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. ... Go to Full Article

Thomson Reuters announced commercial options for its sophisticated metadata generation service Open Calais at the EmTech conference last week. Andy interviewed Tom Tague, Vice President of Solutions for Thomson Reuters, ... Go to Full Article

Scott Kirsner, Editor of CinemaTech and contributor to Variety, will be one of the hosts of a conference called "The Conversation" taking place October 17-18 in Berkeley. The focus will be on the interaction of cinema, online video, ... Go to Full Article

The Washington Post, the newspaper publisher which has lead the industry in integrating online video, has registered a record 1.3 million video views in September, up some 162 percent over last year, according to internal numbers ... Go to Full Article

TMZ, Time Warner's hugely popular celebrity gossip site, is expanding its footprint with an expanded video syndication agreement with NewsCorp's MySpace. Today, the MySpace is launching aa new branded entertainment hub. ... Go to Full Article

Software billionaire Charles Simonyi, the former chief architect of Microsoft who helped develop Excel and Word, is headed back to space. Space Adventures, a space tourism company based in Virginia, says Simonyi will travel to space ... Go to Full Article

Gigya, the largest widget network, has raised $11 million in Series C funding, bringing its fundraising total since its 2006 launch to $23.5 million, Mark Hendrickson at TechCrunch reports. The new funding will go toward widget ... Go to Full Article

Open-source social media center Boxee released a patch yesterday that essentially jailbreaks AppleTV, Brian Chen at Wired's Gadget Lab reports. The patch makes it possible for users to play any DRM-free multimedia file on AppleTV. ... Go to Full Article

The new interactive video platform Ved.io, which allows users to annotate video with links, pictures, and commentary, opened to the public yesterday. Ved.io's coverage of Friday's debate brings information from the web--like voting ... Go to Full Article

StumbleUpon, the large referral system for discovering video and other online content, has moved to a Web-based platform, the company announced late yesterday. Previously, it had only worked with a toolbar plug-in. ... Go to Full Article

Over the last few weeks, I am getting more and more customers asking me why Akamai is quoting one price for streaming delivery and another price for HTTP based video delivery. Am I'm not talking Flash streaming where some CDNs... Go to Full Article

Earlier this year, Sequoia Capital invested less than $5 million into a new CDN startup called Cotendo. After spending the past year on development, the company expects to launch their content delivery offering in "early 2009". ... Go to Full Article

While some are saying there was a lot of talk at the Streaming Media West show last week about consolidation in the CDN market, no major consolidation amongst CDNs is coming anytime soon. At any conference where there are 20+... Go to Full Article

At last week's Streaming Media West show, I presented the latest CDN pricing from the third quarter for pricing specific to video delivery from the major CDNs. Overall pricing remained somewhat stable, but there was a large drop in ... Go to Full Article

NewTeeVee author Liz Gannes took us behind the scenes to this highly produced and funny mock trailer for a Disney-like film staring Sarah Palin. CollegeHumor.com produced the trailer (see â??Sarah Palin Disney Movieâ??) after being inspired ... Go to Full Article