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May 13th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General, Internet TV, Podcast Distribution, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts
The Guardian reports that BT PodShow, an online TV portal, is getting its full consumer launch: The service is a joint venture with US-based Podshow (now Mevio), in which the backers of Google and YouTube have invested, and which has been running for several months. It has over 1m hours of content. The two companies […]
Tags: BT Podshow, Dr. Cockney, Mevio, PodShow
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May 12th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General
Google Reader got an update today, but it’s more than an updated news reader – it’s a taste of the future of the Web: We on the Reader team are heavy mobile Safari users. To make our (and your) Reader iPhone experience better, we wanted to really take advantage of the iPhone’s capabilities. Today we’re […]
Tags: Google Reader, iPhone, mobilecasting
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May 12th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: iPhone, Video
DreamCatcher has announced the release of iPhone Video Recorder, an iPhone video recorder. iPhone Video Recorder records audio and video at a frame rate of up to 15fps to the compressed mpeg4 format. Because of the CPU overhead, iPhone Video Recorder encodes at the end of a recording session, and the encoding can be paused […]
Tags: iPhone, iphone software, mobilecasting, video recorder
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May 12th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video
U.S. Internet users viewed 11.5 billion online videos in March 2008, a 13-percent gain versus February and a 64-percent gain versus March 2007, according to figures from ComScore. All Your Views Are Belong To YouTube In March, Google Sites ranked as the top U.S. video property, with more than 4.3 billion videos viewed (38 percent […]
Tags: Google, Internet video, the future of television, trends, YouTube
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May 12th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Microblogging, Podcasting Software, Video
Google has released a new free Mac OS X app, Vidnik, that’s designed to make it easy for users to record video, add a Title, Tags & Description and upload it to YouTube: You can use Vidnik to create a video diary, or just to quickly record a video comment to attach to an existing […]
Tags: free video software, Google, Mac OS X, seesmic, Vidnik, YouTube
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May 11th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players
This is a demo video of the new FlyTunes Internet radio tuner service. FlyTunes delivers music, talk, weather, and traffic to the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. The video shows the installation process and demos a few stations.
Tags: Flytunes, Internet radio, iPhone, ipod touch, streaming audio
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May 10th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video
TimeTube is a mashup that puts YouTube videos on an interactive timeline. Search for any phrase, and TimeTube presents the results on a timeline. You can scale the timeline to show more time or more detail. Timetube also lets you view the results as a list, in Flip Book mode or on a map.
Tags: mashup, TimeTube, video search, YouTube
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May 10th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Podcast Quickies, Video Podcasts
The official Blade Runner podcast may be a promo tie-in for the 25th Anniversary DVD of the classic sci-fi film, but it’s also the official Blade Runner podcast. Queue the Love Theme. To subscribe, add this podcast URL to your podcast software: http://wired.uk.com/BladeRunnerDVDUKPodcast.xml
Tags: Blade Runner, Corporate Podcasts, movie podcasts
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May 9th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: iPods & Portable Media Players
Microsoft is still struggling to come up with a Zune platform that competes with Apple’s iPod/iTunes juggernaut, reports Electronista: Microsoft has revealed that it has sold two million of the music players since their launch in November 2006, revealing relatively flat growth for the device lineup. The results leave Microsoft with just a fraction of […]
Tags: Apple, iPod, iTunes, Microsoft, Zune
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May 9th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Audio Podcasting, Podcasting Software
The Audacity Team has announced the release of Audacity v1.3.5 beta for Windows, Mac and Linux/Unix. Audacity is a free, open source audio editing application that is popular with podcasters. Changes in the new version include improvements and new features for recording, import/export and the user interface. Here are the details:
Tags: Audacity, free audio software, open source, Podcasting Software
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