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Click To Play Gabe Rivera, 34, working completely on his own in his home in the Bay Area, has created Techmeme, what many bloggers, reporters and editors consider the most important tech news aggregation site.  And, he is about to transform the news and blogging world with new aggregation sites for national politics, gossip and […]

Click To Play I caught up with legendary angel investor Ron Conway in Hollywood last week. Ron was an earlier investor in some of the Valley’s most successful companies, including Google. Ron is very enthusiastic about the opportunties for investment in a whole crop of new online video ventures including kyte.tv.  He is an investor […]

Click To Play Sometimes hanging out at cool Hollywood parties, you can catch a scoop now and again. Well, I learned at a poolside shindig at the Roosevelt that Richard Rosenblatt, the former CEO of INTERMIX and MySpace, has made a private investment in Vator.TV, the new company headed up by former MarketWatch columnist Bambi […]

Click To Play Here’s Justin Kan of Justin.TV, the dude wearing the live TV camera on his head. I hung out with him LA last week where he was live casting his experience at the AlwaysOn conference. Justin is streaming live Flash video through a wireless device. This is no publicity stunt, it’s about business. […]

Click To Play Question: Who needs a set-top box if your TV is really smart?  I’m starting to wonder about that — particularly in light of today’s news that Akimbo is dropping its hardware altogether. HP believes that there is a big future in "smart" television that are connected wirelessly and through wires to various […]

Click To Play In Los Angeles last week, I had a chance to sit down with Padmasree Warrior, Executive VP and CTO of Motorola. She was a keynote speaker at the AlwaysOn Hollywood conference. Entertainment is moving to the "tiny screen," as Laura Holson wrote in today’s New York Times — and Motorola plans to […]

Click To Play Ford Models, NBC Television and Fox have channels on VMIX as do many independent musicians, filmmakers and video uploaders of deferent levels of skill. The site has over 1 million users and is growing. It is interesting to see VMIX as an alternative video sharing site to YouTube. My colleague David Kavanaugh […]

Click To Play Here’s my buddy Tony Perkins, founder of Upside, Red Herring and the AlwaysOn Network, a social network and conference business created around the digital elite of Silicon Valley, Hollywood and beyond. We spoke with him at the conclusion of his super successful conference in Hollywood on Thursday. Tony believes the film and […]

Click To Play Richard Rosenblatt, who built MySpace and sold it to News Corp, has just launched a new business  to create a network of individuals who buy .tv domain registratrations.  The company is providing registrants rich social networking tools developed for MySpace. Although Rosenblatt sold INTERMIX, the parent of MySpace, to New Corp, he […]

Click To Play Kara Swisher, a longtime reporter and columnist at the Wall Street Journal, is one of the most influential technology journalists/author.  She has also built a hugely successful conference business "D" for the Dow Jones Company.  Just last week, she launched a blog with colleague Walt Mossberg. The new blog has lots of […]

Click To Play Dan Farber helped me out this morning at the AlwaysOn Conference in Hollywood.  I was on a panel and unable to do the interview so Dan, editor in chief at ZDNet, grabbed the mic to speak with Digg’s Kevin Rose about the storm over a decision to remove then put back up […]

Click To Play Late night television host Carson Daly has a new show and it’s not on NBC. It’s a cool new site of video selections that he edits and organizes daily.  It’s a page on a new social networking site launched by Richard Rosenblatt, the founder and former chairman of MySpace.  His new venture […]

Click To Play I caught up with Dan Farber on Tuesday, poolside at the Roosevelt in Hollywood. Dan just came from the MIX conference in Las Vegas. Dan and I are attending the OnHollywood conference. Dan, editor-in-chief of ZDNet is impressed with the Silverlight, the new Microsoft platform for creating and sharing video and other […]

Click To Play Here’s the first of three interview with Ashwin Navin, president and co-founder of BitTorrent.  The company and its technology have come a long way since its early use free program to send around large open source software programs.  Today, BitTorrent.com has become a business largely focused on distributing video files through peer-to-peer […]

SplashCast has a cool new user tool to create a customized an embedible player where a selection of video feeds can be displayed. This is a fairly easy way to organize favorite videos through RSS feed on a nice interface. Since this interface is embeddible, you can put it on your blog, site or push […]

Click To Play We’ve been exploring the world of newspapers and their use of online video.  We just learned that London’s The Sun, the Murdoch-owned London tabloid, has built a wildly successful online video player and big viewership. Beet.TV has learned that a recent clip titled "friendly fire" has gotten more that one million views. […]

Click To Play When MTV bought the College Publisher last August, it acquired a company that provided a publishing platform and monetization system for college newspapers.  Today, some 500 college newspapers use the publishing platform   (The purchase also included the wildly successful RateMyProfessors.com.) MTV has integrated its its new purchase into the mtvU unit, a […]

Click To Play The next big frontier for online video advertising may well be ads inserted into P2P content.  Revver, which announced yesterday that it will distribute video clips through P2P, is using its proprietary ad serving technology to insert and manage ads traveling around the P2P networks. In my second interview, Steven Starr, CEO […]

Click To Play Blinkx, the start-up that has created a video search technology using a variety of techniques notably "listening" to audio track of video, is going public on the London Stock Exchange in May. Blinkx was spun off from Autonomy, a company that does a good deal of government work. In fact much of […]

Click To Play Revver, the popular video sharing site, will soon syndicate user-generated clips through P2P networks in a new alliance with INTENT MediaWorks. This is the most significant development in moving user-generated content through the P2P world.  The Atlanta-based INTENT will distribute tens of thousands of Revver clips through its platform.  Revver will serve […]