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BT PodShow: Not “Someone Shooting A Firecracker Out Of His Bum”

May 13th, 2008 | By | 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 […]



Google Reader For iPhone Updated; A Taste Of The Future Web

May 12th, 2008 | By | 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 […]



Record Video With Your iPhone

May 12th, 2008 | By | 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 […]



Internet Video Viewing Up 64%

May 12th, 2008 | By | 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 […]



Is Google Going After Seesmic?

May 12th, 2008 | By | 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 […]



Use Flytunes To Get Streaming Internet Radio On Your iPhone

May 11th, 2008 | By | 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.



TimeTube Puts YouTube Videos On A Timeline

May 10th, 2008 | By | 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.



Official Blade Runner Podcast

May 10th, 2008 | By | 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



Zune Sales Flat

May 9th, 2008 | By | 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 […]



Audacity Update

May 9th, 2008 | By | 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: