Web/Tech

Click To Play View a transcript of this interview There’s been a lot of buzz surrounding the introduction of Microsoft’s Expression — the new suite of multimedia authoring tools.  Some industry observers see this as frontal assault on Adobe’s popular software.  Here at Beet.TV we have been quite interested in video aspects of Expression and […]

Click To Play View a transcript of this interview Satjiv Chahil is one of the tech industry’s most respected marketers. His work at Apple, Sony and Palm have been widely admired. For the past two years, he’s been at HP where he is head of consumer marketing. Under his rein, HP has become the world’s […]

Click To Play View a transcript of this interview There’s been a lot of discussion lately about pending moves in Congress to keep the Internet from being split into faster and slower networks — keeping the Net "neutral."  Esther is leery about Congress jumping into new regulations — and she’s not alone among the big […]

  Click To Play View a transcript of this interview I caught up with Newsweek’s Steven Levy on Saturday at the Manhattan studios of Beet.TV. It was a little post New Year’s get together with our good friends and colleagues — so that explains the noise in the background — and the wine created a […]

Click To Play View a transcript of this interview Here’s the last of our three interviews with Robert Levitan, CEO of Pando, a peer-to-peer BitTorrent based software that allows large files to be sent by various means: a desktop application, email attachment, Skype and embedded code. These files can be as big as 1 GB. […]

View a transcript of this interview Sending big video files around by e-mail is limited.  Many e-mail programs limit outgoing and incoming files to 10 MG.    Pando, a peer-to-peer BitTorrent-based sharing program, is now allowing users of Outlook, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Hotmail and AOL to send up to a 1 GB file with their […]

I spoke with Robert Levitan of Pando earlier this week.  Pando has created a BitTorrent-based peer-to-peer desktop application that allow users to quickly send files to each other.  The files can be up to 1 GB.  This is important as the distribution of high quality video files is difficult, slow and costly.  Pando has a […]

Click To Play It was great to see Om Malik earlier this month in San Francisco at the world headquarters of GigaOM, the increasingly influential blog about technology.    I’ve known Om Malik for nearly 10 years through his work at Forbes, Red Herring and Business 2.0.  He has been covering broadband as deeply as […]

Click To Play If you don’t have a camcorder, get one now.  They are inexpensive and easy to use.  Join the party. Why wait? The choice of cameras can be confusing with different formats and features. Hard drives, tapes, recordable mini discs.  What’s best for you? We went shopping this morning at Best Buy in […]

I was very pleased to meet up with Jose Castillo, who pens "Think Jose". He is a highly regarded Internet video consultant and futurist. At Streaming Media West, Jose moderated a terrific panel on consumer generated content.  This video is live and worth the time. Here is a photo of Jose and his panelists. In […]

Please be patient while the wall loads – it’s worth the wait! This is quite amazing.  I was just sent this code from Suranga Chandratillake, founder of Blinkx, the San Francisco-based pioneering firm in the video search world.  In an earlier interview on Beet.TV, Suranga told us about the search technology that is used by […]

Click To Play CNET has  been at the forefront of technology television since the company was formed over 10 years ago.  Over the past few years, it has amassed a huge video clip library of news, product reviews, interviews and "how to’s".    All this video content was launched recently in a nifty portal called […]

This morning in New York, The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the nominees for The Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards. How awesome is this: Revver has been nominated for Outstanding Innovation and Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Best Use of “On Demand” Technology Over the Public (open) Internet.  Here are […]

[Download video to your computer | Upload to iPod, PSP] We caught up with Microsoft’s Charles Finkelstein at the Streaming Media West conference in San Jose on Tuesday.  Charles is part of the team that’s creating the new Movie Maker program for Vista.  He give us a little tip-off of some of the cool new tools, […]

Click To Play Some big news out of Brightcove, the online video content management company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Today the company is launching a public video portal featuring a vast amount of content from company customers including newspapers, magazines, broadcasters, record labels and others. At the same time, it has begun to offer individual […]

Click To Play There must be plenty of excitement among VC’s in the Valley today in the wake of astonishing valuation of YouTube in its sale to Google.  New York Times reports that YouTube’s backer, Sequoia Capital, has turned $11 million into $495 million in twelve months. An increase times 43 — not too shabby.  […]

Click To Play We vloggers have known for some time that providing RSS feeds of our posts is key to building an audience. How interesting it is to find that at least one television network is embracing RSS in a big way to build audiences. NewsGator has just announced an agreement with nbbc, the NBC-owned […]

Click To Play While the most common form of online video advertising is "pre-roll" advertising, meaning ad messages viewed before the requested video, one model that has proven quite effective is video advertising that resides on a web page, where visitors can "interact" by playing the clip.     That’s the view of Jeff Marcus, chief […]

Click To Play RSS has driven the growth of the blogs by allowing consumers to aggregate feeds fo their favorite content sources to one simple page.  NewsGator has one of the best — and I am pleased to say it’s quite popular with Beet.TV watchers.  We met with NewsGator CEO J.B. Holston at the Beet.TV […]

[Download video to your computer | Upload to iPod, PSP] I caught up with Jai Singh, one of the world’s most influential technology editors, on the campus of MIT where we are attending the Emerging Technologies Conference organized by Technology Review magazine. Jai is editor in chief of CNET News.com where he has been since […]