Live Streaming

While some of new crop related TEDx conference around the world are streaming their events free and live, the main TED conferences will continue to presented first and exclusively for the conference audience and not streamed live.

SAN JOSE, Calif – Cisco, which has a high-end video conferencing business called TelePresence, will announce in October a consumer product for as little as $500 per unit, according to a report out on Reuters.

Watch live streaming video from beet_tv at livestream.com Here is our 30-minute conversation with NPD lead tech analyst Ross Rubin. This is the first of what will be a series of live program on Beet.TV.  The show originated live earlier from  the Livestream studios in Manhattan. Andy Plesser

Rocketboom, the daily topical Web video show, went live on YouTube with three, one-hour programs last week as part of the YouTube live programming pilot.

Earlier this week, YouTube streamed and promoted the live shows of a few content partners including Rocketboom as part of a two-day pilot program.

PALO ALTO, California (via video Skype) — Demand for closed captions on Web videos is increasing as publishers seek audiences in new markets.

Last week's Digitas Content NewFront conference was streamed live simultaneously  to several streaming services and sites including Ustream, Justin.tv, Revision3, Ad Age, and Mediapost. 

Not many gadgets were on display at Streaming Media East earlier this month, but this was my favorite:  a portable, battery-powered video encoder, which we understand to be the world's first.

In judging success of online video sites, the number of streams count, but time spent is also an extremely important metric.

The Washington Post, the first and most innovative major U.S. newspaper to use video as part of  its online news offering, is launching a platform for hundreds of reporters to host their own programs live from their desks on Webcams, via a simple interface with the Post's content management system.

With a vast amount of international travel halted as a result of the volcanic ash coming from Iceland, video teleconferencing will rise in the days and weeks ahead.  

3-D Teleconferencing, long the communications tool of choice for characters in sci-fi movies, will be part of mainstream teleconferencing in the future, according to Charles Stucki, VP and GM of Cisco’s TelePresence division.

NEW YORK — Cisco Systems, which has a big* video teleconference business with a product called TelePresence, is entering the broadcast world with the MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, who is using the system to conduct remote interviews.

Justin.tv, the big live webcasting service, has launched an iPhone application, allowing viewers to watch, share and interact with all the thousands of live streaming channels on the site.

LONDON — LIvestation, the small London-based start-up that organizes real-time feeds of 20 of the world's leading video news sources, had 5 million video views with 65 million minutes of video watched in January, according to founder and CEO Matteo Berlucci.

SAN FRANCISCO — Revision3 is experimenting with offering more shows live as well as on-demand, the company's CEO Jim Louderback told us at the recent Beet.TV online video roundtable in San Francisco.

While the audiences for viewing of live events might be relatively small,  it can be influential for the publishers seeking to build a brand, says Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3, the producer and syndicator of tech and lifestyle online video programming.

REDMOND, WA –  Regardless of how fast your broadband connection is, Microsoft plans to deliver consistently high quality,  "smooth streaming" of the Winder Olympics with adaptive streaming technology, a system that delivers video tailored to the connection speed and CPU power of the end user.

Ooyala, the two-year old online video services company, is putting a big effort around its live streaming platform.  It will get considerable  exposure with the live streaming of the Grammy Awards pre-show, the "red carpet" and back stage activity.