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Google Earth Satellite Launched
from Beet.TV
September 06, 2008
Here is annimation of how the GeoEye satellite which launched on September 6. You will see the launch and image gathering.Video courtesy of GeoEye...
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Hip Hop Artist Consequence Builds "Grassroots Celebrity" Status Online
from Beet.TV
September 04, 2008
The hip hop artist Consequence, who released his debut album "Don't Quit Your Day Job" with Kanye West's label G.O.O.D Music last year, is building his "grassroots celebrity" status online, he says. His Kyte channel "ConsTV" has received 1.4 million hits and his Web site itsthecons.com, started in t...
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First series of "Pink" to Premiere on The WB's New Website
from Beet.TV
September 03, 2008
The first blockbuster web series has yet to be born, as Brian Stelter observed in his "New York Times" article Sunday, but there are plenty of content creators trying to change that. Santa Monica-based Generate launched the political satire web series "Republicrats" August 18 and will premiere the s...
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First series of "Pink" to Premiere on The WB's New Website
from Beet.TV
September 02, 2008
The first blockbuster web series has yet to be born, as Brian Stelter observed in his "New York Times" article Sunday, but there are plenty of content creators trying to change that. "Transmedia" production company Generate launched the political satire web series "Republicrats" August 18 and will p...
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CNN's iReport Registers Spike in User Submissions
from Beet.TV
August 28, 2008
Last night House Speaker Nancy Pelosi answered questions about Congress, the economy, and marijuana legalization--posed not by journalists and pundits, but by contributors to online communities iReport.com and Digg.com. The interview is one of the ways CNN is adding the "voice of real people on the ...
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Attention Lonelygirl15 Fans: Jonas and Sarah Return for New Web Series
from Beet.TV
August 27, 2008
The creators behind "Lonelygirl15" and the UK-based "KateModern" have produced a new web series based in the LG15 universe, "LG15: The Resistance," set to premiere September 20. It's been a long journey since the pretended non-fiction debut of "Lonelygirl15" in 2006; the creators have formed social ...
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Businesses Use "Hives" to Build Niche Communities
from Beet.TV
August 25, 2008
HiveLive, a platform for building business-oriented custom social communities, lets users create custom blogs, wikis, and forums with Web 2.0 building blocks called Hives.While a social network like Facebook is geared toward the mass consumer market, HiveLive is carving out a viable niche for itself...
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College Humor TV Readies Six-Episode Series for MTV
from Beet.TV
August 22, 2008
College Humor inked a six-episode deal with MTV last month, according to Gawker, and a pilot from the College Humor creators will air this fall. I interviewed CHTV Original Content Director Sam Reich and senior writer Amir Blumenfeld at the College Humor offices last week. We didn't get any details ...
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Dartmouth Computer Scientist Finds Fake Photos...Videos are Next
from Beet.TV
August 18, 2008
While the technology now exists to identify fake photos on one-by-one basis, there's no one-click solution to detect the enormous amount of doctored photos, says Dartmouth Computer Science Professor Hany Farid. Farid has developed sophisticated tools to detect photo forgeries, but it will be five or...
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Video Advertising Works, Break Media Study Shows
from Beet.TV
August 18, 2008
The vast majority of online video viewers are watching pre-roll and overlay ads, a study released today by Break Media and Panache shows. Completion rates for 15-second pre-roll ads were 87 percent, and 77 percent viewed campaigns with overlay ads for at least 15 seconds. Break Media used Break.com'...
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Google's Search Evangelst Adam Lasnik: Focus on Text
from Beet.TV
August 15, 2008
MOUNTAINVIEW, CA -- While the recently announced collaboration between Google, Yahoo! and Adobe to search and index Flash files could yield better results, the project is in the early stages and for effective search optimization, Webmasters have to think text.Here is our interview with Adam Lasnik, ...
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New Video Platform Delivers Content to iPhone, Apple TV
from Beet.TV
August 14, 2008
New jack-of-all-trades video platform mDialog lets users upload, share and watch user-generated and professional content online, on Apple TV, and on their iPhones. With the number of video sites on the web, it's nearly impossible for a newcomer to stand out, but mDialog manged. It's launched a legit...
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New Video Platform Delivers Content to iPhone, Apple TV
from Beet.TV
August 14, 2008
New jack-of-all-trades video platform mDialog lets users upload, share and watch user-generated and professional content online, on Apple TV, and on their iPhones. With the number of video sites on the web, it's nearly impossible for a newcomer to stand out, but mDialog manged. It's launched a legit...
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NBC Online Olympics Viewing Soars, Nielsen Reports
from Beet.TV
August 13, 2008
The number of unique visitors to NBC Olympics video site soared to over two million on Monday as viewers tuned into the Games from the workplace, Nielsen announced today. These numbers show that the much-grumbled about time delay of the online coverage hasn't had a negative effect on online ratings....
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Broadcast Ads Should Drive Consumers Online, Says Nelson
from Beet.TV
August 13, 2008
The digital brand experience should be an advertiser's first thought, not an afterthought, according to Organic digital ad agency Creative Director Gary Nelson. An online brand experience should be viewed as a product unto itself--one that can be advertised by broadcast media. The "Now What?" campai...
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Technology Spending Holds Up in Poor Economy
from Beet.TV
August 12, 2008
Technology spending might not suffer along with the rest of the economy, a new study by The Consumer Electronics Association and CNET shows. The CEA-CNET Consumer Sentiment Indexes, launched today, map consumer sentiment about technology and the broader economy. Many consumers spent their economic s...
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No Overlay Ads Permitted on Olympics Online Video
from Beet.TV
August 11, 2008
For those of us who don't like to see overlay ads pop up from time to time while watching video, you won't see any on the NBC Olympics coverage on MSN. That's a mandate from the International Olympic Committee, which keeps tight control of the way the Games are presented. Microsoft's Eric Schmidt is...
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Salon has Micropayment System for Bloggers with Revolution Money.
from Beet.TV
August 11, 2008
Salon has introduced its new section for community-generated blogs, called Open Salon. The site had been in beta since April. In something of a first for a media company, registered members of Open Salon will can pay fellow members with real money from Revolution Money. Registered users will get $10...
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Salon has Micropayment System for Bloggers with Revolution Money
from Beet.TV
August 11, 2008
Salon has introduced its new section for community-generated blogs, called Open Salon. The site had been in beta since April.In something of a first for a media company, registered members of Open Salon will can pay fellow members with real money from Revolution Money. Registered users will get $10 ...
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Reuters Brings War Video from Georgia to Web
from Beet.TV
August 10, 2008
Watching the ghastly war unfold this weekend in Georgia, we found the Reuters video coverage to predominate many of the big newspaper sites including The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. The speed and technical and editorial quality of this coverage is impressive. Earlier this year, I int...
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New Technology Will EnableTargeted Mobile Video Ads
from Beet.TV
August 08, 2008
Mobile video ads targeted at a user's demographics and location could soon become a reality. GoldSpot Media has developed technology that can insert targeted ads into mobile broadcast networks in real time. GoldSpot is already in commercial trials with broadcasters in Europe and Asia, and is current...
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MSN Olympics Coverage
from Beet.TV
August 08, 2008
The online coverage of the Olympic Games on MSN is spectacular. The Olympics always a milestone in innovative showcasing new broadcast technology. For this Olympics, it will be the innovations in online video. Earlier today at the Beet.TV studio, we spoke with Eric Schmidt, director of media and adv...
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Rocketboom's Andrew Baron: Sony Deal will Doublle Production Schedule
from Beet.TV
August 07, 2008
Andrew Baron, founder of Rocketboom came by the Beet.TV studios earlier today for a debrief about the just announced syndication deal and its implications for his company. Andrew told me that the guaranteed revenue from syndication will provide the resources to increase production by as much as doub...
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Demand Media Grows its Niche-Content Empire with New Site
from Beet.TV
August 07, 2008
LIVESTRONG.com, Demand Media's newest venture and a trademark of the Lance Armstrong Foundation, wants to differentiate itself from other health information sites with its variety of high-quality content and the community surrounding that content, Director of Community Lex Friedman says.Demand Media...
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Pre-Roll Ads Predominate in Online Video Advertising Mix
from Beet.TV
August 07, 2008
Consumers may find pre-roll ads annoying, but they're still the highest-performing asset and the model favored by large TV advertisers, according to Jayant Kadambi, CEO of video ad network YuMe. Kadambi says that overlay ads, which are banners at the bottom of the screen, perform-second best and get...
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Google Now Optimizes Search for Smaller Sites with New Hosting API
from Beet.TV
August 07, 2008
Google recently released a new set of webmaster tools which provide smaller sites the ability to optimize search and communicate with Google directly from the dashboard of a site's hosting company. Google has signed up several hosting companies which have started to integrate the tools. These includ...
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"The Fourth Screen": Coming to a Storefront Near You
from Beet.TV
August 06, 2008
Digital advertising agency Avenue A-Razorfish wants to bring brand experiences to the "fourth screen"--a screen beyond the silver screen, TV, and computer. The term "fourth screen" is sometimes used to refer to mobile phones, but Avenue A-Razorfish has envisioned something larger: the storefront win...
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New Semantic Ad Network Takes on Google AdSense
from Beet.TV
August 05, 2008
Peer39, an ad network that processes the meaning of text on web pages and delivers related ads, will help make advertising more relevant to viewers, CEO Amiad Solomon says. Basing ads around keywords on a page, as Google AdSense does, can yield tangential results. A page about a trip to Hawaii that ...
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The New York Times Calls Beets an "Improbable Superfood"
from Beet.TV
August 05, 2008
Here at Beet.TV we eat beets whenever we can. We've always loved to grill, boil and juice them. Now, it seems that our little root vegetable is getting some press for their taste and super nutritional value.We were pleased to see that The New York Times providing extensive coverage of our root veggi...
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Kaltura Will Bring Collaborative Video to Wikipedia
from Beet.TV
August 04, 2008
The open-source TV platform Kaltura will bring to video what Wiki brought to text. Later this year, users will be able to post videos into Wikipedia entries and modify them with Kaltura's award-winning collaborative editing tools, CEO Ron Yekutiel says. Kaltura's partnership with the Wikimedia found...
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"Flash Tax is Gone" Adobe Says Costly Flash Streaming is History
from Beet.TV
August 03, 2008
PALO ALTO -- The cost of Flash servers, Adobe's proprietary software which publishers use to stream video around the globe has dropped by some 90 percent as Adobe moves to maximize its marketshare, says Jim Guerard, who heads up the Flash business at Adobe Systems. He declared that the "Flash Tax" i...
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Exploring the Google Toolbar
from Beet.TV
August 01, 2008
Using Google Toolbar to search is commonplace. But fewer people are taking advantage of its sync feature to access their customized toolbar and bookmarks on any computer, Avni Shah, Product Manager for Google Toolbar, says. Shah demonstrates a number of the lesser-known Toolbar features for us. Alth...
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