Back in January, Julie Alexandria took over as Wallstrip host.  Today Wallstrip has re-launched their site and video player. There’s an updated archive show finder, threaded comments along with the ability to note if you are long or short on the stocks they create videos for.

The player is the big update in my opinion. It’s now branded CBS and has pre-roll and post-roll ads. In my tests, there were 30 second and 15 second pre-roll ads on different video loads along with 15 second post-roll ads. The pre-roll ads included Blackberry and Brita. A minute of commercials for a video that’s less than 3 minutes long - over 25% of the total time is taken up with ads!

I guess the days of OptionsXpress ads are over.

Here’s today’s show featuring PapaJohns. I can’t say that I find Wallstrip funny or interesting but clearly some others do.

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Semantic search provider Evri is moving into public beta today. Evri debuted at the D6 conference last month and I’ve embedded the presentation below. Founder Neil Roseman explains the Evri mission as, "(to) help users make more sense of the content on the Web." In the launch blog post tonight, Roeman continues, "Evri is building a data graph of the web, using our technology to understand the People, Places and Things in the web content read every day-and the actions that connect them to each other."

Dan Farber was on location at D6 and has a good overview of the service. Evri seems like it’s in the same sector as NY-based Hakia.

Update: Frederic over at RWW has more details on the semantic side of Evri.

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I spent this morning at an event hosted by The Media Kitchen. A variety of NY-based VC firms along with their portfolio companies presented general business updates. I captured a ton of video and will post my thoughts and the videos over the next few days. The Media Kitchen put together an absolutely hilarious opening video. I cut two snippets that I thought would be beneficial for anyone trying to grow their startup.

The first video has the puppet (Gary) interviewing Tumblr founder David Karp about what makes Tumblr so popular. Rather than give away the reason, just watch the very short video.

In this video, the puppet asks MobLogic host Lindsay Campbell and Wallstrip host Julie Alexandria how to keep viewers engaged. This could be the first time that Julie and Lindsay have appeared together!

How is new Wallstrip host Julie Alexandria different from Lindsay Campbell, the thought-provoking interviewer she replaced at the CBS-owned videoblog? “I’m in for adding some dirty humor,” Alexandria told NewTeeVee. “I don’t want it to become the next Perez Hilton, but I do look forward to bringing my own little spice to it.” Enough sexist, adolescent pandering — bring on Alexandria’s glamour shots!

Downright condescending, no? Blame this guy, show creator Howard Lindzon, here shown fingering a Yahoo button.(Photo by mil8)

Record label EMI will lay off 2,000 and shift its focus toward digital music, private equity investor and company topper Guy Hands told the Financial Times. Hands said the music industry operates on fallacies with origins in “the phenomenon of the 1990s and the CD” and as a result, companies like EMI are hemorrhaging cash. EMI, for instance, spends $50 million a year destroying unsold CDs. Guess whose model Hands said the industry should follow to turn itself around?

Hands said to look to Radiohead, a band which spurned EMI when it allowed fans to download a low-fidelity copy of a new record and pay whatever price they chose. (Photo by wwhyte1968)

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Wallstrip host and sometimes actress Lindsay Campbell will soon leave the CBS Interactive online stock-talk podcast. This after CBS acquired the show in May 2007. But don’t worry, fans, Campbell is headed for another CBS Web-video production straightaway. Something called Moblogic.tv.

We wonder why the Eye doesn’t just speed things up and put Campbell in front of a real camera, as CNET has wisely done with new on-air editor Natali Del Conte. But take heart, Lindsay, at least you’re not Veronica Belmont, stuck hamming it up for the likes of Jason Calacanis.

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Apparently Wallstrip host Lindsay Campbell got her teeth so white with her Crest Whitestrip deal that she is now leaving Wallstrip to create a new show within CBS called "moblog. tv".  NewTeeVee has some details on the changes at the very popular stock videoblog and the show’s founder Howard Lindzon confirms the changes that will come this week.

Most believe that when Rocketboom changed hosts from Amanda Congdon to Joanne Colan the show improved, will we see the same thing here? New Wallstrip host Julie Alexandria has some big shoes to fill as everyone seems to love Lindsay.

Here’s a sample of when Julie filled in for Lindsay last year:

I will try to lineup an interview with Julie in the coming weeks and wish both Julie and Lindsay good luck in their new roles!

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“I am embarrassed by [the price] … There’s the homeless and charity and there are lots of things you could do with that money that would improve the world, right? So you know, ‘How selfish is this guy?’ … is the criticism. So the answer is pretty selfish, but I am not going to put a number on it.” — Tom Perkins, to CBS’s 60 Minutes, on the price tag for his ubermegasuperyacht Maltese Falcon. We bet he’ll feel better after he goes for a quick sail — and would be happy to take it off his hands if he’s still feeling guilty.

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Ready for a Googlephone? Wait until Monday. A source in the wireless industry tells me that Google is already quietly briefing reporters, under embargo, on its mobile plans — and that an announcement could come as soon as next week. The first partner? T-Mobile. It makes perfect sense. In 2005, Google bought Android, a startup founded by Andy Rubin. Before Android, Rubin ran Danger Research, the designer of T-Mobile’s Sidekick. But if you’re all hopped up for a Google-designed piece of hardware, you’ll be disappointed by the announcement, whenever it comes.

As we’ve said, there is no Googlephone. Instead of a phone as slick and streamlined as Google’s search interface, instead we may see customized mobile versions of Google services like Gmail and YouTube — but those already exist. And instead of a free mobile operating system, you’ll more likely see something like Google’s OpenSocial initiative for social networks — a set of programming tools, in other words. (No comment forthcoming from Google and T-Mobile, naturally.)

Until third-party developers pick those tools up and start building applications, there won’t be anything for gadget geeks to play with. And like most mashups, Web widgets, and Facebook apps, what we’ll get at first will be rehashes of applications that already exist today. Google’s wireless announcements may set the stage for interesting mobile apps years down the road — but get ready for whatever they announce next week to be a nonevent.

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Wallstrip has an interview with Jakob Lodwick, who’s best known on Valleywag as the New York nerd Star editor-at-large Julia Allison settled for when she struck out in Silicon Valley. Lodwick’s also the guy who can’t focus on one good idea and go with it, instead, founding Vimeo, CollegeHumor and some T-shirt company. Anyway, in the interview, Wallstrip videoblogger Lindsay Campbell pretty much nails him on how YouTube came after Vimeo and blew it away. Lodwick responds with something about refusing to produce an inferior product. Talk is cheap. So is Lodwick’s haircut.