Andy Plesser

Click To Play Irving Wladawsky-Berger has just retired as IBM’s chief strategist.  He is now a visiting professor at MIT.  I caught up with him last week at the AlwaysOn conference at Stanford were he was on a panel about virtual worlds.  Here’s a free webcast of the session. He is believes the virtual world […]

Click To Play Associated Content, a company that has set up a network for independent content producers to submit and monetize their work, will expand the opportunities for video makers.  Started in 2005 by Luke Beatty, Associated Content has been funded by some of the most highly regarded investors in the digital media space, including […]

Click To Play The NewsMarket is a quickly-growing video portal where news broadcasters and Web producers download video files provided by a range of corporations, governmental organizations and non-profits.  These organizations pay the NewsMarket to host and distribute company-created content. Downloads had been limited to "credentialed" media organizations.  Now the company is providing video to […]

Kara Swisher, who has been writing about technology for the Wall Street Journal for 10 years, weighed in today in favor of eliminating the subscription charges for the Journal.  There has been quite a lot of speculation that Rupert Murdoch will convert the Journal to free, ad-supported.  We shall see. Swisher is Cool Video Blogger […]

There’s been a lot of anticipation about the launch of Silverlight, the new streaming video platform.  Today, the first implementation went live, on the MLB.com. Here’s my post about Silverlight and a demo from Microsoft’s Sean Alexander.  This was originally published in May. Here’s some perspective from Ryan Stewart, blogger at ZDNet who thinks the […]

Click To Play There’s been a great deal of anticipation about the launch of the BBC iPlayer, a desktop application that allows registered users in the U.K. to download and view a range of programming in high quality. Mark Thompson, director general of the BBC, hailed the player as a development as significant as the […]

Click To Play The scope of videos found by searching Google Video has expanded in recent months from just clips on  Google Videos to include YouTube. Since May, when the company announced the future of universal search, clips from Metacafe and Atomicfilms.com have shown up on Google Video searches.   (Industry sources, outside of Google, tell  […]

Click To Play We have been facinated by Justin.TV and Justin Kan.  His wearing a live webcam on his baseball cap is much more than a publicity stunt, it’s a demonstration of the viability of live video origination and broad distribution via embed code.  Beet.TV has learned from a source at Amazon, that the streaming […]

There is quite a lot of activity in the online video tech news, with many innovators descended from the old TechTV finding themselves in numerous new shows as Om Malik reports.  The latest launch is called WebbAlert with Morgan Webb (l).  Morgan is a real pro and her good looks are getting some attention and […]

or or As online video news programming heats up with the latest entry today by Monica Webb (above) and her WebbAlert, we wonder how sex appeal fits into all of this: success, impact, buzz, money? For power blogger Michael Arrington, lust appears to looms large according today an analysis of his libido in Valleywag. I […]

Click To Play I was on the Stanford campus yesterday at the AlwaysOn conference where I met Philip Rosedale, founder and CEO of Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life, the vast virtual world. Philip told me that Second Life provides functionalities to post video to virtual movie screens and television sets.  He said there […]

CondeNet, the online division of the magazine company Conde Nast, is making a big push in creating video on its several themed portals.  It has doubled the amount of video clips produces this year over last, and the pace is going to pick-up with an ambitious program to build out travel videos of world destinations […]

Click To Play We’ve been impressed with Maven Networks, the Boston-based company that provides video publishing and content management platform for larger content video producers including Hearst Magazines, TV Guide and 20th Century Fox.  Today, it inked a deal with a big Canadian producer of broadband content. Maven is providing a two part solution: one […]

Click To Play Nicholas Butterworth has launched a pioneering special-interest broadband programming and distribution company in Diversion Media and its Tavelisitic and SnowVision channels.  He’s broken quite a lot of ground in his former job as head of MTV’s interactive operations.  Nicholas shares his views on how independent content companies can succeed with advertising and […]

One of the major "roots" of the media revolution lies somewhere between San Jose and San Francisco.  New next week, we’re going to in California, digging deep. I’m packing up and heading to San Francisco tomorrow morning.  It’s going to be quite a week with visits to Fora.TV, AdPerk.com, Adobe, Google, VeriSign, HP and Yahoo!!!! […]

Microsoft has just released an advanced Beta of Silverlight, the new multi-media authoring, encoding and user platform.  The technology competes directly with Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash ecosystem. Like Flash, users of Silverlight need to download a thin Web-based application. Here’s a good explanation from PC World.  The big public introduction of Silverlight will be its use […]

Click To Play The New York Times has just introduced long-form sponsored videos which appear on the paper’s main video page.  The new program launched yesterday with videos produced by FedEx.  The short vignettes are about five FedEx employees from around the globe.  I like this one of a delivery guy driving around the English […]

There’s has been a lot of buzz about a Washington Post video of an accomplished violinist performing in the capital city’s subways.  Donald Graham, chairman of The Washington Post Company, showed the clip at an annual shareholder meeting, writes Fortune’s Marc Gunther about the clip and its implications.  This is the kind of thing that […]

Smart TV’s and other devices that use CableCards are going to have a profound impact on how consumers watch television, according to Forrester television analyst James McQuivey.  There is a big feature on this emerging technology in today’s New York Times. I asked James what he thinks of these new cards. He told me it’s […]

Click To Play In May we covered the launch of Adap.tv, a new company that has developed a technology to insert overly ads onto streaming video clips.  It’s akin to the banners you see running at the bottom of a news or sports TV program — although the ads don’t stay in place throughout the […]