7 posts and columns on Andy Plesser

Day 3: Zynga Holds Tech Reporters Hostage in Endless IPO Watch

in News on July 1, 2011 at 8:01 am PT

No, really, today Zynga will file for an IPO. Okay, tomorrow. Or the day after tomorrow. Good lord, the S-1 filing for the online gaming phenom is going to drop in the middle of the Fourth of July BBQ, isn’t it?
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BoomTown "Terrorizes" Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable (Video of This and More, of Course)

in News on March 1, 2010 at 11:15 am PT

Here’s a whole lot of video on a panel on the future of online video that BoomTown moderated last week in San Francisco. It was organized by Andy Plesser, the kingpin of Beet.TV, the online video news site. Plesser moderated the second half of the two-hour (!!!) session, and I did the first hour. One tweet of the event noted: “The Beet.TV just started and @karaswisher is already terrorizing the panelists.” I beg to differ!

CNN: We Don’t Need YouTube and Twitter to Tell Us What’s Going on in Iran–We’ve Got iReport

in Media on June 25, 2009 at 11:06 am PT

The “Iran is Twitter’s defining moment” meme is losing momentum to the “Iran is YouTube’s defining moment” meme. But CNN has a different spin. Time Warner’s cable news channel wants us to know that it isn’t dependent on either the micromessaging service or Google’s video site to report on what’s happening in Iran–it has iReport.
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Kara Visits Beet.TV's Andy Plesser!

in News on August 18, 2008 at 12:54 am PT

When I was in Manhattan recently, I made a lovely visit to the world HQ of Andy Plesser’s Beet.TV, where we discussed where online video is going. This is a big topic for BoomTown this year because the Web is clearly becoming a video-heavy medium. And the ever-affable Plesser does a solid job covering it. This past week, for example, he looked into everything from the Web sites of the Presidential candidates to Reuters’s video reporting of the escalating fighting in the South Ossetian town of Megvrekisi to a Canadian-video sharing site.

Jeff Jarvis on Online Video–And a Shout-Out to BoomTown Video

in News on February 11, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

In this interview with Andy Plesser of Beet.TV, Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine talks about the changes in the production of online video. At the end, he points to BoomTown’s annoying (and artistic!) work with our little Flip camera as an example of the trend toward the quick and, well, dirty. Here’s the video:

Me on Murdoch Bid–In Living Color in Hollywood

in News on May 15, 2007 at 1:35 pm PT

In the interests of full disclosure, since I have done a post here and here on the issues surrounding the digital aspects of the $5 billion offer by Rupert Murdoch for Dow Jones, the owner of The Wall Street Journal and also this site, here is an interview I did a couple of weeks ago [...]