From: Beet.TV on Mon, May 31 2010 11:20 PM

RAMP,  a white label video search engine for a number of leading publishers, has a system to allow publishers to post rich metadata in the form of text on customers'  Facebook walls. For an explanation, we spoke with RAMP CEO Tom Wilde at the Streaming Media East conference. The F...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, May 13 2010 5:57 PM

Clicker, the new online video directory and guide, now indexes video references for 75,000 individuals and entities, meaning shows and series titles. The site indexes both individuals who appear in video and those who are referenced in the metadata. The listing includes writers, the di...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Apr 27 2010 5:49 PM

Veteran rights management technology firm Thought Equity Motion has been busy this year, signing deals with both the NCAA and the BBC. I sat down with the company’s CEO Kevin Schaff at the recent NAB show to learn more about how content companies, programmers, and networks are using Tho...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Apr 26 2010 8:46 AM

Blinkx, the London/San Francisco-based video search engine and destination site had a jump of 204 percent in video views in the U.K. over the past 12 months, just behind the torrid 205 percent increase of video views on Facebook, just announced by ComScore. While both have grown to 43 ...

From: Beet.TV on Sun, Jan 17 2010 4:08 PM

Digital media and metadata company Digitalsmiths paired up with Microsoft to demonstrate a technology partnership between the two companies, Digitalsmiths CEO Ben Weinberger told me at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. At the show, Microsoft demonstrated how Digitalsmiths can...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Nov 24 2009 11:00 PM

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA  — First, the question everyone wants to know when reporting on the video platform company Ooyala. What the heck does Ooyala mean? It means "cradle" in the Indian language Telegu, and the company picked it because it believes in "cradling innovation," Ooyala co-founder ...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Nov 18 2009 10:39 AM

The effective transcription of video clips, coupled with contextual tagging, is essential to the discovery of video, says Tom Wilde, CEO of the Boston-based RAMP, formerly known as EveryZing. The company announced its name change today at the Streaming Media West show in San Jose along...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Nov 18 2009 9:43 AM

The effective transcription of video clips, coupled with contextual tagging, is essential to the discovery of video, says Tom Wilde, CEO of  the Boston-based RAMP, formerly known as EveryZing. The company announced its name change today at the Streaming Media West show in San Jose along...

From: Beet.TV on Sun, Oct 18 2009 10:53 PM

A Research Triangle, North Carolina company called DigitalSmiths has developed a technology to recognize faces and scenes and convert that information for publishers to index  content. The company is working with several Web publishers including theWB,com, TMZ and others.At the VideoNuz...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Oct 08 2009 12:42 PM

Internet startup Cooliris just lost its chief revenue officer to AOL, but the company that developed a 3-D wall for browsing video and images expects to announce several new product and partnership deals later this month and into early November. That’s what Cooliris product manager Matt...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Sep 15 2009 12:01 PM

Partnerships are all the rage in the new media business. Online video technology companies, in fact, are betting on alliances with other like-minded firms to help grow business and win new customers. This week’s episode of the New Media Minute looks in depth at the new partners that bot...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Sep 11 2009 10:32 PM

SAN FRANCISCO — The idea of clicking on a sweater your favorite TV character is wearing has long been held out as a promised land of interactivity. Now, the two-year-old interactive video startup ClikThrough said its technology is enticing Web users to watch videos longer by givi...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Sep 07 2009 7:58 PM

REDMOND, WA — Bing, the newly introduced search engine from Microsoft, assembles videos from sources beyond video sharing sites, an approach which we find more open and "universal." Most video search engines process information provided by sharing sites via a feed of videos, which include...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Sep 02 2009 2:33 PM

PRAGUE, Czech Republic — Imaging of the streets here has been underway by Google for Street View since April, but this might be the first time the Google car has been caught working in this picturesque capital. By chance, I spotted the Google car quickly driving around the histori...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Aug 28 2009 10:52 AM

Despite the high-profile loss of Hulu content earlier this year, Boxee users are still tuning in: the average Boxee user watches six to seven TV shows and three movies on the Web-to-TV service each week, Boxee CEO Avner Ronen told Beet.TV in an interview earlier this month. Ronen spoke ...

From: Beet.TV on Sat, Aug 01 2009 8:28 AM

Yesterday, Google announced a significant enhancement to its image search enhancement by allowing users to search by various colors and categories. Last summer we interviewed Google’s R. J. Pittman about the evolution of image search at Google.  We've repubished the interview today...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Jun 25 2009 7:41 AM

Truveo, the big global video search engine which is a unit of AOL, unveiled a redesign last night along with its expansion into several new markets.  David Kaplan over at paidContent has the details.  In addition to the new functionality, there appears to be something of a new home for Truveo i...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Jun 01 2009 10:33 AM

One of the most striking aspects of Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft, is how it organizes video search results on a page of living thumbnails.  So, unlike other video search which organizes still thumbnails and must be clicked to a destination to view, Bing somehow makes its thumbnails...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, May 28 2009 10:25 PM

CARLSBAD, Calif –  Bing, the new search engine unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today, has many extraordinary aspects.   Watching the demo in the ballroom of the Four Seasons this morning, I was blown away by how video search results are displayed. They appear on a page as thumbnail image...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, May 19 2009 1:43 PM

Blinkx, the online video search company released its year-end earnings today.  While the company has lowered its burn rate and has $23 million in cash, some analysts are cautious about the company’s prospects, Reuters reports. Here are some company developments shared by Blinkx:·       ...