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Pioneering videobloggers Robert Scoble, Jeff Jarvis, Steve Garfield and Pop17’s Sarah Meyers are using a Nokia mobile device to stream live video to the Web.  Most upload to a Web sharing platform such as QIK and Flixwagon.  Some journalists are using the phones for news gathering. Camera phones are great, but live video streaming only […]

Caroline McCarthy, the social media beat reporter at CNET News.com, who has just wrapped up her coverage of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, does a little debrief with her editor Dan Farber. She said the energy around the parties was exuberant; some revelers told her it was a throw back to the old […]

Emeryville-based TubeMogul, the platform that allows video publishers to use a one log-in page to upload to over 15 different video sharing sites, is expanding its analytics services.  A number of content creators and shows use TubeMogul including NextNew Networks, Tornante, CBS Interactive, Average Betty, Goodnight Burbank and National Lampoon. The syndication service is free […]

Click To Play The booming participation in social media is creating both a big opportunity and potentially a giant sink hole for media companies and marketers.  How this will play out is far from being known at this stage, says Larry Kramer, founder of MarketWatch whom I consider a true media visionary. I caught up […]

Video consumption on CNN.com has reached a record with 116 million videos, including clips and live streams, viewed in March, according to internal CNN numbers.  This is a 5 percent increase over February. CNN.com Live, the platform which provides four simultaneous streams, had 4 million streams in March. An increasingly popular live show is "Now […]

Nokia has been aggressively positioning its mobile phones as multi-media devices.  New phones, such as the N95, have been given to reporters and bloggers as a video news gathering tool. Now, Nokia is marketing its phones as a tool in creating theatrical films through a new project with the celebrated American director Spike Lee.  Laura […]

Click To Play ScanScout, the Boston-based ad network that has been one of the leading innovators in providing overlay advertising into video streams, has just announced a big publisher agreement with Broadband Enterprises.  Earlier this year at the AlwaysOn conference in New York, I interviewed Waikit Lau, ScanScout’s co-founder and CEO.  Waikit gives an overview […]

"How to videos" are propagating on the Web and some producers are making a reputation for themselves and some money.  Kip Kedersha, an independent video producer is getting millions of views and is the top earner on Metacafe, New York Times reporter Miguel Helft reports today.  Not sure how all the new startups will fare, […]

For online video to be searchable in the way that text is indexed on the Web today, video will have to be transcribed and indexed in the form of transcripts or raw metadata. Not only is this critical for effective search, it will be essential in the years ahead when the Web evolves to a […]

Click To Play Move Networks, the little start-up in Utah, has impressed many in the industry with super high quality streaming technology that does not appear to hog too much bandwidth.  To see how great it looks, check out ABC.com — that’s the Move player on the videos. Last month, Microsoft announced an alliance with […]

Click To Play In the television news world, one of the most authoritative news sources is TVNewser, part of Mediabistro which is now owned by Jupitermedia. Editor Chris Ariens has a scoop about embattled anchor Katie Couric.  According to his report, CBS CEO Les Moonves told the CBS news staff in a meeting earlier today […]

Click to play Not sure if Segway’s slow growth will be accelerated by the company’s new plan for a social network which was announced this week, but a customized Segway for shooting video sure got a lot attention at NAB on the floor of the Las Vegas Convention Center this week.  Not only does the […]

Click To Play Microsoft is readying the launch of its IPTV platform on the Xbox 360 in the U.K. later this year with British Telecom.  This development was first announced in January.  The console is doing extremely well in Europe, PC World reports tonight. I met Microsoft’s Jim Baldwin at the NAB conference in Las Vegas […]

Click To Play The big turning point in the adoption of Silverlight, the rich content, in-browser plug-in from Microsoft, could be this summer with the Beijing Olympics.  As previously reported, MSN will stream some three thousand hours of video on Silverlight.  (As we understand, this deal is for video casting in the United States only.) […]

Mogulus, the the New York-based start-up which is empowering live online video casting of small content creators, on Monday announced a "white label" solution so broadcasters and publishers can use the platform with their own branding and customized functionality.   Some other well known players in the field include Justin.tv and uStream.  Yahoo! Live will enter […]

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Yesterday in Las Vegas at the NAB convention, I interviewed Adobe’s Ashley Still about the platform.  She explained the novel monetization scheme that involves content creators sharing advertising revenue with Adobe. She also explained the issue of analytics.  With iTunes publisher know the numbers of downloads, but many find it difficult to track how many […]

Yesterday in Las Vegas at NAB conference, I caught up with John King, national correspondent at CNN.  We spoke about the impact of online video on the presidential campaign.  He says that the Obama campaign had an early start and is most aggressive but points to progress with the Clinton campaing and the clever video […]

l Here in Las Vegas, there is great deal of interest in creating and delivering HD video content to the home.  The world’s biggest content delivery network (CDN) which delivers video files around the world is Cambridge-based Akamai. They had a big presence at the show and brought out the big guns, including founder and […]

Way back in 1999, Lost Remote was created to cover the television industry by a group of television news executives who wanted to create and share news in a different form.  The blog has an influential following and has been getting advertising revenue. I caught up with one of the founders and current editor Cory […]