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 for five of the seven largest cable ...
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Taboola is not a Middle Eastern grain dish, but an Israeli start-up that provides a solution to surface recommended videos for visitors to CNN.com, HowCast, 5min, Demand Media, the NBA, and now on The New York. The company has placed cookies on some 50 million unique users and has built...
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Some media companies are spending in excess of 100% of their digital revenue on site development, management, and hosting, says Cisco’s Scott Brown. Cisco aims to capitalize on this inefficiency and save publishers as much as 60% of technology costs with a hosted solution called Eos. L...
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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.* We caught up with Kevin at an opening night party for the Streaming Media West hosted by Brightcove. Kevin exp...
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The effective transcription of video clips, coupled with contextual tagging, is essential to the discovery of video, says Tom Wilde, CEO of the Boston-based RAMP, formerly known as EveryZing. The company announced its name change today at the Streaming Media West show in San Jose along...
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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 Facebook accounts continue ...
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The effective transcription of video clips, coupled with contextual tagging, is essential to the discovery of video, says Tom Wilde, CEO of the Boston-based RAMP, formerly known as EveryZing. The company announced its name change today at the Streaming Media West show in San Jose along...
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TEDx live webcast from Amsterdam. Not sure if TED has streamed the conferences live since we haven’t seen them live, so this is interesting to see. This is also one of the few events we have seen streamed live in Microsoft Silverlight. You may need to download the Microsoft plug-in, w...
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Introduced originally as videogame console, the Xbox from Microsoft is fast becoming a powerful video viewing device with the introduction of Zune, the new video streaming platform. The device connects to the Internet and streams high quality video. It has a number of offerings includi...
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Though it only has two years of online video availability under its belt, the NFL is in the game for 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 general manager of NFL.com and she said t...
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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 the ePub format which will be used in the Nook and the Sony eReader. It is not used in the Kindle and will not lik...
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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. Yesterday, Andy met up with White, a former fashi...
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Comcast’s thePlatform Unit Dominates Online Video Services for Cable
