Andy Plesser

Click To Play I caught up with Brian Stelter at The New York Times this afternoon to talk about television news and how the Web is transforming the industry.    Brian created a hugely successful and influential blog about television news.  He recently joined The New York Times where he is blogging and reporting for […]

In a big step in using user-generated video by a major newspaper, The New York Times is soliciting the public to upload videos of the California wildfires.  The notice just went up on the newspaper’s home page. Most of the television cable and network news organizations provide a mechanism for the public to upload video. […]

Click To Play I caught up with Tilzy.TV co-founder Joshua Cohen to chat about his fledgling company that indexes and recommends online video programming.  I met him at the NewTeeVee mixer last month in Manhattan. There is a big need for authoritative guides for all this Web video.  Let’s keep an on these guys who […]

Click To Play WiMax has just recieved a huge boost from the United Nation’s body that regulates telecommunications. The emerging technology has been endorsed as a wireless standard. WiMax is super fast and could make the distribution of big video files via mobile devices more practical.  In May I interviewed Motorola’s CTO Padmasree Warrior who […]

Click To Play We couldn’t make it up this week to Toronto for the Online Media Association, but we’ve keeping up with coverage from Editor & Publisher.  Yesterday’s closing panel included Anil Dash of Six Apart, the big blog software company.  The panel discussed the use of community content in the context of mainstream media […]

Click To Play Veeker, the San Francisco start-up that enables users to upload and share videos created on cell phones, has raised $2.5 million and has a deal with NBC, Liz Gannes reports on NewTeeVee. Seems that the company has gone through some iterations.  Here is my interview with co-founder Roger Raderman, who gave me […]

Click To Play Popfly, the new mash-up tool built on the new Microsoft Silverlight platform, will be released in public beta today. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is set to make the announcement later today in a key note address at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Beet.TV was up in Redmond a few weeks […]

Click To Play Podzinger, the Cambridge-based speech-to-text search technology company, that has been heavily funded with national security money, was renamed EveryZing about 5 months ago. The company has been a leader in indexing podcasts and making them searchable.  Over the past several months, the company has focused on searching and indexing video.  Its business […]

Click To Play Craig Rubens over at NewTeeVee reports this morning that Next New Networks has made its first content acquisition deal in the purchase BarelyPolitical.com, the political satire site known mostly for the hit Obama Girl show. Star Amber Lee is pictured below. A couple of weeks back, I interviewed Tim Shey, co-founder of […]

Click To Play There’s been a lot of buzz today about news that Vimeo will publish user generated video in Flash, in a 1280 X 720 HD format. This is very cool. Of course, a huge amount of HD videos from content creators and big and small, from The Washington Post to Beet.TV, are being […]

Click To Play JumpTV, the Toronto-based company, provides live streams of some 300 ethnic television shows from 75 nations. Expats, immigrants and foreign language speakers subscribe to the programming which is delivered to the PC. It is also a huge distributor of online sports streaming, providing some 200 sports programs from 30 nations. With this […]

Click To Play If you ever wondered why Diggnation co-hosts Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht drink beer while co-hosting their show, maybe it’s all part of a business plan?  Not sure, but Beet.TV has learned that the popular technology program will soon capitalize on the hosts’ beer consumption with the launch of the Diggnation Beer […]

Click To Play In June I spoke with BitTorrent president Ashwin Navin about plans to provide a content distribution platform for producers to distribute content using his company’s P2P technology.  Back then, the product, called DNA, was in beta.  He give a great overview so I’ve republished the interview today timed to some big news. […]

Click To Play Last month at the NewTeeVee screening party in Manhattan, I caught up with Michelle Cox, head of marketing at MetaCafe, the Palo Alto-based video sharing site.  Michelle told me that the site now has 25 million visitors  per month.  She calls it a "video entertainment site" — and explains how quality clips […]

Click To Play There’s a big industry war over the two competing new formats for high definition DVD’s: HD DVD and Blu-ray.  In the fight, there is Microsoft,Toshiba and NBC Universal in the HD DVD camp and Sony and leading content providers on the Blue-ray side. It’s not just for the DVD format in your […]

Click To Play If you’re in Manhattan next Wednesday, I hope you will join me and Kathy and the Beet.TV crew for an evening of big band swing music and dancing with the Ron Sunshine at Connolly’s,  121 W 45th Street.  Music charge is just $10 and drinks are cheap.  Best deal in town.  Shows […]

Click To Play Blinkx, the London/San Francisco-based video search company has announced a new plan for content creators to monetize content as their clips are discovered through search. Here are basics: content providers send a feed to Blinkx, which indexes content.  If someone searches and finds the video, a text ad will be placed in […]

Click To Play I caught up with NewTeeVee’s Craig Rubens in New York recently at a party for his influential blog.  In our interview, Craig unearths one of the dark secrets of online video marketing. Here’s the scam: Since a thumbnail, the image from a video that appears on index and search pages can’t be […]

Click To Play Live video streaming technology, formerly the province of big expensive webcasters, is within the reach of many.  Here at Beet.TV we have been reporting on innovations at uStream and Justin.TV, start-ups who are empowering users with an easy and free way to stream live from a webcam and computer.  (We just learned […]

Click To Play Last week I was on the MIT campus where I interviewed Garrett Camp, the founder of StumbleUpon, the San Francisco-based company that allows users to organize and recommend online videos.  The company was sold to eBay in June for $75 million.  Garrett, 28, was honored by MIT’s Technology Review as one of […]