Andy Plesser

Click To Play Making a successful Web video for about business is not easy.  The medium is different. We’ve been working away at this for the past 18 months and some 400 clips.  We’ve tried to  find a balance between quality production without the hype and gloss of broadcast news.  We try to make the […]

Click To Play Level 3, a big  data backbone company, has quickly built a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that is competing with the big players including Akamai and Limelight.  These companies distribute large video and other rich media files around the globe through a network of giant servers  These networks are essential to the fast […]

Click To Play Brightcove, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based video services company, will announce today at a conference in London that it has won the contract to host and serve video clips for the Britain’s Guardian Newspaper.  This win follows recent agreements with The Telegraph to host its videos. In the United States, Brightcove manages videos for […]

Click To Play Video widgets are not new, but the monetization scheme surrounding this technology is still being sorted out.  Last month, Google announced a new widget that will work with video. One big development will occur later this months when Netvibes introduces video widgets with advertising for episodes of CBS, Beet.TV has learned. I […]

In August, YouTube announced it would insert overlay ads in the stream of clips.  These clips were to be implemented in only certain channels. Beet assumes these to be more professionally produced video from sources including Ford Models.  He’s one of the first reports on NewTeeVee. Beet.TV has found limited implementation of the overlay ads.  […]

Click To Play What is the recipe for success for Web video?  It’s about information, transparency and sometimes humor. Brad Inman heads the Emeryville-based Turnhere, a company that creates and distributes "web videos" for book publishers and authors, local directories and others.   The company has put together a network of videographers who contribute using a […]

Click To Play Here’s our chat with Angus Logan of the Microsoft Windows Live team.  He shares a very cool demo of how a bike tour around London is integrated with Microsoft Virtual Earth to give a tour and live mapping.  Angus also shows how great the new trailers for Halo 3 look in Silverlight.  […]

Kara Swisher has been following the introduction of Joost.  Today, Joost is available without an invitation.  Kara wonders how the interface will improve.   Here’s what she writes in her post today: Those who were invited in and already using it now get a better interface and a way to find shows that seems more intuitive […]

In uploading files to YouTube, there has been very little control over the selection of the opening still image, which is also the thumbnail image used in indexes on YouTube and various search engines.  It is a critical picture. The selection of this important image is automated. Now, uploaders can select from three different images […]

Click To Play As Web designers decide whether to use authoring tools from Microsoft’s new Silverlight multi-media platform to build web pages, some will wonder whether Google’s AdSense, the automated advertising program,  will work. From the AdSense Help forum, the answer can be found and it is yes. Beet.TV was up in Redmond last month […]

Click To Play Yesterday on the MIT campus at the Technology Review summit, I caught up with Digg founder Kevin Rose.  Kevin was on a panel with Netvibes’ Tariq Krim and StumbleUpon founder Garrett Camp.  The three innovators were recognized as the Tech Review’s top 35 innovators under 35.    Kevin’s Diggnation video show is […]

Click To Play Yesterday at the Technology Review’s annual summit on the MIT campus, Charles Simonyi, former chief architect Microsoft where, he lead the creation of Excel and Word, made the keynote speech.  He outlined a new approach to creating software, which is the business of his company Intentional Software. The system integrates "domain experts" […]

Click To Play Sometime next month, Microsoft will release a new video conferencing camera called RoundTable. It has five little camera, six microphones and works with Live Meeting.  It looks like a droid out a sci-fi film — and seems to be quite "smart" in following speakers and their movements, as you’ll see in our […]

Click To Play I caught up with Mike Hudack last night at the NewTeeVee screening event in New York.   Mike was proud as could be with the day’s news that Rocketboom would use Blip.TV to host and distribute its video files in a number of formats. Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron blogged about this yesterday. In […]

A total deconstruction and analysis of the Apple iPhone has been published in MIT’s Technology Review.  The article features an elegant Flash slide show, demonstrating the various components and their functions.  The final image is shown above. The authors don’t provide instructions on how unlock the phone to change settings and carriers, a concern raised […]

Rocketboom, the pioneering online video show, has moved its video distribution to Blip.TV according to a report on NewTeeVee. Marshall Kirkpatrick give an overview of the space. In addition to handling video distribution, Blip.TV will sell advertising sponsorship and manage advertising overlay insertions into the video stream.  Rocketboom has a sponsorship promoting the Sarah Silverman […]

Click To Play One of the first applications of Silverlight, the new plug-in multimedia program from Microsoft, will be a "software plus Web services" platform called Popfly.  It allows consumers to create multimedia mash-ups without needing to know code.   Users integrate a thin desktop application with various Microsoft web services and other sources including Flickr, […]

Click To Play Earlier this week, the San Francisco-based TeeBeeDee, a new community site for folks over 40, launched.  It blends commentary, features and social networking tools for its members.  Matt Richtel over at the New York Times reported last week on the "graying of the Web"  —  how sites and social networking hubs, including […]

Click To Play Earlier this week, I caught up with Shelly Palmer, president of the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the organization that awards the Emmy’s.  Shelly was attending the Convergence 2.0  summit at the Museum of Broadcasting. Shelly is a fan of the purple channel.  He told […]

Click To Play Edgar Bronfman, Jr. heads Warner Music, one of the world’s four major record labels. Beet.TV was at the Convergence 2.0 summit at the Museum of Broadcasting in Manhattan on Monday where we taped Bronfman’s news-making speech on the opportunities for growth in the music industry.  The conference was organized The Deal and […]