play There has been quite a dust-up in the PR world about Chris Anderson’s blog post where he upbraided legions of publicists for for sending him unsolicited e-mails.  In making his point, he published the e-mail addresses of the guilty ones — some 329. The hubbub has been widely reported in PR blogs […]

Click To Play Earlier this week, I interviewed venture capitalist and longtime media investor Alan Patricof at the paidContent future of business media conference at the Waldorf.  Alan’s fund is paidContent’s sole investor. His excitement about the event echoed an observation by Fortune magazine in a feature by Oliver Ryan titled "The old guy can […]

Click To Play There’s been quite a lot of discussion over the last few days about a unified technology protocol for social networks. As the technology standards become settled, more social networks are springing up  all the time. There have been a number of new, niche-focused entrants in the field.  A few have launched recently […]

Click To Play Earlier today, The New York Times unveiled a system to index blog and news sources into a  dynamic  feed on the tech page.  It’s titled "Technology Headlines from Around the Web."  The system is based on an automated algorithm developed by Philippe Lourier, the developer of Blogrunner, a Web site the paper […]

Click To Play CNET recently launched BNET, an informational portal for managers and small business owners. There’s content from the staff and external sources including Harvard Online. A big part of BNET is its video offering.  CNET is creating video in-house and working with various partners and is committing considerable resources to video  content, I […]