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Click To Play There has been quite a dust-up in the PR world about Chris Anderson’s blog post where he upbraided legions of publicists for for sending him unsolicited e-mails.  In making his point, he published the e-mail addresses of the guilty ones — some 329. The hubbub has been widely reported in PR blogs […]

Click To Play Earlier this week, I interviewed venture capitalist and longtime media investor Alan Patricof at the paidContent future of business media conference at the Waldorf.  Alan’s fund is paidContent’s sole investor. His excitement about the event echoed an observation by Fortune magazine in a feature by Oliver Ryan titled "The old guy can […]

Click To Play There’s been quite a lot of discussion over the last few days about a unified technology protocol for social networks. As the technology standards become settled, more social networks are springing up  all the time. There have been a number of new, niche-focused entrants in the field.  A few have launched recently […]

Click To Play Earlier today, The New York Times unveiled a system to index blog and news sources into a  dynamic  feed on the tech page.  It’s titled "Technology Headlines from Around the Web."  The system is based on an automated algorithm developed by Philippe Lourier, the developer of Blogrunner, a Web site the paper […]

Click To Play CNET recently launched BNET, an informational portal for managers and small business owners. There’s content from the staff and external sources including Harvard Online. A big part of BNET is its video offering.  CNET is creating video in-house and working with various partners and is committing considerable resources to video  content, I […]

Click To Play The Economist is on fire:  Ad pages have passed Business Week in the U.S. and the business title was ranked fourth most successful by Advertising Age in the annual magazine "A List" published earlier this week. At the paidContent conference in New York earlier this week, I caught up with Susan Clark, […]

Click To Play Jupitermedia CEO Alan Meckler is one of the most intriguing and successful entrepreneurs in the new media space. His firm recently acquired Mediabistro the journalism blog, networking/jobs and training site, for $23 million. I sat down with him yesterday, after his panel at the paidContent conference, to have a wider ranging chat […]

Click To Play Rob Norman is the head of online advertising buying for the entire WPP network, a job of vast responsibility and influence. I interviewed him at the paidContent conference in Manhattan today where he was a panelist.  Rob has a lot to say about online video advertising and the range of environments for […]

Click To Play Last night I was at the opening night reception of the paidContent one-day conference about the future of business media.  The reception was at the Frank Gehry-designed IAC headquarters in the Manhattan. Rafat told me that the future of buisness video will involve more story telling and investigative pieces.  We agree. I […]

Click To Play Erick Shonfeld reports on TechCrunch that Fora.TV, the "thinking person’s YouTube," has raised additional seed money from original investor William Randolph Hearst III along with a new investor in Adobe.  And, the company is poised to raise $5 million in  series A venture round within 90 days, founder Brian Gruber tells Erick.  […]

Click To Play Al Gore’s Current TV is creating some very good content, but its efforts to generated user generated video has faltered and monthly unique visitors are only 152,000 per month. Nonetheless, one investor in Current, Los Angeles magnate Ronald W. Bunkle, is quoted in today’s New York Times stating Current has a valuation […]

Click To Play The Akamai showcase site for HD online videos from several customers including the BBC, MTV, the NBA and others has just gone live.  The images that load to the home page are in very high quality Flash.  To see the HD videos, you need to select either 1280 X 720 or 1920 […]

Click To Play Revision3’s Diggnation has a large following.  Like most episodic Web video shows, most of the clips are consumed via downloads, mostly through iTunes.  Recently, the company has has introduced a Flash player with shareable embed code and it has done very well, Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3 told me. Here’s my second […]

Click To Play October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we figured it would be a good plan to produce and stream videos about the disease including clips about screening, genetics and therapies.    These videos are beginning of a new medical channel dedicated to women’s health.  We’re still working out the format/branding, but we have […]

Click To Play Extend Media is the company that has implemented the backend technology for Fanfare, the music and video portal from SanDisk.  The site interfaces with a simple, inexpensive USB device that takes videos from the computer and allows them to be plugged into a TV set. Like iTunes and AppleTV, the new service […]

The wildfires in Southern California have generated an unprecedented amount of video and photo uploads to CNN, other news organizations and to the video sharing sites. One of the most interesting developments in "citizen journalism" around this disaster has been the widespread use of mobile phones as a reporting device.  Veeker, the San Francisco-based start-up […]

Click To Play A new era of high definition online video will begin on Monday when Akamai launches a showcase portal for videos from customers including the BBC, NBA, MTV and others.  The term HD has been bantered about quite a lot in the context of Web video.  But by our understanding, "true" high def […]

Blogginheads.tv, that little scrappy scrappy "Crossfire" of  a webcam start-up for political bloggers, has found a home on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times.  There will be three video excerpts a week featured on the The New York Times Opinion Page. Rachel Sklar, that eagle-eyed media columnist at The Huffington Post broke the […]

Click To Play The movers and shakers in the online video space will be at NewTeeVee’s one-day conference in San Francisco on November 14. Beet.TV will be on the scene, natch.  So, if you can’t be there, you can count on exclusive "behind the velvet rope" coverage by the purple channel! As you might have […]

Click To Play Nope, it’s not the corporate blogging software we’re talking about here, but the new permanent art installation in the lobby of the newspaper’s new Renzo Piano-designed headquarters building on Eighth Avenue and 41st Street. Artist Ben Rubin and UCLA professor/statistician Mark Hansen have created a multi-media installation of 560 small screens, mounted […]