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Click To Play Just a few minutes ago at the "D" conference in Carlsbad, California, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser made a bombshell announcement about a new product from RealNetworks. The company will soon provide a free downloadable video player that allows users to save and organize video files in all major formats including Flash, QuickTime, […]

Click To Play New tools for creating search tools and analytics have just been released by Truveo, the AOL unit. AOL bought the innovative online search technology firm last year. AOL is putting a great deal of focus and resources around search and is making Truveo a big player not just on the AOL properties, […]

Click To Play Here’s the problem: All video sharing sites are silos. For publishers wanting to publish video on multiple sites with proper metadata, the task is monumental.  I understand that Ford Models, which publishes on at least 6 platforms including a hugely successful YouTube channel, employs a team of 10 to just keep all […]

Click To Play A "stage streaming server" solution from Microsoft is nearly here. Publishers will only pay for the amount of content that is actually downloaded This will be made possible by the upcoming deployment of the new Microsoft server which is code-named "Longhorn." The costs of streaming high quality video through the Internet is […]

YouTube has just begun to test a user interface with new with thumbnail previews of related clips.  It also creates a destinct url for spot in a video.  So, you don’t need to watch a whole video to see the clip of dog singing to get the good part, you can just create a location […]

Great article today by Scott Kirsner in the San Jose Mercury News about how the availabilty of metrics to bloggers and can lead to obsessive behavior over traffic and Technorati rankings. Well, this isn’t shocking, of course. There are important tools to track our audiences which were only available to major publishers and broadcasters just […]

Click To Play AOL’s UnCut, the consumer generated service that has been in beta for a about a year, but little talked about, will launch next month, Fred McIntyre, chief online video executive at AOL told Beet.TV. The new service will be implemented on many of AOL’s platforms including AIM, AOL and it’s growing social […]

Click To Play Here’s my interview with Chris Hughes, one of the three co-founders of Facebook — and the only one to graduate Harvard. An Ivy League degree and a great business at 23. Not too shabby.  I interviewed him last summer on the Stanford campus.  This video was on my post on July 26.  […]

Click To Play Last week at the Streaming Media East conference, I caught up with Steve Safran, managing editor of the essential television industry blog Lost Remote. Steve gives his take on the value of YouTube and why it’s such a success. He also discusses the challenges of big media to succeed in this new […]

If you haven’t read the big page one story on today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription) about the poisoning of former Russian security agent Alexander Litvinenko in London, it’s fascinating and troubling.  The piece by Moscow-based Journal reporter Alan Cullison is sourced to a 1998 videotape done by Litvinenko and fellow security officers who said they […]

gle We’ve uploaded all 260 or so video clips from Beet.TV to our "Partner" channel on YouTube and it’s really starting to grow.  Folks are subscribing to the channel, commenting and generally spreading the word.  Today, the purple channel ranked 69, which I think it is pretty cool.  And yes, I have been designated a […]

Click To Play One of the most spectacular online video players can be found at ABC.com. It was introduced just last month and and has attracted quite a bit of attention. The player shows remarkable, full-screen high quality.  And, it loads quickly. It’s not Flash, it’s not Windows Media and it’s not distributed on P2P.  […]

Click To Play When I was in LA earlier this month for the AlwaysOn conference, I had the opportunity to sit down with Steve Abraham who heads IBM’s consulting services in the entertainment and media industries.  Steve provides a very informative take on the NBC Universal/News Corp alliance for syndicating and advertising online video content. […]

Click To Play One of the coolest online video environments I have seen is the new home for Major League Baseball. It is being created on Microsoft’s new Silverlight platform. I got a sneak preview when I caught up with Microsoft’s Sean Alexander this week at the Streaming Media East conference in New York. Sean […]

Click To Play Here’s my interview with Robert Scoble from the floor of Streaming Media East in New York yesterday. Robert was one of several guests I interviewed live over a two hour period. In addition to streaming the interview, we taped it, so here’s an excerpt. Many more video clips to follow. The live […]

Click To Play Bart Feder is the President and CEO of the FeedRoom, a company that powers video platforms for media organizations including The New York Times and Conde Nast. The company is increasingly providing video distribution platforms for companies who want to provide videos to journalists, bloggers and the general public. After all, any […]

Click To Play Adobe’s Flash Video has huge penetration.  Its brower-based application is nearly everywhere.  So, why is Adobe launching a new player this summer?  Earlier today, I caught up with Adobe’s Craig Barberich at the Streaming Media East conference here in New York. Craig gave us a demo and it’s pretty impressive.  Unlike the […]

Click To Play The very premise of the "Streaming Media" conference has tranformed from largely a broadcast-engineering expo to a must-attend summit where online video and its revolutionary effect on society is explored.  It’s a whole new ballgame.  Congratulations to Dan Rayburn for programming such a relevant and informative show. We are delighted to cover […]

Click To Play More and more video will be available on mobile devices. Consumers will have choices and opportunities to download and stream short and long-form content. That’s cool but how can the wireless providers and their networks support this bandwidth demand? Part of the solution will come with the deployment of WiMAX, says Padmasree […]

Click To Play Amir Ashkenazi, one of the founders of shopping.com which was sold to eBay, has just launched adap.tv  It is a new kind of advertising network that places advertising on video clips in the form of contextual overlay advertising.  These are not video ads inserted before of in the clips, but they are […]