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NEW YORK, NY-- eBay has the pulse of the fashion market because, "It's probably the only place that a person could come to and really see the breadth and depth of style at their fingertips," says Constance White, Style Director for eBay. This past week, ...

Introduced as videogame console, the Xbox from Microsoft is fast becoming powerful video viewing device. The device connects to the Internet and streams high quality video. It has a number of offerings including Netflix, Last.fm and integration with ...

SAN JOSE, CA -- Streaming Media West, the annual industry gathering of broadband executives, drew a bigger crowd this year then last and the focus has changed from delivery and distribution to devices and content, says Dan Rayburn, head of the show.We ...

The effective transcription of video clips, coupled with contextual tagging, is essential to the discovery of videos material, says Tom Wilde, CEO of the Boston-based RAMP, formerly known as EveryZing. The company announced its name change today at the ...

Facebook integration around video got its first high profile exposure with CNN and the Inauguration of President Obama, but the first was last year's collaboration with Joost. A spokesperson for Facebook has told Beet.TV:"Joost users who have connected ...

Brands making videos for YouTube don't need to spend a lot of money because there's no correlation between production values andthe online video strategist Kevin Nalty told me in this week's New Media . I interviewed him after his iMedia Summit talk on ...

The online television listing serving Clicker launched last week, entering the crowded business of online television listings. We caught up with the Los Angeles based company's CEO Jim Lanzone at NewTeeVee Live last week and asked him about the service ...

Though it only has two years of online video availability under its belt, the NFL is hot on the trail of new media opportunities. That's what the league's Laura Goldberg told Beet.TV at the NewTeeVee Live event in San Francisco last week. She's the ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Comcast, the nation's biggest cable system, will launch an online offering of its television service to 15 million Comcast "double play" subscribers next month, Comcast's Interactive Media President Amy Vanse told Beet.TV's Daisy Whitney ...

Brightcove, the video platform services company, which has established a reputation for providing video services for big publishers and business enterprises, is launching a slimmed down version of its solution, which is priced at $99 per month

Boxee, a software program which allows users to connect Web video to a television set, created a lot of buzz last week when the company announced it was providing a consumer electronics device, the Boxee "Box." We caught up with CEO and founder Avner ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The much blogged about introduction of a higher quality playback experience at YouTube, using a 1080p shoebox sized player, was done in part to accommodate the emergence of pre-roll video advertising on the giant site. In a related ...

Adobe sees a big growth opportunity in the emerging eReader market, says Bill Rusitzky, who heads media alliances for the software company. The company is heavily promoting its ePub product which will be used in the Nook and the Sony eReader. It is not ...

Forrester senior analyst has just published a comparative study of six online video platform service providers. We reported on the study on Friday.

Earlier this month, Peter Kafka at MediaMemo reported that Apple has an new initiative to sell broadcast and cable programming via iTunes for a monthly fee of $30. Peter wrote that Apple is in the early stages of conversation with programmers but noted ...

Advertisers and marketers can use the techniques of venture capitalists in evaluating new advertising platforms, technologies, and tools.Online-advertising-executive-turned-venture capitalist Brian McAndrews of Madrona Venture Group spoke with me during ...

NBC Sports will announce plans today to use Microsoft Silverlight as the Web software for Web viewing the Winter Olympics Games in the United States. We have been impressed with the latest use of Silverlight by NBC for Sunday Night Football. We look ...

The advertising business has traditionally operated according to one very simple principle: marketers pay to pitch their products to someone else's audience. But brands are starting to think it might be time to develop their own audiences rather than ...