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National Geographic Drives Traffic with User-Generated Content Initiatives
from Beet.TV
October 09, 2008
User-generated content plays a central role in National Geographic's dynamic multimedia platform, Senior VP for online content development Rob Covey told me at the Omma Global conference last month. Users can now share their own videos on the user-generated video hub Everyday Explorers, built with o...
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Newsvine Registrations Up 963 Percent Since Acquistion by msnbc.com
from Beet.TV
October 08, 2008
People-powered news site Newsvine has seen enormous growth since its acquisition by msnbc.com in October of last year, receiving 963 percent more registrations and 269 percent more unique visitors, msnbc.com has told Beet.TV. I interviewed CEO Mike Davidson about the Seattle-based social news platfo...
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Warren Buffet Biographer Alice Schroeder Stars in Digimentary
from Beet.TV
October 08, 2008
Alice Schroeder's biography "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life," released September 29, became an immediate bestseller. The day after the book release, PR firm CJP Communications premiered the first segment of the eight-part digimentary, "Shaping the Snowball: Alice Schroeder and...
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Huff or Die: Funny or Die Teams with Huffington Post
from Beet.TV
October 07, 2008
The comedy website Funny or Die, humor site 23/6 and The Huffington Post have teamed up to create Huff or Die, accessible at funnyordie.com/huffordie, to showcase their best political humor videos and blog posts. Funny or Die made the announcement last week. At the Omma Global conference last month ...
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Microsoft to Make Computers "Humanistic"
from Beet.TV
October 07, 2008
Craig Mundie, Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer, says the industry is on the "cusp" of making computing more "humanistic." To demonstrate where this may be going, he shares a video of a prototype of a robotic receptionist at work at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond.Mundie showed this ...
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Financial Crisis Drives Global Internet Traffic
from Beet.TV
October 06, 2008
In the midst a this extraordinary financial and political news cycle, online media consumption has been breaking traffic records. As consumption is up, so is demand for bandwidth from big content delivery networks like Akamai. Akamai, which carries Internet traffic for NBC, the BBC, Reuters and othe...
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Adobe Aims for 100 Million Installs of Air by This Year; Next Step, Mobile
from Beet.TV
October 03, 2008
Adobe AIR runtime environment has been installed on 35 million PCs and hopes to reach 100 million by the end of the year, according to Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch. Andy interviewed Lynch at the EmTech conference last week.Developers can use Adobe AIR to build rich, cross-platform Internet applications tha...
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Adobe Confirms it is Working on Flash for iPhone
from Beet.TV
September 30, 2008
An Adobe official has confirmed that Adobe is working on Flash technology for the iPhone, and that the player will be available in a very short time if Apple gives it the OK, according to a report by CNET. Adobe already has Flash running on an iPhone emulator. Andy interviewed Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch ...
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Adobe Confirms it is Working on Flash for iPhone
from Beet.TV
September 30, 2008
An Adobe official has confirmed that Adobe is working on Flash technology for the iPhone, and that the player will be available in a very short time if Apple gives it the OK, according to a report by CNET. Adobe already has Flash running on an iPhone emulator. Andy interviewed Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch ...
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Akamai Aims to Unite Industry Around Standard Open Video Player
from Beet.TV
September 29, 2008
Content distribution network Akamai Technologies launched Openvideoplayer.com in an effort to unite the video publishing industry around an standardized video player. The base source code Akamai contributed to the Open Video Player has already been used by customers including Hulu and The NBA.The in...
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On Networks Opens Up AllScreen Syndication Platform
from Beet.TV
September 29, 2008
Digital media company ON Networks will begin distributing outside content through its AllScreen Syndication Network, a decision that will open up its market, co-founder Jennifer Grogono says. ON Networks produces and distributes its own content to syndication platforms including iTunes, Adobe Media ...
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Microsoft's Craig Mundie Says 3-D is Environment is Next
from Beet.TV
September 28, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The media-rich environment of the Web, along with desktop applications, will evolve to become an even richer experience with HD video embedded into applications and content displayed in 3-D, says Craig Mundie in this interview with Beet.TV. Mundie is Microsoft's Chief Research an...
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Break Media Runs Branded Webisodes for Dos Equis, Twix
from Beet.TV
September 26, 2008
Break Media has partnered with a number of top brands geared toward 18-34-year-old males, according to SVP of Sales & Partnerships Andrew Budkofsky. Its recently launched web series sponsored by Twix and Dos Equis, and has upcoming campaigns for Doritos and Denny's.The Dos Equis six-episode web seri...
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Fiscal Crisis: "Everyone in Technology is Terrified," MIT's Jason Pontin
from Beet.TV
September 26, 2008
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- As nearly a thousand technologists from around the world gathered this week on the MIT campus for Technology Review's annual EmTech conference to learn about emerging technologies and to celebrate the young innovators, the mood was decidedly muted, with the precarious global fina...
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Gina Bianchini: Ning To Launch iPhone App Tomorrow
from Beet.TV
September 25, 2008
The create-your-own-social-network platform Ning has now produced nearly half a million social networks, with a new one created every 30 seconds, CEO and founder Gina Bianchini says. The company will launch an iPhone application on Friday. Jason Pontin, Editor of the MIT Technology Review, conducted...
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Vinod Khosla: Clean-Tech Is About Reinventing Society
from Beet.TV
September 25, 2008
The focus of clean-tech, or as well-known venture capitalist Vinod Khosla prefers to call it, "main-tech," isn't wind and corn ethanol. "It's about the mainstream things we use in life and essentially reinventing society," he says. Cleantech will impact technologies like engines, lighting, and refri...
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Dan Lyon, Newsweek Tech Columnist
from Beet.TV
September 25, 2008
Newsweek Tech Columnist and former Fake Steve Jobs Dan Lyon spoke with Andy at the MIT Technology Review EmTech08 conference yesterday about his new job....
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Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch: Flash Expected to Reach One Billion Devices by 2009
from Beet.TV
September 25, 2008
CTO of Adobe Systems Kevin Lynch is one of the forces behind the Open Screen Project, a collaboration of 20 companies working to bring rich content, like mobile applications and flash, to any screen. Adobe Flash currently reaches over 800 million devices and expects to reach one billion by 2009, he ...
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Vinod Khosla: Venture Capital Will Survive Wall Street Woes
from Beet.TV
September 25, 2008
The current financial crisis might actually have a silver lining for venture capital investing, VC titan Vinod Khosla told Andy up on the MIT campus yesterday. "When we go through a period like this, it's actually healthy in the long run," he says in this clip. Khosla is an affiliated partner at KPC...
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NextNewNetworks Sells out Ad Inventory on its YouTube Channel
from Beet.TV
September 24, 2008
Co-founder Tim Shey of Next New Networks, the publisher of micro-television networks such as Barely Political, says his company is making money publishing videos on YouTube. Next New Networks is one of the content producers that has been selling its own YouTube ads and has regularly sold out all of ...
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Vindu Goel
from Beet.TV
September 23, 2008
Andy interviewed Vindu Goel at The New York Times yesterday....
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PubMatic Launches AdFlex to Deliver On-Demand Ads to Publishers
from Beet.TV
September 22, 2008
PubMatic, an optimization service that helps publishers earn more ad dollars, announced the launch of AdFlex today, a targeted, on-demand publishing inventory for ad networks. Andy interviewed PubMatic President Rajeev Goel at the Omma Global conference last week.PubMatic yields a 30-70 percent reve...
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PicMe Photo Sharing Works with Online Competitors, Not Against Them
from Beet.TV
September 22, 2008
The PicMe photo sharing desktop application allows users to share photos with online services like Flickr, Facebook and Picasa, Raiz Labs Founder Gregory Raiz says. The slick viewing stacks remind us of Apple Stacks on Mac OS X Leopard. --Kelsey Blodget, Assoicate Producer...
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Venture Capital, Safer than Hedge funds or Private Equity, Vikas Bajaj
from Beet.TV
September 22, 2008
As we watch the carnage on Wall Street, we wonder about how the venture capital community, the lifeblood of technology start-ups, is going to fare. This afternoon I was over at the New York Times to interview Vikas Bajaj about the turmoil on Wall Street. Vikas and Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote the story ...
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Publisher Optimization Service PubMatic Launches AdFlex
from Beet.TV
September 22, 2008
PubMatic, an optimization service that helps publishers earn more ad dollars, announced the launch of AdFlex today, a publishing inventory that will allow advertisers to deliver on-demand, targeted advertising. I interviewed PubMatic Manager of Publisher Development Kevin Weatherman about the compan...
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Interactive Video Web Platform Ved.io Makes Makes New Ad Formats Possible
from Beet.TV
September 22, 2008
Ved.io, an interactive web video application, has a platform that will let video advertisers expand beyond the basic pre-roll and overlays, founder Craig Boyce says. The platform allows users to post text, images and links in a screen that runs alongside the video segment and are syncrhonized with t...
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Zoho Web Apps Contend for Adoption by GE
from Beet.TV
September 22, 2008
General Electric is currently evaluating which company's web applications to add to its 400,000 computers worldwide, and a start-up called Zoho has risen to become a serious contender against Microsoft and Google. Unconfirmed reports are circulating that GE already chose Zoho, but Oliver Marks at ZD...
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Zong Adds Online Purchases to Cell Phone Bill
from Beet.TV
September 22, 2008
Facebook applications, dating sites, and gaming sites using virtual currency will benefit from mobile payment method Zong, CEO David Marcus says. Zong users enter their cell phone number, receive a text message with a pin number to type in online, and their online purhcase is added to their cell pho...
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Wall Street Mess, It's Just LIke the Tech Collapse, Journal's Alan Murray
from Beet.TV
September 21, 2008
Greed and the expectation of the level high of returns enjoyed during the stock market boom of the late nineties, has powered the excess in the credit markets which have lead to the current financial crisis, says Alan Murray, Deputy Managing Editor of the Wall Street Journal.The pain is just being f...
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SnapPages Brings High-Qualtiy Webpage Design to "the rest of us"
from Beet.TV
September 19, 2008
SnapPages "Websites for the rest of us" makes website design simple, CEO Steve Testone says. Unlike other websites that have overwhelming options, SnapPages streamlined offerings allow users make something that looks good quickly. Giving too many options to users who aren't designers can result in u...
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Apple.com-style Websites are the Face of Web 2.0, Website Designer Says
from Beet.TV
September 19, 2008
Reflections, rounded corners, and color schemes of white and chrome have become very popular--and overdone--styles for technology websites over the last few years, Design About Town CEO Solana Crawford says. She discusses other trends that have also emerged in website design. Design About Town desig...
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Keibi Keeps Rid Social Networks of Porographic, Drug-Related Materaials
from Beet.TV
September 19, 2008
Keibi's media moderation platform helps social networks enforce their terms of service, CEO Paul Remer says. The platform analyzes content, like photos, against a database to determine if it is pornographic, drug-related, or otherwise innapropriate. Keibi scores the content and then lets human moder...
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Citizens and Candidates Communicate at Politics4All
from Beet.TV
September 19, 2008
Political destination site Politics4All launched at the Techcrunch50 conference last week. I interviewed CEO Stephen Morris in the demo pit. "[T]hose national campaigns, those are great, they've got good sites and they work. But on the local and state level, they don't have a good way to get their m...
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Users Map Their Minds at The World's First Thought Engine
from Beet.TV
September 19, 2008
IMINDI collects your thoughts and connects minds across the web, Co-founder Galen Kaufman says. IMINDI presented at the TechCrunch50 conference last week and got tough criticism from the judges; read their comments at TechCrunch here.--Kelsey Blodget, Associate Producer...
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KallOut Search Uses Mouse, Not Browser
from Beet.TV
September 19, 2008
KallOut, which exhibited in the TechCrunch50 demo pit last week, has developed a way to make search even faster: users can double click on a word or phrase within any web page or e-mail to look it up.A drop down menu appears next to the selection with results from the top search engines, and users c...
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2Pad Compiles Photos and Videos Buried among E-mails
from Beet.TV
September 19, 2008
2Pad will sort through the clutter of your e-mail inbox and make an album out of the photos and videos you forgot you had, according to CEO Aaron Boublil. The program currently works for Gmail, AOL mail, MobileMe and Hotmail. You can read CNET's review of the product here. --Kelsey Blodget, Associat...
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THE UGLY TRUTH: TECH BUBBLE LED TO HOUSING BUBBLE....AND WALL STREET WOES
from Beet.TV
September 19, 2008
The technology boom of the late nineties, and its subsequent bust in 2000, led institutions to create exotic financial instruments to duplicate the steep gains enjoyed during the boom, says professor John H. Vogel Jr, a real estate expert at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Earlier this mon...
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Animoto Platform Creates Unique, Quality Video with the Click of a Button
from Beet.TV
September 17, 2008
Michael Arrington wrote that Animoto "is one of those start-ups that has success written all over it," and it's hard not to be impressed by their platform. Users simply upload pictures and music and Animoto automatically makes them into a high-production quality 30-second video; longer videos cost $...
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