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Kevin Ryan, former CEO of DoubleClick, has been busy these days creating a number of businesses including one of our favorite blogs, the Silicon Alley Insider. Much more under the radar screen is a content delivery network (CDN) called Panther Express.  Kevin stopped by the Beet.TV studios recently to share a little update.  He told […]

Kent Nichols, co-creator of the web video sensation "Ask a Ninja," has just been tapped to co-write the remake of the schlock classic Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. My colleague Daisy Whitney of TV Week spoke with Kent about the project earlier this week at SXSW in Austin. It’s very exciting to see how online […]

That ubiquitous YouTube watermark on the lower right hand side of the embeded players seen on millions of blogs and Web sites is gone.  This development was spotted and reported by the eagle-eyed Liz Gannes, editor of NewTeeVee. I’ve been checking around and Liz is right. We don’t know if the watermark is history or […]

Here’s a quick clip of ABC News president David Westin, a panelist at the McGraw Hill Media Summit.  He was on a panel which explored the value of broadcast journalism in the new media landscape.  Yes, he agrees a certain amount of news has become a "commodity."  But Westin addresses the value of enterprise reporting […]

Last night at the McGraw Hill Media Summit, I attended a private dinner where I had the good fortune to catch up with John Byrne, Business Week’s Executive Editor. I asked John about his intrepid technology columnist Sarah Lacy, who created a quite firestorm among the digerati in Austin on Sunday at SXSW with her […]

Long providing an opportunity for viewers to send in videos, text messages, camera phone videos, comments and photos through an area called iReport, CNN.com has launched a true consumer generated news portal.  It has its own url as ireport.com This is completely different from what iReport had been, which had solicited contributed content, then edited […]

With the acquisition of Club Penquin last year, the Walt Disney Company is making a significant entrance into social media.  This morning at the opening session of the McGraw Hill Media Summit, Robert Iger, President and CEO of Disney spoke of Penguin Club and his igloo, a location he has staked out in the virtual […]

CNN, long an innovator in utilizing new technology to record and transmit video reports from remote and dangerous locations, made news gathering history last night when it used Skype to get a live transmission of CNN Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin who was in Hawaii with no access to a satellite upload location. Toobin was a […]

Here is my colleague Daisy Whitney at SXSW, the big interactive/arts confab still underway in Austin.  It is surely the meeting place for folks on cutting edge of social network applications and new media. Case in point, Daisy is interviews Steve Garfield who is one of the leading thinkers and innovators in video blogging.  He […]

The Associated Press, the world’s largest news organization, has recently launched a significant presence on YouTube with its own channel. Editors are uploading about 250 videos a week, Beet.TV has learned.  The AP began uploading these videos over the past month or so.  The uploaded videos are both edited reports and clips of raw footage.  […]

Caroline McCarthy, who covers social media for CNET News.com is at SXSW, the giant Web/music/digital conference still underway in Austin.    I interviewed her yesterday from my office in New York.  I asked her questions on her mobile phone and she replied via a live Mogulus connection.  (Hey, it’s not ABC News Nightline, but it […]

Here is Daisy Whitney, reporter for TV Week interviewing Joseph Weisenthal of paidContent about the fun and frustration of covering SXSW.  This interview streamed live earlier today from the show in Austin.  And, Joe interviews Daisy, too! Editor’s Note:  This is unedited! So be patient as Daisy begins her interview about 15 seconds into the […]

Here is Daisy Whitney, correspondent for TV Week interviewing Lindsay Campbell of Wallstrip fame on her new CBS Interactive show called Moblogic.  Great to have Whitney in at SXSW in Austin reporting for TV Week and for Beet.TV.  Thanks to the crew at Mogulus for providing us with this feed which was streamed live just […]

With editing suites sprouting up around town, global control rooms and newly created state-of-the-art soundstages, San Francisco is a booming video production and distribution center.  Beet.TV was in town a couple weeks back for tours of Current TV and Revision3 and I can report that there is quite a lot going on. Here is our […]

Dan Farber, the veteran tech editor who built the current incarnation of ZDNet into a successful blog network, takes over helm tomorrow of CNET’s News.com  News of Dan’s new post and the departure of Jai Singh, founding editor, has been previously reported. I caught up with Dan earlier this month in the San Francisco News.com […]

Chris Albrecht is a staff reporter at NewTeeVee, the authoritative blog that covers the online video space.  He stopped by the Beet.TV a couple weeks back to chat about trends in content and consumption. He talked about the glut in online comedy channels and the challenge for independents to keep things funny in order to […]

Current TV, the global television network, which is distributed on cable and satellite, is very  different online.  Current.com, launched last October, is starting to get traction as a site built around user-generated videos, photos, text commentary and citizen reporting. According to numbers provided to Current by Omniture, the site had one million unique visitors in […]

This is astonishing: A tiny New York start-up, bootstrapped by two Brown grads who met in their dorm as freshmen, and $750K in angel money, have created a video platform that is streaming more video clips to women than many huge brands.  The ranking, which was released by Nielsen Online a few minutes ago, bundles […]

The acquisition of Yahoo! by Microsoft is inevitable, says Scott Kessler, the authoritative tech equity analyst at Standard & Poor’s, in this interview published this morning on the WSJ.com.  He says that only Microsoft has the resources to close the deal, despite published reports about possible a tie-up with Time Warner. Interviewing Kessler is M&A […]

That little screen on your mobile device is about to look a lot better.  Today in Finland, Nokia is expected to announce it will make available Microsoft’s Silverlight to developers to be used in applications for the S60 platform, the broadly deployed mobile operating system for smart phones.  This is a milestone development in the […]