If you’ve ever wondered why technologies popular with first adopters, like podcasting or Twitter, are adopted more slowly by general users, you don’t have to look much further than the latest research from Parks Associates. They found that roughly one-fifth of all U.S. heads-of-household have never used e-mail. Their annual phone survey of U.S. households […]

The stars & creators of the latest Indiana Jones movie answered questions today via the microvlogging community Seesmic. Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur explains: The original idea was to have journalists around the World ask private questions to the actors and they would answer in private, as a way to give access to them. Instead […]

blubrry‘s Todd Cochrane announced today that his company was removing more than a hundred podcasts from its service and banning sites because of problems with “podspam”: This morning I instructed our CIO to have all shows that were using a RSS Feed generation service hosted by trafficgeyser.net and mypodfeeds.com to be terminated here at Blubrry.com […]

Video Elements is a commercial WordPress theme designed for video sites. Video Elements lets you your videos in two different ways, including the “Instant View” which allows users to instantly view any video on your site by selecting the video thumbnail, and within the single post page where the video is featured above your post […]

Mobile broadcast network FlyTunes has added video and audio podcasts to its offerings, in addition to a new user interface and a customizable channel guide. The new video and audio channels cover a wide range of topics, including news, entertainment, politics, kids & family, health, comedy, business and technology. FlyTunes now offers users over 350 […]

YouTube has updated YouTube Insight, a free tool that lets anyone with a YouTube account view detailed statistics about the videos that they upload to the site. Included in the update: One is a new demographics tab that displays view count information broken down by age group (such as ages 18-24), gender, or a combination […]

EQAL, the studio behind faux-vlog shows LonelyGirl15 & KateModern, has signed a deal with CBS to create online content. The two companies will work on producing multi-platform content, including online and mobile, around CBS programming. EQAL will work on a non-exclusive basis with CBS at consulting, producing and scripting. “This partnering signals CBS’s attention to […]

Wizzard Media announced today that Podiobooks.com, a free audiobook podcast network, is now using LibsynPRO 2.0 podcast hosting and will make their library of shows available on the Wizzard Media Network for advertising opportunities. “Libsyn has always been a valued partner for Podiobooks.com and one that is always willing to work with us, as our […]

According to the Guardian’s Tim Anderson, DRM’d music is going to stage a comeback, and Apple’s going to be the one making it happen. The music industry wants to sell new services, like music subscriptions, and DRM’s is central to making these services viable. To succeed, though, subscription music services need to work with iPods […]

Citi analyst Mark Mahaney says the Amazon Kindle could be an iPod-like hit within two years, contributing 3% (750 millsion) to Amazon’s revenue. Here are Mahaney’s reasons: The Kindle doesn’t suck. Mahaney likes the Kinde’s automatic downloading feature and slightly lower-price books ($9.99 vs. $18 for the physical books). The current Kindle is a 1.0 […]