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Click To Play It was great to see Kent "Ask a Ninja" Nichols one of the two creators/actors of the award-winning online video episodic show, at the NewTeeVee conference in San Francisco on Wednesday night. After threatening to kill my show because "its getting on my nerves" (haha) he disclosed the show’s distribution platform.  They […]

Click To Play Mzinga, a Boston-area start-up that is offering companies the tools to construct social networks, is launching today at the TechCrunch MeetUp on in Boston. Erick Schonfeld has a report up on the new company on TechCrunch.  The start-up has already raised $17 million, Erick reports. A few weeks ago, I interviewed Mzinga […]

Click To Play Since you couldn’t make it backstage to NewTeeVee conference in San Francisco last night, I was there doing my video paparazzi thing.  I visited the star-studded cast of the closing event the "Video Celebrity Game Show." Om and Liz lined up quite the glamorous and influential in our world:  Wallstrip’s Lindsay Campbell, […]

Click To Play Ashwin Navin, the president and co-founder of BitTorrent, says that peer-to-peer file sharing as a video delivery platform is a reality — demanded by consumers and by by scores of media companies. It’s time, he says, for the carriers  to upgrade their systems to accommodate P2P protocols.  He told me that BitTorrent […]

While the paidContent conference last month had plenty of great speakers, one of the most compelling presentations was in the form of pre-taped video conversation by pioneering online business media executives Larry Kramer of MarketWatch and Jim Cramer of TheStreet.com The 9-minute video went up on paidContent last night and I wanted to share it […]

Click To Play The Nielsen numbers for online traffic at newspapers, which came out yesterday, show a significant jump in unique visitors to the NYTimes.com for October. In reaching 17.5 million uniques, the paper had its best month ever, a Times spokeswoman told me.  The numbers are up from 14.6 million in September. Earlier this […]

Click To Play Adobe, the maker of Flash, the ubiquitous Web video program, is launching a major advertising campaign tomorrow with overlay ads served into the video streams of Beet.TV and Rocketboom.   Interactive banner ads will appear on numerous sites over the next few weeks. In a dramatic display of its software platform, Adobe will […]

Click To Play Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube says the time spent by visitors to YouTube makes it a highly valuable proposition for advertisers.  Today at the NewTeeVee conference he reflects on the meteoric rise of YouTube over the past 24 months and explains that ad monetization is going to happen, but will "take a […]

Incredible turnout here at the first NewTeeVee conference at the Mission Bay Conference center in San Francisco.  About 500 guests are registered for the one-day shindig. Above is a photo of the opening discussion with Om, Liz Gannes and MTV’s Mike Salmi. Om Malik, founder of GigaOM and its successful spinoff NewTeeVee about video convergence, […]

Click To Play Here’s my second interview with Tom Wilde, CEO of the Boston-based EveryZing, the video search platform that uses speech-to-text to index and maximize the discoverability of online video.    The company provides a white label solution to media companies and various enterprises. Earlier today, Boston.com, the regional portal of the Boston Globe, […]

Click To Play Intel is expected to announce today a new family of microprocessor chips that will enchance HD video by compressing the video files.  The story was reported today by John Markoff in The New York Times. The new chips will first be in high-end desktops and servers. Presumably the new chips will make […]

Click To Play Phlippe Lourier is the French programmer who created the Annotated New York Times, an algorithm that indexes New York Times stories and related discussions.   It was cool, but unauthorized.  Lawyers at paper considered suing him, according to New York Times reporter Saul Hansell, but "cooler heads prevailed," he told me. Philippe and […]

Click To Play Video content might be king, but the telcos and cable companies will reign supreme in controlling the future of online video, says Dan Rayburn, organizer of Streaming Media, the key industry event for online video infrastructure. I interviewed Dan earlier this week in San Jose as the Streaming Media West show got […]

Keep an eye on Andrew Baron, the visionary video blogger and co-founder of Rocketboom.  He told Robert Scoble in this interview that he is set to launch a new live program. Scoble is getting good with his camera — but should he be doing interviews while driving?  Yipes! Andrew looks a bit tense — maybe […]

Click To Play At Streaming Media West this week, one of the big trends was the growing business alliance between content delivery companies (CDN) and innovative technology platform companies such as Move Networks and Pando Networks. Move Networks, the video distribution system that powers the beautiful ABC Television online player, signed up with Level3.  Pando, […]

Click To Play Blinkx, the video search engine/advertising network, is proving the high value proposition of in-stream advertising by charging "north of $60" per thousand views for overlay ads. The San Francisco/London-based company has found that video from certain creators, such as independent British television network ITN, can command these stratospheric prices. This is big […]

Click To Play Launched in June, Bits, the technology news blog from The New York Times has moved to the 14th spot in the Techmeme Leaderboard, an index of the most influential blogs indexed by Techmeme.  It’s something of an elite club for tech bloggers.  Here’s how Techmeme’s Gabe Rivera explains the methodology of the […]

Click To Play Microsoft’s new Silverlight will be one of the big developments in online video next year. The key event where news will happen will be at MIX08 in Las Vegas in March.  Steve Ballmer will keynote.  Ryan Stewart, the guru of rich media applications who has a column at ZDNet, just posted about […]

Click To Play Higher quality user generated video is inevitable, Forrester’s lead PC analyst told me a few weeks back when I was up in Cambridge.  Better cameras and editing tools will make this all possible, J.P. Gownder explains. Yesterday, I was in San Jose for the Streaming Media West conference.  The prospects for higher […]

Click To Play Blogrunner, the semi-automated blog aggregation engine owned by The New York Times Company,  has just gone live on many of the technology pages of the NYTimes.com. Visitors can find relevant links to blog and news sources in the Related Stories from Around the Web section, located just below articles.  Here at the […]