SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- With smart phone sales outpacing PC sales, mobile devices represent "the future of media" and video producers will soon begin to produce videos for the small screen first,

in a "total reversal" of platform-specific programming, says Kevin Lynch, Chief...

SAN FRANCISCO -- At the NewTeeVee conference this month , we caught up with Sam Blackman, CEO of Elemental Technologies. The company has launched a new server appliance for transcoding live HD video at very fast rates, "faster...

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...

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.

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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.

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 ePub format which will be used in the Nook and...

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 their...

YouTube has introduced a solution for media sites to moderate and post video uploads from visitors. The Huffington Post, NPR, Politico and the San Francisco Chronicle are the first media companies to...

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...

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

Separately, the...

While search and display are far bigger categories than online video advertising, the digital advertising sector that is hot right now is online video advertising around premium news content.

The Wall Street Journal's sale of pre-roll advertising...

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

While some industry observers are taking issue with the inclusion of just six players when there...

Despite the commanding position of YouTube, with 40 percent of video streams in the U.S., the quality of the environment for advertisers is not always acceptable, according to leading digital advertising executives.

Rob Norman, CEO of WPP's giant GroupM Interaction,...

The backyard photo of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle and Marxist newspaper was called a fake by Oswald when he was interrogated by Dallas police after his arrest.

The image...

NBC Sports will announce plans today  to use Microsoft Silverlight as the 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 forward to watching the...

By most accounts, the Internet was born back on October 29, 1969 by two researchers, Vint Cerf  and Robert Kahn.  Cerf is now Google's Chief Internet Evangelist.

In April 2008, I interviewed Cerf in New York at the...

We were encouraged to read today's Wall Street Journal report about the projected uptick in technology advertising for 2010. 

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Having established iReport three years ago, CNN is the most established mainstream media organization publishing user generated content. 

With the launch today of the newly revamped CNN.com, the role of community content has been prominently elevated.  It is now...

Microsoft's Silverlight software is powering the new videoplayer used by NBCSports.com for Sunday Sunday Night Football. 

It is registering extraordinarily high "engagement" with users, Microsoft's Brian Goldfarb told me on Tuesday.

He said that engagement, meaning time watching...

CNN.com has nearly 6 million followers on Twitter, according to KC Estenson, Sr. VP and Gneral Manager of CNN.com. told Beet.TV in this video interview.    

On Twittercounter, CNN.com's Breaking News Twitter alone comes in at number...