Media

LONDON — The Guardian Newspaper, which is organizing massive amounts of government and other data into its API, is making the API available to the public on a commercial basis, the paper announced today.

Blip.tv, the New York-based online video services site, has raised $10.1 million in new venture funding, the company announced this morning.

Yahoo has purchased the crowd-sourced content company Associated Content.  Kara Swisher puts the price tag for the company at $90 million cash.

Networks and media companies are inking deals left and right for location-based services like MyTown, FourSquare, and GoWalla, but what can they expect from the partnerships? 

TechCrunch is rolling into New York with a three-day conference called TechCrunch Disrupt.  The event, from May 24-26, will present the established and debut emerging players who are "disrupting" the media and technology landscape. 

LOS ANGELES — At the Cable Show, lots of buzz about 3-D programming and the roll-out of TV Everywhere.  Daisy caught up with Discovery's Rebecca Glashow, SVP for Digital Media Distribution, to talk about both.

LOS ANGELES — Yesterday, the Cable Show got underway and the big buzz is interactivity–how cable programmers and operators can make shows more involving to viewers getting used to a Web experience.

Reuters Insider, a vast business and B2B video site from Thomson Reuters, is launching this week, and Beet.TV is a content partner for the new subscription service.

Congrats to the team at the BBC for winning this year's Webby People Award as best news site.   The New York Times won in the "official" category of Best News Site as judged by the panel.

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.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif — Online video is the fastest growing sectors in advertising, with spending expected to be up nearly  35 percent this year, says Geoff Ramsey, CEO of market research firm eMarketer.  Despite its rapid rise, he adds that the medium faces challenges in technology and content quality.

New online video syndication service Alphabird recently inked a deal with FremantleMedia to push out the studio's new branded entertainment series, the company's CEO Chase Norlin told me last week at ad:tech San Francisco.

The Huffington Post is up 94 percent in traffic this year, has 13 million unique monthly visitors (according to Nielsen), and is poised for profitability in 2010, co-founder Arianna Huffington tells the Associated Press.

Techmeme, considered by many as the most authoritative tech news aggregator, spun off a media news site called Mediagazer in early March. 

LAS VEGAS–Alloy Entertainment, the producer of hit teen television programming, including "Gossip Girl" and "Vampire Diaries" films and books, is making a big expansion with its original Web programming, Sean Horvath told Beet.TV West Coast Bureau Chief Daisy Whitney at NAB earlier this month.

Epix, the premium HD movie channel co-owned by Viacom and Lion's Gate, has a big distribution deal with Dish Networks which adds 14 million more subscribers, Reuters reports.

LAS VEGAS — The much anticipated release of Adobe's CS5, the suite of creative tools for graphics, web design, and video editing, includes some significant improvements in Premiere, the widely used video editing program. 

Los Angeles-based Demand Media, the fast-growing Web content company, has hired Goldman Sachs to explore an IPO, reports Ken Li of the Financial Times.  Li writes that the IPO could come as early as August.

V-me, the Spanish language U.S. television network, has selected Kyte as its new online video solution, both companies announced today.

YuMe, the Redwood City-based online video advertising technology company announced today that it will integrate its ad platform with Microsoft Silverlight.