Andy Plesser

It’s not around anymore, but shareyourworld.com was the first video sharing site that allowed users to upload files in various video file formats and share videos.  It was started back i 1997 by Chase Norlin, who now heads the very cool video/audio search company Pixsy. Chase takes us down memory lane, during the last Internet […]

Brad Greenspan, the Los Angeles-based entrepreneur who is best known as founder of MySpace, believes the the digital assets of Dow Jones have not been properly valued.  Moreover, he believes that management has not effectively integrated its online properties. He has organized a group of investors with the hope of acquiring a 25 percent ownership […]

Click To Play Mike Hudack and his colleagues at Blip.TV have played a crucial role for emerging, independent video content creators.  Blip.TV hosts and distributes video files in a range of formats.  But, more than just a video sharing site, Mike believes that Blip.TV represents a "next generation television network."  Like RCA, which spawned NBC, […]

Whether or not MySpace founder Brad Greenspan (left) is successful in acquiring a minority interest in Dow Jones, his idea to create a global Internet video news channel is on target as the news media evolves, Bambi Francisco, former Dow Jones/MarketWatch columnist and TV personality, told me. And, she thinks that Dow Jones employees should […]

Peer-to-peer is inevitably going to become a primary distribution platform for online video.  Joost looms large.  But,  BitTorrent, with some 150 million installs is the gorilla in the closet.  But can you watch this stuff on a TV set, easily? These P2P companies are going to have to solve this since we will be watching […]

Click To Play Thumbnails are becoming pervasive on search results pages of Google, Ask, Yahoo! and on many customized search pages. Thumbnails had been mostly the domain of image search — look up a celebrity under the image category and there’s the photo.  Well, it turns out that thumbnails have become a powerful way to […]

Click To Play The San Francisco-based start-up AdPerk has begun its service with Dwell magazine. Visitors to the Dwell home page are provided with a subscription offer. Those who watch a few videos get free magazines. Marketers connect with targeted audiences.   On this new platform, ads and other content are "pulled" by the registered users.  […]

Click To Play With scoops of Paris Hilton entering prison, Alec Baldwin’s rants, Michael Richard’s "comedy" routine and Anna Nicole Smith’s refrigerator, TMZ has become the most popular of the celebrity web sites. The New York Times has a big business feature today of the Time Warner-owned property. The Times called it the "Web Site […]

On Tuesday, the much anticipated  and controversial new video player from RealNetworks will be released.  The player allows users to download videos in all major formats. The videos are then organized on a desktop application.  That application has a dedicated and branded search utility provided by blinkx, the fast growing video search company. This is […]

RealNetworks is set to release its new player on Tuesday.  The desktop application allows users to scroll over online video in all major formats and save them to a hard drive.  Videos with digital rights management cannot be saved, but a vast majority of Flash files can be. Virtually the entire YouTube library can be […]

Beet.TV has learned that The New York Times will make the embed code of its video clips available to the public by early fall.  This means that many of the paper’s videos will be freely used and posted to blogs and Web pages.  This change will be implemented in Q3, according to Diane McNulty, a […]

Quite a glowing double profile of TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington and Om Malik  of GigaOM in Wednesday’s USA Today by Michelle Kessler.  These dudes are visionaries who have pioneered successful new, valuable media businesses by their bootstraps and through really hard work.  Arrington told USA Today that they work so hard, he and OM have given […]

The Washington Post, which has been publishing online video since 1999, today began to share the embed code of its Flash videos, meaning that bloggers and other Web sites can grab the code and publish the video without payment. One of the very first videos to be shared in this manner is the clip of […]

AOL’s Truveo has opened up its search API for the online video industry and the results are impressive.  According to internal numbers from comScore MediaMetrix, the Truveo search engine has resulted in 39 million unique monthly impressions with those numbers increasing 50% month by month.  Truveo’s technology is being used by hundred of sites including […]

When the book is written on the roots of user-generated content and iconic independent video casters, there’s got to be a chapter on Ugly George. The dude created a wildly popular public access cable TV show in the early 80’s on Manhattan cable by convincing nice wholesome women to bare their breasts. He didn’t pay […]

Click To Play Mike Hudack, the co-founder of Blip.TV came by the Beet.TV studio last week to talk about strategies for creating successful online video programming.  He gives a good overview of the roots of videoblogging as an outgrowth of audio podcasting. He says it’s essential to publish content on many platforms, not just streaming […]

Fox Television and Brightcove will announce tomorrow (Monday) a major development in the distribution of online video by a mainstream television company:  The integration of the Brightcove player in several Fox online video networks means far more than just streaming shows. This is already happening.  Here’s what’s significant: The incorporation of the Brightcove platform means […]

Click To Play I was hanging out with colleague Jose Castillo, the noted new media consultant and blogger of Think Jose.  I explained to Jose the root of the Beet.TV name and why I like beets.  Jose likes jalapeno peppers and uses an image on his logo. On more weighty topic, Jose thinks that near […]

Click To Play   Publishing powerhouse Simon & Schuster launched today an ambitious program to create and distribute short-form online videos of authors.   The videos have been created by TurnHere, the Internet video studio/distribution company based in Emeryville, California. Clips of 40 authors have been produced and many more are planned.  The videos have the […]

Click To Play I caught up with Noah Gellman of the AlwaysOn Network at the Streaming Media East conference in New York.  Noah keeps a close eye on technology trends as one of the key programmers of the AlwaysOn conferences.  Noah thinks that P2P will be continue to grow as bigger video files will be […]