From: Beet.TV on Thu, May 29 2008 8:07 AM

Perhaps the most significant live Internet programming development to date is the streaming of all the Major League Baseball games. The games are made available on a subscription basis in very quality level watched in the Silverlight Web plug-in. Minneapolis-based Swarmcast is providing the MLB ...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, May 22 2008 9:48 PM

I caught up with veteran Microsoft engineer Charles Finkelstein earlier this week at Streaming Media East. Charles shares a few updates on Silverlight, the new rich media web plug-in, and how the new version will be implemented for the Summer Olympics. Charles runs the Expression team, the en...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, May 21 2008 4:35 PM

It's another bubble that will burst. The number of companies and entering the content delivery network space is not sustainable, says Dan Rayburn, director of Streaming Media and an authority on the content delivery network business. According to Dan's reckoning, some $282 million in ve...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, May 21 2008 7:30 AM

I'm not sure if the entire content delivery industry, gathered in an exhibition hall at the New York Hilton for Streaming Media East this week, has taken notice of a wildfire in the bloggesphere suggesting that the new Adobe's video player, version 10, will destroy the CDN business. An ...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, May 20 2008 10:26 PM

Video search is key to discovery and consumption of video. Also essential is the organization of metadata. Pluggd, a Seattle-based start up, does both. The company provides its enterprise solution to CNET Networks and others. Pluggd CEO Alex Castro says that an organized system for Web video,...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, May 20 2008 6:25 AM

Veveo, a Boston area start-up has "largely succeeded" in bringing effective video search and feed management to mobile devices, says Business Week's Stephen Wildstrom in a recent review. The company's product is called vTap. It is a downloadable application for mobile devices. Once in...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, May 19 2008 2:35 PM

We'll be streaming live interviews from Streaming Media East from Manhattan's Hilton Hotel from noon to 2 p.m. EDT tomorrow, Tuesday, May 20th. Lots of great interviews with the folks who are driving the online video revolution. You will find the stream right here, going up a few minut...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, May 15 2008 7:46 AM

NBC Direct, the platform to deliver downloads of high quality programming, is opening its beta testing, according to a report in NewTeeVee. This is different from Hulu, the joint venture of NBC and News Corp. Hulu streams flash video. NBC Direct provides a downloaded file to save and watch i...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, May 13 2008 3:27 PM

StumbleUpon, the platform that allows users to discover and recommend videos to others has expanded sources of videos curated into the system. The San Francisco-start-up initially allowed users to "stumble" and collect clips from YouTube. It expanded in recent months to include Google, MySpace ...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, May 13 2008 1:20 AM

Slide, with 170 million unique vistoris per month, making it the world's seventh biggest online destination, is not a Web site at all, but a network of third party applications, known as widgets. These widgets sit on social networks and are shared among members. Its application FunWall is ...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, May 12 2008 4:22 PM

In the ecosystem of live streaming technology, Veodia is somewhere in the middle of the likes of uStream and Justin.tv and professional video streaming services. The company provides organizations to broadcast and manage live and on-demand high quality (MPEG-4/h.264). It has a free service, whic...

From: Beet.TV on Sun, May 11 2008 11:14 PM

LOS ANGELES -- Three of the biggest broadcasters in Britain, the BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 are in a joint venture to provide a platform to distribute video programming online. For now, it is called "Project Kangaroo." Unlike Hulu in the United States, which is a streaming platform, Kan...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, May 08 2008 8:39 PM

LOS ANGELES -- Bebo, the fast growing social network which was sold recently to AOL for $850 million, is driving an extraordinary amount of video consumption. Ziv Navoth, Vice President, told Beet.TV that Bebo is driving one billion videos views a month. Bebo doesn't require that publisher...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, May 06 2008 9:15 PM

Kontiki, one of the first peer-to-peer distribution companies, has been sold by parent VeriSign as part of a broad and anticipated corporate divestiture. Yesterday in Hollywood I caught up with Bill Wishon who heads marketing for Kontiki. He spoke about the new investor and the opportunities ahe...

From: Beet.TV on Sun, May 04 2008 8:52 AM

In the span of just six months, peer-to-peer (P2P) companies have gone from being the bane of Internet Service Providers (ISP's) to emerging as a practical solution for managing network traffic and maximizing profits for the ISP's and content creators. A great deal of collaboration is u...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, May 02 2008 10:42 AM

The utilization of Flash on mobile devices may well expand with the news that Adobe will provide Flash for free for certain mobile phone applications. The initiative is called Open Screen. The BBC published the news earlier today. Earlier this year, I was at Adobe's San Francisco office f...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Apr 30 2008 1:17 AM

Dwight Merriman and Kevin Ryan are co-founders of DoubleClick, the giant ad serving technology platform sold to a private equity firm in 2005 for $1.1 billion and later to Google. The two have been building new businesses including a content delivery network (CDN) called Panther Express. Earli...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Apr 29 2008 9:16 PM

EdgeCast is another of the scrappy upcoming content delivery networks (CDN) which is vying for a piece of the market for the distribution of big video files around the globe. The Los Angeles company has raised $10 million, with most from Disney's venture fund. In just 9 months, the company ...

From: Beet.TV on Mon, Apr 28 2008 10:10 PM

In a neighboring Chelsea art gallery last week, Samsung had a little show for some of its newest digital devices. David took our non-HD Panasonic over for this report. He got a demonstration of the not yet released Samsung HMX20, a small and powerful camcorder with an 8GB internal Flash memory d...

From: Beet.TV on Sun, Apr 27 2008 11:04 PM

VodPod, the San Francisco-based start-up that creates widgets of multiple video players, has doubled the number of video sites from which users pull clips to 3500 over the past six months. VodPod users have organized some 1 million videos into widgets. Mark Hall, CEO of VodPod, told me on Sund...