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Blog To WordPress From Your iPhone

Jul 22nd, 2008 | By | Category: Featured Story, iPhone

Auttomatic has announced that WordPress for iPhone is now available.

It lets you blog from your iPhone and offers support for tags & categories, photo support for both camera phone pics and library photos and support for multiple blogs.



NBC To Use Internet Video As “Minor League” For Late-Night TV

Jul 21st, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, Video

NBC has announced that it will be using Internet video as a sort of minor league training grown for late-night television. It’s announced that Jimmy Fallon will be the Late Night replacement for Conan O’Brien when Mr. O’Brien takes over the Tonight show next year. Lorne Michaels, Executive Producer for Late Night said that he […]



Free Windows DVD Ripper Formats Videos For Portable Media Players

Jul 21st, 2008 | By | Category: Video

If you’re a Windows user, and you need a DVD utility for ripping DVDs for your iPod, Zune, or other media player, check out DVD Catalyst Free. It’s a free version of a commercial application, but it’s still fairly capable, converting DVD to iPhone, iPod, Zune, PocketPC, Palm, PSP and more devices. It can convert […]



Vimeo Bans Space-Hogging Gaming Videos; Are The Wild West Days Of Internet Video Coming To An End?

Jul 21st, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, Podcast Hosting, Video

Free video hosting service Vimeo has announced that it’s banning gaming videos, becuase they’re space hogs that don’t meet the goals of the site: The Vimeo staff has decided that we are no longer going to allow gaming videos on Vimeo. Specifically, we are no longer going to allow game walk-throughs, game strategy videos, depictions […]



Plug In Streamlines Embedding Video For WordPress

Jul 20th, 2008 | By | Category: Podcasting Software, Video, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

Embedded Video is a WordPress plug-in designed to streamline embedding video into blogs: The plugin is made for easily embedding videos into a blog post. The videos can be integrated from external portals (like YouTube, Google Video and many many others) or they can be uploaded to the web server or a remote server and […]



XBox 360 Movie Rentals Not Ready For Prime Time?

Jul 20th, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Movie Store, General, Internet TV, Video

MG Siegler at Parislemon has an interesting take on the current state of movie rentals on the�XBox 360, suggesting that it’s not ready for prime time: Last night I sat down to download The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. I figured it would take 5-10 minutes to get enough information to start playing and then […]



The Industry Standard On Why Podcasting Is Failing

Jul 19th, 2008 | By | Category: General, Internet TV, Making Money with Podcasts, Video

Ian Lamont, at The Industry Standard, has published his take on “why podcasting is failing” reacting to the news that much-hyped podcasting startup PodTech was getting bought by ViewPartner: “Podcasting is failing as a business platform, and has failed to make a mainstream impact. The news that PodTech only managed to limp into an acquisition […]



Wizzard Explains Why It’s Bullish On Podcasting & RSS

Jul 18th, 2008 | By | Category: Making Money with Podcasts, New Media Organizations, Podcast Distribution, Podcasting Networks, Podcasting Services

In an unusual letter to its shareholders, podcasting mega service Wizzard Software explains why it’s bullish on the prospects for podcasting: Wizzard has surprised many people by becoming the largest distributor of digital media via RSS (podcasting). While many other companies took the route of launching online video websites and treating RSS distribution as nothing […]



Windows Users At Risk From MP3s, Multimedia Files

Jul 18th, 2008 | By | Category: General

Security firm TrustedSource reports that a new trojan has been identified that infects multi-media files on Windows computers. The malware embeds malicious content into multimedia files based on the Advanced Systems Format (ASF), a widely used format for video and audio content such as MP3 and WMA music files, WMV video files and others. When […]



Build A Tupperware iPod Boombox

Jul 18th, 2008 | By | Category: iPod Accessories, iPods & Portable Media Players

At instructables, leevonk has shared instructions on making a Tupperware iPod Boombox. The cheap DIY project “uses dollar store Tupperware, styrofoam and cheap speakers to make a surprisingly cool boombox/stereo.” via Lifehacker