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 Sun, Apr 18 2010 10:19 PM

LAS VEGAS — Demand for bandwidth at Akamai reached a new, single-day peak of 3.45 Terabits per second (Tbps) of content served on Friday, April 9th, the company says.  This rate of content served is Akamai’s highest in more than ten years in business The record came on a day of the big t...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Apr 16 2010 8:57 PM

LAS VEGAS — The much anticipated release of Adobe’s CS5, the suite of creative tools for graphics, web design, and video editing, includes some significant improvements in Premiere, the widely used video editing program.  The new version was released yesterday. It is extremely fast at pr...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Apr 15 2010 5:51 PM

Congrats to the team at Kyte for the Editor’s Choice Award from StreamingMedia.com.   The San Francisco-based video services company was  recognized as the leading online video platform, quite a recognition in a highly competitive field. In the citation, editor Eric Schumacher-Rasmusse...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Apr 06 2010 6:23 PM

While the iPad may be a marvelous and elegant new kind of computing device, and our show looks very nice on it indeed, the inconsistent WiFi connection and subsequent buffering is insufferable for consuming streaming video. From our own tests and with conversations with others, we find...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Feb 25 2010 8:20 PM

Howcast, a New York-based online video content and syndication company, which makes short "how to" videos, is finding traction with branded content created for big marketers. Today, the company announced a campaign with 1-800-Flowers.  Howcast is producing branded instruction videos for severa...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Feb 19 2010 7:05 AM

NEW YORK, February 19 — We are streaming the paidContent:2010 media summit today.  Beet.TV will be be at the event doing a number of video interviews that will be published later today and over the next several days. Embedded here is the Livestream of the event sessions.  For an o...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Feb 05 2010 1:39 PM

Will 2010 be the year when online video becomes mainstream in the media business? Will marketers move television budgets online? What are the metrics of success for the emerging medium? These are some of the topics which will be explored at the Beet.TV Online Video Executive Roundtable event o...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Jan 28 2010 10:13 PM

Howcast, the two year-old producer and distributor of how-to short form videos, is on track to reach profitability this year, co-founder and COO Daniel Blackman said in this interview. With one million downloads of it its iPhone App, mobile is an increasingly big platform for the New Yo...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Jan 27 2010 1:10 PM

Watch live streaming video from crunchgear at livestream.com Got the embed of the CrunchBase live video video coverage of today’s Apple announcement. The video stream is being done by LiveStream right here on Beet.TV

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Jan 27 2010 1:10 PM

Watch live streaming video from crunchgear at livestream.com Got the embed of the CrunchBase live video video coverage of today’s Apple announcement. The video stream is being done by LiveStream right here on Beet.TV

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Jan 13 2010 7:39 AM

LAS VEGAS, NV --- On the heels of its partnership with Nielsen late last year, Microsoft’s XBox Live is now focused on deploying the joint measurement capabilities more broadly across the XBox Live service, the software giant's Dean Carignan told me during an interview at the Consumer Elect...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Dec 03 2009 12:29 AM

SAN JOSE, CA — After earning praise in Forrester’s recent report on online video platforms, the New York-based video services firm Twistage is gearing up to double its staff, increase its marketing, and turn a profit by the end of 2010. We spoke with the company's CEO David Wadler abo...

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 Thu, Nov 12 2009 1:20 PM

Watch live streaming video from gigaomtv at livestream.comWe are publishing the live feed from the NewTeeVee Live conference underway in San Francisco. A number cool stories  coming out today.   Here’s the story about the Boxee Box.  You can follow the event on Twitter:  #NTVLWe are on the scene,...

From: Beet.TV on Thu, Aug 20 2009 7:11 AM

Watching video on a BlackBerry right now is not the best experience — it involves a download then playback.  According to a post on the Boy Genius Report, support for Flash Video and Silverlight will be streaming to the BlackBerry in around 12 months. Although a more limited versi...

From: Beet.TV on Tue, Jul 28 2009 8:03 AM

We are here at the Blip.tv news event and demo of the new web site, Mike Hudack, CEO and co-founder, said that producers on Blip.tv can syndicate videos directly to YouTube with Blip.tv managing advertising sales of these syndicated shows. While Blip.tv has offered content creators the opportuni...

From: Beet.TV on Wed, Jun 24 2009 4:24 PM

Live video, one of the fastest growing areas of the Web, could get a big boost with Facebook’s integration with Ustream.  It's part of a new Facebook application called Live Stream Box. Facebook announced it on its developer blog this afternoon. Here's the take by MG Siegler a...

From: Beet.TV on Fri, Jun 19 2009 12:25 PM

The long-anticipated integration of collaborative video editing software into Wikipedia will happen later this summer, according to a report by David Talbot in Technology Review. The video platform is from Kaltura, the New York-based start-up.  I have reposted my interview with CEO Ron Yekutiel....