Somebody at the BBC gets the idea of making the most of niche content – they’ve announced plans to put 81 years of classic British television online: Spanning 81 years of radio and television, the project will create a web page for every episode of every single programme ever broadcast on the BBC, and be […]

Disney announced today that for the first time, the company will stream its full-length movies online. The films will first air on ABC as part of the network’s weekly Wonderful World of Disney presentation on Saturday nights throughout summer 2008. The full-length films will then be available for free streaming online for the following week. Here’s what […]

NewTeeVee has introduced a new site and video podcast, NewTeeVee Station, that offers their take on the best in Internet television. According to Om Malik’s announcement, the site: Features editorial reviews of online videos written by a team lead by Liz Shannon Miller, who comes to us from Variety and the Daily Reel. Has over […]

A Florida judge has ordered two teenage boys who used the site for a prank to create a video apology for their mischief and to post it on YouTube.

While this seems at first like an apt punishment for the teens, it also seems like it goes against the site’s content guidelines, which forbid posting videos of people getting humiliated.

Should the state be forcing minors to humilate themselves on YouTube?

Yesterday’s Steve Jobs keynote was a bust: he announced what people already knew he was going to announce, but little more. And the only real surprise was that Apple’s iPhone “price cut” was really a price hike, buried in your monthly AT&T bill. The biggest surprise of the day turned out to be that Twitter […]

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & The Colbert Report are among the two latest additions to Hulu’s offerings. This could take Hulu’s traffic to another level, given the two shows’ popularity and late-night time slots. We’d still like to see Hulu fix its ad targeting and for it to work with set-top boxes to […]

The Apple Keynotes podcast offers video of the company’s most important announcements, including CEO Steve Jobs keynotes. It hasn’t been updated with today’s keynote yet, but it has the last two Macworld keynotes & the March 6 iPhone Software Roadmap event.

Microsoft today announced the release of the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS), a free, open source podcasting kit that offers organizations a centralized solution to create, manage and distribute podcasts. Built on the SharePoint Server and Microsoft Silverlight platforms, and compatible with the Zune, PCs and other devices that play podcasts (ie., iPods & iPhones), […]

Apple today killed off its much-maligned .Mac service and introduced MobileMe, a service that delivers push email, push contacts and push calendars from the MobileMe service in the cloud to native applications on iPhone, iPod touch, Macs and PCs. In a nutshell, your apps will automatically get synced, via MobileMe, so that your desktop, laptop, […]

Apple today updated the iPhone, introducing the iPhone 3G. The iPhone 3G is an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary update. The phone’s network speed is about twice as fast, at least where AT&T has coverage, and Apple has added GPS positioning. Apple has also added Exchange support, to attract business users. On the downside, Apple has […]