Andy Plesser

Ran Harnevo on AOL's 5MIN Acquisition Beet.TV is live on 5MIN, the fast-growing video syndication and portal which was acquired by AOL last month. 

LOS ANGELES — While the television industry is abuzz in anticipation over Google TV, the big story in the convergence of television and the Web could be the Xbox, says Forrester's James McQuivey, a top industry analyst.

With the death this of longtime John F. Kennedy adviser Theordore C. Sorensen, the New York Times published a long obituary accompanies by a 27-minute video documentary on Sunday.

Participatory media platform Bunchball is being used by  a number of cable networks to drive the participation of fans in online game and contests.

Will Frank Rich beat Keith Olbermann in tonight's ratings around the election returns?  Probably not, but in a first, The New York Times is going live from its newsroom with reports and commentary on the mid-term election.

Last week, Adobe announced it was providing developers with a tool to convert Flash video files to HTML5, the new format which is increasingly widespread on mobile devices.

Boosting video consumption by offering thumbnails of “related videos” has become a top priority for a number of publishers.

With news of YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley stepping down as CEO, we think it's a good time to republish our interview with him from the summer of 2006. Google aquired the start-up two months later.

SAN FRANCISCO — While the threat of cyber terrorism is much discussed in government and the media, the biggest threat around Internet security are state-supported industrial espionage as practiced by the Chinese and organized crime activities in Russia supported by the government.

The Wall Street Journal, which has been expanding live programming from its Manhattan newsroom with a twice-daily live show called The News Hub, will provide six hours of news and commentary on Tuesday evening, as returns for the mid-term election are reported.

The overarching theme of this year’s Monaco Media Forum (November 10-12) will be the “mobilization” of digital media, says event programmer Spencer Reiss, an American journalist.

Ross Levinsohn, former head of digital at News Corp and most recently a VC at Fuse Capital, will be heading to Yahoo to run the company’s media operations.  Kara Swisher broke and confirmed  this development.

NEW YORK – In a significant development around online video viewership metrics for marketers and publishers,  Kantar Video has launched its new "Videolytics" platform in pubic beta today.

NEW YORK — Atma Links, a new in-text advertising company for publishers, hopes to redefine the affiliate links industry by providing a reader-friendly, non-obtrusive presentation of content-relevant product links for blogs, forums and other forms of online media.

Ping Li, a partner at powerhouse venture capital firm Accel Partners (investor in Facebook, others), says the big opportunity around video is mobile. 

SAN FRANCISCO — BoingBoing, the popular blog about technology and culture, has dialed back significantly from producing original daily packages to presenting mostly other’s videos, says David Pescovitz, co-editor, in this interview with Beet.TV

While there are several companies who are syndicating Web video content through various strategies, one San Francisco start-up is syndicating online video ads including branded clips, throughout the Web and on social media.

While some of new crop related TEDx conference around the world are streaming their events free and live, the main TED conferences will continue to presented first and exclusively for the conference audience and not streamed live.

Earlier this month, Specific Media, the Irvine, California-based online advertising network purchased BBE, one of the largest online video ad networks.

As broadband consumption moves increasingly to mobile devices, the speed of wireless networks is becoming crucial and many carriers are increasing speeds, accouding to Akamai's just released report "The State of the Internet."