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Click To Play Today I spoke with Tina Brown, the doyenne of the New York media world. Having served as longtime editor of Vanity Fair and New Yorker,  she is now a best-selling author with the recently published book about Princess Diana, The Diana Chronicles. There are reports that she will be developing video properties […]

Click To Play Brightcove provides video services for 4000 commercial publishers, which in turn serves video clips to 120 million unique users per month.  Having dropped its consumer facing portal and its business as an advertising network, the company is fully focused on its platform business.    These are topics covered  in an expansive interview […]

Click To Play In the "battle" of technology news aggregators Techmeme vs. Blogrunner, little Techmeme has the juice: it is the "water cooler" of the blogosphere, wrote power blogger Michael Arrington last month when Blogrunner was integrated into the NYTimes.com Technology page. While Techmeme grows in influence, Blogrunner has just added a powerful new component […]

Click To Play The New York Times is expanding its online video offerings by creating syndication deals with independent content producers.  Last month, it brought the Bloggingheads to the paper’s op-ed page.  In the latest development, it has an agreement with Purple States TV for a series of about a dozen segments on the  presidential primaries […]

Here at the purple channel, we’ve been covering video bloggers who are exploring and establishing the medium.   But none have had the impact of the Italian video blogger Beppe Grillo.  In today’s Technorati rankings of the most influential bloggers, determined by the number of other blogs that link in, he comes in at number eight […]

Click To Play The world of online video syndication between major content creators and portals has shifted into high gear over the past two days. Yesterday, Yahoo! Finance announced that it would host hundreds of CNBC clips.  Today, MTV Networks announced that it is syndicating a substantial amount of videos onto AOL Video.  Shows from […]

Click To Play Just as software for putting still images on a web page is free, so should codecs for encoding and decoding video, said Philippe Le Hegaret, Architect Domain Leader at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3) headed by Tim Berners-Lee.  Video encoding, the essential process in which video is compressed, converted and then […]

Click To Play YouTube, which has offered an advertising revenue sharing opportunity to about  100 "qualified" partners, meaning "established" content creators like Ford Models, Rocketboom and Beet.TV, is now offering advertising participation to vast range of content creators. Update: 2:00 PM EST:  Ad revenue will split on a CPM basis with "a majority" of the […]

Click To Play Nokia, not Canon, Nikon or Casio or Sony, is the world’s camera phone company, Tim Frain, Director of Intellectual Property and Regulation at Nokia, told Beet.TV European Correspondent Mika Hentunen an exclusive interview in Espoo, Finland earlier this month. Of course, Mr. Frain was referring to the cameras in Nokia phones.  Some […]

Click To Play A number of start-ups are building businesses by organizing independent video makers to create online video commercials for national brands.  Unlike the San Francisco-based TurnHere, which has organized a network of independent videographers to create editorial content, these start-ups are reaching out to independent video makers to make ads. These are not […]

Candidates are finding their images shaped by online forces beyond their control. Some, like the Obama Girl online video show, have been helpful in forging a cool young image for Senator Barack Obama, reports Matt Bai, in  today’s Sunday New York Times Magazine. Other "surprising" videos have not been as helpful, as this 1993 Rudolph […]

Click To Play Ford Models, the powerhouse modeling agency, has been producing hundreds of online video clips and distributing them on MySpace, Revver, YouTube, Veoh and other platforms. Ford’s channel on MySpace is hosting a global model search competition culminating in January. Its channel on YouTube is among the most watched. Earlier this week, the […]

Click To Play Last month, I was at Om Malik’s NewTeeVee confab in San Francisco where I interviewed Sling Media’s Brian Jaquet who shared a pretty cool demo of the SlingBox. Om reported late last night on GigaOM that Dish Network has decided to spin-off the recently acquired Sling Media.  The SlingBox allows you to […]

Click To Play Rocketboom, the pioneering daily online video program,  is represented by Hollywood powerhouse talent agency Creative Artists Agency, founder and creator Andrew Baron told me earlier this week in this interview. The representation by CAA has been in place for several months but the news has not been publicly revealed.  Andrew declined to […]

Click To Play College students are at great risk for identity theft and fraud by posting personal information to Facebook, says James Bierstaker, an expert in identity theft and forensic accounting at the Villanova School of Business. He urges his students to take "all your personal information off of Facebook." I interviewed him yesterday on […]

Click To Play In the six months since its acquisition for $75 million by EBAY, StumbleUpon membership has nearly doubled to 4 million, according to EBAY, which posted news of the milestone on its official blog today. The site is a video recommendation platform organized by members, or "stumblers," who suggest videos to others with […]

Click To Play Maven Networks, a video management technology solution for media companies, has landed a big win with the Scripps with lifestyle brands including HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network, Recipezaar, Fine Living and Great American Country (GAC). A few weeks  back, Nick Troiano visited the Beet studios to explain the Maven platform.  Unlike some […]

Click To Play Motorola Chief Technology Officer Padmasree Warrior has left to be CTO of Cisco, GigaOM’s Om Malik reports.  I caught up with Padmasree in Los Angeles earlier this year.   In this chat, we spoke about the advent of WiMAX and its potential impact on wireless video distribution.  Maybe she’ll be working on this […]

Click To Play The inevitable evolution to higher quality online video has taken a significant step forward with the decision by Hulu, the News Corp/NBC Universal joint venture, to stream some clips in the HD high quality formats of 1280 x 720 resolution and 2,500Kbps. The initial clips will be move trailers from Fox and […]

Click To Play Recently I sat down with Mark Randall, chief strategist for the Dynamic Media Organization at Adobe.  Mark explained the benefits of using a Flash Media Server to distribute video.  With the dramatic price cuts announced yesterday, this is going to make this technology a even more attractive to independent content creators.  I […]