Allen Weiner

After walking halfway down the aisle with Google in 2008 in a proposed (and then scrapped) search-advertising pact, Yahoo! has inked a 10 year deal in which Microsoft will power Yahoo! search and sell self-service keywords through AdCenter while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers. The [...]

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Hulu’s latest ad features Denis Leary, therefore it is great. I am not a “30 Rock” or “Family Guy” fan, so the previous TV spots left me relatively cold. Leary has this knack of talking so quickly, it takes you three seconds to figure out what he just said–a tape delay, so to speak. The [...]

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My colleagues Andrew Frank, Mike McGuire and I will be at the NAB Show April 20-22nd, leading two sessions in and around issues related to TV 2.0. If you go here and here, you will find out the details of our sessions on April 20 and 21. In addition, we hope to offer up on-the-scene [...]

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In this podcast, I talk briefly about a concept that I have been pondering (and talking about) regarding the notion of a mobile content creation device to facilitate content and audience immediacy. What should it be? What sort of functionality should it have? How much would it cost? Who are the buyers for such a [...]

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This just in: the House failed to pass legislation approved by the Senate that would delay the digital transition (shut down of analog broadcast in the U.S.) The house vote required a two-thirds majority and fell short thus blocking President Obama’s effort to serve the approximately 6.5 million households not ready for the Feb. 17 [...]

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Yahoo has a live ABC feed, MSN has a live MSNBC feed (natch) but Google/YouTube has no “TV” coverage. Guess YouTube Live was more important. When Google said it was not a media company, I guess they were serious.
So far, the CNN/Livestation joint coverage is a clear winner.

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Shameless self promotion: Last year we wrote about social TV viewing in our report “With Careful Execution, Simulstreaming Holds TV 2.0 Promise.: Do not miss the CNN-Facebook coverage which combines live a CNN feed with Facebook comments. Simulstreaming works…not in all situations, but it sure works here.

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I am a sucker for cool video gadgets and I found ViewVu tucked away in an out of the way section of the auxiliary CES exhibition floor at the Sands Convention Center. This PVR-Pro camera is a wearable camera that allows you to clip the camera onto your shirt or jacket and shoot video while [...]

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It’s all about the TV. It’s all about making sure you can watch all of that great online video content from the comfort of your living room on your oversized plasma TV. TV manufacturers (Samsung, LG, Panasonic, etc..) are touting sets with built in IP connectivity which provides a gateway to all the wonder of [...]

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There’s little doubt that one of the major themes for CES 2009 will be the plethora of efforts to grab video from the PC and move it to plasma TVs in the living room and elsewhere around the house. My colleagues and I hope to see of many of this new marvels as possible (and [...]

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