Dina Kaplan | The New York Observer

The Blonde Ambition of Blip.tv

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:18:57 -0400

In the early autumn of 2005, Dina Kaplan was freelancing as a spot reporter for WNBC 4 New York, “covering fires and murders and bodies found in dumpsters and things like that,” she told The Observer on a recent humid morning in Soho. But on Wednesday nights, the petite strawberry blonde was routinely having dinner in the cafeteria of the World Financial Center with a group of guys who were coding a new...

Blip.tv Lands YouTube, NBC, TiVo Deals; Shortens Gap Between Living Room and PC Screens

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:11:57 -0400

Mike Hudack, chief executive of Web show distribution and services network Blip.tv, wants his aging aunt, a decade-long AOL dail-up user who only recently got a modern modem, to be able to sit down on her living room couch, flip on the television, and not be able to differentiate whether a TV show was created by a major network or "that guy in his garage."

"You don't have to go up to...

Blip.tv's Dina Kaplan: When Is the Next Mark Zuckerberg Gonna Startup in New York?

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:06:25 -0400

Dina Kaplan, co-founder of blip.tv, was one of the few New York tech community entrepreneurs who spoke at Mayor Michael Bloomberg's MediaNYC 2020 announcement today. "When we started blip four years ago, everyone kept asking, when are you going to move to Silicon Valley?" Ms. Kaplan said about her company, which hosts and distributes more than 48,000 original Web shows. Ms. Kaplan, a former news reporter for WNBC in New York, founded in Blip.tv...

Fast Company Names Blip.tv's Dina Kaplan and Arianna Huffington as Most Influential Women in Web 2.0

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:45:36 -0500

Fast Company has a feature on the The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0 in their November issue. Out of 13 women, two are New Yorkers: Blip.tv's co-founder and C.O.O. Dina Kaplan (who recently co-hosted the Silicon Alley 100 party), and Arianna Huffington, of course. It's common knowledge that tech is a boys' club and most of the women who get on the cover of Wired get there because they are "Internet famous" and...