From: Beet.TV on Wed, May 06 2009 7:04 AM

Tagging a video properly is an art form and it’s also one that can be abused by creators to generate search hits. That’s why online video search site OVGuide.com doesn’t put too much weight on the tags in videos, the site’s VP of Sales and Marketing Chad Cooper told Beet.TV in an interview at th...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Apr 13 2009 6:20 PM

StumbleUpon has separated from eBay, which acquired the company two years ago to become a startup.  Co-founder Garrett Camp will be CEO of the newly independent enterprise. Kara Swisher has the story at All Things Digital. The company has organized millions of visitors who refer video and other ...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Feb 05 2009 12:29 PM

Blinkx has introduced a new set of buttons to its interface, allowing users to customize their video selection, Stephen Shankland of CNET News.com reports and has a review.  Here’s the company's press release on the news. In an interview, Blinkx CEO Suranga Chandratillake told Sha...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Dec 02 2008 6:44 AM

Video search works, particularly around professionally-produced content. Suranga Chandratillake, CEO of Blinkx, the London/San Francisco-based video search engine, told TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld in this segment from the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable that his company is serving ads on ...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Nov 18 2008 11:50 PM

On TechCrunch today, Roi Carthy explores the new direction of pioneering video sharing site Metacafe. Roi interviews founder Eyal Hertzog about the implementation of a system by which users are invited to annotate the metadata around video, in a Wiki-type process. In August, I interviewed Eyal ...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Nov 10 2008 11:51 PM

Blinkx, the San Francisco-based video search engine, whose shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange, today reported $6.4 million in revenue for the first six months of the fiscal year ending September 30. Although revenue is up 115 percent, the company still has a sizable burn rate. Unlik...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Jun 30 2008 7:47 AM

As time-shifting viewing habits of cable TV by consumers increases, there is a big challenge for the cable operators and advertisers to effectively insert relevant advertising. BlackArrow, a San Mateo-based company, apparently has a solution. The company has been heavily funded by some key str...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Jun 27 2008 10:21 PM

LOS ANGELES--The multimedia "playable" search engine Seeqpod has attracted 5.5 million unique monthly users over the past year, according to internal numbers provided to Beet.TV. Through affiliates and an API, that number will likely double this year, a company spokesperson told us. The search en...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Jun 25 2008 7:12 AM

Kosmix, the search engine designed to organize pages around specific interests including health, travel and automobiles, can now be configured to personalize search on any topic. The few functionality was reported this morning by Mark Hendrickson at TechCrunch. Earlier this month, I interviewed ...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Jun 24 2008 7:05 PM

NEW YORK -- Earlier today at the Personal Democracy Forum, we spoke with Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig. Lessig is spending a great deal of time on congressional reform movement called Change Congress, an organization he co-founded with Joe Trippi. Handling the interview was our colleagu...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Jun 20 2008 4:03 PM

HOLLYWOOD -- Here on Wednesday night at the Henry Fonda Theater, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley kicked off YouTube's debut of a new showcase for long and short-form films. Beet.TV was on the scene. The YouTube Screening Room has attracted several highly regarded filmmakers -- and not just...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Jun 17 2008 11:18 PM

LOS ANGELES -- TMZ, the extremely successful celebrity gossip site and syndicated television show owned by Time Warner, is getting traction with online live streaming. A live streaming video of a parking lot, where Britney Spears was expected, grabbed thousands of viewers for nearly two hours. A ...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Jun 13 2008 1:24 PM

Guy Maddin, the celebrated Canadian film director received a glowing review by A. O. Scott in today's New York Times for the opening of his "My Winnepeg." The reviewer writes today: "My Winnipeg” — is as real as any work of art can be." Beet.TV sat down with the filmmaker last week in New Y...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Jun 12 2008 12:14 PM

LOS ANGELES - Flixwagon, the Boston/Tel Aviv-based developer of live mobile video streaming technology, is streaming live video on an Apple iPhone, on a demonstration basis. The application works on an unlocked iPhone for the moment, which means it is not practical for most users. The company...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Jun 11 2008 9:09 PM

BEVERLY HILLS -- Video consumption on MySpace far outpaces Facebook, and all the other social media sites in video streams served and unique users, according to Nielsen Online's April numbers, Beet.TV has learned. Video streams on MySpace were 290 million vs. a mere 8 million on Facebook...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Jun 11 2008 7:33 PM

Gigya is powering widgets for over a thousand online publishers, including video producers. As publishers seek to get content distributed, widgets are essential. Gigya's widgets get 128 million unique users per month. It's an enormous base. More than just distributing widgets, the co...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Jun 10 2008 7:15 AM

NewTeeVee, the 18-month-old video site dedicated to covering the business of online video, has expanded its franchise with a site that reviews and recommends online video content. The new site is called NewTeeStation. A guide to what's new and worth watching is very much needed. And it�...

From: Beet.TV on Sat, Jun 07 2008 12:08 PM

Nielsen Online is very close to launching a platform to monitor the number of downloaded media served through iTunes and other systems. While Nielsen and others track the views of streaming video, third party monitoring of downloaded video does not exist, as far as we understand. In this intervi...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, May 30 2008 4:42 PM

Adobe's newly introduced desktop application for video, Adobe Media Player, features content from mostly big publishers like CBS. But it's a platform for long tail producers too, Beet.TV has learned. The platform allows consumption of videos from any show that has media RSS feed, acc...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, May 29 2008 9:51 AM

Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch reported last night that Tariq Krim the founder and CEO of Netvibes is stepping down from his post. Here's the perspective on the move by Caroline McCarthy at CNET. In September on the MIT campus, I spoke with Tariq about the new video widget for CBS programm...