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New York Times rolling out HD video content with Brightcove

Andy Plesser has the scoop that the New York Times has launched a new HD video portal using Brightcove's service, something I've covered recently. With news that the New York Times is in trouble, this couldn't come at a better time. Online video continues to explode in popularity and it's...

Tags: New York Times Co., Brightcove, Video, Andy Plesser, Corporate Communications, Portals, Branding, Marketing, Internet, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-24

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Adobe lands MLB.com deal

updated: Adobe has reportedly landed a Flash deal with MLB.com upending Microsoft's Silverlight. Andy Plesser at Beet.tv reports: Adobe has landed a two-year agreement with Major League Baseball to stream its 2,500-plus spring training, regular season and post-season games live to MLB.com's 1.5 million subscribers.  Games...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., MLB, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., Games, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Google's new foray into image search

In an interview with Beet.tv's Andy Plesser, Google's director of product management for consumer search properties, R.J. Pittman, discusses the search giant's development of software for facial recognition and scene analysis.

Tags: Image Search, Google Inc., News, google, RJ Pittman, facial recognition

Videos 2008-07-07

Silverlight: Getting ready for its Olympics closeup

Microsoft's Siliverlight is 104 days away from its Olympics close-up and partner NBC is tweaking its site hoping to use qualifying rounds as a testing ground. That's the big takeaway from ZDNet Asia's Victoria Ho's interview with Perkins Miller, NBC's senior vice president of digital media for...

Tags: Corporate Communications, Ho, Larry Dignan, Management, Marketing, Microsoft Silverlight, NBC Universal Inc., Olympic Games, Team Management

Blog posts 2008-04-25

Adobe CEO: We're bringing Flash to the iPhone

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said his company is developing a version of Flash to work with the iPhone, adding that "we will work with Apple." The comments, which were made on Adobe's earnings conference call late Tuesday, were the first directly addressing the iPhone Flash issue. Apple...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-19

Microsoft licenses Adobe's Flash Lite: The motives in a nutshell

Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite, a mobile version of Flash Player, along with Reader LE. As part of the deal OEMs that license Windows Mobile will get Adobe's mobile Flash and Reader. In a statement (Techmeme, Andy Plesser's video demo), the companies said Microsoft's licensing of...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Interviews galore from Adobe's Engage event

Andy Plesser was a busy guy at our Adobe Engage event this week. He talked to a lot of customers and attendees about what's coming up and has been posting them over on his blog. I chatted with him about AIR and how it could fit into the entire video...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Online Video, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-02-29

Silverlight to power the online video portal for the 2008 Olympics

Pretty big news out of CES tonight where Bill Gates gave the keynote. NBC and Microsoft have signed a deal that will make MSN the provider for online content during the 2008 olympics at NBCOlympics.com. The biggest news is that Silverlight is going to be powering the video. Allen Stern...

Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Online Video, Portals, Corporate Communications, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-01-06

Akamai and Fios work the download angle on HD video

Akamai launched it's new site, HD Web today which is a promotion between Akamai and Fios to show off HD content. What's interesting about this approach is that it isn't HD content on the web, it's actually downloadable HD content using a Peer-2-Peer delivery model Update: I just got this...

Tags: Web, Video, Akamai Technologies Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-10-29

Commoditizing high quality video

Is the new version of the Flash Player, which supports HD quality video and the H.264 codec, making high quality video on the web a commodity? Erick Schonfeld seems to think so. He's partly correct when he says that Joost's high quality advantage is being eroded as the Flash Player...

Tags: Desktop, Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Joost, Macromedia Flash Player, Video, TV, Apple iTunes, Corporate Communications, Desktops, Channel Management, Marketing, Hardware, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-10-12

Silverlight 1.0 debuts and supports Linux to boot

It's finally here. Andy Plesser got the jump on the news that Silverlight 1.0, Microsoft's rival to Flash, is officially out in the wild. The announcement also came with the welcome news that Microsoft will be supporting Moonlight, the Linux implementation as part of the Novell partnership the two companies...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Silverlight, Rich Internet Application, Silverlight 1.0, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-09-05

Flash Player supports H.264 video

Update: The bits are up and it looks like the Linux players have been updated as well.Note: The actual download is coming later today, just hold tight. Also, here is my no fluff response.We're announcing a new update to the Flash Player today code named "Moviestar" and it includes support...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Macromedia Flash Player, Video, H.264, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-08-21

Flash and DRM

Andy Plesser, who has been on a tear lately, has an interview up with Chris Hock on Adobe's digital media team about Flash and DRM. DRM is something that I always struggle with and especially in Flash. Now that I see some of the internal discussions at Adobe I'm confident...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Digital-rights Management, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-08-20

Silverlight release candidate now available

Tim Sneath posted on his blog that the RC1 build for Silverlight 1.0 is available for download. Version 1.0 of Silverlight is targeted at web video and not as much at developers like the 1.1 release will be. Andy Plesser from Beet.TV has some more info and a chat with...

Tags: Silverlight, Microsoft

Blog posts 2007-07-28

On2 acquires Hantro Products helping Flash Video on devices

Yesterday On2, the company that powers the VP6 codec that is leveraged in Flash Video, announced the acquisition of Hantro Products. Hantro is based in Finland and specializes in video players for mobile devices. According to the press release, Hantro's customers include Nokia, Freescale, LSI, Vimicro, Sanyo, and others.All of...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Online Video, On2, Mobile-Web, Flash, Adobe

Blog posts 2007-05-22

Impressions of Silverlight on Beet.TV

Self serving: My friend Andy Plesser of Beet.TV put me on camera to talk about MIX07 and Microsofts new Silverlight platform. We were poolside at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, where the AlwaysOn OnHollywood conference is taking place. More to come from OnHollywood today, including Digg founder Kevin Rose talking...

Tags: Web Technology, Personal Technology, Microsoft, General, Adobe

Blog posts 2007-05-02

Podzinger transcribes and catalogs YouTube video

Andy Plesser of beet.tv has the story on Podzingers use of its speech-to-text technology to make 1.5 million YouTube videos less opaque to search engines. According to Andys post, Podzinger (a subsidiary of BBN, a major defense department contractor that has used the same technology to analyze audio for three...

Tags: Podzinger, YouTube Inc., video

Blog posts 2007-03-12

Flash video coming to mobile devices with Flash Lite 3

Some interesting news this week around video on mobile phones. Thanks to John Dowdell, I saw a press release went out that announced a new version of Flash Lite, Adobes Flash technology for devices, will be supporting Flash video. The details in the press release are kind of sketchy, but...

Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Adobe, Flash, Mobile-Web, Online Video, Flash Video, On2 Technologies

Blog posts 2007-02-11

Apollo and Flex at DEMO and Expression Studio Betas

Its been a busy day but there was a lot of interesting stuff. Brandon was the first to point out that Apollo was presented at DEMO you can bid on the shirt they used to demo the application. GigaOm did the live blogging and had this to say:...

Tags: Adobe, Apollo, Expression Studio, Flash, Rich Internet Applications, Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, WPF/E

Blog posts 2007-01-31

Microsoft delivers two new design-tool betas

The Microsoft Expression team has made available two new beta builds that folks interested in Microsofts evolving design-tool products and strategy might want to check out. Theres a new build (Beta 2) of Expression Blend, the product formerly code-named "Sparkle" and a first full-fledged beta build of Expression...

Tags: Development tools, Expression Studio, WPF/e

Blog posts 2007-01-31