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Click To Play We had a great chat with Kevin Sladek a few weeks back in San Francisco.  Kevin started VideoEgg two years ago with two classmates from Yale, just one year after they graduated. Smart chaps, indeed. VideoEgg provides content producers the ability to upload and publish Flash video on the Web.  It also […]

Click To Play To us, watching video on the computer or cable isn’t about waiting around to see a "show." It’s all about finding video that is searchable and available on demand. Joe Gillespsie, who ran the now defunct TechTV for six years before moving to CNET where he oversees the very cool new CNETTV.com, […]

Click To Play We spoke with Internet superstar Charlene Li of Forrester Research.  She’s been thinking a lot about the model of advertising surrounding online video; she predicts it will take many forms. Charlene says that YouTube’s business model will inevitably become advertiser based, and she sees contests and sponsorships as a very promising area […]

Click To Play Robert Scoble and Shel Israel have co-written “Naked Conversations,” a fascinating book about how blogging has transformed corporate reputations, spurred the emergence of brands, defined the new role of the mainstream media and has transformed the very practice of public relations. For marketing and corporate communications professionals, it is an essential read. […]

Click To Play Earlier this morning, AOL launched its video portal, called AOL Video. There is an incredible amount of content organized on the site.  We at Beet.TV are very interested in search. Earlier in the week we spoke with Fred McIntyre, VP of AOL Video, about the search utility of the site. We think […]

Click To Play It was wonderful to see Steve Rubel; he is the authority on all things public relations who has created the astonishingly influential and valuable Micropersuasion blog. (Get the RSS feed on this one.) I spoke with Steve at the AlwaysOn Conference at Stanford last week. He is always ahead of the curve […]

Click To Play Peter Hirshberg, one of the sharpest guys in the biz, told me he is flabbergasted by the rapid emergence of the video blogs. He reflected on the remarkable growth of vlogs from his first exposure to the budding form just 18 months ago. In framing the state of video blogs, he uses […]

Adblock [Download video to your computer | Upload to iPod, PSP] We caught up with Robert at the AlwaysOn summit at Stanford last week. He has just moved to the Bay Area to join PodTech.  Robert spoke with us about the future of video blogs. He’s very keen on the notion of downloadable video clips.  […]

Click To Play Facebook is hugely popular among college and high school students. And a staggering number of companies use Facebook to establish social networks. We hadn’t really known how widespread business use was of the very cool platform. We had an expansive interview with co-founder Chris Hughes about Facebook’s early beginnings, its business model, […]

Click To Play We spoke with Chad Hurley, CEO and Co-founder of YouTube, at the AlwaysOn conference at Stanford. We had a good chat with him after his panel moderated by the Wall Street Journal’s Kara Swisher. When Kara asked him about Microsoft, he told the audience that Microsoft wants to make a “clone” of […]

Kate and I are headed to Silicon Valley on Tuesday morning. Straight from SFO, we’ll be visiting the headquarters of CNET and Yahoo!, then we head to the campus of Stanford University for the AlwaysOn Summit We’ll be vlogging like mad, so please check your RSS feed or hit refresh often to find interviews with […]

Click To Play Unlike blogs where anyone can sit around in their pajamas in a dimly lit room at home and crank out a fine and successful blog, vlogging involves a lot more elements – compelling content, production value and relevancy.  Steven Levy, Newsweek’s senior editor for tech coverage, tells Beet.TV that as online video […]

Adblock [Download video to your computer | Upload to iPod, PSP]  Forbes.com has developed a sophisticated and successful online video platform which produces a considerable amount of original content. It has a full blown television studio and production staff. Like CNET, it has been a pioneer among Web publishers who have made a strong commitment […]

Click To Play Net Neutrality has been a hot topic of debate for over a year now. We visited the headquarters of Newsweek magazine in steamy Manhattan on Monday to ask Senior Editor & Chief Technology Writer Steven Levy what Net Neutrality means for folks like us who generate and share video. Steven comes down […]

We’ve just read a wonderful story about Beet.TV on Dow Jones MarketWatch written by veteran columnist Frank Barnako.  We can’t believe the headline — our work gets top billing over NBC News and The New York Times! Incredible! Frank’s been covering the Internet and media space for nearly 10 years. His "Internet Daily" was my […]

You won’t hear Bush say shit on most television broadcasts, but you can hear it all on this unedited clip from Reuters from the G-8 summit where Prime Minister Tony Blair’s live microphone picked up conversation with President George Bush.  It’s an extraordinary look at the dynamics of the two world leaders. The tape is […]

Click To Play One of the most high-profile campaigns in this election cycle pits the incumbent Joseph Lieberman against the blogger-backed challenger, antiwar unknown Ned Lamont. According to political consultant Joe Trippi, Lamont’s quick rise in visibility and fundraising is emblematic of how new media tools like blogs and viral video are impacting political campaigns […]

Click To Play We spoke with New York Times advertising columnist Stuart Elliott about the impact of technology on the advertising business. He tells us it’s a time of both considerable forment and creativity for Madison Avenue.  Much of the creativity, he tells us, is coming from small ad agencies in Manhattan.  He sees a […]

Click To Play Far from Hollywood and Madison Avenue, a small start-up from the Bay Area is creating a network of gifted filmmakers and a powerful online distribution system for short films about travel and destinations, primarily in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. I spoke with TurnHere founder and CEO Brad Inman today […]

We cannot believe it. We have just received one of the greatest compliments to be bestowed on any blogger — we are the featured blog today on the home page of TypePad. The company hosts millions and million of blogs, including this one. They highlight just one blog a day, so it is a great […]