Andy Plesser

The Washington Post, the first and most innovative major U.S. newspaper to use video as part of  its online news offering, is launching a platform for hundreds of reporters to host their own programs live from their desks on Webcams, via a simple interface with the Post's content management system.

In its annual rankings of the world's most eco-friendly companies, Cisco ranked first, knocking IBM from the top spot in last year's rankings.

Kyte, a San Francisco-based online video platform company, announced today the integration of its video player and tools into Facebook with a product it calls the Facebook Application Framework.

The Financial Times, which has been ramping up its online video services, has integrated Brightcove as its online video provider, the publisher announced today.

Tremor Media, the fast-growing New York-based video advertising network, has raised $40 million in new venture funding, the company announced today.

The Huffington Post is up 94 percent in traffic this year, has 13 million unique monthly visitors (according to Nielsen), and is poised for profitability in 2010, co-founder Arianna Huffington tells the Associated Press.

Delivering a high quality, non-buffering video experience has become essential for distributors of premium content online.  To assure a satisfactory experience, several networks, including NBC, ESPN3, AT&T, MLB.com, NFL.com, and ABC.com, are working with Conviva, a San Mateo, venture-backed company.

FreeWheel, the San Mateo-based online video platform has raised an additional $16.8 in new venture funding from strategic investors, including Steamboat (Disney VC arm), Turner, and top VC's Battery and Foundation Capital.

Blinkx, the London/San Francisco-based video search engine and destination site had a jump of 204 percent in video views in the U.K. over the past 12 months, just behind the torrid 205 percent increase of video views on Facebook, just announced by ComScore.

SAN JOSE, California –Exploding bandwidth consumption resulting from HD and 3-D video, gaming, and teleconferencing will create unprecedented demands on Internet services providers.

Techmeme, considered by many as the most authoritative tech news aggregator, spun off a media news site called Mediagazer in early March. 

SAN FRANCISCO — The Writers Guild of America, the big trade union representing film and television writers, is developing rules around writing original online video content. 

LAS VEGAS — The Teleprompter is an essential tool for newscasters and public speakers.  A much less expensive device from Prompter People allows speakers to control the the flow of displayed text with their iPhone.

LAS VEGAS–Alloy Entertainment, the producer of hit teen television programming, including "Gossip Girl" and "Vampire Diaries" films and books, is making a big expansion with its original Web programming, Sean Horvath told Beet.TV West Coast Bureau Chief Daisy Whitney at NAB earlier this month.

Today, on Earth Day, as we look at ways to preserve the environment, video is surely a way to limit our carbon footprint via video teleconferencing, video chat, and other technologies.

LAS VEGAS — Founded by three ex-Googlers, Howcast is the New York-based video production and distributor of "how to" videos on a wide range of subjects. 

SAN FRANCISCO — The tablet computers, which provide a more engaging, extended interaction with content, akin to reading a book or magazine, could be a big boon to publishers, says Chris Anderson, editor in chief of WIRED and author.

Over 30 years ago, Nina and Tim Zagat, two Yale Law School-trained Wall Street lawyers, figured that while critics have important things to say about  food and wine, it would be a good plan to source the opinions of citizen experts and organize that data into a guide.

LAS VEGAS — Much has been said about the looming showdown over software dominance to run video on the Web between Adobe's Flash and HTML5, an "open source" solution which is gaining traction.  HTML5 is one of the emerging standards for the iPad and iPhone which don't use Flash.

KIT Digital, the big Pague-based video services company will be powering video on the Tribeca Film Festival site, which will feature several live events and clips from films from this and previous festivals.