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Msnbc.com has announced that it has expanded its offering of television news programming to mobile devices through an alliance with Transpara. NBC News shows to be sent to mobile devices will include "Today," "Nightly News with Brian Williams" and "Meet the Press."

Here at Beet.TV we are like to chronicle how small media brands, with no legacy, emerge to grab attention.  Fora.tv, launched in 2007, is a site which presents videos of thought leaders speaking in public forums. It been gaining some traction over the past three months.

SAN FRANCISCO — Online video is replacing television for consumers 25 years and younger  as part of a dramatic demographic shift.  Watching video on a personal computer is becoming the principal way young adults consumer video. 

Many video producers embrace a hyper-syndication approach to distributing their videos across many sites, meaning they make their videos sharable on unassociated blogs and Web sites. 

News videos displayed on YouTube have been organized to be timely and relevant to the news of the day through the integration of Google News into YouTube News. 

SAN FRANCISCO — Driven by political and economic events and changing consumption patterns, Web video is becoming increasingly news-centric, according to Charlie Tillinghast, president of msnbc.com and Olivia Ma, manager of news at YouTube.

Webcam chat at Ustream The Beet.TV roundtable in San Francisco (and Ustream's live stream of the event) ended at noon PT today. You can watch the first half on-demand in this post; for the second half, visit our Ustream channel. Keep reading for my live blogging of the event!

SAN FRANCISCO — Adobe is aggressively promoting the use of its Flash video ecosystem into more of the news and entertainment world with a new development deal with Time Warner. 

Thomson Reuters has announced a new online video service as part of a $1 billion plan to update the company's products and infrastructure.  The new video portal is part of the company's paid service for financial professionals.   

Amplify, which provides Natural Language Processing solutions for customers who want to understand and better target advertising to online content, announced its first big U.S. partnership with social Media ad targeting firm Lotame, CEO Mark Redgrave told Andy at the AlwaysOn conference last month.

Chris Soghoian at CNET News.com reports that the White House has dropped YouTube as its video platform for President Obama's addresses for custom player and system from Akamai.  Chris says that the move has come as a result of privacy concerns over cookies collected by YouTube.  Chris explains the situation here. 

Several small niche sites in health, sports and video gaming appear to be bucking the downturn trend and registering growth in traffic and revenue, reports Jessica Vascellaro and Elizabeth Holmes in today's Wall Street Journal.

Google has scanned and indexed the entire archives of New York magazine.  Issues spanning 40 years have been organized as part of Google Book Search.

This difficult period for start-ups will produce many important companies, as happened in the last tech downturn, says Sita Vasan, a senior officer with Intel Capital, one of the the world's biggest corporate investors.  

KIT digital, a jack-of-all trades company that can produce videos for clients, deliver them over their own global CDN, and monetize them, will continue to strengthen its focus on mobile and TV through set-top boxes in 2009, Head of the Americas Dan Rosen told me at the Beet.TV studio.

Since it evolved into a news site in 2006, NYmag.com has been building a sizable national audience.  Fashion has been a big traffic driver and Fashion Week in New York and brought historic traffic to the site, according to a report in Mediabistro's WebNewser.

In what is probably the first time a presidential speech has been automatically transcribed by a software program, msnbc.com used a voice-to-text solution from Nexidia to transcribe last night's address to Congress by President Barack Obama. The online news site got the Obama transcription up in 15 minutes after the conclusion of  the speech, we […]

SeeqPod, the search engine that crawls the web for "playable search results" like music–including pirated files–is under fire from the record companies again.

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Tuesday’s speech to Congress by President  Barack Obama made for a big news day at msnbc.com with some 54 million page views and 2.5 million video views, according Omniture SiteCatalyst numbers provided by msnbc.com.  (The numbers for viewing the speech are expected to […]

There’s been a lot of debate lately over whether branded applications for social networks, created by companies like Buddy Media, are effective.