Video thumbnail. Click to play. Click To Play. For videos to be successfully found through search, they need to build a following first, says Pete Kocks, the president of Truveo, the San Francisco-based video search unit of AOL. ... Go to Full Article

Although some hits will emerge from the slew of new online entertainment programming from independent producers, for the most part these producers will comprise a "cottage industry" of small, "long tail" content creators, ... Go to Full Article

Video thumbnail. Click to play. Click to play. All Things D, the web site spun out from a successful conference business run by Wall Street Journal staffers Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, is undergoing a major redesign and will debut ... Go to Full Article

The war in Iraq has been exceedingly dangerous for Reuters journalists. Six correspondents have been killed Others have been taken hostage by factions hand several had been held by US forces. On Tuesday at the Beet. ... Go to Full Article

Video thumbnail. Click to play. Click To Play. The FTC should stop Verizon from calling DSL "broadband," which Walt Mossberg calls "crap" and is not broadband by world standards. Moreover, Walt says that higher connection rates provide ... Go to Full Article

The Web is becoming "a video delivery medium in a big way," said Walt Mossberg in his opening remarks at Beet.TV's first executive summit which was held yesterday at the Embassy of Finland in Washington. ... Go to Full Article

Patton Oswalt Patton Oswalt, one of my absolute favorite comedians, rants about YouTube on this Comedy Central “Root of All Evil” video excerpt. Good to know he’s watching. Hey, Patton… Forget the sneezing Panda bear. ... Go to Full Article

Rusty from Rusty’s Song video Rusty is our babysitter’s dog, and this is his song (see video). Woke up at 4 am with a compelling urge to write it. Don’t ask. We found our babysitter because she was working at Applebees, and recognized ... Go to Full Article

I appreciate all of the calls and e-mails I am getting from those who want to know how my trip to Akamai week last went. Spending a whole day in Cambridge gave me a great insight into Akamai's business and... Go to Full Article

Following up on my post about customers needing better reporting and analytics, Skytide, a sponsor of this blog, is interested in doing 30 minute calls with customers to get their feedback on what additional metrics and features content ... Go to Full Article

Of the 1000+ customers who took our CDN survey and were asked "What value added services are you willing to pay a premium price for", over 75% of them said something having to do with better reporting and analytics with... Go to Full Article

VeriSign is expected to sell its Kontiki P2P division this month to a group that has been previously involved in the company. Barring any last minute problems, the deal should be closed and announced in the next few weeks. Whether... Go to Full Article

In the past two weeks, I have received over 100 job openings from many companies in the online video industry. In particular, the CDN vendors have many openings which really comes as no surprise considering that nearly all of them... Go to Full Article

Tomorrow, I will be spending the day at Akamai's HQ in Cambridge where they are nicely giving me access to sit down with management and others in the company to answers my questions, talk about their product road map, discuss the media ... Go to Full Article

Of all the calls I do with analysts, money managers and others tracking the content delivery market, rarely do those I speak with ask about video birates. For me, the growth of the content delivery market and the very success of the ... Go to Full Article