The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today announced the release of its Digital Video In-Stream Ad Metrics Definitions. The objective for the new document is to standardize the definitions of the most commonly used streaming advertising formats. The document focuses on: Linear Video Ad With or Without Companion Ad Linear Video Interactive Ad Non-linear Overlay Ad […]

The Associated Press, after sending cease and desist letters to the social media site Drudge Retort, plans to release guidelines that explain how much of its articles and media bloggers and Web sites can copy within fair use rights: The A.P.’s effort to impose some guidelines on the free-wheeling blogosphere, where extensive quoting and even […]

According to a new survey, the average teenager’s iPod has about $800 of pirated music on it: On average every iPod or digital music player contained 842 illegally copied songs. The proportion of illegally downloaded tracks rises to 61 per cent among 14 to 17-year-olds. In addition, 14 per cent of CDs (one in seven) […]

In this series of videos, NPR’s Ira Glass explains his ideas on storytelling in audio and video: Ira Glass on Storytelling

Six Apart, creators of Movable Type, today introduced a free web application, Blog It for iPhone Powered by TypePad. Built specifically for iPhone’s Safari browser, Blog It for iPhone is designed to let you post blog entries or status updates, from wherever you are, to more than a dozen different online services. Blog It for […]

Live webcasting startup Flixwagon announced today that it was testing live “high-quality” video streaming from unlocked iPhones to the web, using Flixwagon’s alpha client. Here’s Flixwagon’s announcement: While we don’t condone or recommend unlocking iPhones, as avid iPhone users ourselves we wanted to experiment with ways to enable flixwagon on the iPhone, until the official SDK […]

Nicholas Carr, in the Atlantic this month, makes the case that Google, and the Internet in general, is making us stupid: “Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I […]

Internet research firm HitWise reports that, while Hulu is getting big shows, it’s not getting big audiences.  Hulu.com., the joint venture between Fox and NBC that provides streaming video content online, came out of beta on March 15 and has seen a steady share of US Internet traffic since: Alexa’s reach chart mirrors this: The […]

While the Steve Jobs keynote at the WWDC was underwhelming to many, there’s been a lot of interesting related news that’s come out in the last two days: Most iPhone apps are going to be free – Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster, took some time Monday following Steve Jobs’s opening keynote to chat with 20 Apple […]

Variety reports that HBO is buying into comedian Will Ferrel’s FunnyOfDie.com. The site, introduced a little over a year ago, is a sort YouTube clone focusing on comedy. Much of the site’s appeal, though, is the offbeat comedy videos HBO has bought a small equity stake in the comedy site and has commissioned 10 half-hours […]