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This week on Beet.TV, Andy Plesser interviews VideoEgg CEO Matt Sanchez about the company's plans going forward, after taking down consumer content this weekend.
SuperLame! is not going to revolutionize the net. But it might make it a little more fun.
SuperLame! is a "photo balloon engine" that's handy for when you need to add a little something to, say, your buddy Syed's Facebook photo:
This week on Beet.TV, Andy Plesser interviews Veveo VP Daren Gill about their new mobile tool, vTap.
VTap brings live video search to mobile devices. Daren demos a search for "Beet TV" on a Nokia E51, with pretty great results.
On what was feeling like a slow news day, I decided to follow through the link from Mashable and explore WeeWorld, a virtual social environment that utilizes avatars called WeeMees.
Google's FriendConnect is generating a lot of press for a site that doesn't exist. Or at least, that's the case now on Monday afternoon, when google.com/friendconnect returns a 404 error for anyone attempting to see Goog's latest goods.
That hasn't stopped top tech bloggers from evaluating it as much as they can.
The Beet: Seesmic Video Comments This week on Beet.TV, Cathy Brooks gives Andy Plesser the scoop on Seesmic, a video comment platform that's recently been adopted by Wordpress and MyBlogLog, and will soon be available for TypePad and MovableType.
ReadWriteWeb brought my attention to restaurant review aggregator BooRah.
What sets the service apart from other community evaluation sites is their use of semantic and natural language processing to analyze whether a published review is positive or negative ("rah" vs. "boo").
This week, Beet.TV interviewed ScanScout co-founder and CEO Waikit Lau about the latest developments in the company's video ad network.
I am stoked on Sprout, the super-simple Flash widget builder.
Its interface is intuitive and its features are completely customizable, right down to the opacity of rollover animations. What's better, Sprout provides interfaces for users of all levels. RGB freaks and those who have no idea what those letters stand for will be equally happy and able to change their background colors.
After a couple of hours of playing around, I had a mildly useful widget. I call it The Tweetbox:
Google Earth 4.3 is out, with a bunch of new features. Among them: a Sunlight feature that allows for dawn-to-dusk lighting, improved "swoop" navigation, a "look" joystick for on-the-ground views, and 12 new languages.
Most exciting is the integration of Google Maps' Street View. Activate the Street View layer, double-click a camera icon, and you enter a cylindrical sub-reality within Google Earth.
Spring is here, and to celebrate Adobe has served up a double scoop: Adobe Media Player (AMP) and Adobe TV.
AMP, which left closed beta on Wednesday, uses Flash to playback video and runs on Adobe AIR, its new webtop-to-desktop application. Its goal is to make streaming video more convenient for users, and more profitable for content providers.
Check out this video over on Beet.TV, in which Adobe's Kevin Towes gives viewers the DL on DLs:
An article titled "In Storing 1's and 0's, the Question is $" in today's New York Times addresses the crucial issue of data storage and preservation on the web.
We're increasingly dependent on personal computers and remote servers to store the kinds of items previously classified as the stuff we'd run back into a burning house for (i.e. photo albums). But are they really as well preserved as they would have been in a shoebox under the bed?
Audio geeks, rejoice! The highly anticipated international release of the drool-worthy Tenori-On is here.
For those not familiar, Tenori-On is a portable touch-activated sequencer developed by Yamaha and designed by Toshio Iwai. This 16x16 matrix of LED switches can be used as a MIDI controller and loaded up with samples for live sets. A technical description does it little justice, though. This is a gadget made to be seen...
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