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NAB Podcasting Summit

Mar 11th, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV

If you’re going to the NAB Show, you may want to check out the schedule for their Podcasting Summit. The Summit offers a 1-day boot camp, plus two days of additional training covering everything from planning to production through encoding, distribution and legal issues.



Hulu Launches Free Internet Television Service

Mar 11th, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video

Internet video site Hulu launches today, offering full-length episodes of more than 250 TV series, including Lost and The Simpsons, along with older hits like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In addition, Hulu will feature content from the Warner Bros Television Group, Lionsgate and from sports leagues. According to the company, it has already attracted over […]



Ninjas Take On Killer Tomatoes

Mar 11th, 2008 | By | Category: Making Money with Podcasts

If you ever doubted that there was a future in podcasting, then doubt no more. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Douglas Sarine (L) and Kent Nichols (R), the creators of the hit video podcast Ask a Ninja, are making the jump to the big screen. The two are writing an adaptation of the 1978 cult […]



Does Hot Sex Really Beat Dancing?

Mar 10th, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, Podcasting Statistics, Streaming Video, Video

A scandal has broken out over the fact that the most-viewed video of all time on YouTube, Evolution of Dance, has been beaten by a fan video for the song Music is My Hot Hot Sex. A lot of people are crying foul – not just because the Hot Hot Sex video is so bad, […]



Apple’s iTunes Slowly Doing To The Movie Industry What It Did To The Music Industry

Mar 10th, 2008 | By | Category: Computer Hardware, Digital Movie Store, Digital Music, Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Video

Much as the movie industry would like to avoid having Apple becoming the dominant digital vendor for digital movies as it has in the world of digital music, Apple is doing it anyway. While the movie and television industry experiments with a bunch of incompatible standards and technologies, Apple has been inexorably putting together a […]



ADM Announces Ad Council

Mar 10th, 2008 | By | Category: Making Money with Podcasts, New Media Organizations

The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM), an organization focused on creating advertising standards podcasts and Internet media, announced today the creation of a special advertising agency liaison to the organization, along with the confirmation of a fourteen-member Ad Council, made up of media professionals from leading interactive advertising agencies. The council will act as a […]



Beatles Coming To iTunes

Mar 10th, 2008 | By | Category: Digital Music, iPhone, iPods & Portable Media Players

According to reports, the Beatles will finally be coming to iTunes. Paul McCartney has reached a $400 million agreement with Apple for the distribution of the Beatles’ back catalog. McCartney, Ringo Starr and the families of late Beatles stars George Harrison and John Lennon will share in the profits. Portions of the multimillion-dollar payout also […]



quarterlife’s Marshall Herskovitz Talks Smack About Podcasting News, Bloggers & YouTube

Mar 8th, 2008 | By | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video

The LA Times has published an article by thirtysomething creator Marshall Herskovitz that responds to criticism of his show quarterlife, which was hyped beforehand as the first television-quality production for the Web. The show bombed on YouTube and went on to bomb on network television. Despite the show’s poor performance, Herskovitz thinks quarterlife is not […]



Libsyn Announces Podcast Stats Update

Mar 7th, 2008 | By | Category: General, Podcasting Services, Podcasting Statistics

Libsyn has announced an update to it stats offering will be released on Monday. Addressed in this release: lack of updates for new files low numbers for past 9 months speed to load stats UI accuracy of data user agents list (zune, appleTV, iPhone, miro, etc added) real trending data over time.. per month/week/day downloads […]



iEmulator Puts A PC On Your iPhone

Mar 7th, 2008 | By | Category: General, iPhone, Strange

iEmulator.com, a provider of emulation solutions, has announced iEmulator Touch,¬† a touch-enabled PC emulator environment for iPhone and iPod Touch users running firmware version 2.0. “Imagine being able to run most popular PC software anywhere, with full Internet connectivity, without having to lug a notebook PC around,” said John Czlonka, General Manager of iEmulator.com. “It’s […]