Updating your WordPress-based site to WordPress 2.6 may break your podcast. Users are reporting incompatibilities between Mighty Seek’s PodPress, the popular free podcasting add-on for WordPress, and the recently-announced WordPress 2.6. Here’s a typical message from the PodPress forum: I installed WordPress 2.6 (the full version, not the Release Candidate) today but am having problems […]

Note: See update at the end of this article. AT&T has just announced a fantastic perk for iPhone owners with AT&T contracts, free WiFi for iPhone customers on the nation’s largest Wi-Fi hotspot network. This opens up more than 17,000 hotspots, including Starbucks, to iPhone users to use for free on their iPhone, laptop or […]

Last fall, Podtech‘s then VP Robert Scoble said “Reports of PodTech’s demise are bull####!” Now, VentureBeat reports that podcasting startup PodTech has been purchased by ViewPartner, a communications technology company.  PodTech sold for under half a million dollars, a fraction of the $7.5 million invested in the company. PodTech struggled from the beginning to find […]

Metacafe and Microcinema, a leading international rights manager, are teaming up on a juried online and offline film festival, MetaFest 2008. MetaFest hopes to combine the best of interactive online video-viewing with the best of the live-audience offline film festival experience. Selected films will have a theatrical premiere in San Francisco in November 2008, will […]

WebTrends, one of the leading corporate Web analytics providers, has introduced a new video tracking service that is designed to uncover viewing patterns and trends across all major media formats. Features of WebTrends video tracking: Track visitor use across all major video formats, including Flash, FLEX and Microsoft Silverlight. Track visitor use of Windows Media, […]

There’s a great deal of buzzing today about a few Internet video news items: Amazon is debuting a streaming video store. The service, Amazon Video on Demand, will offer about 40,000 streaming videos for customers to choose from. TiVo is adding YouTube support. TiVo’s YouTube support was announced in March, and is available to broadband-connected […]

The DirectVoxx Muso is add-on for the iPod and iPhone that is designed to let you access your music with voice commands. The Muso synchronizes with your iTunes library and can respond to commands like “Play me some Led Zeppelin”, “How about some Rolling Stones”, “Gimme jazz” or “Go to My Broadway Tunes playlist”. The […]

Make Internet TV is a very cool site that explains how to create your own video podcast or video blog. It covers the gear you need, shooting tips, editing, licensing your content, publishing and promoting your videos. The site targets beginners, so if you’ve been wanting to try video podcasting or vlogging, but have been […]

You already know you can make your own YouTube videos, your own video podcasts and your own movies and distribute them over the Internet. You may not know, though, that there’s a growing DIY guerilla drive-in theater movement. According to MobMov, a site that documents this trend: A “mobile movie” or mobmov for short, is […]

Google announced today that it had reached an agreement with Viacom that will avoid a media debacle over YouTube users privacy: As we let you know on July 4, YouTube received a court order to produce viewing history data. We are pleased to report that Viacom, MTV and other litigants have backed off their original […]