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eBay Launches Online Magazine with "Inside Source" -- and Fake Hamsters are Hottest Gift

Earlier this month, eBay launched Inside Source, a style/fashion/shopping guide published by the auction giant. Here's the launch story in The New York Times.Last week we caught up with the publication's editor Meredith Barnett at the eBay store, a ...
3 days ago

Comcast's Online Video Site Fancast Growing Fast

Comcast-owned video destination Fancast.com lured 11.3 million unique visitors in October, nearly double its 6.5 million count in September, according to comScore.
4 days ago

Flash on the iPhone Would Be Nice, but Not Essential, Brightcove's Jeremy Allaire

Flash for the iPhone would be helpful to developers and programmers, but it's not essential in getting the rich interactivity of Flash on the iPhone, says Jeremy Allaire, one of the principal developers of Flash.Allaire, who was CTO of Macromedia, the ...
4 days ago

Adobe's Flash Player 10 Now on 98 Percent of World's Computers: 10.1 Launches in Beta

SAN JOSE, CA - Adobe's latest version of Flash has been installed in some 98 percent of the world's computers, according to Kevin Towes who is product manager for Flash Media Server.
4 days ago

Cisco Aimes to Save Media Companies 50% of Tech Costs with Hosted Platform called Eos

Some media companies are spending in excess of 100 percent of digital revenue on site development, management and hosting, says Cisco's Scott Brown who spoke with Beet.TV.Cisco's aims to capitalize on this inefficiency and save publishers as much as 60 ...
6 days ago

Ooyala Readies Licensing Scheme for Web Video Syndication

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- First -- the question everyone wants to know when reporting on the video platform company Ooyala. What the heck does Ooyala mean?
6 days ago

Taboola's Cookies Could Sweeten Video Views for The New York Times

Taboola is not a Middle Eastern grain dish, but an Israeli start-up which provides a solution to surface recommended videos for visitors to CNN.com, HowCast, 5min, Demand Media the NBA and now on The New York New York Times.The company has placed cookies ...
6 days ago

eBay is a Style Barometer, According to Style Guru Constance White

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, ...
7 days ago

Comcast's thePlatform Dominates Online Video Services for Cable Operators in North America

SAN JOSE, CA -- Adding another notch to its cable customer belt, online video technology firm thePlatform inked a deal to power broadband video for Rogers Cable. The company's VP of marketing Marty Roberts told us thePlatform now delivers online video ...
1 week ago

Microsoft's Xbox: A Fast Evolving Broadband Video Platform -- Premium Service Free this Weekend

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 ...
1 week ago

Streaming Media West Download: Broadband-Enabled Devices are Big

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 ...
1 week ago

Elemental Technologies is Transcoding Video in "Record Time," The New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO -- At the NewTeeVee conference this month , we caught up with Sam Blackman, CEO of Elemental Technologies which has launched a new server appliance for transcoding live HD video at very fast rates.New York Times reporter Ashlee Vance wrote ...
1 week ago

RAMP Powers Video Discovery for CNBC, Thomson Reuters, FOX, others

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 ...
1 week ago

"Social TV" is Here: Facebook Connect is Emerging as Powerful Catalyst for Video Views ...

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 ...
1 week ago

Viral Video is Dead According to Kevin Nalty in New Media Minute

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 ...
1 week ago

New Online TV Guide Enters Crowded Market

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 ...
2 weeks ago

NFL Ups its Digital Game with Mobile, Live Streaming and Subscription Services

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 ...
2 weeks ago

Comcast to Debut Online Video Service for 15 Million Cable Subscribers and 24 Cable Channels

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 ...
2 weeks ago

Brightcove Launches Low-Priced Solution, Native iPhone App Dev Support and More

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
2 weeks ago